Due to the three attacks having targeted people related to the original killers, Sam is accused of being the killer.
Dewey joins them at Mindy and Chad's home and is reunited with the twins' mother Martha, Randy Meeks' sister. They ask for his help in stopping the killer, and he contacts Gale and Sidney Prescott, warning them about the return of Ghostface. Sam and Richie visit Dewey Riley, who is divorced from Gale Weathers. Sam's true parentage resulted in their parents' separation and is why Sam became estranged from Tara. At the hospital, Sam is attacked by Ghostface and tells Tara that she has been dealing with hallucinations of Billy Loomis, who Sam learned as a teenager was her biological father. That night, Liv's ex-boyfriend Vince Schneider, who is Stu Macher's nephew, is killed by Ghostface outside a bar. Sam returns to Woodsboro with her boyfriend Richie to visit Tara at the hospital, where Sam is reunited with Tara's friend group: Wes, Amber Freeman, twins Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin, and Chad's girlfriend Liv McKenzie. In Modesto, Tara's estranged older sister Sam Carpenter is informed about the attack by Wes Hicks, one of Tara's friends. Twenty-five years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher's killing spree in Woodsboro, a high school student named Tara Carpenter is home alone when she is attacked by Ghostface and left hospitalized. 3.2 Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett and casting.The development of a sequel was announced in February 2022. It was praised by critics for honoring Craven's legacy and offering thoughtful meta-commentary on horror films, with some calling it the best of the Scream sequels. The film has grossed $137 million, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2022. Scream was theatrically released in the United States on January 14, 2022, by Paramount Pictures, during the COVID-19 pandemic. To avoid any plot leaks, numerous versions of the screenplay were produced and several additional scenes were filmed. The film's production was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so filming took place between September and November 2020 in North Carolina. Campbell and Arquette were confirmed to be returning later that month, with Cox and the new cast members joining throughout the summer. The following year, Williamson, who was returning as an executive producer, confirmed the film would not be a reboot and that Radio Silence had been hired in March 2020 to direct the film. After the 2017 sexual assault allegations against Weinstein and the closure of The Weinstein Company, the rights to the Scream franchise were obtained by Spyglass Media Group in November 2019, who confirmed a new film would later be made.
The film also provides commentary on fandom culture and the divide between " elevated horror" and classic slasher films.Īlthough fifth and sixth Scream installments were discussed after the release of Scream 4 in 2011, Craven, writer Kevin Williamson, and executive producer Harvey Weinstein had doubts about proceeding with more films following the less-than-expected box office performance of the fourth film. Similar to previous entries, Scream combines the violence of the slasher genre with elements of black comedy and " whodunit" mystery to satirize the trend of reboots and legacy sequels. The film takes place twenty-five years after the original Woodsboro murders, when yet another Ghostface appears and begins targeting a group of teenagers who are each somehow linked to the original killings. Jackson, Marley Shelton, Skeet Ulrich, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell, who reprise their roles from previous installments. The film stars Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Sonia Ammar, alongside Roger L. The film is dedicated to Craven at the beginning of the closing credits.
Though billed as a relaunch of the film series, the film is a direct sequel to Scream 4 (2011) and is the first film in the series to not be directed by Wes Craven, following his death in 2015. It is the fifth installment in the Scream film series.
Scream (also known as Scream 5) is a 2022 American slasher film directed by Radio Silence ( Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) and written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick.