SCREAM VI
Slicing up the Big Apple
“I just love your Vladimir Tretchikoff print, dear.”
After 2022’s witty requel, this follow-up represents a dip in quality, despite being the work of the same writer/director quartet.
Its big idea is to relocate the slashing from Woodsboro to New York City as 2022’s “core four” survivors go to university. While the radical nature of this shake-up was oversold in the promo, the film certainly makes better use of the Big Apple than, say, Jason Takes Manhattan, with sequences where Ghostface wreaks havoc in a busy bodega and a packed subway train feeling fresh for the franchise. There are other clever ideas, like an early Ghostface unmasking, and a conspiracy theory that heroine Sam was responsible for the 2022 killings.