Review: Scream 7 (2026)
By William Pattison
This time I got the seventh film in the Scream franchise.
The question is can they make a halfway decent film after all this time, or is
this franchise losing steam like so many have?
When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the town where Sidney
Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter
becomes the next target.
Well, this film begins like all Scream films do. This time a
group of fans of STAB go to The Sydney Prescott Experience attraction. The
attraction is a recreation of the Prescott house from the STAB movies complete
with police tape, wall posters, and outlines of dead bodies. It also includes a
high tech animatronic Ghostface.
While the fans are enjoying the attraction the “real” Ghostface,
if there is even one, switches out the dummy and ends up brutally killing the
fans. Though this opening has little to do with the plot, we are introduced to how
brutally and fast this Ghostface is.
Then we are re-inteoduced to Sydney Prescott-Evens and her
daughter, Tatum, who was named after her best friend who died in the original
Ghostface murders.
Also, back, obviously, is author Gale Weathers played as
always byCourtney Cox. And, surprisingly Mathew Lillard as Stu Macher as a
possible Ghostface, even though he supposedly has been dead thirty years.
Now, as I mentioned the Ghostface is amazingly physical and
real fast in this film. He is in fact rather scary for being someone in a Party
Central costume. Also this Ghostface is into AI and other high tech tricks,
which helps keep him fresh.
As for the production and plot Sydney’s family, especially her daughter are targets
for Ghostface, as well as all of Tatum’s friends and her boyfriend.
There is still all the gabber about horror movies and modern
times that are iconic to this franchise.
So, we come to the answer to the question is this film good
and is Scream still ivable? I found this installment ok. It isn’t as good as part six to me, but it isn’t bad. I enjoyed it. I loved the Ghostface in
this film, though I found the reveil a bit disappointing, but that is nothing
unusual.
All in all this film is an acceptable addition to the Scream
franchise and I readily recommend it.
