Following the crimes that occurred in the fictional small town of Woodsboro, the franchise’s masked killer Scream returns bloodier and more ruthless than ever in a story slasher that fans of the genre will love.
It seems that time has not passed so quickly, but the fact is that the original film, where Ghostface first appeared, was directed almost 30 years ago by Wes Craven, a specialist in the art of terrifying viewers with touches of black humor. He is also responsible for the appearance of the terrifying Freddy Krueger, who tormented our dreams in the saga Nightmare deep in the night.
Kevin Williamson, original screenwriter, is now joined in his task by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Together, they took the action to New York, that enormous cosmopolitan city where the indifference and apathy of the inhabitants are accentuated in the face of any strange event that occurs on the street. There the directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (the same from bloody wedding y Scream 5), they found what they were looking for to carry out what is perhaps the bloodiest episode in the adventures of the disturbing homicidal.
Now the actions are transferred from the small town to Manhattan. UIP Photos
And they more than succeeded from the first minutes of the plot, when a woman awaits the arrival of her date in a luxurious restaurant. She impatient, she receives a call from the man who is waiting and by following her instructions, she ends up in an alley where we already know that she should not have gone. But that’s the genre; never go alone into dark places.
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The adventures of the script follow Samantha (Melissa Barrera), who, tormented by her thoughts, goes to the office of Dr. Stone (Henry Czerny), in search of help. She and her sister Tara (Jenna Ortega, the revelation of the series Merlinfrom Netflix) are survivors of Scream 5 and they carry a complex past as they are the daughters of the serial killer Billy Loomis.
When they move to the Big Apple, they share an apartment building with Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Browne, from Yellowjackets) and his twin Chad (Mason Gooding of With love, Victor), two centennial film students, who also had death on their heels in the previous film.
Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, in the new horror classic.
The protagonist begins to be harassed by telephone, and the victims do not take long to appear around her. Willing to investigate the facts, Detective Bailey (Dermot Mulroney) and Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) intervene, the only one left alive in Scream 4, transformed into an FBI agent, ready to do justice. As everything becomes public, the relentless journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox, former Friendswith a new face).
The creators manage to catch the eye by refreshing what happened in the previous five films, building unsettling suspense moments like inside the crowded subway and achieving highly dynamic action scenes, although some dialogues are slow and too explanatory.
The film has some homages to other horror films, such as “The usurpers of bodies” and “Tuesday the 13th, Part VIII”.
There are a couple of tributes with images of two classics such as The body usurpers y Tuesday the 13th Part VIII with the ruthless Jason in Manhattan and, as in the first, a brief and interesting analysis of the elements that make up horror movies, from Mindy, an expert in that genre.
It is not convenient to give more details so as not to fall into spoilers and eliminate the surprise. Just a piece of advice: don’t give away the surprising ending.
“Scream 6 (Grita)”
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Terror USA, 2023. 123′, SAM 16. Of: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin y Tyler Gillett. Con: Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere y Courteney Cox. Salas: Cinépolis Recoleta and Houssay, Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Dot, Showcase Belgrano, Quilmes and Norcenter.
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