Lamar Reviews - "Scream 7" (Airdate 3/6/2026)

Lamar Reviews - "Scream 7" (Airdate 3/6/2026)

The first Scream in 1996 became the highest-

grossing slasher film in the world until Jamie Lee

Curtis returned in the 11 th Halloween in 2018.

Scream was different because it added humor to

the bloody violence, and it’s characters were well

aware of all the horror film cliches, but that didn’t

keep them from getting stabbed to death. The plot

was good and there was a hidden surprise killer.

By the third movie they became more funny than

scary because you were trying to figure out who

the Ghostface killer actually was.

Scream3 was supposed to be the end of a trilogy.

But, never say never. 11 years later, Scream 4

came out. They skipped another 11 years to

number 5 and came back with 6 a year later.

But Neve Campbell refused to be in Scream 6,

saying what they were offering to pay her was

insufficient compared to her contributions to the

franchise over the last 25 years. The movie

explained that by saying her character Sidney had

taken her family somewhere safe. It must have

worked since they paid her $7 million to be in this

one.

Courtney Cox and Robert L. Jackson, the voice of

Ghostface, are the only actors to be in all 7.

The movie opens with a devoted “Stab head”,

which is a fan of the “Stab” movies that are movies

in the Scream moves about the true story of the

Woodsboro murders. He and his girlfriend rented

an Airbnb that was Stu Macher’s house from the

original Scream. You can imagine how that turns

out. I will just say it sets the tone for the bloody

action that will take place in the next hour and 44

minutes.

The movie is set in Pine Grove, where Sidney,

played by Neve Campbell, her daughter Tatum,

played by Isabel May, and her police chief

husband Mark, played by Joel McHale.

For Sidney the job of raising a teenage girl can be

scarier that being stabbed, but when the problem

of the boyfriend sneaking in the bedroom window

is overshadowed by knife toting killer wanting to

kill her, takes it to a whole new level.

The movie is 1 hour 54 minutes, Rated-R for

language and strong very bloody violence

This is the seventh movie in the franchise that has

been around for 30 years. The majority of critics

have panned it. The Rotten Tomato Score is 31%

but the people who have seen it rate it as 77%.

The opening weekend it made $64 million, the

best opening weekend of the entire franchise. And

that is during a time when the least amount of

people are going to theaters ever!

I as the “People’s Movie Critic” agree with the

people. I expected this Scream movie to be a very

close version of the other 6 Scream movies, and it

met that expectation. It might have been not quite

as good as some, and a little better than others,

but it was still a Scream movie. I guessed who I

thought the killer was, when they died, I picked

another, then another, and I was wrong every

time. I jumped a lot and laughed a lot. Mission

accomplished. My Score: 4 Cold Buds

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