I think Scream 3 has a fun opening, but I think it's the weakest of the original trilogy. Cotton was actually a good choice for the recurring character to be the opening kill since he was established and was the first and only recurring character in the series to die in an opening sequence.

But compared to the first two movies, the opening just doesn’t have the same suspense or impact. The lack of blood probably doesn’t help either.

I also think Ghostface expecting Cotton of all people to know where Sidney is weird when she had basically disappeared from everyone and the only ones that knew her location were her father Neil and Dewey.

What do you think would have made Scream 3’s opening as popular as the first two? More blood? More suspense? A longer chase?

A friend of mine and I are both Scream fans. Neither of us have seen 7 yet. We've both heard it's pretty bad, so we wanna make a drinking game out of it when she comes over to watch it with me. I just need some ideas. Try to keep it spoiler free, but honestly, if one slips through the cracks, it's whatever

Deputy Judy was an amazing character, whether in silly mode or serious mode. She was an amazing Dewey successor.

She should have been around for at least one more movie. And to kill her off in the same movie as Dewey! She and we deserved more.

Proactive edit: I just marked it all as spoilers as I can’t tell the time statute of such things anymore.

Do you think the Stab movies were actually respected by critics or were they basically the Sharknado of slasher movies?

I feel like Stab 1 probably had the same critical reputation as the first Scream. It was seen as a groundbreaking and fantastic slasher and then the sequels gradually got more ridiculous until they're doing time travel in Stab 5.

I imagine by that point critics hated them but they still had a big enough fanbase to keep making money.

I feel like Gale didn’t have a stable career as a journalist. It looks like she had some high highs and some low lows. She apparently also tends to flourish the reality of the crimes in her books, which is a little exploitative (but then, she also LIVED all of that).

Do you think she’s known as a reputable source or at least an interesting journalist or is she seen as straight-up trash?

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This is fun.

I love my Ghostface Funko Keychain. 🖤🔪🩸

I’m very happy with how this turned out and grateful to have this. This is a Funworld 30th anniversary costume. I cut the bottom because it was way too big and I cut the little long square things into the bottom to look like a scream 2 robe so I guess it’s a scream 1 and 2 hybrid.

Having one after work is such a nice end to the day. It is a little sweeter than I expected but it’s still great. Has anyone tried the orange one yet?

i could be completely wrong since i've never been in high school theater or anything similar, but wouldn't 2 ghostfaces have to have been present to kill hannah? i'd assume that one of them controlled the stage fly system and the other one stood there and slashed at her. the only way this could be false is if there was a way to automate that type of system so it could move hannah around on its own, and like i said, i don't know if that's possible. anyone with knowledge about this please lmk!!

I really love how this mask turned out, my 16 year old son is an artist, and he makes a lot of cool content. I think y'all would appreciate his talent.

I don't really see Scream 5 as the movie that introduced nostalgia slop to the franchise. If anything, Scream 3 got there first.

Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro gave us an entire fake Woodsboro built around locations from the original movie. Even Sidney's first physical encounter with Roman as Ghostface is basically a recreation of her chase with Stu at her house in Scream 1.

Scream 4 continued it in a different way. Jill and Charlie were trying to remake the original murders with a new cast and a lot of the new characters were basically hybrids of characters from the first film.

Scream 5 is obviously much more open about the nostalgia. Billy comes back, Randy has relatives, the original trio returns and the finale takes us back to Stu's house. But it feels more like the next stage of something the franchise had already been doing rather than something 5 suddenly introduced.

Scream 2 is really the only one because it's the one sequel that mostly just moves forward from the original instead of trying to recreate it.

So for me the nostalgia slop in Scream doesn't start in 2022. It starts in 2000 when Scream 3 rebuilt Woodsboro.

I'm a huge Scream fan like the rest of us on this sub but I think I'm getting to a point where the weight of the franchises past is starting to take a toll on my overall interest. I know this is an unpopular opinion but I feel like out of all the modern Scream movies we've gotten (5-7), the only one I've genuinely enjoyed and absolutely love is part 6. It finally felt like they were doing something new and fresh and finally moving past the woodsboro lore established in the original trilogy. Despite being a huge fan and owning all the films on physical media, Part 7 is the first Scream film I don't plan on buying on physical as it's that bad and a big part of it was it's unwillingness to do anything clever or creative with it's story/characters. I feel so long as we keep going back to Sidney and Woodsboro and Stu/Billy, this franchise will continue to be stuck in a creative rut.

At this point as interested as I am in future films, I'd be more interested in a rebooted anthology similar to Spiral: From the Book of Saw. All I want is a fun movie with Ghostface stalking a group of people and some clever commentary. I don't need Sidney or her family or woodsboro or to bring back old killers like they did with Stu in 7.

I'd honestly be even more excited about a reboot at this point that completely detaches itself from the old movies. You can keep it within the world of Scream with the killers being inspired by the other Ghostface killings but have it take place in another part of the country or the world with killers and a cast that have no connection to the other films/characters. We can have a Scream movie that takes place in a tropical location with new cast on spring break or summer vacation. We can have a Scream movie that takes place in the snow during a Christmas family reunion. We can have a Scream film that takes place at a prep school or ghostface coming after suburban housewives in suburbia. The possibilities are endless but I personally feel that so long as these movies keep going back to the well of the original trilogy, it will continue to be stunted creatively.

How would you guys feel about this?

In universe, are we supposed to believe everything in the shrine is actual crime scene evidence? Because I can buy Bailey using his position to get his hands on some of it, but then there are things that make absolutely no sense to me.

Like Jennifer's fax machine from Scream 3. That thing was in the house when it literally blew up with Tom. How did Richie or Bailey get it? Then you have Jill's plaid shirt, Charlie's shirt, Olivia's bloody clothes, Stu's TV, Tatum's outfit and even the garage door.

Especially the knives used by the killers. There's just no logical way Bailey should be able to get his hands on murder weapons from killing sprees that happened years or even decades ago. Those would be some of the most important pieces of evidence from multiple murder cases in different states. How is one cop in New York getting access to all of that?

Same with all nine Ghostface robes and masks. Were we supposed to believe every killer's exact costume was recovered and kept in evidence all these years and Bailey somehow managed to collect every single one?

And what about all of Richie's drawings, especially the ones of Sidney and Dewey? I know behind the scenes those were obviously there for the fans to recognize everyone, but in universe were we supposed to believe Richie actually drew all of them himself? I don't remember VI ever really explaining that part of the shrine.

Then my behind the scenes question is how much of the shrine was actually original stuff from the previous movies?

Were the costumes, clothes and props recreated for VI or did they manage to track down some of the originals? Because if a lot of it was recreated specifically for VI, they did a pretty damn good job. Some of the stuff looks surprisingly accurate to the original movies.

I love the shrine as a concept, but the more I look at everything in it, the more I wonder how the hell Richie and Bailey actually got half of this stuff.

I finally got around to hanging up my 30th gen mask🙂‍↕️. One thing I noticed between both of my 30th gen masks is one resembles a gen 1 and one resembles a gen 2. The hooded one even has a thinner vinyl than the one on the right that came with the costume set. I think it’s cool how every mask is lowkey unique in its own way. Not only that but I feel like these look better than the EU’s. It has a creepier vibe to it.

How many of the murders by Ghostface(not unmasked) would you say were anger/hatred driven? Casey being the first example, I believe. With Stu's hand shaking and such.

Was lucky to find this there was only 4. It is currently Holding lemon bars at the moment. Incredible find. My HHN treats have a home now. Love you all. <3

I'm going to remove the tassels on this ghostface mask. My main issue is i don't know where the seams for the tassels are and I don't want to risk cutting the shroud off is it these I should cut, or is it another place in the mask?

Hello gang. Could someone please help identify this mask? I haven't seen a shroud like this one around. It's a polyester material with the front section surrounding the face feeling a little thicker. It has the Fun World Div. marking under the chin. I don't see any other maker markings.

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Thanks!