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Scream VI (2023)
To the people saying "best opening in the franchise"... have you even seen the original?!?!
Okay, was this better than scream 5? Yes. I enjoyed this movie actually. I thought the opening was original (NOT as good as Drew Barrymore... nothing ever will be) there were some great scenes including the ladder and the subway, and I do enjoy Sam and Tara as characters. Just like last time though, act 3 was atrocious. They cannot get the reveals right. I didn't care about who the killers were,in fact I forgot who one of them even was! The fact that they were related to the killer from scream 5 who I also couldn't care less about made it even more infuriating.
Better than scream 5 but not great.
Scream (2022)
I don't understand??
I'm so baffled by the current 7.3 rating on this movie. I am a huge scream fan and have enjoyed all the sequels... up until now.
Let me start by saying I had high hopes for this movie, but "Scream" or "Scream 5" is the weakest entry in my opinion. I didn't care about any of these new characters. I was excited to learn that the lead protagonist was linked to billy loomis... but did we get any real back story on that? No. Who was Billy's lover? Where was she? We didn't even meet her! Also the fact that billy became his daughters like weird spirit guide was so stupid. I love billy loomis but he is a SERIAL KILLER not a doting father!
I enjoyed the few nostalgic factors like using stu machers old house for the finale, the connection to billy loomis (although it was executed terribly) and the niece and nephew of Randy Meeks (the only 2 half decent new characters)
My next big problem was the reveal. I didn't care that it was these people whatsoever. I have never guessed a scream finale but I started to suspect early on in this movie. I thought they were the worst killers in the whole franchise, and the fact that Dewey survived 4 movies to be killed off by those 2 losers is infuriating.
The legacy characters had basically no screen time and it felt like they were just there for the sake of it. We got hardly any Sidney at all.
Overall I just found this movie boring with flat characters who had no substance.
Halloween Kills (2021)
Enjoyable bloody fun!
As far as I'm concerned, this is the most fun I've had watching a "Halloween" film in years. I absolutely loved it. Sure it doesn't do an awful lot in terms of moving the story along but it's the middle film in a trilogy, and in my opinion it did what a middle film should do.
I love how this new trilogy has the bloody violence of the Rob Zombie reimagining (which I'm fully aware many people hate) but still keeps the origins of the Michael Myers story in tact. The scenes from Halloween night 1978 we're so well done.
I love 70s and 80s classic horrors, and new interpretations of any classic horror are never going to be the same or have the same ambience and feel. Nevertheless I enjoy them for what they are.