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After a decade-long hiatus due to several factors, including lagging audience interest, the collapse of rights-holder The Weinstein Company, and a transfer of those rights to Spyglass Entertainment (among other factors), the Scream series, once a trilogy, now a franchise came back to roaring, slashing life with the fifth entry, Scream, just a year ago. Audiences and critics alike responded favorably to its combination of old and new, legacy characters and fresh blood (often both literally and copiously), smartly updated themes (corrosive fandom), and up-and-coming, twenty-something actors. There was little doubt then or now that Scream and the “meta-slasher-whodunit” sub-genre it kickstarted 27 years ago were back for another 2-, 3-, or even 4-film cycle. With original Scream scribe Kevin Williamson moving into a producer…
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ScreenAnarchy – SCREAM VI Review: Meta-Slasher-Whodunit Offers Thrills, Chills, and Kills in Equal Measure
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March 8, 2023
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