Today, our topic is Scream VI Review Big City, Bright Knives, so read it carefully and enjoy it. It’s essentially an indication that the building has been condemned when horror series move to New York City (Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, but don’t bother with either of those). Although the five boroughs do produce some decent scares, the American psychos that originate there are typically more neurotic and urban-derived than Ed Gein.
Consider it a minor wonder that Scream VI has a few eerie moments in its opening moments before flattening into a tastelessly ostentatious stabfest. (Disclaimer!) As per the established pattern, Samantha Weaving, the unpolished survivor of co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s outstanding Ready or Not, receives a call while waiting for her Tinder date at a restaurant bar. People surround her, and she is not in danger.
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Even yet, you can see how the idea might be made to work—even if we’re already far smarter than it—when the voice coaxes her outdoors, across the street, and into that dim alley. Please don’t consider it a spoiler when he takes off his Ghostface mask to reveal himself to her after their brief encounter (hey, Tony Revolori from The Grand Budapest Hotel, still appearing innocent). Is this going to be a new kind of Scream where we get to know the cunning killer ahead of time?
Naturally, it isn’t, and the double-death whammy has an unnatural edge that unfairly raises the stakes in the story. Ultimately, Scream VI languishes into a dutiful merry-go-round of returning characters, wasting the goodwill of last year’s somewhat enjoyable relaunch (a rampaging Neve Campbell bowed out of future participation). The main characters are Tara (Jenna Ortega, Wednesday’s deadpan in an underwritten role), who is enrolled at the made-up Blackmore University, her overbearing older sister Sam (Melissa Barrera), who is obsessed with destroying Tara’s first year away from home, and a plethora of chatty over-explainers and newcomers. Every time a new cast member appears in the film, such as a lunging Courteney Cox, it starts to resemble a soap opera with sharp edges rather than a horror film.
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Summary
You already knew that none of them were safe—not in their residences, the bodega, or the train. Like in an episode of Friends called The One With the Relentless Stalker, the movie is set in a city that doesn’t really register. The film’s hard-R rating is justified by its splattery and puncture-heavy violence, which is intercut with depressingly soothing talk of therapy, including a real therapy session. However, it has no deeper significance; the Scream concept, which is meta at its core, was always a pretentious celebration of its ingenuity, regardless of the sporadic, half-baked references to toxic fandom or cancel culture. You’ll learn that a hall of mirrors like this will never be constructed when the showdown takes place in a museum containing items from the other movies.
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