Scream 7 Spoiler Review – The Killer Reveal, Ending Explained & Franchise Connections

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The reviewer begins by sharing their high hopes for *Scream 7*, which were unfortunately dashed upon seeing the film on its opening night. They note that this installment is significantly different from previous entries in the franchise, featuring an unusually long introduction before the first kill occurs and a layout where most deaths happen simultaneously rather than being spread out to build suspense. The reviewer criticizes the lack of character development across the board, stating there was almost none for the supporting cast, which severely hampered the audience's ability to care about anyone other than Sydney and Gail. Consequently, they label this movie as by far the worst in the *Scream* franchise, suggesting that the excessive gore might have been an attempt by the creators to mask the weak story and lack of emotional depth. A significant portion of the review is dedicated to analyzing the film's connections to the *Halloween* series, particularly *Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later*. The reviewer points out clear parallels between Sydney's situation and Laurie Strode's in *H2O*, such as Sydney moving to a new town, owning a coffee shop with her husband who is the police chief, yet refusing to share her traumatic past with her daughter, mirroring how Laurie told her son everything. Additionally, the reviewer highlights that the Mockhouse burning down echoes the fire at Myers' house in *Halloween Resurrection*, and the setting of an isolated town under a city curfew during the final act recalls the boarding school isolation in *H2O*. These references are presented as clever callbacks for fans, even though the reviewer feels the film's execution was flawed. Despite the creative kills, such as a unique bar scene where a victim is essentially turned into a keg of beer and blood, the reviewer finds the killer reveal confusing and illogical. The plot relies heavily on red herrings, including the ambiguous death of Stu Macher and the introduction of an unknown attacker killed by Gail Weathers, but the ultimate explanation for the killers' motives involving mental health did not make sense to the reviewer compared to previous films. They express disappointment that the iconic "Red Right Hand" song was not featured until halfway through the movie and criticize the confusing nature of the final reveal, which failed to satisfy long-time fans who expect logical consistency in the franchise's mysteries. Ultimately, the reviewer concludes that the film feels rushed, likely due to insufficient script revisions, resulting in a disappointing experience for a dedicated fan since the beginning of the series. While they acknowledge some cool visual elements and the effective final kill where Sydney and her daughter shoot Ghost Face repeatedly, creating a crater similar to *H2O*, these positives do not outweigh the narrative failures. The reviewer strongly suggests waiting until the movie is available on streaming services, possibly even when it becomes free, before watching it again, as the current theatrical experience lacks the character depth and storytelling quality that made earlier *Scream* films beloved classics during the Halloween season.

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Let's talk about Scream 7. Welcome to Comic. My daughter and I went and saw it last night on opening night during the 7:30 showing and I had really high hopes for this movie. I was looking forward to it. You know, my daughter had been sick for the past two weeks with the flu. She got better just in time to go to see Scrim 7 on opening night. This scream film is almost completely different from all the others. There is an extended um intro kill. You know, most of the kills happen within the first couple minutes of the Scream movies. This one, I think, went on for, I'd say, a good 10 minutes before, you know, something actually happened. The layout of the film is not like the other Scream movies. It also seems like pretty much everyone was killed all at once rather than kind of spread out, which was kind of it it didn't it it didn't really enhance the excitement or the suspense. There was very very little character development. And by very little, I mean almost none. It was. This was by far the worst movie in the Scream franchise. The only thing it had going for it was the gore. This was by far the goriest of the Scream films. And I'm I'm almost wondering if the creators thought that the addition of gore would kind of cover up the lack of character development, lack of story and whatnot. If you follow, if you watch all the Scream movies, you know how closely they follow the Halloween franchise. Scream is like the little brother of Halloween. In fact, it's referenced quite a bit in the original. In Scream 6, we were led to believe that there's a cult of Ghost Face. Um, especially in the, uh, trailers and, um, releases going leading up to the release of the movie and everything. That wasn't exactly the case, but I mean, it kind of was. there, you know, there were copycats and then there was there were three killers technically I guess four if you count the two at the beginning and that kind of connects to Halloween the curse of Michael Myers. You know, there was a cult of thorn in the curse of Michael Myers uh which played a big part in the movie. In Scream 2, it was revealed that the killer was Nancy Lumis, Billy's mom. Well, in Halloween 2, it was revealed that uh Lorie Strode was Michael's sister. And in Scream 3, there was this whole Hollywood type thing. Um, I know Halloween 3 was completely different, so there wasn't really much of a connection there. Scream 4 came along and kind of rebooted and had to do with lineage and everything similar to Halloween 4, the return of Michael Myers. And then Scream Five came along and you had a whole new lead cast and that didn't really follow in line with Halloween five uh the Revenge of Michael Myers because that was more of a continuation of Halloween 4. But then Halloween 6 came along and there were some quite obvious similarities there between uh Scream 6 and Halloween the Curse of Michael Myers. Now for Scream 7, there are some very clear references to Halloween H2O. And I would also go as far as to say a clear reference to Halloween Resurrection because in Halloween Resurrection, um, Buster Rhymes character sets fire to, uh, I believe it was just the garage of the Meyers house, but I think ultimately the Meyers house caught on fire as well. And spoilers ahead. So, if you don't want spoilers, um, go ahead and leave this for now. Go watch the movie and then come back. In Scream 7, the mocker house is set ablaze, um, and burned down. So, there is that parallel there. But then in Halloween H2O, you had Lori uh, as a school um, head of a private school. Uh, she's changed her identity. Um, the only person she's told her story to was her son in Scream 7. Lorie Stro or not Lorie Strode. Um, Sydney has moved to another town. She's kind of embraced her identity as the final girl. Um, she owns a coffee shop. Uh her husband is chief of police, but yet the only person who she hasn't really talked to about her past is her daughter. So there is that parallel where Lorie Strode told her son everything and Sydney refused to tell her daughter everything. I will say there is more than one killer in this so be on the lookout for that. The death of the first killer was I I would say it's pretty awesome and it's kind of a red herring so to speak. It leads to there are three killers in the movie um that we know of but the death of the first killer it was somebody they that no one knew any it you know in previous movies it's always somebody you know this was nobody that anybody knew. Um in fact Gail Weathers plows over him in her car. She comes out of nowhere essentially and she un uh removes his mask live on camera and they're like who the [ __ ] is that? You know, it it does lead to the other killers. In fact, there is this whole ordeal around Stu Mocker whether he's alive or not because there are videos um video calls and everything of Stu Mocker talking to Sydney um and they do wonder if it's AI or not. And there is this whole thing where his autopsy report is missing and the coroner at the time is dead. Um, and all this. So, there's no real evidence for Stu's death, which does kind of lead a iszy, isn't he type thing. And it's still left ambiguous by the end of the movie of whether or not Stu is alive or dead. There are some pretty creative kills in this movie. I was expecting one of the kills to be very similar to Jason goes to hell where he dumps the uh the waitress's head in the frier grease or whatever. Um because of the way they were kind of playing it out in the bar. Uh, I don't believe that happened though, which would have been cool, but at the same time, it would have been a and it would have been a call back to another horror movie, which Scream is notorious for. With that being said, there is so very little character development. You don't really have a chance to care about any of the characters in the movie other than Sydney, other than Gail. you know, the opening scene or not the opening scene, but the introduction to Sydney's daughter is similar to how we're introduced to Sydney in the first film. Uh her boyfriend comes in through her window and then they're getting kind of hot and heavy and um Sydney knocks on the bedroom door and the boyfriend rolls off and uh behind the bed. Sydney comes in. she's been through this before. So she knows he's hiding hiding next to the bed and um she call she calls him out on it, you know, and uh so that is a pretty funny call back and she walks him out of the house and everything and her whole thing is she doesn't trust him because you know you can't trust the boyfriend. She lived that experience. McKenna Grace's character, you have no opportunity whatsoever to actually develop any kind of an interest in her. Similar with the other characters, and you think it's going to be a character that wears a flannel shirt as in line with the other movies. It's not. At least I I don't recall if the main killer wore a flannel shirt or not. I've only seen it once. So, but there are all these little um clues um red herrings and everything that you're fans of the franchise are going to be on the lookout for. The death in the bar, one of the deaths in the bar is a very creative kill that I haven't seen done on uh in slasher movies yet. Uh it was probably my favorite kill. I actually laughed out loud uh during this scene in the aftermath of it because Ghost Face puts a guy on tap essentially and beer and blood starts pouring out of his mouth just like a a keg essentially. Um which that was pretty funny, pretty cool death scene that I hadn't seen on in movies yet. But the reveal of the Ghost Face killers, it didn't make sense to me. It It made absolutely no sense at all. Uh I did like the revelation that Sydney has a panic room in her house. That made a lot of sense given everything she's experienced and the fact that her daughter didn't know about the panic room uh was a little weird. Uh, you would think living in a house you would know, you know, things about it, but the fact that her daughter didn't know about the panic room was very weird. Ultimately, like I said, the reveals made absolutely zero sense. It was confusing. It it ended up having to do with uh mental health um in a way that hasn't been approached in the screen franchi franchise before which was an interesting take but at the same time the killers in the previous movies they made sense. this one or these two didn't. And it left me the end of the film, you know, we didn't even get Red Right Hand until probably halfway, if not threequarters of the way through the film. Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has become the unofficial Scream theme song. And we don't even get it until halfway to threequarters of the way through the film. And then, like I said, the reveal made no sense. It it it was disappointing. The lack of character development was disappointing. You know, at least in all the other movies, you care about the characters. You you you get to know the characters a little bit. In this film, you don't really you don't even really get to know Sydney's daughter all that well. She's just this average teenage girl who's got a chip on her shoulder and against her mom because she's often being compared to her mom. She doesn't like the fact that her mom won't tell her anything about her past even though her past is in the movies and in the books and everything and she wrote a book about it and all this. It didn't make sense. I think the creators were just trying to rush this film out. I I think they should have done a couple more passes of the script. Uh, by far the worst Scream movie in the history of the Scream franchise. U, with that being said, I do want to talk a little little bit more about the Final Kill, the end of Ghost Face in this movie. So, again, spoilers. Um, if you haven't tuned off yet, I gave you plenty of warning. It's it's your own damn fault if you continue watching. But as I said, there are some callbacks to Halloween H2O. In H2O, uh Lorie Strode takes an axe and chops who she believe is Michael Myers's head off. In Scream 7, Sydney and her daughter both have guns and Ghost Face comes back like Ghost Face usually does. And they both turn around and blow Ghost Face head off. They they just fire re on over and over and over and all that's left is a crater where this uh character's face was. And that was a that was a pretty awesome kill. And like I said, it's kind of a call back to Halloween H2O. Um kind of its own thing. They don't remove her head completely, but all that's really left is a a stump essentially that's probably no thicker than a sheet of cardboard paper. So, that was kind of cool. But yeah, I would definitely recommend waiting until this comes out on streaming. Um, and even then, you might even want to wait until it's free to watch on streaming. Um, I I I'm a huge Scream fan. Um, I've been following the franchise since the very beginning. It's one of my favorite franchises to watch during the Halloween season because it just gives you that Halloween feel. And while yeah, it did have those fall vibes with leaves and everything uh blowing around. Oh, and something I forgot. Another call back to Halloween H2O was the where H2O takes place in an empty boarding school. Essentially, basically a town in and of itself, Scream 7. Um, most of the final act takes place in an empty town because there is a city curfew and that plays a big part into it. So, moving from building to building, street uh street level, nobody's able to help because there's a curfew and yeah, you're running through the streets away from Ghost Face and all that. So, that was kind of a call back to Halloween H2O as well. One final thing I want to add, it's Rex Manning Day. If you enjoyed that video, make sure you check out one of these two playlists for more videos just like the one you just watched. I've been Shannon. This has been Comagan TV, the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. Take care, geeks.