Scream 7

2026 · ★½

So unfortunately, because Melissa Barrera decided to violate her contract and post articles claiming the Holocaust was being used as propaganda to help Israel arms deals, denying rape happened on October 7th, and that hostages were being treated well by Hamas - all egregiously antisemitic claims and outright Hamas propaganda - Spyglass Entertainment fired her, wanting no part of her odious opinions associated with their business. I believe if she had just showed concern for the treatment of Palestinians and the way Israel was violently overreacting to the disgusting invasion on October 7th she probably would have weathered the incident - she might have even been allowed to use the word genocide, but I get it, I live in Spain: some Catholics have a Jewish problem and the war crimes being committed by Netanyahu seem to have given them carte blanche to let their vile, backwards little opinions fly free.

Being American I definitely get hating a government leader - but you never hear calls to eliminate the United States make it to the mainstream.

The very real consequence of all this is that we have this movie, which is perfect evidence that everyone, especially audiences, loses in our timeline. What kind of hellscape do we inhabit that the mire of Middle East politics has ruined our horror movie? If I had a time machine I would try to explain this to someone who just saw the first Scream because I would like to measure our contemporary insanity by their reaction. Anyway, Kevin Williamson directing a Scream film for the first time was not a bonus feature. He cannot direct, and neither can he write features. He's a TV guy who got popular a long time ago for having an ear for overexplanatory teen dialogue. Let's just say his art has not developed.

The cast producers were stuck with, the only real options available, consisted of legacy characters we had already moved on from in Scream VI, but what are you going to do? No one else was left. The thing they came up with at the last minute is terrible: plot holes, inert staging, lazy performances, and no real ideas. I sincerely hope the franchise dies with it.

Let's give someone else with an original idea a shot. At some point features and series swapped their logic; now franchises outlast their welcome by decades while the shows worth watching get cancelled after two seasons. This movie is a monument to that madness. We can't go on like this.