Hello Sidney…we’re home. In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re rejoined by recurring guests Laron Chapman, Zachary Burns, and Brock Lay to follow our Scream retrospective discussion up with a review of the newest entry in the series, Scream (2022), AKA Scream 5 AKA 5cream(the correct title). This conversation starts with the ice-breaker question, “who is your favorite horror movie villain or antagonist?” We then jump into a spoiler-free review of Scream(2022) where we provide our verdict on the film before concluding the conversation with an in-depth spoiler discussion. It’s been eleven years since Scream 4, the most recent entry, hit theaters in 2011. Though the film was generally well-received by critics (it currently sits at 61% on Rotten Tomatoes), it did not perform well enough at the box office to justify more sequels, at least according to the now-defunct Weinstein Company. That all changed when the Spyglass Media Group purchased the rights to the old Ghostface franchise in 2019. After another attempted murderer in the town of Woodsboro, the latest film brings back returning series regulars, Sidney Prescott(Neve Campbell), Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), and Dewey Riley (David Arquette), to join a new much younger cast in taking down […]

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