Neve Campbell | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The Scream movie franchise is now 30 years old, with the release of the original “Scream” in late 1996. All of the movies in this series are about the same, horrific stabbings and death, with the victim often running for their lives until finally caught and stabbed more times than is ever necessary to cause their demise. The plots are often idiotic, with a huge surprise ending, “who is the killer or killers?”, that are always ridiculous and illogical based on the entire plot of the movie.

While the new “Scream 7” movie is better than the last one, it is still very stupid, with some death scenes that will remind some of the “Final Destination” movie franchise, which is famous for its imaginative death special effects. This movie has a few death scenes at the crazy level of a Final Destination, with an overkill ending involving two pistols that has to be seen to be believed. There are once again too many scenes where a character should definately be dead, but either does not die, or comes back from the dead.

For this new edition, Neve Campbell is back as Sydney Evans, after missing Scream 6, because she was insulted by the amount of money they offered her. Considering her ambitious acting career that started with the TV series “Party of Five”, over 30 years ago, she has to be embarrassed to be so well known from a horror movie series this idiotic. However, when it comes to money and the precarious profession of acting in Hollywood, nobody can be blamed for cashing in when a money opportunity comes along.

After being almost killed in the last Scream movie, Courtney Cox is once again playing the reporter Gale Weathers, and is the only cast member to have appeared in all seven Scream movies. Relative newcomer Isabel May plays Tatum Evans, Sydney Evans’ daughter, and is most likely the actor who will take over this series, unless this whole movie franchise mercifully dies after seven stupid films. In the end, if one of these movies makes enough money, they will make another one.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings are an accurate and very low 33%. I agree with this rating and do not recommend this movie, even for the most die-hard Scream fans.

A better movie than each one of now five stupid “Scream” movies would be a 2 hour documentary about how or even why people like to see horrendous stabbing murders on a huge movie screen.

Amazingly, all of these 5 scream movies, the first one released in 1996, are all about the same. A mystery killer or killers, who wears the exact same ghost mask, goes on a mass stabbing and murder spree. There are about 10-15 false alarm trickery scenes, about 5-10 horrible murders and an ending that attempts to explain the 2 hours of idiotic plot that never makes any sense. This time around, there was barely any explanation attempt as to why the murderer(s) did what they did, because why bother? The whole story makes no sense.

These Scream movies always have the opening scene of a young attractive women being attacked and stabbed – and this time around it was particularly disturbing. Once again, why do we go to see movies like this? For me its because of this blog, for others of us, maybe there is some sort of sick and dark explanation that we will never fully understand.

At the beginning of Neve Campbell’s career as a TV actress on the TV show “Party of Five”, she probably had ambitions of great movies in her future, maybe even an Academy Award someday. Now for her entire career, she is mostly known for 5 very bad Scream movies. I would wonder if she is embarrassed about this, I sure would be.

For reasons unknown this stupid movie is getting high 70% numbers on Rotten Tomatoes – go figure, especially when you consider the very dumb ending – probably the worst of the five movies. My rating is about 30% and a solid PASS on this one.