Paramount+Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
The kills and scares are fun and felt like a Scream film. However, Scream ‘22 looks like a Paramount+ original film or something seen on other streaming platforms, visually less pleasing than Craven’s films. The film’s attempt at humor feels less funny than in the original and feels on-the-nose and cringe-worthy at times.
January 14, 2022. 5 min read. The 2022 version of “Scream” is a film for viewers raised on the 1996 version of “Scream” and its three sequels. Whereas the first script by Kevin Williamson turned the kind of conversations that fans had about John Carpenter and Wes Craven in school cafeterias and coffee houses into something daring and riveting, the new script by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick exists in a world where those conversations happen on a much larger scale in Discord chats, Reddit threads, and fan conventions.
