Rented the new
Scream on YT last night. All I can say is - I'm glad I didn't blind-buy it. I had my doubts about
Scream 4 given the 10 year gap but was really very pleasently surprised. I had my doubts about this given the gap and the lack of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson and, sadly, I was right this time. This movie is awful. First off, it's BORING. How do you make a
Scream movie boring? I dunno, ask them. The original trio are very clearly getting too old for this shit, which is probably why they're largely sidelined (Dewey is treated horrendously, too, but he's a middle aged hetero white guy so I'm sure that's okay) in favour of a new cast. Which might work, if the new cast weren't so utterly bland, nondescript and faceless, including the new female lead. Who the hell are these people? The characters are nothing, but I don't even recognise any of the actors bar Dylan Minnette, who is getting way too old to be playing high school students and is hardly a big star. And I've no idea who any of the others are. What happened to the days when the
Scream movies got actual names in them?
This movie bored and depressed me. It's
Halloween 2018 all over again. Apparently Scream 6 is already on the way.
Sorry, I'm out.
