432: Scream VI

[00:00:00] 139. Let's get to Scream VI, which came out in 2023. It is once again directed by Matt Bettinelli, Ulpin, and Tyler Gillett. It stars basically the same cast, Courtney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmine Savoy-Brown, Mason Gooding, Skiad Ulrich,

[00:00:19] let's see there's a lot of other people it's just all messed up, Samar Weaving's in there for a minute, and the synopsis is, in the next installment the survivors of the ghost-face killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New

[00:00:33] York City. So as I said, I only saw this one I think maybe a few months after it came out right after I had watched five. I says oh cool six is coming out I gotta

[00:00:43] watch five and then I watched both very close together and I think that I've I've not seen this one probably three or four times and I think this movie is awesome like it's up there right with the original I think it's one of the

[00:00:59] best recent horror installments of let's say the last ten years or more I think it is so fresh and just like five I don't want to repeat myself too much but it's so engaging there's such great character work there's good horror all

[00:01:15] these sequences really this whole movie to me is very very memorable and I'll get to that in just a little bit with specifics but the plot is surprisingly pretty good it's not messy but it's still got enough detail and world

[00:01:30] building to it to make it really pretty satisfying and talking about other similar franchises this one and five they're both about two hours this is one of the only franchises one of the only installments that I'm fine with it being

[00:01:47] two or more hours like this movie and five could have been two and a half hours and I would not mind it at all I think that the pacing I didn't mention this with five but I think the pacing for both of these movies is pretty perfect

[00:01:59] like I'm never really bored I'm always never thinking oh just like let's get on with it this is getting too ridiculous too messy I'm always with the characters I'm always fully on for whatever is going on and I think that that's a kind

[00:02:16] of a rarity in this day and age with especially being the sixth installment in a horror franchise you don't really see that very often so that's fantastic I think Melissa Barrera Jenna Ortega once again are awesome and I think that

[00:02:30] character especially for Barrera she is not only such a strong character and how she overcomes certain things but just that emotional level in that conflict inner conflict of the cancel culture thing where people think she's this

[00:02:44] crazy nut because she killed this person and then when she tries to defend herself or fight back she's seen as even crazier and then Jenna Ortega's character fighting with her saying I want to live my life I'm not gonna let a

[00:02:58] few days one event change my life forever I'm gonna go on with it you can stay behind and live in the past I'm not gonna do that and then that flipping back on Melissa Barrera and thinking well am I doing that am I holding my

[00:03:12] sister back am I being too protective am I wasting my own life hanging on this who am I like you know because of the legacy for family or their family so all that stuff incorporating cancel culture very modern ideas very fresh ideas is

[00:03:30] really really well done very interesting very strong writing the sequence at the beginning with Samara weaving perfect like one of the best openings for a horror movie in a long long time and again it has that rapid-fire machine

[00:03:47] gun stabbing death which is really effective as I said with part five and the violence is really strong in terms of the effects the makeup the thing that I've talked about I think on other podcasts or at least at some point before

[00:04:04] is I know it was kind of controversial for some reason but the shotgun sequence in the gas station amazing where it goes faces walking around with a shotgun blowing people away instead of using a knife again such a simple thing just

[00:04:19] like with the rapid-fire stabbing it's such a simple hey why not give him a shotgun this time love it that is one of the best sequences in the whole movie just the visual of that is fantastic and like I said with five like the set

[00:04:33] pieces like that one are like surprisingly memorable and thinking of some others like the moment with the psychiatrist where ghostface stabs him through the window the subway sequence where it's Halloween and everyone is wearing ghostface masks and Michael Myers masks and there's that oh

[00:04:54] god where is he is he here is he not I think that you could make that really cliched and goofy but it's not it's very everything feels fairly grounded and it feels like alright well I'm on a subway on Halloween what am I expecting you

[00:05:09] know it doesn't feel that far-fetched the sequence in Courtney Cox's apartment where she's attacked by ghostface another great sequence the ladder escape across the apartments like it's such simple things like it's not some crazy action set piece that has a bunch of effects or just very normal

[00:05:32] kind of mundane ideas that through direction through performance whatever else makes it really intense nail-biting suspenseful it's funny at times violent oh and also one of the biggest issues with all movies like this most of the

[00:05:49] time is the third act for me like I think in Halloween even some of the other screen movies is the third act is almost always the weakest I'm like well we get

[00:05:59] who the killer is like let's just wrap it up it always goes on too long you know we know this person is gonna survive this person isn't whatever but in both of these movies more so in this one but still in five the third acts are top

[00:06:13] notch I think especially in this one where there is the theater sequence and there's not only the reveals which I mean reveals are are what they are but that whole action sequence about like climbing on the to the second level the

[00:06:29] multiple ghost faces doing the like knife cleaning little move like it's really iconic it's really intense and I feel like even though this movie is again two plus hours I'm like fully in I would watch three hours you know I don't

[00:06:44] want to keep saying that but it really is true and I really don't say that very often I almost always want a movie especially with something like this to be shorter most of the new Halloween movies could be shorter even though I

[00:06:56] like how they incorporate certain bigger societal ideas also kind of like cancel culture and dealing with trauma and all that so the third act is really really really good and I like I mean it's not really that deep but this

[00:07:12] family having had the death of one of their children one of their siblings and then blaming Melissa Barrera because obviously she did kill him but he was also a killer himself but her dealing with all right am I gonna become a

[00:07:26] killer am I just like my dad am I not am I gonna be better than that and then trying to make the world better for her sister as well and her sister dealing

[00:07:36] with her own demons and I just yeah I love this movie I was not expecting at all to love it this much but thinking back there aren't many like it that are at this level this level of execution and what I mentioned with five and I'm

[00:07:53] glad that there's a little bit less in this one with the meta stuff explaining the franchise rules there's like a couple of scenes with this but I'm glad that they tone that down a little bit I don't mind that since that really does

[00:08:04] go back all the way to the original because of the stab movies within the movie like I'm fine with that but I'm glad they tone it down a little bit because we don't need that much of that I think in my opinion maybe I'm in the

[00:08:16] minority but I don't always love that so that's toned down the score is excellent I think it looks really good the lighting is very strong in both of these movies so I really I don't it's not some landmark movie it's not like

[00:08:33] best of the generation or anything like that spoiler it is a five out of five heavy five out of five one of my favorite horror movies now of all time but there aren't really many flaws to it I can understand if this isn't your

[00:08:46] favorite movie ever or your favorite of the franchise I get that I think it's one that I know some people really really love like me and then other people like yeah it's another screen movie it's good you know but I think

[00:08:57] that it's pretty underrated I think it considering it's called scream 6 you kind of maybe laugh it off like oh well it's gonna be ridiculous it's not gonna be good at all no chance but I would give it a chance if I were you maybe

[00:09:11] give it a revisit as well so I am just so sad that we're not gonna be able to see where the sisters go from here like I was just dying even before I knew that

[00:09:23] seven was canceled or the actors dropped out I was like alright I want to see where they go because they explore mental health trauma cancel culture like a lot of very present ideas especially in younger people and I was really

[00:09:40] excited to see where that goes and I'm curious to see how that they're gonna be like alright well seven now is a completely different set of characters like I'm curious to see how they manage that I hope they do it well because I'll

[00:09:52] so happily go and watch it and I might even love it I hope to love it you know but I'm just sad that we won't really ever get to see more of Sam and Tara because they are awesome characters so memorable love those actors and they

[00:10:06] will definitely be missed for sure oh and also one quick thing about the ending the whole theater sequence with the ghost face and stab memorabilia that's I think the design of that room is really really good but the death of

[00:10:22] the father spoiler is so like it's meant to be intentionally ridiculous I think and maybe even comical to a certain extent but also horrifying because they have a good way of balancing that tone where he gets stabbed like 30 times in

[00:10:39] rapid succession like 10 times more than anyone else in these two movies and it's just really really satisfying and like bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam and really really good ending to the movie and good fitting death for a

[00:10:52] horrible person you know so it's an awesome movie cannot say enough about it would talk about over and over and over again can't wait to rewatch it again for like the fifth time great great movie that is a heavy five out of five