Scream 7 (2026)

“I’m gonna make everyone you love suffer.”

Despite moving to a new town and establishing her family there, Sydney Prescott has to face off with an old enemy, Ghostface, one more time. Neve Campbell reprises her role as Sydney for the sixth time in 2026’s Scream 7. Returning are Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, Roger L. Jackson as the iconic voice of Ghostface, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin, and Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin. Newcomers (possible victims) include Isabel May as Tatum Prescott-Evans (Syd’s daughter), Joel McHale as Mark Evans (Syd’s husband), Mckenna Grace, Asa Germann, Celeste O’Connor, Sam Rechner, Ethan Embry, Anna Camp, Jimmy Tatro, Michelle Randolph, and a few surprises.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!! You’ve been warned!

Scream 7, simply put, is a really good slasher film that doesn’t quite feel like a Scream film. Directed by the man that wrote the original Scream film, Kevin Williamson, who co-wrote this film with Guy Busick, the movie is a serviceable horror flick with a surprisingly good amount of jump scares and entirely too many characters. The film focuses on Sydney and her daughter, which I really liked about the film, but tosses in Gale in a flimsy aside and the Meeks-Martin kids in a subplot that is as forgettable as all of the teen victims in the movie. It’s almost as if Williamson had two movies going at the same time. The first film is Ghostface in hot pursuit of Sydney and Tatum and the second film is sort of a “Heck, GF needs to kill a few people to establish his/her dominance.” That second film is weak and, as already mentioned, pretty forgettable.

I would have enjoyed the film a lot more if it just focused on the Sydney/Tatum plot and left the teens for a sequel. There was zero attachment to the teens in the film and the Meeks-Martin kids don’t have enough of a legacy built up for them to carry a subplot where they are pretty much ineffective and in the way. Courteney Cox also felt like she was just tossed in because they had to have Gale appear in the movie.

The thing that bugged me the most about this film is the use of AI Facetime calls instead of Ghostface’s traditional phone calls. Sure, they had a few of Ghostface’s signature cellular moments, but the Stu Facetime calls were goofy. I know that they used AI because it’s a current hot topic, but Scream fans want to hear Ghostface terrorize his victims on the phone, not use poor Stu’s scarred up face. It felt forced and is the primary reason that this film did not feel like it was part of the franchise.

Scream 7 is a very good slasher film with some excellent action, surprisingly good kills, and some really, really terrible AI calls. Both Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox are as beautiful as ever (my man moment, sorry) and they gave great performances even if Cox had a greatly diminished role this time around. Just give us another film with the real Stu Macher and Sydney driving a knife into their story and let Tatum take the reins.