“Scream VI”

Movie Review

The 2023 American horror movie Scream VI was written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick and directed by Matt Bettimatt-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. It is the sixth film in the Scream Film Series' sequel. Together with Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, and Samara Weaving, the movie stars Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, and Courteney Cox in characters they previously played in the series.

The third installment of the series, Scream VI, relocates the setting from the fictitious California town of Woodsboro to New York City and centers on a new Ghostface that targets the victims of the "Woodsboro Legacy Attacks." The movie parodies the tendencies of movie franchises and the subversion of audience expectations while combining the brutality of the slasher genre with aspects of black humour and a "Whodunit" mystery.

Professor of film studies Laura Crane is lured outside a club in New York City and killed by Jason Carvey, who is dressed as Ghostface. Jason and his roommate Greg plan to murder the Carpenter sisters, but when Jason gets a call from a different Ghostface, who has already killed Greg, Jason is fatally stabbed.

Sam Carpenter has moved to New York City to live with her sister Tara, Quinn Bailey, the Meeks-Martin twins Chad and Mindy, Mindy's lover Anika, and Chad's roommate Ethan. Sam sees Dr. Stone for treatment, but due to an online hoax claiming she planned the most recent Woodsboro crimes and implicated Richie Kirsch in them, she is frequently shunned in public. When Sam's ID and the Ghostface mask worn by Richie and Amber Freeman were discovered at the scene of Jason's murder, Sam is summoned for questioning by Detective Wayne Bailey, Quinn's father. Sam receives a call from Ghostface on Richie's phone while they are traveling to the station; Ghostface then attacks Tara and kills other onlookers.

The sisters visit FBI special agent Kirby Reed, a survivor of the 2011 Woodsboro murders, at the station. They then speak with Gale Weathers, who informs them that Sidney Prescott has fled the country in response to the latest atrocities. Ghostface kills Dr. Stone while stealing Sam's paperwork and leaving a second mask that was used in the 2011 killings. Afterwards, in Sam and Tara's apartment, Quinn is attacked by Ghostface, who also kills Anika. However, Sam, Tara, Mindy, and Chad are able to flee owing to the assistance of Sam's neighbor and boyfriend, Danny.

Following Quinn's passing, Detective Bailey is formally removed from the case, but he makes a promise to assist in avenging his daughter. Gale leads the gang to an abandoned theater that she discovered while conducting research that has been turned into a shrine to the Ghostface assailants, complete with gear from each round of attacks. After Dewey's death, Ghostface phones Gale at her apartment tormenting her about it before killing her lover and attacking her. In time to prevent Ghostface from killing Gale, Tara and Sam arrive.

To capture Ghostface, the party decides to meet Kirby at the theater. They become separated on the train station, and the assailant stabs Mindy. Sam has a vision of her father Billy Loomis at the theater, telling her to stand up for herself and not to put her trust in others. Sam discovers they have been locked inside after retrieving Billy's knife from the first murders.

Bailey phones Sam and informs him that he learned that Kirby was discharged from the FBI months earlier because of his mental instability. When two Ghostfaces attack the group, Chad appears to have died. Sam and Tara attempt to flee as Kirby and Bailey show there with weapons drawn. When Bailey shoots Kirby, a third Ghostface is revealed. He acknowledges planning the killings with his kids, who are later identified as Quinn and Ethan, to get revenge on Richie, his oldest son, who was killed. Sam and Tara battle off the Bailey family, with Sam killing Quinn and Tara stabbing Ethan. Bailey is subsequently fatally stabbed by Sam after donning her father's Ghostface suit and calling him in the Ghostface voice. Kirby kills Ethan when he reappears by smashing the television that killed Stu Macher over his head.

Tara decides to attend treatment, and Sam promises to let her live her life more on her own terms. Sam looks at her father's Ghostface mask for a moment before tossing it aside and following Tara into the city as the still-alive Mindy, Chad, and Kirby are transported to the hospital.

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