Review: Scream (2022)
A new series of Woodsboro youngsters start to suspect that someone is attempting to reboot the “Stab!” franchise. They seek the very reluctant help of a burned-out Dewey (David Arquette) who calls in a couple of helpers of his own (Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox) as the survivors of the bloody events of 25 years ago get set to confront the Ghostface of the present . Roger L. Jackson once again voices the disguised killer. I’m probably a little milder on the original “Scream” than some. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a solid spoof with one genuinely tense scene at the beginning (Unlike most, I don’t consider it a horror film at all, just a spoof that uses horror tropes whilst lampooning them). It was good and a clever film for its time, a better version of what Wes Craven tried for with “The New Nightmare” . However, it also ushered in a new wave of PG-13 horror staleness that hung around for far too long if you ask me (films that somehow didn’t seem to realise that “Scream” was taking