Scream

Scream returns to Woodsboro twenty-five years after the town was shaken by a series of killings, which later inspired a run of horror films. A new murderer puts on the Ghostface mask and targets a group of teenagers, drawing the town back into fear and threatening to expose secrets from its violent past. When her younger sister Tara is attacked, Sam Carpenter comes home and turns to former sheriff Dewey Riley for help in tracking down the killer behind the mask.

This 2022 film is a slasher mystery directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, and produced by Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein. It followed Ready or Not in the directing pair's filmography and preceded Scream VI. The cast includes Melissa Barrera as Sam, Jenna Ortega as Tara, Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin, Jack Quaid as Richie Kirsch and Mikey Madison as Amber Freeman, among 38 credited performers.

Made for about 24 million dollars, the film took roughly 139 million dollars worldwide, a strong multiple of its budget. On IMDb it holds 6.3 from about 186,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.7 from around 4,000 votes. A film critics' rating of 6.6 from 300 reviews places it close to the audience scores, indicating a broadly similar reception across both groups.