Christopher Machell

Scream VI

2023 · Mar 2023

With 2022's Scream and now Scream VI, writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick have fundamentally understood that this is the only rule that really matters: behind the clever-clever winks and nods, behind the knowing nods, there is a wealth of sincerity and affection for a series that by hook or by crook has sustained for the better part of three decades. It's a shame that Campbell's absence partly sours such an otherwise bright film, which so wonderfully captures that balance of horror, comedy smarts and melodrama that defined the original.