Scream 7 review

That Ghostface killer just won’t go away because while he’s stacking bodies in these Scream movies, he’s also stacking large stacks of cash for the movie studio. Therefore, I now present you “Scream 7”, the latest in the blood-soaked, big bucks franchise, started way back in 1996. In these movies, we’re now in the era where the final girl from most of the early Scream movies, Neve Campbell as Sydney Prescott, has had movies and books written about Ghostface killers terrorizing her. She’s a celebrity and she’s back as the main character in this latest installment. Joining her from the 1996 movie cast is Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers, the former news reporter and now media personality. A major new player introduced in “Scream 7” is Sydney’s daughter, Tatum, played by Isabel May and she’s the typical rebellious, moody teenager girl who annoys her Mom. Throughout the course of this movie, she learns she needs her Mom, and her experience with the psycho killer in the mask and black robe. Will mother and daughter survive this movie? Is it worth going to the theater to find out? Find out in this episode of Movies Merica! “Scream 7” also stars Jasmin Savoy-Brown, Mason Gooding, Joel McHale, McKenna Grace, Anna Camp, Celeste O’Connor, Sam Rechner, Asa Germann, Matthew Lillard, Kraig Dane, Ethan Embry and Mark Consuelos. 

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Screaming into theaters this week is the latest in the franchise. That's a crowd favorite that gets them screaming in unison in theaters everywhere. That would be Scream 7, and it again stars You Know Her, You Love Her, You Can't Get Enough of Her, The Original Scream Final Girl, Nev Campbell as Sydney Prescott. Now, does her return to the Scream team warrant a drive to the theater? Well, find out in today's Movies America Live. All right, everybody. Hey, happy Sunday. Welcome to the show. Sorry about the late start here today. I was suffering from uh those classical things called um technical difficulties. That's what uh that's what that is. That's the ticket. Yeah. And so, but hey, we're finally here, finally kicking it off, finally uh powering this movies America Live, a Scream 7 Movies America Live episode here on this Sunday. So, and I want to really welcome my movie maniacs and my fellow freedom-fueled film fanatics out there in Movie Land. I know you have been delivered. Finally, there's a live show for you to join here, this particular show here, of course, where you get to talk ad nauseum about uh the movie of the week, in this case, Scream 7. All right. And uh to that end here, just want to remind you real quick that since this show is live, that's where the live chat kicks in for you guys on Rumble or YouTube. And so you don't have to just uh listen to me up here going yip, you know, about the movie here for today. You can get in the live chat and uh yeah, just talk about some Scream 7 or talk about any movie you want to talk about. Hell, I can't stop you from talking about whatever you want in the live chat. Hey, if you want to just post your Aunt Rosie's meatballs recipe in the live chat, I can't stop you. There you go. But hey, I will take the engagement, all right? Because as far as YouTube and Rumble cares or goes, they don't care if you're live chatting about Scream 7 or that latest whole fungus that you got. They don't care. All right, so there you go. So the live chat is open for you guys. You just have to click on the chat or live chat button, whatever it's called, down there below, right there. Okay, so all right, let's get into some Scream 7 because that's what you guys are here for. All right. Um, I probably should introduce myself. I'm Van Ebert here, otherwise known as Movies America. Okay, there we go. But uh Scream 7. So it is directed, not just written by, but directed by Kevin Williamson. And if that name sounds familiar, that's because Kevin Williamson wrote the masterful screenplay for the OG Scream movie back in 1996. All right, and but now for the very first time in all of these seven scream movies, he's actually directing the movie to so he I think he wrote Scream One, Scream Two, I can't get my fingers right with the numbers. Scream one, scream two, and I think Scream Four, I think is what he he wrote those movies right there. Uh so but he's had he's got a big hand in these scream movies, Kevin Williamson, uh, that is here. And uh and he also wrote if you guys ever saw the movie The Faculty, uh, with you know young Josh Hartnett, and then you had Elijah Wood, you know, before he was uh you know Frodo. Uh then you had um uh what's her face, uh the uh the the brunette from uh the Fast and Furious uh movies. This is like one of the first movies that she was in the faculty. Kevin Williamson uh wrote that uh movie there as as well, right there. So but and then of course we get the glorious return of Nev Campbell as Sydney Prescott.

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When I first heard about Scream 7, I was elated. I was really excited to be a part of the film again and to continue Sydney's journey.

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Sydney Prescott has always been the heart and soul of Scream, and we get to see her in a way we haven't seen her before as a mother.

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Hey, Ben, how are you doing over there? Hello. She's created a family, has children, has found her.

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Yep, right there. So and also in that video, you uh got a chance to uh check out Isabel May there playing her daughter uh Tatum. And uh so you get a whole uh, you know, the return of a whole other cast of characters uh in this right there. But uh actually, real quick, uh we got uh some uh live chat business going on here. And uh we got Freedom Isn't Free saying Waza and uh it's a scream, baby! Yes it is there you go. Welcome to the show. Freedom isn't free here, and uh yeah, hey, did you see Scream 7? Or uh or you can just let me know, hey, what's your favorite Scream movie right uh there? But uh yeah, it is literally a scream here uh today here. But I can't scream, um I can't do like that Jamie Lee Curtis scream, like the classic, you know, horror queen screams because um well I'm a dude, so can't kicks can't do that. So uh we're we're just gonna have to manage there. But uh like I was saying here, we do have the return of some characters from uh some previous Scream movies there. Like uh you've got Jasmine Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding. They play brothers and brother and sister, uh you got uh Chad and Mindy, and they they return as uh Gail Weather's assistants there. So like Chad is like her cameraman, and Jasmine is like her producer or something like that. So, or or Mindy her character is. You got Joel McHale uh in this McKenna Grace. McKenna Grace is uh an up-and-coming actress. Uh now don't look for her for too long in this movie. She's in this movie very briefly, but you might know her. She was like the the little girl in uh in the Ghostbusters uh Afterlife, and then what the other Ghostbusters uh sequel there, where she was like the little nerdy kid scientist or whatever in that. Michelle Randolph, uh she's in this uh you know from 1923 and 18 or 1923 and Landman is in this. So I'm sure this is the first time she's ever been in a Scream movie right there. But uh yeah, so yeah, you got uh Nev Campbell uh as Cindy Prescott in this here. And uh what do we got here in the live chat right there? Here for freedom is free. So yeah, said uh yes, uh I did see it first day it came out. Uh one will forever be my favorite, but this movie came second as my favorite in the franchise. Wow, that is a bold statement, uh my friend, uh, there. Of course, yeah, the OG stream is uh number one one for me right there. Because it was fresh, it was new, right? It was uh the first time that you know we were seeing you know horror movies being kind of turned on their head by a by a legendary horror director, no less, uh, in Wes Craven there. And so it was kind of it was like Cabin in the Woods before Cabin in the Woods, right? Because if anybody's ever seen Cabin in the Woods, that's another movie where it takes all the Hollywood tropes or all the horror movie tropes and turns it right on uh their head right there. But uh yeah, it's good to see good to hear from you. Get the good gets that uh good input from you there. Freedom isn't free. So, but the plot of this movie is, of course, along with the return of Nev Campbell as Sidney Prescott, uh, we find her, she's not in Woodsboro, California anymore. Okay, that was the original town in the street movies there. Now she's like in Pine Grove or Pine Nut or Pine Cone, Indiana, or someplace, you know, some other small town. Uh and she's living there with her husband Mark, who's like the police chief. And then we get uh, you know, her daughter Tatum played by Isabel May that we saw in a little video clip there. And uh so, you know, a tall test, right? Big shoes uh to Phil, you know, playing the daughter of Sydney Prescott. And I think that I think they picked pretty well. Isabel May is a pretty good up-and-coming actress as well. She puts a lot of heft into her performances there, especially when she played uh Elsa Dun in uh 1883. God, if you watch her performance in 1883, boom, man, hits you right there. Um I think she was also in another uh movie called like Run, Hide, Fight or something like that. Uh that was a really good movie with uh her pretty much playing uh uh another badass in that movie here. So, but uh yeah, so they're all living there in Pinecone, Indiana, and uh she um and so they think that they have this nice quiet life going on there, and then suddenly, as you saw there in that in that old video that I saw uh that I showed you right there, you know, Sydney's, she's at her at her new job as you know, where she runs a coffee shop, she's in her office, all of a sudden, you know, she gets a phone call, and you know, hey Sydney, I'm back, you know, and then all of a sudden she gets a video call and it's Stu! You know, it's Stu from the original uh Scream movie there, uh played by Matthew Lillard. And then, you know, she's like, and all of a sudden, you know, Stu's like, I'm coming after your daughter, you know, it's and then it's on. The movie is on there. Uh, we've got a whole nother scream plot, you know, running, uh, running amuck in uh you know Pine Cone, Indiana, or whatever, wherever this was at here. And uh and Freedom is a freest, Isabel May was great. I also loved her in 1883. I know, wasn't she awesome in that movie? I mean, she had like just such the character arc in that. I think she was like the heart and soul of that of that series uh there. And it's kind of cool that you you know you get her narrating. Uh we hear from her again in 1823. She's a narrator in 1923 there. But yeah, very uh up-and-coming actress in everything that we're seeing here recently. So I can see why uh Taylor Sheridan uh you know hired her in that role. So but uh but yeah, so that's about as much the plot that I'm gonna go into. You know, we get the typical slashing and and slicing and dicing and julieting of you know of the human beings, of the of the victims of the of the cast of characters uh in this here. And then the whole time you're wondering, who is this ghost face? Because it's always something different, right? The only thing that we know is that it's always somebody that's connected personally to the main character, the main victim they're going after, and then like all these other people being killed are kind of like just uh you know collateral damage, right? You know, but the main target, they're always you know, always like personally connected to them uh somehow. And spoilers! Uh, it's no different in this movie. There is a personal connection in this one there as well. So, but uh all right, let's uh see what we've got else going on here, but uh we've got to uh move on here with the show. Uh Freedom was free says, I will say the only thing I didn't like was the motives and reveals there. Yeah, I mean the motives, you know, in this one were pretty weak uh in this one. It wasn't as good. Uh like Scream 2. I mean, that was kind of like an honest, like a you know, uh obvious, well not obvious, but once you hear, you know, the motive of the of the ghost face in Scream 2, you're like, okay, that makes sense. That makes sense right there. But this one, you know, this is like really okay. It came kind of came out as kind of contrived, you know, you're kind of like, who are the who are these people? You know, that kind of thing. Like, I don't care about your motives. It wasn't the motive was not exactly uh you know the most profound motive that we've ever seen in these movies, you know, but you know, hey, but you know, whatever their motive is, you know, it gives the scream movie fans uh what they want. That is uh for sure. So and you know, I'll tell you, man, if if if the Hallmark channel ever made a Scream movie, uh this nostalgic one would be it. I mean, Scream 7 is chock full of member berries for supposedly the audience to gobble up, okay? Just they're just just throwing those member berries in the old dog dish and wanting the audience to just gobble the bad boys up, right? And you've got the aforementioned return of Sidney Prescott. Uh Stu Mocker makes some appearances uh along with a number of old, uh, you know, other old screen faces showing up uh in this here. But uh, and then you also get constant references to Nev Campbell not being in the last screen movie, which was all in which was all in uh New York uh city there. And then a couple of like wink at the audience lines about you know, you know, how sad it is that movies like the rewarm up old material and they're always retreading the same old plots, you know, and the whole time you know you're you're hearing you know what cast members are or the the the characters say this, you know, you just you just picture them in their head going, eh, eh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and uh and then this kind of meta plopped into this movie is kind of clumsy, uh, I personally thought right there. I'm like, okay, I get it. You know, you're trying to be tongue-in-cheek and and weak weak and all that stuff right there. Now, at this point, I don't know how the character of Sydney isn't. I I just can't fathom like how she isn't like borderline psychotic herself, like coo coo, you know, crazy, you know, crazy beyond belief here. Or just, you know, rocking back and forth, you know, smorting a strait jacket in a padded room uh somewhere. Okay, like uh, you know, make asylums great again. Am I right? Or am I right? And I mean, it just just due to all her run-ins with Ghostface. I mean, she's survived at what how many runs run-ins with Ghostface? Well, probably at least four or five, right? I mean this because she was in the uh, well, she was a one, two, she was in the first four screen movies. Uh, then she was no first five, first five screen movies, because she was in a one in 2022, and then she wasn't in the one in 2023, and then um then she was in this. Oh, so six. All right. Uh six, so yeah, she's she's gotta be getting pretty damn good at this. That's for sure, right here. But uh, but instead of her being, you know, like her ghost faced herself because you know she went completely psycho, um, you know, maybe she just became like ghost faced by osmosis, or you know, going uh, you know, like uh just you know going drooling crazy, you know, rocking back and forth in a pattern room. Instead of any of those being her outcomes, uh, she runs a coffee shop. She's married, again, like I said before, to the police chief of Pinecone, Indiana, again, played by Joel McHale here, who I think a lot of people uh know him best from uh well, like Parks and Rec, but then he did what talk soup uh before that. I think was it Parks and Rec or was it Community? What have been community? I don't know. One of those NBC comedy series right there. But with Joel McHale, for some reason I just don't buy him as a police chief at all. Don't ask me why. I'm not even gonna ask myself why. I just I can't even explain it to myself. It just didn't s he didn't really just come off as as a as the kind of actor that could pull off this police chief role right here. But you know, again, in my opinion. But and then she has her daughter Tatum, who turns out to be like a Sydney Prescott in training. I mean, she's she's getting ghost face evasion OJT. That's uh on-the-job training for anybody who has no idea what the hell that means. Uh, she's getting a ghost face evasion OJT from her mom, and even has that like that special kick. All right, that special like I'm talking about like kicking like a leg kick, right? Even has that special kick that only her and her mom have that always sends ghost face flying, although when other people kick, you know, with her leg, you know, well, obviously with her leg dumb dumb. Um, it doesn't even like even move ghost face whatsoever. But however, when they do it, you know, ghost face goes flying across the room right there. Now, what I'd call that is this new martial arts uh form called quad armor. That's what I would call that right there. Okay, so absolutely. All right, moving on. The more of these scream movies we get, I notice that the gorier the the kills get uh in these uh movies here. I've noticed. Now I don't know if they've just realized that other horror movies in the last couple decades have made the kills in the early Scream movies seem quaint and downright wholesome by comparison. Now that's one positive I'll give the more recent Scream movies, and Scream 7 continues that trend. It most certainly does. Now, don't get it twisted. I mean, it's it's still not at the gory name of you know, like the terrifier movies, anything like that. No, it's it's not uh that bloody or anything like that, but it's you know, it's making moves to increase its gore score. Okay, it's like this, you know, the the C minus kid, you know, in school. It's it's it's increasing its gore score a little bit right there. There's some good uh you know, carnage candy in this, but uh, and you know, I gotta say, it must have been psychotically, deliciously fun for writer or director, Kevin Williamson, to come up with the inventiveness of some of these kills. All right, I can just picture him just sitting wherever he's at, you know, maybe writing it up on a laptop and just like kind of like just harnessing his inner psycho killer right there, like, hmm, well, they killed these people like this in that movie, and they killed those people like that in that movie, and no, yeah. Ooh, that's G. Oh, wait, no. Oh no, they did that in one of the terrifier movies. Nope. Can't do that. Um they wait. I'm I'm sitting at a bar, uh I'm on my laptop, I'm writing the screenplay for Scream 7. Let's look around the bar. Let's see if there's anything that oh, there's a good kill right there. Oh, I just I just I came up with a great idea uh right there. So, I mean, for and to that to that point here, for one example, let's just say Ghostface makes excellent use of a pointy ended beer tap in a bar. Now I've heard of customers complaining about the head and the beer they're served, but not like this. Okay. There is a repetitive theme between Sydney and Tatum, though, uh to switch to a different topic here in the Scream 7 movie, where Sydney is constantly telling her, make sure you finish off Ghostface with a shot to the head. And that whole thing has a bloody fun payoff towards the end of the movie. Okay, let's just say that uh let's just say that somebody gets a mag dump right in their right in their cratium, right in their melon uh there. So uh they never get a shot to the head, that's for sure. And when I say shot to the head, how about I don't know, 48 rounds uh to the old noggin right there? But all this being said, it's just a shame that it appears that maybe Kevin Williamson doing the directing and the writing for the first time was just too much, and I think it was a screenplay that paid the price. Plus, I think a little bit of his directing paid the price, because this movie looks cheap in uh a number of different areas there. Uh including like the there's like a zoom in dolly shot uh there. Actually, you saw it in that video you'd write when uh when Sidney Prescott you know fires up the old video call and it's Stu, they do that. They do that that that that zoom in dolly shot right there. They're trying to they're trying to hearken back to Jaws, you know, when Roy Scheider as uh Chief Brody is sitting there on the uh on the beach and you see the the the the friggin' the bubbling you know geyser of blood there in the ocean and do the dolly zoom shot, the famous one, the most famous one probably of all time right there. And he tried and Kevin Williamson tries to play homage to Jaws with this, and yeah, it just doesn't really pull it off uh there. And the character development in this is so cookie-cutter, so cliche, and just you know, by the numbers. Now, if only the building of the characters and her character arcs were as innovative as some of the kills he serves up. I mean, if only that were the case right there. But uh, you know what? Hey, we can wish, we can dream, uh, but that is not gonna make uh you know the character arc and the character development, you know, any better in this movie right there. But uh anyway, enough about enough about that. I think uh we got to go and uh turn to something a little bit more thirst quenching. And uh, of course, I uh insinuate all about brew review time. All right, let's uh introduce you to the the brew for today. And uh, yeah, you may have heard of this brand, uh Guinness. Okay. Uh we're talking about the Guinness Extra Stout here, of course, from Dublin, Ireland here. And uh of course we've got St. Patty's Day coming up here pretty soon. So you're probably gonna see me reviewing some more, you know, Irish-related beers, Irish brewed beers here as we creep slowly but surely up on uh St. Patty's Day. Okay, so I can just taste the Reuben sandwiches right now. There you go. Um, but this is their carbonated dry stout, and it's got signature notes of roasted barley, coffee, and dark chocolate. Okay. Now, all like, you know, like the basic beer drinkers here, you know, that drink nothing but you know, Bud Light, Tranny fluid, or Coralite, or stuff like that, and all the mass-produced stuff. They might hear me describe it like that and bleak. Okay. But don't do that, man. All right, expand your beer horizons. This is the good stuff right here, okay? It's definitely uh more, it's more manly than that tranny fluid, you know, the coarse light and the bud light, you know, that you typically drink right there. It's more manly. So, you know, just get a little adventurous and try some of this Guinness Extra Stout. And so, as you can tell, I'm giving up the ghost here. I'm I'm recommending Guinness Extra Stout. I've been a fan of this for a long time here. And uh this uses carbon dioxide rather than nitrogen uh in its brewing here, giving it more bites, okay, and effervescence compared to the silky drought version of uh of Guinness there. And this is cited as having more character and depth uh, you know, compared to the drought version there, uh, you know, with higher bitterness and a stronger alcohol presence than the 4.2 alcohol by volume drought version of this right here. And I always like to like uh give a a food pairing suggestion with this, or basically let you know what foods that uh you know, the brews that I'm reviewing pair well with right there. And this particular brew uh pairs well with uh like roast beef, grilled steaks, uh, and you know, talking about like Irish, right? Talking about uh, you know, the uh the the the British Peninsula, you get it pairs well with Shepherd's Pie, you know, bangers and mash, fish and chips, you know, all of all the stuff, you know, from uh, you know, the British Isles there, including, you know, good old Ireland right there. So, and of course, when I think of uh, you know, Irish food, bangers and mash are my favorite, man. There's some good old good old sausages and mashed potatoes. Mmm, so tasty, so good uh there. And uh yes, I have uh you know drank a uh I have eaten those and washed them down when they get us extra stout there, and I can uh I can attest to that fact that uh this does wash some bangers and mash down pretty well. Now, actually, if you get bangers of mash, if you can handle it, get the get the dirty bangers and mash. What that is, is they call it dirty bangers of mash because it's the spicy sausage. Okay, you just get the spicy sausage with the mashed potatoes right there. So get the get the dirty uh bangers and mash right there. And again, wash it down with some Guinness Extra Stout, you know, if you feel your mouth uh catch a catch it on fire uh right there. So but uh this one, uh this uh Guinness Extra Stout comes to us at 5.6 alcohol by volume right there, okay. And it's got a uh very effervescent nose to it as well. When you smell that, you're like, oh yeah, this is this is this is a hefty beer going on right here. Okay, and I did I say that it was a scotch or it was whiskey or tequila. No, I did not, no, but I'm saying it's it's hefty for a beer. Okay, there we go. Okay, so it's not not getting confused right there. But anyway, enough of me yapping about this, I'd much rather drink it. So to that end. Excellent. All right. So yeah, get yourself uh some of this beer right here, and uh, this is probably gonna be one of the easier beers for you to find of all the beers that I have reviewed here. Give me a guinness, you can find it pretty much everywhere. It's worldwide. It's a you know, it's a beer phenomenon. And uh, but you know, in case you know you live out uh you know in some uh out the out the sticks or something like that, you know, you could probably uh you know, well, I know that Uber Eats, you go to Uber Eats, and Uber Eats, you know, doesn't just uh deliver grub anymore. They uh they also deliver you know booze for you. So you know, fire up Uber Eats, you know, in your area there on your on your phone and get some Guinness extra stout delivered to you. Uh, you can go to a bar, go to an app like Open Bar on your phone, uh, and they deliver booze there as well. We've got gopuff.com, uh, which is a website that specializes in pretty much excuse me, woo boy, Guinness, you've got me burping already, buddy. Come on, what the hell? But uh you can go to like gopuff.com and their specialty, I believe, is delivering booze, even if it's not in your area, like worldwide. Okay, so you know, you live in Walla Walla, Washington, but you know, you want a beer that's brewed in Pakistan or something like that. It does, it's nowhere around the Walla Walla, Washington area. Well, you can get GoPuff.com to go ahead and get that delivered to you. Now it's gonna cost you some scratch, okay? But in the end, you'll get your Pakistani beer. Uh, right? So you've got that as an option there, but uh, but I think most people are not gonna have to do that because again, Guinness is pretty ubiquitous, that's for sure. So, hey, I got my one usage of the word ubiquitous in for today. Sweet. All right, so hey, I'm getting things done here today, all right? And on that note, that has been Brew review time. Yeah, they probably want to hear more about Scream 7. Hey, and you know what? Your wish is about to be granted because we're gonna talk about more Scream 7 and the forum on the fact that I have a couple of random thoughts about Scream 7. And my first uh my first uh random thought uh here about uh Scream 7 is uh I think that um I'm surprised that Taylor Sheridan, you know, uh known for uh you know for uh the he's the writer of uh Sicario and Hell or High Water. He directed Wind River, um he's you know, he's he's created and written Landman and uh and Yellowstone and 1883 and 1923, and uh what's the other one? Uh Lioness, uh which is actually a surprisingly good show. Lioness is a good show on Paramount and some other projects uh that he's been a part of right there. Also, used to we used to primarily well, actually still acts. You see him appear on his shows uh regularly here. Uh but he used to be on uh Sons of Anarchy as like the county sheriff or the town sheriff or something like that, or the police chief or something like that. But uh, but uh Taylor, so just to give you some quick background on who Taylor Sheridan is, but I'm surprised that Taylor Sheridan wasn't a producer or involved in some other way here with uh with this because we've got a couple of the prominent actresses from the Sheridan verse. I mean, first we see Michelle Randolph, who uh played Elizabeth in 1923. She was like uh the the the girlfriend and then the fiance of a character in 1923. And then currently, uh probably even more famously than her character in 1923, she currently plays Ainsley Norris, uh, so she's uh Billy Bob Thornton's uh daughter uh in in Landman.

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Can't believe we're staying at the Psycho Killer B.

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Michelle landed her first major big screen role. The latest entry in the iconic screen series, Lucky number seven. Are you a fan of the franchise?

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I am. I I was so excited to be a part of it. I rewatched all six of them right before I went to film, and I made my Landman casting watch it with me.

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Really?

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Which is kind of cool.

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It's just like a scream marathon.

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We ordered sushi, we had beer.

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Out of all your castmates on Landman, who would survive in the in the screen world?

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Jacob Laughlin.

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I'll call you more down questions because he's got it down.

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He's got it. He's from Arkansas, he just has something gritty in him. Yeah. I could learn a thing or two.

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So yeah, of course, that's uh Michelle Randolph uh there. And uh, so yeah, she's an up-and-coming actress, and so yeah, when I saw her in this uh latest Scream movie here, I was like, okay, yeah, she's moving up uh the uh the casting ladder here uh in Hollywood. Uh so uh but uh and then there's Isabel May, who was excellent and endearing as Elsa Dutton in 1883. And I was talking to Freedom Isn't Free earlier in a live chat about how you know good Isabel May was uh in 1883. I mean her just her character arc uh in that movie where she plays like this innocent, uh kind of uh precocious you know, teenage girl, and then where she goes from there as as they trek West in this you know, this hellish, horrific, you know, uh blood-soaked journey from Fort Worth, Texas, uh out into the West there to you know make a claim. Kind of like it's basically it's a movie about like all the hell that that pioneers um pioneers like that came over from Europe, okay, and then you got all these European immigrants, uh, and they're they they they set off from Fort Worth to head up even farther west to you know to make their to make their lives out there. And uh and so Elsa was part of that crew, and then you know, when she goes from this innocent, precocious, you know, this that she becomes after going through this this nightmare, this hellish nightmare uh of a of a journey in this in that movie right there. So it's again very endearing, um, very magnetic in that show. And then she also provides the narration in the other Taylor in another Taylor Sharon show uh of 1923, which is a another another TV series uh in the you know in the Yellowstone uh you know Dutton family trilogy or a trilogy, but but a suite of movies and TV shows, or not movies, TV shows. There we go. So and then another uh another random thought I had about uh Scream 7 is you know humans can take a lot of damage, you know, especially uh the black characters in these in this, particularly in these latest Scream movies. In this case, brother and sister, Mindy and Chad. Okay, and uh it's it's a it's a funny running gag uh with the with the black characters in these latest screen movies that flips the script on the old 80s and 90s horror movie trope that you know the black characters are always killed off first, right? There's that famous trope that, like, yeah, why isn't that yeah, back in the day, like you know, all the black characters are all killed off first, right there, and you know, you can come to whatever conclusion you want to as far as why uh there, but and then even Scream 2 uh you know famously satirized this troop by killing off two black characters in the opening scene. So it was like even before the title card up here, like it's the the two black characters are the first one killed off in Scream 2, all right? Just gotta make fun of that trope. Now the black characters, they're the last to be killed if they're even killed at all. I mean, did you see how many times the aforementioned Chad got stabbed and where he got stabbed in the last Scream movie, Scream 6, the one that took place in New York City? Like towards the end of the movie, towards the end of the movie, he'd be like, he's gonna get stabbed all over the place, like all over the place, like just slicing and dicing that guy. And then later on in the movie, they show up like he's in a gurney, and uh, and yeah, he's like, I'll be okay. I'm like, you can be okay, you should be dead, man. What the hell? You got stabbed like friggin' 712 times over here, and he's like, I'm okay. Like, I mean, I'm glad this character's okay, but that's a miracle. All right there. So, but I I get it. It's it's just like it's they're turning that, you know, that old troll uh there on its head right there. And uh I just think it's kind of hilarious how they're doing that right there. But uh little uh little wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know, kind of thing from uh Kevin Williamson uh in his script. But uh all right, let's move on. All right, what should we do next there, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls? So, oh, I know what I should do here. I should let you guys know uh that this is not the only Movies America show that I do each week, okay? Not at all. Uh I do have my Thursday show, uh, and that is the show where I drop spoilers left and right. Um, and you know, in in contrast to this show that you're watching right now, because in this show, I try my hardest to be spoiler-free. Okay. But on Thursday, no, I'm not even gonna try at all. Okay, now I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go out of my way to drop spoilers, but I'm also not gonna walk walk on eggshells uh trying to avoid spoilers like I'm doing today. Okay, because I'm gonna, well, not that I'm walking, but if if I was walking, you'd you'd see that I'm walking funny. Uh not because I got kicked uh to the short and curlies, but because I'm walking on eggshells, trying not to spoil anything about this movie for you, okay? Uh but the Thursday show is spoilers and all, and that is my Movies America spoiler warning show. I even do the courtesy of letting you know that it's a it's a spoilery show, okay, uh, on Thursday there, even with the title, even in the title of the show, okay? But uh hopefully, yeah, you guys uh join me for that because that's one thing that you can do. Let's say you haven't seen the movie of the week. So in this case, Scream 7. By this Thursday night, you haven't seen it seen the movie. Well, what you can do is you can fire up the episode and then just mute it, okay? You don't have to listen to it. I mean, if you're not listening to it, if it's muted, you're not gonna have anything spoiled, okay? But to Rumble or YouTube, that still looks like you're watching the show, okay? They don't care that you muted it. They don't, that doesn't mean anything to them uh right there. So yeah, so you can do that. You just fire up the show. That's what I do with like other YouTube or Rumble shows, is uh, you know, if if I just don't have the time to actively, you know, listen and and and participate in the show or watch it, whatever. I'll like you know, I'll find like an old laptop and I'm in my back bedroom and I'll just fire up the show and I'll mute it. And that way I'm helping out my buddies or helping out fans that I'm a show of or fans that I'm a show, shows that I'm a fan of, there you go, uh, with uh, you know, with their KPIs, you know, with their stats, uh, because it counts as me watching the show right there. So there you go. But uh anyway, the Thursday show, it comes on this Thursday night at 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 Central, 5 Mountain, and 4 Pacific P.M. time on Thursday right there. So it's all on Thursday night on the Movies America spoiler warning. And of course, I'm gonna be talking about Scream 7 uh this uh Thursday night uh there. So uh but uh yeah again and let your friends know. If you know somebody that's seen Scream 7, hey, let them know about the show coming on this Thursday night where they can live chat with me and I can communicate back with them and we can talk ad nauseum in as much detail as they want all about Scream 7 or any Scream movie for that matter, or any horror movie uh for that matter, right there. But that's this Thursday, there you go. Oh, and I should let you know, on the Thursday show, I also do a segment where I where I honor a military veteran. It's called the Movie Military Moment, and that's where I pay tribute to a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Uh, I do another brewery meet time, so that's uh all on my Thursday show called Movies America spoiler warning. All right, so let's talk about more Scream 7 here. And uh is Scream 7 a woke after school special? Now, some of you might be asking, I mean, like the younger generations here, anybody younger watching this, might be asking, like, okay, um, you said you said these words after school special? Um what is that? And you know what? I will tell you what an after school special is. So back in the 80s, or back in the 70s and the 80s, uh, they used to have these like half-hour episodes, these half-hour shows where the shows would be all about stuff like, hey kids, don't smoke cigarettes, or hey kids, don't drink, or hey kids, like, you know, some creepy guy with a van with no windows says, Hey, Billy, I've got free candy in this van with no windows. Come on in. Don't get in the van, Billy. Like, you know, there was shows all about that. Just you know, they're they're all about like, you know, valuable, uh, well-intentioned life lessons and advice and all that stuff for kids, you know, good good lessons right there. But they're extremely cheesy. Oh my god. They were just like Wisconsin doesn't have as much cheese as these uh after school specials did. But uh, you know, as you could, you know, as as as insinuated by the actual the term, they came on after school. So you'd come after you know, come home after school and ma, I want to watch Gilligan's Island or Dukes of Hazard, you know, and then you just flip on the TV and it was like, and you'd be like, oh man, it's an after school special. These are so cheesy, all right? And so that's what an after-school special is, okay? And so as a lot of us know, the intelligent, the intelligent people know, for the last 15, maybe even 20 years, we've had uh many movies, too many movies, okay, where they're not really movies, they're woke after school specials where they're not at all interested in entertaining you, uh, enlightening you, enriching you, providing a fun experience. Not at all. Their number one, number one aim, their number one priority is to lecture and preach and sermonize at you about how to live the best woke lifestyle. Okay, how to how to subscribe to their woke teachings or else. Okay. And who wants to watch that crap, right? So anyway, all that being said, back to Scream 7. Is Scream 7 a woke after school special? And I do have to hand it to Scream 7. Any wokeness that might have been in the script was killed off by Ghostface or uh somebody else in this movie. But again, yeah, any woke that was going to be in this movie originally was killed off by Ghostface or uh somebody else that wanted to do us a big, big favor here. And uh just like the woke wench, Melissa Barrera, woke was killed off by the studio, okay. Um and the woke was killed from this movie, just like Melissa Barrera, the woke wench herself, was killed off from the screen franchise by uh the studio here in this class spy glass entertainment right there. Because yeah, Melissa Barrera was like, hey man, I'm in this screen franchise, but you know what? I'm just gonna say some really stupid stuff in order to get myself fired right here, okay? So it's like you know, actors, you know what, know your role and shut your hole. Like just just whatever stupid stuff you have in your brain, just use that thing called a brain mouth filter and just zip it, zip it, zip, zip it, zip it. Okay, and then you get and then you'll get to keep it. Job. There you go. All right. Be smart. All right. I know you're an actor, but gotta cobble up some smarts. There you go. And not say stupid stuff that gets you fired. But uh, and typically you don't really have to worry about woke and horror movies unless they're made by Jordan Peel, who makes horror movies just as packaging for lecturing us about racism right there. Uh that that's the only reason he does the horror movies right there. And then of course, uh, you know, if I'm a uh if I'm a if I'm a you know a uh if if I'm a good white person, then I'm just gonna clap and go, oh, good for you, Jordan Peel. Oh, you you make the best horror movies of all time, you know. So it's kind of a like a like a woke purity test. You have to clap for you know any movie that Jordan Peel makes uh right there. So if you want to prove that you're one of the good whites right there. And Scream 7 has many faults, but taking your 18 bucks per person and then proceeding to sermonize at you about the woke topic de jour is not one of them right there. So good for you, Scream 7. Good for you, uh for you. Not being awoke after school special there. Uh top marks to you in that regard. Uh, you got there's a lot of things wrong with the movie, but uh being awoke after school special is not one of them. So good for you there. All right. All right. So my final thoughts for Scream 7 is I cannot in good conscience recommend that you go to the trouble of seeing this movie at the theater. Okay. Not I I I just can't do it. I don't think it's a good enough scream movie uh to do that. Now, obviously, if you're just looking for like you're sitting at home and you've got some serious cabin fever and you love the scream franchise, well, obviously, like don't don't don't listen to my advice. You're gonna you'll probably have a good time if you know if you're a big Scream fan here. Now, I'm like I I like the first Scream movie there, but uh the other the other Scream movies, I'm just kind of like, eh, they're I mean they're the other kind of fun. They got some uh kind of interesting kills, and uh, but they know like they don't really make my skirt fly up real high or anything like that. Okay, there's like there's they're movies, but not that the first screen movie was pretty good because it was ahead of its time uh there, but uh but so I'm at that point where I'm not a big uh scream movie nut. So, you know, I'm not I'm not that guy where like no matter how bad the reviews are for a scream movie, I'm gonna go anyway. Um but there are I'm sure there's a lot of uh you know scream, scream maniacs uh that were like, I don't give a crap how bad the reviews are, I'm gonna go see it. Hell, Nev Campbell's back. I mean, so if you're that, if you're that person, I'm not talking to you, but if you're not that, I would not waste your money and time and gas and all that to go see this movie at the theater. Not that you can wait for it to be on streaming uh there. So, but uh amazingly enough, though, no matter how bad the reviews are for these movies, and I, you know, to to Scream's credit, most of the movies I think get halfway decent reviews, but this one is getting toe up from the flow up, okay, uh, with the reviews here, but people are still going to see it. And I will say one positive about this movie, like based off of what I saw when I went and saw it, is it does still provide that kind of that fun kind of audience, you know, interaction with each other, and everyone's just like that. That that kind of fun communal movie-going experience where everyone's going, whoa, you know, at the same time, or oh my god, you know, all in unison or laughing at the same time and that kind of thing. So, I mean, I will I will give Scream 7 that kind of credit. It it was it did provide that all too rare, you know, movie theater communal experience that you just don't get at home. Okay. Um, so I I will give it that right there, but uh, but that's not enough for me to, in good conscience, recommend uh going to see this movie and spending all the money that you'll you'll spend to go see this movie here. So, all right. But uh actually, so just want to real quick as I'm getting ready to wrap up this episode of Movies America Live here, this Scream 7 episode. Just want to ask you if you would follow me on the platforms that I'm on. I'm on X under at Movies America, I'm on Facebook, I've got a Movies America group and page on Facebook. I've got my Van Ebert profile on Facebook. 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