The new "Scream" is not a movie, but one big inner joke

The new episode of the "Scream" series is not a movie with an inner joke, but an inner joke without a movie.

His characters are unbearable and the gameplay displays are terrible, but in the end it turns out that he still has value

Avner Shavit

15/01/2022

Saturday, 15 January 2022, 23:05 Updated: 23:09

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Already at the beginning of the new episode of "Scream", one of the protagonists mentions another film - "The Babadook", an exemplary horror drama by Australian director Jennifer Kent. She does so in a broader context, presenting it as an example of her favorite sub-genre: a genre that has evolved over the past decade and is known as Elevated Horror, and refers to more artistic and contemplative horror films than the average Hollywood hit.

The new "Scream", as well as the previous four episodes in the series, clearly does not belong to this genre, so why mention it? Probably to shout in the first place: "We are aware of what is going on in the world of horror and that it has new and more sublime flavors, but we chose not to go in that direction - not because we can not, but because we do not want to. With us fun at parties."

This fun began in the mid-1990s, with the first episode of the "Scream" series, which was at the same time a net horror and also a joke at the expense of "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" style hits, featuring a mysterious masked killer in other boys and girls. Henceforth, the contagion coefficient of the internal jokes has doubled throughout the progress of the brand "Scream", which included three previous sequels and a TV series, and this doubling culminates in "Scream" version 2022, which is not really a movie, but one big wink.

In the midst of this wink, some young men and women are walking around. As the spirit of the times, they are more ethnically diverse than in previous hits. The throat slicer, in any case, is blind to colors and genders and enjoys cutting with sharp objects anyone who happens to be in his way. To overcome it and stay alive, the protagonists are required to do one thing: to demonstrate perfect familiarity with the rules of the genre and especially that of a fictional film series called "Stab",Which is of course a fictional version of "Scream" itself. Gihi Gihi.

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Interestingly / amazingly / sadly, "Scream" follows exactly the same pattern as "Demon Mowers: The Life After", "The Matrix of the Resurrection" and "Spider-Man: There's No Way Home" which also came out this year. The young characters recreate the events of the previous episodes, but in their own way, and at some point receive a visit from the stars and stars of the original films. This fact appears in the marketing campaign, so it would not be a spoiler to say that Nev Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette emerge for the new episode, and do so in a way that is orchestrated so that veteran fans will applaud and roar with their arrival. See we were warned: Hollywood has noticed that this trick works, and we'll probably get a lot more of the same in the coming years.

In "Spider-Man: There's No Way Home" at least there was a proper envelope around this tribute show. It was a movie with inside jokes. "Scream," on the other hand, is an inner joke without a movie.

Wes Craven, the director of previous episodes, passed away seven years ago.

He was replaced by Matt in Tinley-Ulpin and Tyler Gillette, who left a good impression in their previous and underrated film "Someone Is Behind Me," but this time they seem to have let autopilot direct in their place.

The group of young men and women consists of a gallery of unbearable figures.

They are played by a team of promising talents, for example Jenna Ortega who charmed on "Ready Day", but here they all have horrible acting displays, as if the goal is to encourage the killer to finish his job soon and it all ends after twenty minutes, not two hours.

This episode is not only more politically correct than its predecessors, but also more brutal, with grotesque murders, rivers of blood and charred organs, but also the choreography of the deaths leaves no special impression, and is neither interesting nor original.

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Not "shout", but "lol". Courtney Cox and Nev Campbell in the new "Scream" (Photo: Film Forum)

In the end, the script of James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick is not original either.

True, he tries to put his finger on the pulse and address everything that has happened in Hollywood, popular culture and the culture of admiration in the last decade, but does so in a way we have already seen in "The King of Comedy" in the 1980s and in "Cecil B. Demented."

It is interesting that these two are not mentioned here.

Apparently there is a limit to the amount of butter you can walk in the sun with.

And yet, perhaps unintentionally, the film manages to innovate compared to its predecessors and be relevant.

Because the characters have watched previous horror hits, they know anyone can be the killer or killer, so they minimize contact as much as possible: just like the rest of us in the days of the Corona.

The fear of any kind of touch also makes "Scream" a completely asexual film, which faithfully reflects the drop in the sexual activity of the younger generation today.

Without sex, we are millennials.

From "Shout" (Photo: Film Forum)

If these characters were also reading Chekhov and not just watching "Scream" movies, they would know that a gun that appears in the first act will return in the third act, and so it does with the mention of "The Babadook," a film whose marketing budget at the time did not even tickle The resources of Hollywood horror hits, so not enough watched it, but maybe now will get renewed recognition.

If there's a value in the new "Scream," it's the free commercial he volunteers to do time and time again for a much more modest film, but also scary and sweeping.

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