Scream 5 review: Is the new 2022 movie scarier than Wes Craven’s 1996 original? Charted.
SlateFor die-hards, no horror movie can be too scary. We’ve put together a highly scientific and mostly spoiler-free system for rating new horror movies, comparing them with classics along a 10-point scale. This time, the characters ask aloud why we’re not instead watching “elevated horror” like The Babadook, and explain the new rules of the “requel,” a reboot that’s also a sequel. Does this one have anything on the winking, still-gruelling Drew Barrymore sequence that ruined many lives in 1996’s Scream, or is the joke on us? But if I may offer one humble note without inspiring anyone to remove my internal organs, it may be time for the series to focus a little less on its rapid-fire jokes and a little more on the bone-rattling scares that the original movie knew were just as key to its subversive mission.
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