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Those of us who found the very idea ofScreamsequels distasteful lost that battle a long time ago.
Those who were alive and conscious in the late 1990s might recall that the firstScreammade slasher movies cool again.
And so,Screambecame a victim of its own success, generating its own spate of repetitive follow-ups.
But now the self-referentiality just served to justify the production of more sequels.
And so,Screamhas become its own little subgenre.
This time around, she announces that theyre in a franchise.
Thats right it took six movies and 26 years for the characters onscreen to recognize that theyre in afranchise.
See what Im getting at?
The joke is so tired at this point its stopped making any sense.
Okay, okay, fine, but how is the actual movie?
All things considered,Scream 6could have been a lot worse.
In some ways, the frayed half-heartedness of the concept has become something of an advantage.
Even the inevitable bad acting works, if only to raise our suspicions about certain characters.
Scream 6does distinguish itself in the horror set pieces.
Theres an admirably tense sequence set on the subway.
(If nothing else, these movies have maintained the slapstick qualities of Cravens original.)
Have I just lowered my standards?
(I mean, I did just refer to them asScream-quels.)
