After decades of satirical meta-horror, “Scream”-mania is still going strong.
Heres our bottom-to-top ranking of the six installments in this monumental franchise.
The legacy begins with a ringing phone.
Courteney Cox in ‘Scream 3’.Everett Collection
Those 12 minutes of shocking terror redefined the slasher horror genre.
Reflecting on the entire franchise, here are all sixScreammovies, ranked.
Sidney, now a crisis counselor, finds herself in another massacre.
Neve Campbell in the ‘Scream’ franchise.Everett Collection
Committed to another project, Williamson was unable to finish the script.
He was replaced by Ehren Kruger, who didn’t replicate the same style.
It was not favored by critics, althoughScreamfans remain somewhat loyal.
Dermot Mulroney, Jenna Ortega, Jack Champion, Hayden Panettiere, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Melissa Barrera, and Mason Gooding in ‘Scream VI’.Philippe Bosse/Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Kill count: 10
5.Scream 4(2011)
For 11 years, it’s been quiet.
By now, there have been sevenStabmovies.
Meanwhile, performances by Mikey Madison andJack Quaidare dramatic and compelling, always keeping the viewer second-guessing.
Ghostface in ‘Scream’ (2022).BROWNIE HARRIS/ Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group
It’s a frenzied, violent feat with a raging display of craftsmanship.
How did he feel about what had happened to him?
As for final girl Sidney, Potter tells EW, “She’s become famous for surviving.
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How does she move forward into the next part of her life?
How does she build relationships?
Can she trust people?”
Drew Barrymore in ‘Scream’.Dimension Films/Everett
She’d written about things but hadn’t lived them.
Now she’s lived them.
How does he find a purpose?
And that ghostly mask described by Williamson?
“We were trying to come up with a mask,” Maddalena tells EW.
And I ran downstairs and said to Wes and Bruce Miller, our production designer, ‘Look!
Look at this mask!
This is perfect!'"
“Of course, Wes had to make it his own.
He altered the chin, I think.
And then, it didn’t work.
We shot it for a day or two, and he said, ‘You know what?
The mask works as is.'”
It was 1995, and Potter was a Dimension Films executive at the time.
Everyone else had left.
I was in love with a script.
“Screamserves as a tongue-in-cheek, trope-filled, self-referential satire and an unhinged, entertaining scare-fest.
Kill count: 7
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