Film Review: Scream

Ghostface is back and meaner than ever. The first entry in the franchise without Wes Craven at the helm, Scream combines a fresh cast with legacy characters for a bloody, ruthless whodunnit. Its winking genre-savviness isn’t quite as skewering or clever as it thinks it is, but Scream’s latest stewards of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett carve out a new brand of brutality while paying humble respect to the spirit of Wes Craven. It feels good to be back in Woodsboro. Minor spoilers ahead…