Genre: Horror/Mystery
Director: The Soska Sisters
Writer: Alex Conn
Based on characters created by Kevin Williamson
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Kaitlyn Dever, Alex Wolff, Jay Pharoah, Lisa Kudrow, Thomas Mann, Justice Smith, Katherine Langford
Plot: It’s the anniversary of the original Woodsboro killings. One night a girl named Tiffany (Katherine Langford) gets a mysterious call from a mysterious guy asking what her favorite scary movie. She responds that she doesn’t watch scary movies and hangs up the phone. The killer calls back and calls her a philistine and Tiffany is about to hang up but the killer threatens her. The killer then cuts off her breasts and stabs her with a beer bottle.
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is now a popular author. Right before she goes on a debate she FaceTimes her nephew Darren (Alex Wolff) and congratulated him for almost finishing high school. His best friends are all cinephiles specifically of the cinema of Wes Craven and Stanley Kubrick. At the same time everyone is dealing with the mass shooting epidemic and people are debating whether movies have anything to do with the mass shootings. Sidney Prescott goes on TV all the time defending horror films and supporting gun control. One day Darren and his friends Marcus (Thomas Mann) and Ben (Justice Smith) are at the pizza place about to go see a film at a local art house movie theater.
Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) is a has been journalist still leaching from success of the Woodsboro murders back in 1996. She failed to do win the Pulitzer she was expecting as she complains to her cameraman Lucas (Jay Pharoah). She is currently married to Dewey (David Arquette) but the marriage is on the rocks. They constantly argue.
At the same time there is a feminist movement that is also saying that this homicide is caused by film it is led by a high schooler named Jennifer (Kaitlyn Dever).
The high school and the police including Officer Dewey ask Darren and his friends about Ghostface and who the killer is this time and to help investigate within the film fans in their community. The police also ask Jennifer to help in the investigation and ask them both to work together which at first doesn’t work out so well.
Jennifer goes to get pizza with the gang and they discuss who the killer is. One of the ideas is Principal Taylor (Lisa Kudrow) which Darren brings up as she is incredibly disgruntled and hates the student population. Marcus thinks it’s Sidney Prescott who wants to get revenge on the town of Woodsboro and finally feel large and in charge. Darren asks Jennifer who she thinks it is. After the pizza visit Jennifer gets a text from Darren inviting her to film club.
Just like in the first film there are people in the hallway with Ghostface masks and Principal Taylor confiscates them. During film club Jennifer sees Night Of The Living Dead and is impressed with the social commentary of it. Jennifer says that she would like to be a full time member.
The principal confiscates them. The principal is then coming home and opens a glass of wine and hears footsteps and Ghostface appears and stabs Principal Taylor with the wine glass.
Darren and Jennifer on their date talk about the murder and Jennifer says that for the first time she’s unsure. She admits to thinking originally that it was one of the film kids but not anymore and she honestly doesn’t know who it is.
The murder of Principal Taylor is all over the news. The two kids wearing Ghostface masks are immediately interrogated and they deny any wrongdoing. Dewey does not believe it but Gale does believe it and Gale boasts about how she was right about Cotton Weary.
Marcus and Darren and Jennifer and Ben are walking down the street and get picked up by Gale and her cameraman and Gale brings the two to the police station where Dewey is interrogating John who was one of the kids with the Ghostface mask at gunpoint. The boy is arrested.
Jennifer and Darren and Marcus an honest conversation about the effects of violence in movies. Marcus admits that he thinks Jennifer is the killer. Darren yells at Marcus In the background you can see Ghostface and Marcus is decapitated.
Woodsboro High School is dismissed indefinitely until they find the killer all the kids are excited and they all have a party at the warehouse.
Gail and Dewey have a conversation and they finally agree to work together on this even they had a bad divorce. Gail and Dewey and the team Marcus and Ben and Jennifer go to the party and the killer kills one of the popular girls and everyone leaves except for the team.
The team is locked inside an abandoned warehouse with Ghostface probably around any corner. The group are waiting patiently to get out. It goes overnight and Darren is seen dead. Everyone is all afraid and there is a shootout and there is an unmasking and the killer is revealed to be the cameraman. He then reveals that he wanted the fame and was sick of just being JV to Gale
The film ends with Jennifer speaking at Darren and the rest of the Woodsboro funeral victims. The end of the film is Jennifer becoming the president of cinema club.
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