‘Scream VI’ Review: The Stabbings Are More Berserk, But Ol’ Ghostface Doesn’t Have Much New to Say

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an engaging slasher movie amusement park ride – but just like any amusement park ride, it’s notas exhilarating the sixth time around, it probably won’t impress you with its subtext, and you canusually see the ending coming around the bend.It’s been several years since the events of “Scream” — which, in classic slasher movie sequel fashion, means it technically takes place in the future — and the survivors of the previous film are now living in New York City where most of them attend college.

Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) is trying to process her trauma through therapy, her little sister Tara (Jenna Ortega) is trying to party her cares away, and their friends Mindy (Jasmin Savoy-Brown) and Chad (Mason Gooding) are coping just fine by focusing on their own lives and crushes.“Scream VI” begins, as all “Scream” movies must, with an inventive new murder in the prologue, and kudos to screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick for coming up with a doozy this time.

After an initial humdrum slash the film just keeps going, until you’re no longer sure what’s happening, who’s who, and even if the movie is going to follow the formula at all.

It seems possible, for a few blissful minutes, that “Scream VI” could be nothing but one long, unpredictable single-night killing spree.Instead, “Scream VI” eventually settles into a familiar rhythm, where old characters team up to save themselves and stop the killer, all the new characters are eyed with extreme suspicion, and everyone gets picked off one-by-one.