Fans Calling Scream 2022 “Woke” Misunderstand The Entire Franchise
Caution: Spoilers for Scream 2022 ahead!
Scream 2022 has been criticized online for being “woke,” which simply signals that such fans misunderstand the social commentaries and modern sentiments that have underscored the entire franchise. Premiering in 1996, Scream was a novel work by Wes Craven, a satirical yet terrifying approach to horror that plays on the clichés of classic films. Underneath Scream’s revitalization of the slasher genre in the ‘90s, screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Craven cleverly crafted one of the most self-aware franchises in history, working to both utilize and break horror conventions as commentaries on the toxicities of modern society.
Set 25 years after Scream 1996 and picking up a decade after Scream 4, Scream 2022 follows a new string of Ghostface murders in Woodsboro. After young family members of original Scream characters like Randy Meeks, Billy Loomis, and Stu Macher are targeted by the killers, iconic final girl Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, and Dewey Riley reunite to take down another pair of serial killer copycats. Every Ghostface killer has an idiotic reason for putting on the mask and killing that only makes sense to themselves, and Scream 2022’s killers Richie and Amber declared their reason as the need for better material in modern horror films. The killers cite that “toxic fandoms” are wrongly being blamed when sequels don’t live up to their expectations, so they want to revitalize Scream's fictional Stab movie franchise by giving them another “true story” to base the next sequel on.
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As with most major Hollywood movies being released, Scream 2022 is being accused by some of being too “woke.” Although
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