Scream 2022 Missed The Chance To Salvage Scream 3's Twist
Warning! SPOILERS for Scream 2022.
Ghostface makes a chilling return in Scream 2022, but the meta slasher missed the opportunity to salvage Scream 3’s controversial twist. The fifth movie reunites legacy characters to help a new hero move the franchise forward, while still leaning heavily on Woodsboro’s past. Yet, despite its many references to earlier movies, Scream 2022 appears as if it would rather forget Scream 3 exists.
Set 25 years after the first massacre, Scream 2022 sees Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) return to her hometown of Woodsboro when Ghostface attacks her sister and threatens to reveal a dark family secret. Although Ghostface targets characters linked to original killers Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard), the fifth installment ignores a huge influence on the former's actions. Scream 3 is widely considered the worst in the series, but its Hollywood-set killings provided some surprising twists connected to Sidney Prescott's (Neve Campbell) family.
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Scream 3 reveals Sidney's mother was abused during a secret spell in Hollywood before Ghostface unmasked himself as Roman Bridger (Scott Foley), Sidney's half-brother. The revelation that Roman instigated the original Woodsboro Murders threatened to undermine Billy's plan, but Scream 2022 could have salvaged this idea by incorporating it into Sam's story of overcoming family trauma. If Scream 2022 had addressed the consequences of Roman's actions on both Billy and Sidney, Scream 3's twist could have helped bond the heroes while lending greater meaning to Sam's visions of Billy.
After being shunned by his estranged mother, Roman exposed Billy to his father's affair with Maureen Prescott
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