Scream 6: What Tropes Can The Franchise Take On Next?
Besides featuring final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and making audiences laugh at almost every turn, the Scream franchise takes on horror tropes, making fun of the things that tend to happen in scary movies. Fans are used to seeing characters run around their house when the killer shows up instead of actually attempting to escape, and it's common to see people proclaim «I'll be right back» before investigating a noise and then getting killed.
When Scream 6 is released in 2023, fans know that even more horror tropes will be part of the story, and there are a few that seem perfect for the latest installment.
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The Scream movies have used countless horror movie tropes. Sidney is a final girl, there are catchphrases in each film, and characters who have sex die. Scream (2022) continues the tradition of talking about horror movie rules by taking on the requel. Wes Hicks (Dylan Minnette) even gets murdered while taking a shower, a nod to Psycho.
It seems like every potential horror trope has been used in a Scream movie, and so Scream 6 can definitely revisit some tropes that it has used in the past, but in an intelligent way that feels fresh and new. Scream 6 should poke fun at jump scares and deaths that take place in a basement. While the Scream movies aren't that scary, jump scares are a controversial horror movie feature, and it would be funny if Scream 6 poked fun at this trope by including some fake jump scares and then a really good one.
A kill in a basement would also work since it never gets old or tired. This trope achieves exactly what the slasher franchise wants to: make audiences laugh and scream at the big or small screen because a character is doing something silly that is
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