This Scream 6 Ghostface Kill Shocked Even The Directors
This article contains spoilers for Scream 6Amid a wildly successful opening weekend, Scream 6 directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin spoke recently on how the film’s opening scene both shattered expectations while still ringing true to the franchise’s origins.
The franchise built around the 1996 slasher classic Scream is known for its violent and bloody opening scenes that usually set the tone for the entire film, often bringing in new characters or killing old ones. The convention of the mysterious phone call from a horror-loving stranger ending in a bloodbath for the recipient is a signature Scream move, which the franchise has become known and parodied for.
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In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin admitted they were a bit surprised initially by the choices for the Scream 6 opening scene made by screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. «Obviously, it was the first thing we read when we read the script,» says Gillett. «There is a standard that's been set by these movies that the opening, as its own little contained short film, has to achieve something really specific, and set the tone for the rest of the movie, and also has to live up to what exists as the openings in the lineage of this franchise. This one for us was the most surprising and shocking.»
The Scream 6 opening scene features a film professor, Laura Crane, played expertly by horror fave Samara Weaving (Ready or Not), awkwardly awaiting a Tinder date in a Manhattan bar. While the initial phone conversation with her impending date turns to horror movies, a not-unexpected move considering her profession, the scene ends in an alley where she is brutally murdered by what turns out to be a
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