Was Scream 2022 Too Similar To A Previous Entry?

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The fifth installment of the Scream film series was released in January 2022, to much excitement and box office success. While not achieving the high heights of the first film, it was still generally well-received by both critics and fans. Scream is an interesting franchise, in that none of the five films are wholly viewed as terrible. Most franchises with that many installments do not fare so well.

Part of why these films tend to do so well is that they are parody by nature and play on familiar themes while still being twisty and inventive. They're all whodunit style with villains that are usually important characters in the film, and they each pick a specific horror trope to parody. The first film is infamous for being a parody of slasher films, with the following two making fun of sequels and trilogies. 2011's Scream 4 then took on the remake/reboot trope, with Scream 2022 hoping to tackle the «requel.»

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This wasn't a big surprise to fans. As the Scream films mimic current horror trends, it was pretty easy to predict where this would probably go. There was some hope however that this film would tackle meta-horror instead and go really off the wall, so it was still a bit of a disappointment. Though it's a really enjoyable film, many fans felt that it was just a rehashing of Scream 4 because the difference between «reboot» and «prequel» was just too slim.

The thing with a «requel» is that it's not an entirely familiar concept to a lot of people, and it doesn't have a hard definition or set of tropes just yet. An important part of Scream movies is the rules. There is always a character who knows their stuff when it comes to horror, and they do