SCREAM 7

Name: SCREAM 7
Item: SCREAM 7
Author: Review

“Family Fights Ruthless Masked Killer”

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

Entertainment Quality:

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Language
Violence
Sex
Nudity

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What You Need To Know:

SCREAM 7 picks up where the last movie left. The movie opens with a young man and woman arriving to spend the night at the house from the last movie where a “Ghostface” killer targeted some teenagers. The house has been turned into a bed and breakfast museum, but the young couple doesn’t survive the night. The rest of the movie focuses on actress Neve Campbell’s popular character, Sidney Prescott, now Mrs. Evans, who tries to protect her teenage daughter, Tatum, from a new “Ghostface” killer. As one person remarks, however, the killer always has an accomplice. So, even though Sidney and Tatum have the protection of the local police chief, who’s married to Sidney, the killer can strike from anywhere.

SCREAM 7 ditches some of the previous movie’s politically correct content to focus on a family fighting ruthless evil. However, the movie still has lots of extreme and scary violence, plenty of strong foul language and examples of youth rebellion. There’s also some underage drinking and references to teenage sex in SCREAM 7. So, the movie’s content is excessive and unacceptable.

Content:

(B, PP, PaPa, LLL, VVV, S, AA, DD, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Light moral worldview where a family, including the father who is the Chief of Police, fights to survive against evil serial killers, but the serial killer attacks are very bloody and ruthless and can inspire some young people in the real world to be copycats;

Foul Language:

At least 68 obscenities include at least 40 “f” words, one Jesus profanity and nine light exclamatory profanities;

Violence:

Extreme bloody violence such as young woman fights off killer but is later impaled, people are stabbed, a teenagers throat has been slit, man is stabbed repeatedly and is at death’s door, killer slashes teenager who’s hanging on a theatrical flying harness in a darkened theater, a person is hit by a van, people are shot dead, a person is skewered in the head with a pointy object, a glass shard skewers teenager’s jugular vein, a character’s face is sliced off with multiple gunshots point blank in the head, a person’s innards spill out after being stabbed repeatedly in the stomach;

Sex:

Teenagers make out on bed but girl’s mother interrupts and daughter promises they were not going to fornicate until they’re “ready”, and mother suggests they wait until they get married, but when mother is with her husband they briefly mention their “first time”;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Underage alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking, but a teenager mentions his mother’s marijuana edibles; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Revenge and jealousy are the motives for murder, and an evil mother ultimately has no love for her son.

More Detail:

SCREAM 7 picks up where the last movie left off, but it focuses on actress Neve Campbell’s popular character, Sidney Prescott, now Evans, who’s trying to protect her teenage daughter, Tatum, from a new “Ghostface” killer, who may be more than one person. SCREAM 7 ditches some of the previous movie’s politically correct content to focus on a family fighting evil, but it still has lots of extreme violence, plenty of gratuitous strong foul language and examples of youth rebellion.

The movie opens with a young man and his girlfriend entering a haunted house museum of the house that featured the brutal killings in the last movie. A Ghostface podcast fanatic, the man is excited about the museum’s references to the murders that happened in the house. The girlfriend couldn’t care less. She’s just there to please her boyfriend. Of course, they get a rude awakening when a Ghostface killer attacks them and burns the house down after killing them.

Cut to Sidney’s daughter, Tatum, in her bedroom with her boyfriend, Ben, who’s snuck in through the window. They start kissing on the bed, but Tatum’s mom appears, chastising her daughter and shooing Ben out the front door.

The movie reveals that Tatum’s upset because her mom, Sidney, never wants to talk to her about her past. Over the years, Sidney has grown from being a victim to being a heroine who personally confronts each Ghostface killer and defeats them.

Tatum is rehearsing for a school play where she plays the St. Bernard in some kind of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell story. Her mother gets a video call from someone who looks like Stu, the Ghostface killer’s accomplice in the first movie, who Sidney eventually killed. Sidney thinks the face may be a deep fake, but she’s not totally sure.

Meanwhile, Tatum is searching the property room in the theater basement while the Ghostface killer brutally murders her friend, Hannah. Hannah was on the stage working with a flying harness in her Tinkerbell role while a boy named Aaron manipulated the harness backstage. The killer murdered Aarin first, which left Hannah hanging at his mercy.

Eventually, Sidney, her husband the police chief, and Tatum and her other friends must battle the Ghostface killer, who may be working with an accomplice. Sidney’s journalist friend, Gale Weathers, arrives at an opportune time, with two survivors from the previous movie as her new assistants.

SCREAM 7 ditches the previous movie’s politically correct content to focus on a family fighting evil. So, the movie has a stronger, more entertaining story than the last movie. However, SCREAM 7 still has lots of extreme bloody violence, plenty of gratuitous strong foul language and examples of youth rebellion. Also, the movie is too long. The first sequence, for instance, could have been cut down to one unexpected violent set piece. That would have had a much stronger impact.