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BADDDDDDDDD.

So bad. SO bad. I didn't know a Scream movie COULD be that bad. Is this why Kevin Williamson never directs? Because he's terrible at it?

Now, I wasn't happy about what happened to Melissa Barrerra and I actually liked Sam, especially in 6, but I'll set that aside for the time being, because that has nothing to do with how bad this movie was.

The opening was one of the more "meh" ones, but I wasn't a fan of movie within a movie within a movie of 4 either, so I can look past that. But then straight away, it got real weird and dumb, real fast. It's never been that believable that the "Stab" movies have so much of actual Scream, especially the first one. But this was next level. In the extremely unlikely event Sydney decided to give details of not only exact dialogue, but body language, of when Billy crawled in her window, what kind of dip**** teenager decides to perfectly replicate it? Yes, reminding your girlfriend that a serial killer deflowered your mother shortly before trying to kill her and a year after killing your grandma in that same house he crawled through the window of...that'll get her in the mood.

It was honestly all just...bad. The killing of the chick in the play is maybe the only cool one of the whole movie. For whatever weird reason, when Patrick Dempsey wasn't available, they decided to change Sydney's husband's LAST name to just...randomly also be a cop named Mark. The killers were obvious when Anna Camp and Ethan Embry showed up in two scenes early on and peaced out entirely - no one is paying those two to be extras. Anna's motive was bad and the other dude..did we even learn his NAME? I keep calling him Ethan. Somehow, he was less fleshed out than the Ghostface who was unmasked as a corpse. LOL. After a SUPER obvious cameo at Sydney's...coffee shop. They really cannot pick a lane for this woman's career path, lol. At least Matthew Lillard was having fun, but it got REAL dumb in the end when they started flashing to the other killers AND NOT BILLY. I get it, Skeet had a couple of cameos, but in what universe is Sydney going to be more shaken by Billy's mom than him? And meanwhile Gale straight up disappeared from the entire second half of the movie for like...no reason. So Sydney could randomly wander around deserted suburban streets like that's going to do anything useful.

Scream has had movies that were less good than others, but never has one been this flat-out dumb before. I'm concerned it made so much $$ - please don't take that as a sign that y'all are moving in the right direction creatively speaking, lol.