On Friday, February 27, 2026, movie theaters released the seventh movie in the Scream franchise. According to IMDb, the Motion Picture Association rates this movie R. All of the other movies in the franchise are also rated R. This is due to its severe amount of violence and gore, and frightening and intense scenes.
Casting
This movie stars Matthew Lillard, Neve Campbell, Courntey Cox, Mckenna Grace, Isabel May, David Arquette, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Asa Germann, and Anna Camp. Five out of the nine actors and actresses listed above were in another movie(s) in the Scream franchise. Matthew Lillard plays Stu, one of the two original killers in the first Scream movie. He had died in that movie but people believe that he is going to come back in this movie. This is because as no one shot him in the head. That is the only way to make sure someone is dead in the Scream franchise.
Neve Campbell plays Sindey, who is the main character in Scream 1, 2, 3, 4. She also appeared in the fifth one, but was not the main character. Coutney Cox plays Gale, who is the news reporter in this franchise. She appeared in every movie in the franchise. David Arquette plays Dewey, the chief of police in the franchise, he is also Sidney’s best friends older brother in the first movie. Scream 5 killed him and showed him on a stretcher with a blanket over him, so people don’t think that he is coming back although he is in the cast. This may mean that he is in flashbacks, along with Stu, besides their characters coming back. The same thing happened in Scream 5 with Skeet Ulrich’s character, Billy. He was also one of the two original killers in Scream and someone shot him in the head. Instead of coming back as his character, he just appeared in a few flashbacks, and other characters imagined him.
The director is Kevin Williamson, he is also one of the writers along with Guy Busick and James Vanderbilt. People might know Williamson for being a screenwriter for all of the movies in the Scream franchise, besides the fifth one, but Scream 7 is the second movie he has directed.
Online reviews
On IMDb there is a 6.1/10 star rating on IMDb and a 36% out of 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movies length is 1 hour and 54 minutes long. A critic on Rotten Tomatoes, Brian Tallerico have a rating of 1.5/4 and a review which says, “Every aspect of “Scream 7” feels rushed and shallow, including the filmmaking. It’s visually atrocious, suffering from the low-lighting choice that afflicts so many modern movies, and it’s cut together with halting, stilted rhythms.” All of the other critic reviews on the website are all along those lines while majority of the audience reviews have ratings of 4/5 stars or 5/5. Through Fandago, Angela wrote a 5/5 star review, “Great film! As campy as I like it. Neve Campbell is a fabulous scream queen. Highly enjoyable!”
My review
I watched this movie, in the theater the day after it came out. I think it was good, but it’s definitely my least favorite. Out of the seven movies, I think this one has the most gore, I even saw my sister cover her eyes a few times. I feel as if the scenes between Sidney and her daughter, Tatum, are very cliche. It’s always in the beginning they don’t understand each other and then at the end of the movie they hug and spill secrets.
I was disappointed with the choice of the killers in this movie. One of them, I had a suspicion, but then I thought that would be stupid because they were such a minor character. The other killer was spoiled for me online, as there have been spoilers roaming around the internet since a month before the movie was released. When the killers were unmasked, it was kind of disappointing. Although it was disappointing, I like how the scene was a throwback to the first movie. Another thing that kind of disappointed me was that the audience didn’t have a chance to connect to the characters. In my opinion, in the other Scream movies, the audience had a chance to connect to the characters which led them to feel more emotion when they were killed off. I didn’t have a chance to feel sorry for the characters when killed off because there were no scenes to connect the audience to the characters.
Although I am nitpicking all of these things in the movie, I still think it was a good movie. I think that may be because I expected it to be as good as the other movies. Although I think it is the worst movie in the franchise, I don’t think that it’s a bad movie. I actually liked this movie so much, that I am seeing it a second time, in theater with my cousin.
Other review
Carrieann Pietrocola, teacher at Marlboro Memorial Middle School, says “I really like the movie. I am not a fan of AI, but that was really cool. How they use that in the movie cause that is what the kiddos today are using and I love how Sidney Prescott truly loves her daughter and didn’t want anything to happen to her. I felt like I was in the movie at some parts for my emotions. Overall, a great movie, suspenseful scary. I just didn’t like the ending. I really wanted Stu to be in the movie.
Ryan Pietrocola said, “Scream 7 was a really entertaining movie with lots of scary and cool parts. It was cool to see the movie franchise spotlight Sidney again, but it would have been cool for Stu to be the bad guy again. It would have been a great surprise and twist in the franchise ever if he was still alive and hiding under the mask again.”
