Scream 5 5cream (Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett 2022)

Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, offer a sociological discussion of the fifth film in the Scream franchise, Scream. We are thrilled to return to the slasher genre with this latest installment. This is the first Scream without Wes Craven and we had concerns. We are relieved to report it is overall a really solid and fun film with great updates to the genre.

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Scream (Bettinelli-Oplin and Gillett 2022)

This fifth Scream film keeps much of what has made the Scream films so successful, and does well to leave behind or update those parts that needed to be changed. Overall it strikes a good balance between homage and renewal. It’s a fun film that will please Scream lovers and slasher lovers.

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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE

Scream (Bettinelli-Oplin and Gillett 2022)

All Scream franchise films

TOPIC INDEX

Scream  (Bettinelli-Oplin and Gillett 2022) (times are approximate) 

0:30 – Introductions

4:00 – episode begins

9:00 – Film discussion begins

9:00 – The Scream franchise

14:00 – overall takes

24:30 – meta-commentary

25:30 – Scream in the slasher genre

31:00 – One of Valerie Wee’s (2006) articles

32:30 – updating Scream

41:00 – killers and survivors and victims and gender

1:05:30 – diversity

1:09:00 – class/SES

1:30:00 – killer

1:36:00 – critiques

1:37:00 – Cotton

1:38:30 – Wes Craven’s genius

1:46:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility

Related Episodes

The People Under the Stairs (Craven 1991)

Nightcrawler (Gilroy 2014)

Get Out (Peele 2016)

Related Films

Scream (Craven 1996)

Scream 2 (Craven 1997)

Scream 3 (Craven 2000)

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