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Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Betrayed’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Scream: The TV Series…Amadeus Serafini is an anomaly. Part Christian Slater during his Nicholson phase, with a smidgen of Jason Patric pre Speed 2 and post Lost Boys. Noticeable only for his absence from my reviews, Serafini has floated around on the periphery having little impact for some […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Aftermath’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Scream: The TV Series…It would be presumptuous of me to think that I have influence on the course of any programme, much less one like Scream: The TV Series. That strangest of all hybrids. An ironic genre mash-up, which itself was a deconstruction and revitalisation of the tired […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Wanna Play A Game?’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Scream: The TV Series…Things are messy this week beginning with a misplaced opening flashback. Such techniques need employing with precision and purpose, to provide that all important point of reference. But what Scream: The TV Series does within five minutes is confuse rather than scare. A woman running […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Hello, Emma’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Scream: The TV Series…It is now officially time for the gloves to come off. Scream: The TV Series rolls into episode two with mild invention and solid character development. Lifting dialogue from the film canon as a tagline and name dropping Manhunter references, this series is being coy […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 1 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Scream: The TV Series…Anyone remember Party of Five? Exactly the same as Dawson’s Creek but without those homely qualities of a Katie Holmes or Michelle Williams. It aired on Channel Four in the Nineties, convincing Miramax producers that casting Neve Campbell in Scream was a good idea. Providing […]

Leaked Scream VI images feature Ghostface and the cast

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The Scream franchise is heading out of Woodsboro and into the Big Apple in 2023 for the sixth instalment in the iconic slasher series, and we’ll soon be getting our first look at the now-titled Scream VI as a couple of screenshots from the first trailer have leaked online and began circulating on social media.First […]

Jenna Ortega hopes Neve Campbell’s Scream 6 absence won’t be an issue thanks to all the action and gore

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After relaunching the franchise to much success earlier this year, Radio Silence filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are back for a sixth entry in the Scream franchise – although they are doing so without the series’ final girl after Neve Campbell turned down the opportunity to return as Sidney Prescott after failed contract negotiations.With […]

Has the Meta Movie Been Played Out?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at metacinema, and whether the well of engaging meta movie ideas has dried up…Metacinema. In more recent times more popularly referred to as meta, it’s a mode of filmmaking in which the audience is made aware they’re watching a piece of fiction. It goes a little deeper of course, as whilst conventional […]

Wes Craven: The Ultimate Horror Groundbreaker?

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at three milestones in Wes Craven’s career, A Nightmare on Elm Street, New Nightmare and Scream…In cinema there are plenty of great films. There are examples of exceptional filmmaking and populist films which become a cultural phenomenon. Some directors might be fortunate enough to create a groundbreaking film. These could reinvent […]