I Found EVERY Secret in the Scream Franchise

In Sidney Prescott’s room, next to her desk, there is a poster for Swamp Ophelia, an album by The Indigo Girls, a folk-rock band from the 1980s. As you can see on this poster, the band is a 2-piece. The latest single from that album at the time Scream came out was also called “The Power of Two.” This is symbolic because of the twist in Scream: the fact that there are two killers. The power of two is the reason that they were able to trick police and clear Billy’s name as a suspect. With this in

mind, we can go back and find many more clues about Scream’s double trouble antagonists. To learn the connection between Stu Macher’s room and the video rental store, stick around to the end of this video. ♪ Metal Music ♪ Everybody knows that Scream is a satire, a horror movie that makes a commentary about horror movies. But I think a lot of people overlook what a satire actually is. So let’s take it back to the basic definition. Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to e

xpose and criticize something. By that definition, satire has always been around, long before Scream and long before movies. Even the slasher genre had already come out with films like Student Bodies or Evil Dead 2. So let's just drop the charade that Scream is some kind of first of it's kind movie. What one of the things that makes Scream loved by many is its ability to satirize without turning to comedy, which led to it being a legitimate force in the genre that it was aiming to expose. In fac

t, Scream was so successful, and so many tried to imitate it, that it’s acute self-awareness became the norm for a while. Audiences had seen this happen in television a few years earlier with The Simpsons, the family sitcom which attacked the positive family values of other sitcoms on the air at the time. – [Lisa] Wow, it must be expensive to produce all these cartoons. – [Producer] Well, we cut corners. Sometimes to save money, our animators will reuse the same backgrounds over and over and ove

r again. As a result, everybody wanted to make a show with that cutting edge social commentary like The Simpsons. But the Simpsons was a comedy; a comedy that made fun of the TV families of 80s, then surpassed them and became the TV family of the 90s. Scream was able to follow this blueprint, but for horror movies. You can make the argument that Scream is funny, but it’s a different kind of funny; it’s pretty clear the intention is not to have you – as they put it in the 90s – ROFL. That isn’t t

o say screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven don’t understand the formula of setup and punchline. They actually transform that concept and use it for some of the scares in the movie instead of laughs. For example, there are a number of scenes that end with a big push-in to a spot in the background, where Ghostface can then be seen lurking. We see this outside of Sid’s house, and at the grocery store, so we start to associate that particular camera movement with the appearance of o

ur antagonist. When Tatum is getting beers from the garage, we see the camera brush past her and focus on the doorframe. It starts to elevate our heart rates, but then, nothing happens. That’s such a clever way to build suspense. Then we see the door close, but it’s just the cat, so we’re no longer on edge, making it all the more effective when Ghostface does appear in front of the closed door. There are other techniques like this used to throw off the audience, and of course some clever easter

eggs from Wes Craven, so let’s get into the Things You Missed. (SLICE) Even the title, Scream, feels like it’s poking fun at some of the so-simple-it-could-be-about-anything titles of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movies, like Blackmail! Murder! Sabotage! Rope! And of course, Psycho! The beginning of Scream pulls out a trick that was used in Psycho. Psycho came out in 1960 and it’s biggest star was it’s female lead Janet Leigh, who played Marion Crane. She is prominently featured on the poster, so a

udiences were totally shocked when they killed her off very early on in the movie. Scream’s biggest star is Drew Barrymore, who is similarly the face of the marketing campaign, so many people were shocked to see her brutally disemboweled in the opening scene. There’s kind of a lineage that exists connecting the most prominent slasher movie of each generation. When I covered Halloween here on Things You Missed, I spent a lot of time talking about how it was inspired by Psycho. Now the torch is be

ing passed down again to Scream. We can see this in the name: Loomis. Psycho had Samuel Loomis, Halloween had Dr. Sam Loomis, and Scream had Billy Loomis, who, after revealing he is one of the killers, drops a quote from Psycho. –[Billy] We all go a little mad sometimes. – Billy is also most likely the one on the phone who asks Casey to guess his favorite horror movie. – [Casey] A Nightmare on Elm Street! – [Caller] I like that movie, it was scary. – [Casey] Well the first one was, but the rest

sucked. I was about to get up here and say that this was a joke by director Wes Craven, who also directed the first Nightmare on Elm Street, but not the five sequels that would follow. But apparently it was in the script before it was ever decided that Craven would be the director. – [Craven] I kinda wanted to take that out, I did not write that line. That answers my other question about that line. Wes returned to the franchise to direct Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, in case you didn’t know who th

e director of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare was… it was Wes Craven, which was the most recent Freddy Krueger movie at the time Scream was made. It just seemed strange that he would diss himself like that. Apparently the line later on, where Tatum mixes him up with Halloween director John Carpenter… –[Tatum] Don't go there, Sid. You’re starting to sound like some Wes Carpenter flick or something. …was also in the script before Craven’s involvement, but it kind of works better now, seeing as how Scre

am uses Halloween as a template for the horror movie tropes that it satirizes. After a few aggressive anonymous calls, Casey immediately picks up the phone and yells… –[Casey] Listen ***hole! What if that had been someone else calling just then? That would have been very rude Casey! After breaking into the house, we see Ghostface looking around for her. My question is: why doesn’t he just try calling the phone again and going towards the sound of the ringtone? It seems logical that she would kee

p the phone on her to try to get help, so she might have forgotten to silence it. After Ghostface catches up with her, there are a couple of easter eggs that play out on the Beckers’ side lawn. (THUNDER) ♪ Industrial Music ♪ As I mentioned, Halloween is the main template that Scream uses for it’s satire. It’s the movie that Casey is planning to watch in the opening, and it’s the movie that crushes Stu’s head in the finale. There’s another Halloween connection after Casey manages to get outside a

nd sees her parents going back to the house. Despite the title of this movie, she is unable to find her scream and get her parents attention. –[Casey] (barely audible) Mom… In Halloween II, we see this same phenomenon take place as Laurie Strode tries to yell for help outside of Haddonfield Hospital. –[Laurie] (barely audible) Help… help... Then there’s yet another Halloween reference just moments later. –[Mr. Becker] Get in the car. Drive down to the MacKenzies’. Call the police. – When Laurie

and the kids are targeted by Michael Myers, she gives them a similar order. –[Laurie] I want you to go down the street to the MacKenzies' house. I want you to tell them to call the police. I’m sure there will be a lot of people that already know about that easter egg. And honestly, quite a few of the eggs in this movie are pretty common knowledge because of the nature of Scream; it’s basically a movie that’s so loaded with references and nods, that it’s going to attract people who already know a

bout that stuff. On Things You Missed™, I try to stick to things you might have missed, that’s why it’s called that, if you didn’t know. However, if I leave out the ones that everyone knows about then there are gonna be people in the comments complaining that I missed stuff. So let’s just go through the ones that I think are more obvious real quick and get them out of the way. Billy climbs through Sidney's window and startles her, just like Glen did to Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Sheriff

Burke is played by the actor who plays the police officer in Nightmare on Elm St. Tatum’s number 10 crop top is very similar to a shirt worn by Glen in A Nightmare on Elm St. Principal Himbry has the following conversation with the janitor. – [Himbry] Damn little sh*ts – [Janitor] What’d you call me? – [Himbry] Not you Fred. That’s director Wes Craven cameoing as Fred, which is short for Freddy, because he’s dressed up like Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare On Elm Street. – [Rizzo] Frederick! Fre

ddie! When Ghostface pins down Sidney, he cocks his head just like Michael Myers, and the movie makes a point to show that scene during Stu’s party. Sidney refers to the town of Woodsboro under curfew as The Town That Dreaded Sundown. And Randy, who yells at the TV to warn Jamie Lee Curtis about the threat behind her, also has a threat behind him. – [Randy] Jamie, look behind you. Look behind you. The actor that plays Randy is also named Jamie, and he’s being watched in a similar manner by Kenny

, the news camera guy. And speaking of people named Jamie, Sidney at one point escapes from the attic out onto the roof like Jamie from Halloween 4. I think those are all the more well known easter eggs, so let's get into the fun stuff: the less obvious ones. When Billy sneaks into Sid’s room, he tells her he was watching the Exorcist on TV, with all the good parts cut out, and it made him think of their relationship. From this point, they continue to reference back to this idea that their relat

ionship is like a movie. After Sid’s close call with Ghostface, a reporter asks her… –[Reporter] So how does it feel to be almost brutally butchered? People want to know, they have a right to know. And this is a cameo by Linda Blair, she played Regan in The Exorcist 23 years earlier. If you’re listening closely during this Sidney and Billy scene, you’ll notice that there is a song playing in the background. It’s an acoustic cover of Don’t Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. A song that I like,

but I am starting to get a little tired of hearing in movies and TV. But I’ll save that rant for a future video, because here, there might be a good reason for it: it’s the same song that Laurie Strode and Annie Brackett listen to in the car in Halloween. And as I’ve said many times already, Halloween is the template that Scream builds off of. There could also be a second meaning here, the Ghostface costume is essentially a depiction of a grim reaper. The name of the costume itself in universe i

s “Father Death.” The next day the school is buzzing with rumors and news crews trying to capitalize on the story. We first see one of our main characters, Gail Weathers, in the background of an establishing shot. Even though we don’t end up going towards her here, the neon green outfit in a sea of dull wardrobe colors draws the eye and lets us know she’s important. It’s It's like in a video game where it will only let you target characters that you can actually talk to. That’s good filmmaking.

It’s also kind of a preview of how the movie ends, but Gail has a bloody lip and a red dress. During school that day, each student is called into the office for interrogation. There’s a chart on the wall that details which teachers are in which classrooms each period. Most of the teachers’ names are crew reference easter eggs. Almost all of these refer to people in the art department, who would have been the ones to put these decorations on set. They include carpenter Art Williams, local lead pe

rson Kenny Montante, additional set decorator Debra Echard, leadman Richard Lambert, set dresser Josh Elliot, art department production assistant Charlene Bar, art director David Lubin, driver Ben Davis, and set decorator Michele Poulik, probably a very unfortunate name to have to grow up with. We actually see Michele put her name into the movie a couple times. In the hallway, there’s a poster advertising Michelle Palik for President, a deliberate misspelling of her name. In the bathroom, there’

s some graffiti that says “Michele + Bob 4 ever”, using the same unconventional spelling as the set decorator. Because of her situation with her mom being killed a year prior, the media attention is very familiar for Sid. – [Sidney] You know the police and reporters and everything, it’s like Deja Vu all over again. That’s a redundant statement. That would be like saying I went on a side-tangent. Or, if I commented on Scream’s acute self-awareness. One of the things Scream does to stay interestin

g is play with our expectations. Pay attention to the music sting that happens when Sidney opens the closet door. (ghostly whisper in music) Using typical horror movie logic, the audience can expect that this means a scare is about to happen. It’s the perfect setup for that classic refrigerator door scare, but when she closes it, nobody is there. This also establishes the idea that the closet should be empty, making it even better when Ghostface busts out of it 5 minutes later. – [Ghostface] Wit

h the murders and all, it’s like right out of a horror movie or something. We see more of that aforementioned self-awareness as Sidney mocks horror movies, saying they are all the same. –[Sidney] …some stupid killer stalking some big breasted girl who can’t act, who’s always running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door, it’s insulting. …only for her to do just that when she can’t figure out how to unlock the front door. I always love this next part. She calls the police on

her PC, connects to someone seconds later, and the cops are at the door in 46 seconds. Take notes Uber Eats. So Sidney is saved by the time Tatum shows up in her red VW Beetle. I don’t know 100% if this is an intentional reference, but since it’s Scream, I’ll just assume that it is. This is the car that Jack Torrance drives in the novel version of The Shining. It appears in Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation as well, as the car that’s been crushed by an overturned truck, Kubrick’s way of saying,

screw you King, I’m not gonna follow the book. Of course, there is a more obvious Stephen King reference later on. –[Billy] Corn syrup, same stuff they use for pig’s blood in Carrie. Tatum also goes with to the police station, where they get some info from Sidney. Her brother Dewey tries to get her to respect him while he’s in uniform in front of his superior officer. – [Dewey] He’s my superior. – [Tatum] The janitor’s your superior. Which is true… on the film set, since Wes Craven, the director

, plays the janitor. Technically he’s David Arquette’s boss. Billy’s name is cleared when Stu calls Sidney again using the Ghostface voice while Billy is still in custody. Sheriff Burke is no L. I don’t even know if he’s on the level of Randy, to be honest. –[Randy] He’s got killer printed all over his forehead. Which is exactly where Sidney shoots him at the end of the movie. Randy is portrayed as the biggest buff in the story. He works at the video store, and knows all the rules about horror m

ovies. We see these rules referenced time and time again by the killer on the phone, and that leads us to see Randy as a prime suspect. –[Randy] I’m the first to admit it. If this were a scary movie, I’d be the prime suspect. However, there may be someone who is an equally big movie buff, and that is Stu Macher. In fact, there are a couple clues that link him to the video store just as much as Randy. The store has these two posters on display. The one on the left is a poster for the 1993 film Mo

ther’s Boys, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Stu is a big fan of Jamie Lee. All the videos he rents for his party have her in them. –[Sidney] Terror train. Prom night. How come Jamie Lee Curtis is in all of these movies? –[Randy] She’s the Scream Queen. – [Stu] And with a set of lungs like that, she should be. On the right is a poster for the band Greenjelly. This same poster can be seen when Sidney runs into Stu’s room to escape Ghostface, so I think it just serves as a link to show us that Stu prob

ably spends more time than we’d expect at the video store. At this point in the movie, there are a few innuendoes as well. Tatum tells Sidney her intimacy issues will thaw out with time as she removes a case of popsicles from the freezer. This basically tells us that Sidney's getting ready to lose her virginity. Then there’s this… meme-worthy moment. Our eyes are drawn to a certain part of the frame, which of course is Tatum’s lungs. Then our eyes are drawn to another part of the frame. This spi

ral pattern just kind of draws you in, it’s like a hypnosis. Even though we don’t see her having sex, we know that Tatum falls victim to rule number one, because her death occurs when she gets stuck in the pet door in the garage, and she’s unable to get out because her tits and cheeks are too big. Also the song playing when she enters the garage is "Drop Dead Gorgeous" by Republica. Scream was doing death omen songs four years before Final Destination came out. That night, Sidney does end up giv

ing up the v-card to Billy, and Ghostface breaks in and appears to kill him, but obviously we know it was just corn syrup. The was Stu cleans up off the knife is interesting to me. The motion almost kind of resembles taking off a condom, and for Sidney, it comes immediately as a post-sex act. And Stu later admits that he did have a thing for Sidney, which she responds to by pushing the TV onto him and saying –[Sidney] In your dreams. (Stu SCREAMing; source of movie title) It’s kind of a karma mo

ment, because Stu was the one to laugh in Randy’s face when he asked if he might have a chance with Sidney. After everything we’ve been through, it’s only fitting that the action ends with one last meta-horror trope. – [Randy] This is the moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back to life. For one last scare. –[Billy] Augh! (screams) (gunshot) –[Sidney] Not in my movie. What do you mean not in my movie? It literally just happened. Before we can end this video, there is one more thing I wa

nt to talk about. (THUNDER) ♪ Upbeat Music ♪ The big surprise in Scream, that again, like the camerawork and writing choices that I brought up in this video, uses our horror-genre expectations against us, is the fact that there are two killers instead of the usual one that we get in most slasher movies. The clues were there all along. In the Casey Becker scene, one Ghostface breaks into the house and runs straight to the front door. We don’t know why at the time, but it was to let his accomplice

inside. You can actually spot that the door is now open when Casey’s parents get home. At the fountain, Stu explains to Sidney how you gut someone, Billy makes eye contact with him and says, –[Billy] Hey, it’s called tact you f*ckrag. We assume that he’s standing up for his girlfriend, but he might actually be trying to shut Stu up before he says too much and gives them away. This might be obvious, but Sidney first suspects Billy when she sees the cell phone fall out of his pocket. If he has a

cell phone, why does he need to come sneak through the window to talk to her? Then there are multiple instances of Billy just acting sus. Like when Sidney admits that she doesn’t think he’s guilty, he keeps trying to convince her. –[Billy] You still think it’s me? –[Sidney] No I don’t, it’s just somebody was there, Billy. Someone tried to kill me. –[Billy] I know, I know, the cops said I scared him away. It wasn’t me Sid. –[Sidney] I know. He called me again last night at Tatum’s house. –[Billy]

See? Couldn’t have been me, I was in jail. And this is obviously him trying too hard to drive home the point that the second Ghostface call exonerates him. Stu does a similar thing at the fountain. – [Stu] No, I didn’t kill anybody. – [Billy] Nobody said you did. Then at the school, there are a couple of pranksters who run around in Ghostface masks, and they find themselves sitting in the principal’s office. One is wearing blue flannel with a white t-shirt underneath, which is what Billy wears

to the party, and the other wearing a muted long sleeve shirt, not the same color, but very similar in style to what Stu has on at the party. Now I want you to look very closely, right here… (jumpscare) Had to get that one last scare in. (THUNDER) (THUNDER) Throughout Scream 2, we see a few glimpses of the movie Stab! which is essentially the in-universe version of Scream 1. Each character’s Stab! counterpart is played by a known actor from our world, and in the case of Sidney, that actress is T

ori Spelling, which is playing off of a joke from the original Scream. – [Tatum] Hey, Sid, just think. If they make a movie about you, who's gonna play you? –[Dewey] I see you as a young Meg Ryan myself. –[Sidney] Thanks Dewey, with my luck, they'd cast Tori Spelling. It’s at one point suggested that the new killer is trying to make an in real life sequel to the happenings in Woodsboro from the year before, and Scream 2 consequently features many scenes that call back to the original. To learn t

he meaning behind the graffiti, stick around to the end of this video. –[Joel] And I’ll be back when you guys start talking about something a little more Saved by the Bell ish. Welcome to Things You Missed. I am Zac Morris. As I discussed last episode, Scream 1 was a satire on horror movies, so naturally Scream 2 satirizes sequels. In fact, it openly acknowledges that they’re usually inferior to the original… so what’s the deal here? Did they intentionally make Scream 2 an inferior movie? In the

movie premiere scene, Maureen gets flack from her fellow movie goers when she *loudly* encourages the character on screen to use some common sense. Scream 2 features previously intelligent characters doing things that make you want to *ahem* Scream at the television, like splitting up with a killer in the vicinity, backing up against a window and going back to unmask someone when you should just run. – [Randy] The way I see it, someone’s out to make a sequel. You know, cash in on all the movie

murder hoopla. …says Randy, as he enjoys his product placement. Let’s get into the Things You Missed. ♪ Mysterious Music ♪ In the first Scream, I talked about how the movie started by pulling a page from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho by killing off it's poster girl. This time, the poster features two more big stars, Jada Pinkett and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Jada’s character Maureen is the second to die after her boyfriend, just like Casey, and Sarah’s character Cici is third. Also, speaking of pulling

a page from Psycho, the opening scene of Stab adds a part where Casey goes into the shower. The shot of the tap turning on is the same shot from Psycho. The rest of the scene is pretty accurate to what we saw in Scream, including the conversation, which begs the question: how would the creators of Stab know what transpired that night unless… one of the participants was actually still alive? Scream 1 used Halloween as a template, a movie that everybody knows and can understand how it’s being sat

irized. But Scream 2 doesn’t really offer an equivalent. However, Stab acts as an in-universe stand-in for Scream 1, and we’ve seen something similar in the Halloween franchise. In Halloween III, we see that the original Halloween is just a movie in that universe. Halloween III is also a famously panned sequel, but other than that, there aren’t really any other similarities. Scream had become famous and there were already movies in production trying to imitate it. So the challenge was on for Scr

eam 2 to try to be the best imitator. While the first Scream made its gimmick apparent by having the killers quiz Casey on scary movies while being in a scary movie, Scream 2 tells us that these movie fans are about to be in a movie of their own by using screen direction. ‘Stab Casey’ is seen running to the left towards a door, and then we cut to Phil going left through a door himself. This link is the director’s way of telling us that he’s about to be a victim too. We hear the song Red Right Ha

nd by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds twice in this movie. In the first one it played during the curfew lockup montage, and in 2, we hear it right as Stab is beginning and as the Delta Lambda Zeta party disperses, perhaps another link to tell us that the movie is leaking into reality. There are a lot of instances where things in Scream 2 fill the role for material from the first one. For example, Sidney’s college mascot is the Wildcats, a less specific version of the Panthers, which was her high sch

ool mascot. It plays into the idea that we have copycat killers, just like how the initial 3 victims share a name with the first three victims in Woodsboro. Sidney once again gets unwanted attention from the press because of her past. The scene where Cici is attacked at her sorority home is just like the scene of Sidney being attacked at her actual home. And just like Scream 1, Ghostface pops out from a closet by the stairs. I wonder if the fact that he hides “under the stairs” is a Wes Craven r

eference. Cici’s immediate reaction is to then run up the stairs, just like high school Sidney said she would. –[Sidney] Some stupid killer stalking some big breasted girl who can’t act who’s always running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door. The ice cream scene is the new video store scene. In the video store scene, Randy directly determines who one of the killers is by accusing Billy, who fires back by asking… –[Billy] How do we know you’re not the killer? And Randy admi

ts that if this were a scary movie, he would, in fact, be a prime suspect. This time, he correctly identifies Mickey as one of the killers. –[Randy] The freaky Tarantino film student. But also concedes that he would likely be a suspect on the same grounds. – [Randy] But if he’s a suspect, so am I. Worth noting in this scene, he’s also kind of on the right track when it comes to the second killer. He brings up Mrs. Voorhees as proof that the killer could be a female. Like Mrs. Voorhees from Frida

y the 13th, the killer is the mom of another killer. Randy’s other suspect is Gale Weathers. –[Randy] That’s what reporters do, Dewey. They stage the news. He’s got the right idea, but he’s got the wrong reporter. History repeats itself later in the movie when Gale and Dewey team up, and Gale makes an important discovery while they're hooking up. In the original it’s Neil Prescott’s car, in the sequel it’s Mickey’s tapes. The killer is once again behind Randy. –[Randy] Look behind you. Dewey get

s stabbed in the back again. Gale blocks the door to the recording studio so that Ghostface can only reach in and flail. It’s like Sidney in her room. Mickey reveals himself as the killer using a familiar line. –[Mickey] Surprise Sidney! – …just like Stu did during the last 20 minutes of Scream. –[Stu] Surprise Sidney! – At the end, Sidney buries one into Mrs. Loomis’s forehead just like she had to her son, and it all ends with Cotton foreshadowing the next Stab film. – [Cotton] I’ll tell you on

e thing. It will make a hell of a movie. – But there is one easter egg that even I wouldn’t have found if not for this retrospective documentary. (THUNDER) ♪ Dreadful Music ♪ I’m sure you noticed the way Ghostface wipes off the knife in Scream 2. It’s a signature move established by Stu in the first movie. I wanted to bring it up though, because in my video on the first film, I tried to, as I do, figure out what the subtext might be behind this. However, in the 2011 retrospective Still Screaming

, Dane Farwell, the stunt actor in that scene offers a simpler explanation. –[Dane] It’s a direct cut to me running through the hall with a clean knife. Wes just thought for two seconds and said, “We’ll wipe the knife off on camera.” – Another thing I talked about in my first video was relevant cameo appearances, and those seem to have been given special attention here in 1997. Director of Photography Peter Deming plays the ‘Popcorn Boy’. Screenwriter Kevin Williamson is the interviewer on “Curr

ent Edition”. I never would have noticed this on my own, but Matthew Lillard, who plays Stu in Scream, used 2% of his power to make a background cameo at the party scene, which thankfully for me, he brought up in the retrospective, otherwise I never would have known it was him. –[Matthew] One day I was just hanging out and they were like ‘come walk in the back of the party scene’. – And director Wes Craven makes another appearance, this time as a doctor at the hospital scene. That one I actually

found out about from a fan site, which is coincidentally also called “Still Screaming.” The best cameo though is this one, from Lev Shrieber’s dog. What a boy. There are a bunch of other cameos, but on Things You Missed, I’m only interested in ones that have some kind of significance or something to do with the movie. After a film class discussion on sequels and imitators of movie killers, Gale brushes off the idea of audience safety being important. –[Gale] Are you kidding me? It’d be stupid t

o pull this movie. All this free press they’re gonna have huge numbers this weekend. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Despite this movie’s concept: being a take-off of horror sequels, we aren’t bombarded with movie references like we were in Scream. Instead, there’s another theme that the finale centers itself around: theatre. Sidney is a theatre major and has a prominent role in the production of Agamemnon, which is advertised all over the campus. –

[Gus] Cassandra is one of the great tragic visionaries of literature. She saw it all coming. The wars, the murder, the madness. She knew she was cursed. It was her fate and she embraced it. – This might be a comparison between two unlikely subjects to be paired, horror movie final girls and greek mythology. One of the things that audiences tend to find ridiculous about sequels is the fact that the same characters get themselves into trouble again. It always seems like a huge coincidence that on

ly exists to extend the franchise. That’s why in a lot of long running franchises, there’s some kind of curse that keeps the killer coming back again and again. The character Sidney plays in Agamemnon is Cassandra, who is literally cursed by the Greek God Apollo. In the case of Scream, it’s obviously not like a magic curse, but rather that Sidney is cursed by the publicity of the horrible things that have happened to her. I do think it’s significant that their whole culture on campus revolves ar

ound these sororities, or as they are sometimes called, Greek Life. In the car crash scene, there’s some graffiti of the Greek letters representing the sorority where the party took place earlier, Delta Lambda Zeta, along with text in English that says “stab this”. But the Greek letters are crossed out in red, and this is the scene where their pledge, Hallie, gets herself crossed off by Mickey. The movie’s climax takes place on the stage where the “Fall of Troy” set is still up. This is where Gh

ostface attacks her on more than one occasion. The Greek vs. the Trojan so to speak. At the end she actually uses her Greek letters, given to her by her boyfriend to protect her, to attack Mickey, and ultimately get away. The play that she’s in is Agamemnon, which like Stab, is the first chapter of a trilogy. Scream was a trilogy from 2000-2011. (rock music) – [Mickey] Empire Strikes Back. It was a better story. Improved effects. – [Randy] Not a sequel, part of a trilogy, completely planned. – I

n Scream, I think I pointed out like 20 different Nightmare on Elm Street references, but Scream 2 seems to just have one, when Cotton is arrested by Sidney’s bodyguards in the library we see a book called Our Dreaming Mind, which deals with the science of sleep and dreams, much like how Nancy visits a sleep disorder clinic to try fix her Freddy Fr-- (BEEP) (laughing) to try to fix her Freddy Freeman problem... (BEEP) ...to try to fix her Freddy Krueger problem. For a minute, I thought this was

Freddy’s iconic sweater in Sid’s dorm room, but when I actually compared them, I realized they’re not the same. I had the same thing happen in Sid’s room when I analyzed the first Scream, I thought this was Chucky’s sweater, but eventually realized the colors don’t match. Scream 2 has a girl that looks kind of like Chucky, but again, the colors don’t match. As I did for the first movie, I want to wrap up by talking about some of the evidence about who the killers are, some of which you might hav

e missed. (THUNDER) ♪ Upbeat Music ♪ First up we’ve got Cici’s sorority house, where we can confirm that there are once again, two killers because you can still hear one Ghostface talking on the phone as the other sneaks through the front door in the background. During certain chase scenes, we hear Ghostface grunting. Sometimes it sounds male… (male grunting sounds) – … and at other times, the sound is female. (female grunting sounds) – But when speaking on the phone, we can’t make this determin

ation because of the voice changer. When Sidney gets a Ghostface call from Debra Salt aka Mrs. Loomis at the sorority house, she hears this… – [Caller] Hello Sidney. Remember me? – …suggesting that it’s someone from Sidney’s past, like her late ex-boyfriend’s mom. And from a filmmaking standpoint, when you make a sequel, you have to include enough information so that even audiences who haven’t seen the first one can keep up. We only see two scenes from Stab, the opening and this scene, which rem

inds us that Billy’s Mom left him and his Dad. They only reason to cut away from the scene we’re in and show that part is if that information is going to somehow be important. Like if Billy’s Mom were to, for example, come back. Debra also suspiciously manages to get to the scene of the crime at the sorority house where Cici was attacked and at the film school where Dewey was attacked before anyone else. Maybe because she was already there. But the strongest evidence is actually the evidence for

Mickey being guilty. In class, he argues for the idea that sequels can be better than the original. Of course he would say that. The Windsor murders are his sequel to the Woodsboro murders. – [Sidney] You know, I knew this was coming? I knew this wasn’t over? – [Mickey] You are not alone Sid. – Yeah, he would know that this was coming because he was responsible. The most damning evidence though is the fact that he always has his video camera. When Dewey and Gale go to study their tapes, they se

e each of the crime scenes was recorded from Ghostface’s point of view. The only issue is that he isn’t the one projecting these tapes. He must have given them to Mrs. Loomis at some point, because he was planning on getting caught so he could use the trial to try to blame the movies for his actions. OK, I take back what I said. The most damning evidence against Mickey is the fact that we can see him right here through the eyeholes of the Ghostface mask. Scream 2 was famously rewritten during pr

oduction because the ending leaked on the internet, so the fact that we have all these setups is kind of impressive. We’re mostly all in agreement that Scream 1 is superior, and I think the very idea that the sequel’s villain could just be switched like that is kind of a testament to it being a weaker story. However, with all of that being said, I guess Cotton was going to be one of the villains originally? And I’m sort of glad that didn’t happen because his redemption at the end is one of the b

est parts. And it sets for Scream 3. If you’re a Kevin Smith fan, you may already be familiar with Jay and Silent Bob’s cameo in Scream 3, but you might not know the backstory behind it. Jay and Silent Bob are a pair of characters that first appeared in Kevin Smith’s 1994 movie, Clerks, which is prominently displayed at the video store in the original Scream. Jay and Bob would become recurring characters who show up in many Kevin Smith films that are part of his View Askewniverse, and as a thank

you for the free advertising in Scream, Kevin Smith and Scream director Wes Craven decided to exchange cameos in each other’s movies. So, Jay and Silent Bob show up in Scream 3, and the following year, Wes shows up in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where he plays Wes Craven the director of Scream 4, a decade before Wes would actually create Scream 4. In addition to that, Cotton Weary’s apartment in the opening of Scream 3 contains a copy of Chasing Amy, which is also part of the View Askewnive

rse. The scene with Jay and Silent Bob also contains a couple other cameos, which are pretty much only findable thanks to the retrospective documentary Still Screaming, which points out a cameo from Wes Craven as the man with a video camera, and Scream 3’s casting director Lisa Beach as the tour guide. To learn how Scream 3 may have had a second killer who died before being revealed, stick around to the end of this video. (Thunder) In Scream, movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more

creative. In Scream 2 movies are a scapegoat for someone who is planning to be a killer. Scream 3 reverses this and has the killer make the movie, creating his own lore every step of the way. Welcome to Things You Missed. Wanting to capitalize on the hype train created by Scream 1 and 2 producers decided to go ahead without screenwriter Kevin Williamson, by replacing him with Ehren Kruger. Really? The creator of A Nightmare On Elm Street is working with a guy named Kruger? – [Jennifer] Stage na

me. –[Bianca] You should talk, Judy Jurgenstern. – [Group] OHHHHH!!!!! – Sidney Prescott has become a crisis hotline counselor, and she also takes on a stage name of sorts, going by Laura to her callers. She’s unknowingly following in the footsteps of her mother, who used the name Rina Reynolds while working in Hollywood. There’s a running theme of pseudonyms in Scream 3. Most of our main characters are actors who are just as likely to respond to their character names as their actual names, to t

he point that it becomes kind of a joke. –[Jennifer] Not “Sidney”, Sidney. Like I’m “Gale” and she’s Gale. – Obviously, it’s more than just a joke though, it’s important to the plot, because Roman’s changing of his last name to Bridger is what helps disguise his true identity as Sidney’s brother and the killer. Let’s get into the Things You Missed. (knives slashing) ♪ Dreadful Music ♪ As with Screams 1 and 2, the opening shows the slaying of a couple, only this time, we recognize one of the vict

ims, it’s Cotton Weary and his girlfriend. Cotton is complaining that he is only given a cameo in Stab 3, which is basically his experience in Scream 3 -- despite being a big part of the second movie, they kill him off right away in this one. One the criticisms of turning Scream into a franchise was that it would become the very thing that the original Scream was satirizing, and we see this intentionally, or not intentionally in Scream 3’s opening. In the last film, Stab 1 attempted to recreate

the opening of Scream, the death of Casey Becker. But certain things are embellished for Hollywood, like how they add a shower scene which seems to have no purpose other than showing a little skin. So Scream 3’s opening literally does that, in the form of Cotton’s girlfriend getting out of the shower. There’s even a shot of Christine’s towel dropping by her feet, very similar to Casey’s bathrobe in Stab. –[Sarah] The whole shower thing’s been done! Vertigo. Hello? – It’s not Vertigo, it’s Psycho

. As we have discussed many times on this show. Then, Christine even channels her inner Casey Becker herself when she kicks Ghostface to get away. Scream 2’s opening was all about the Stab movie premiere, so there’s a slight nod to that as well, when Cotton is frantically driving home, he nearly hits a bus with a Stab 2 advertisement on back. This next one might not be a reference, this might just be Cotton being entirely focused on saving his girlfriend, but he leaves his car door open as he go

es inside, much like Bob Simms in Halloween, who was also probably focused on one thing entirely. As you know if you’ve seen Scream, Halloween is basically considered the big one, and is referenced all the time. But not that much in Scream 3. Although there is the one part where Sidney hears her mother’s voice telling her she’ll protect her from the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman is a pseudonym for Michael Myers in the Halloween films. Ghostface tries to pressure Cotton into revealing the location of

Sidney Prescott before offing him, and then we see Sidney living a secluded life with her dog. By her door there’s a Fall of Troy poster advertising the play she was in in college, Agamemnon. Does that mean she actually went through with being in the play after defeating Mickey and Debbie on it’s stage? That’s dedication. She also continues to wear the Greek letters given to her by her boyfriend when the murders were happening in the last movie. Can you really blame her? He was the best guy she

ever dated. The next character we meet is Gale Weathers, who is giving a speech about being a journalist lady. A woman in the crowd is wearing a #81 jersey. Not many people know this, but Scream 1996 was not the first… or last… slasher movie to be called Scream. The original was a 1981 film. I have not seen it, but according to the Letterboxd ratings, it is not very good. This scene also has the best extra. This lady is REALLY into Gale’s speech. This speech is part of a lecture series called FW

Bestor Lecture Series: Faces of Journalism, named after the movie’s art department coordinator Claudia Bestor. Just like the last two movies, Sidney is at home, when she sees bad news on the TV that involves her and her past. As we’re first introduced to Sunrise Studios, where most of this movie takes place, we hear the song Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which by this point is more or less the Scream theme song, this is our fourth time hearing it, and the end credits would be t

he fifth, although that one is a special Scream 3 version meant to close out the trilogy. Stab 3’s subtitle is “Return to Woodsboro”, and this phrase keeps finding new meaning throughout the movie. It’s actually a leftover from Kevin Williamson’s original outline for the script, that he planned after writing Scream 2, but most of it was not used for what would become Scream 3. We would symbolically return to Woodsboro immediately, because they’re shooting on the Woodsboro set. Sidney would retur

n to Woodsboro when she is later chased through this set. Later still, the focus of the story is brought back to Woodsboro when we learn new information about the motivations of Billy and Stu. And the movie would end with everyone returning Woodsboro, or at least what appears to be Woodsboro to join Sidney at her secluded home. But this first scene on the Woodsboro set contains more depth than what meets the eye. (Thunder) ♪ Mysterious Music ♪ When we meet Roman, the director of Stab 3, he’s bus

y making a case for keeping the production going after Cotton’s death. – [Roman] Hire more security, hire the national guard, just don’t kill the movie. – Which is funny, because he literally would kill the movie, at least for the time being, by killing everyone in it. He’s seen arguing with a studio executive played by Roger Corman, who tells him that violence in cinema is kind of a no-no right now. Which is also a little joke, because Roger Corman is a well known horror producer and director.

He literally made movies such as Night of the Blood Beast. A Bucket of Blood. Bloody Mama. Battle of Blood Island. Blood Bath. A remake of A Bucket of Blood. But his concern over gory movies in 1999 was very relevant, because Stab 3 is the in-universe stand-in for Scream 3, and Scream 3 was going through the same problems at this time thanks to the Columbine Massacre, the worst high school shooting of the millenium. The Columbine Massacre was carried out by two high school seniors, and that is r

eally only similarity to Scream that exists, but that didn’t stop people who were already against horror movies. –[Wes] Everybody that didn’t like horror films that was in a position of power, came after the studios. – [Zac] Columbine happened in April 1999. Scream 3 started shooting in July, so there was a lot of pressure from the studio to limit the gore, which is why we see less of it in this movie. According to Matthew Lillard, he was already paid to appear in Scream 3 as the returning villa

in Stu Macher, but Columbine put an end to those plans. Wes Craven attempted to make sure the cultural context was not forgotten, by sneaking in this article about Columbine into the scene where Sidney looks through her file at the police station. The other articles in this file are just nonsense. Look at this one. “The local police chief, the first official commissioned by the city with the search committed in the name of the parents. The shadowy suspect, faces 121 charges of murder, kidnapping

, arms, smuggling, fraud and theft. 'His plea is he hadn’t committed these offenses.' said the parents’ attorney, 'we will find the Megan at all cost.'" When Gale, that is, the real Gale, shows up on set, she’s hit by that wave of dreadful familiarity. –[Gale] Deja Voodoo. – Her misuse of the term déjà vu, right outside of Sidney’s house, calls back to Sidney’s own misuse of the phrase in Scream 1. The nostalgia does not end there though, because the new Gale, aka Jennifer, is dressed more like

the old Gale. But what happens next is not all old and familiar. Gale runs into Dewey, who has become an advisor for the movie. When these two met in Scream 2, Dewey was upset with how Gale portrayed him in her book. Now, Dewey has turned the tables on her, and Gale is upset about how he’s portraying her in Stab 3. In my previous Scream analysis videos, I pointed out Wes Craven’s easter eggs to his other major horror franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street. We don’t really get that much in the thir

d one, but there is this one tiny nightmare scene involving Sidney, where she sees her dead mother come to the window. If we’re being honest though, the reference points a lot more towards Salem’s Lot than it does towards Freddy Krueger. The next day, Sarah Darling, who plays the character Candy in Stab, has a meeting with Roman at the production office. –[Sarah] I’m Candy, the chick who gets killed second. I’m only in two scenes. – Like Cotton’s gripes about his character, the complaint about h

er screen time could also apply to her role in Scream 3; she’s only in 2 scenes. There’s also another 1:1 parallel later, where the police mention that there are three versions of the Stab 3 script, in order to try to keep the ending off the internet -- the exact same approach used for Scream 3. And then there’s the romance between Dewey and Gale. This time, rather than art imitating life, life would imitate art. These two got married for realsies right before they started shooting. Anyway, duri

ng the line reading, Roman goes off the script, and then claims there’s a new version. –[Roman] It’s not just a new script, it’s a new movie. –[Sarah] What movie? –[Roman] My movie. – Although we don’t know it yet, she’s speaking to the real Roman, and he’s telling the truth. By killing the people involved in Stab 3, he’s creating the lore for Stab 3. He’s creating his movie. Candy is the successor to Tatum in Scream, and her death closely resembles Tatum’s. Ghostface chases her into the prop ro

om where, among all the movie props, is a fridge. Remember, Tatum went to the garage to get drinks from the fridge. She’s punched through a door where she’s left hanging on her stomach, and this is where Ghostface get her. She dies in the exact same position that Tatum died in in the pet flap. While Gale and Dewey are out to lunch to discuss their past relationship, Gale emphasizes the importance of leaving him alone to go on the sequel to 60 minutes, claiming she could have been the next Diane

Sawyer. It’s a bit of a Scream 2 reference, Diane Sawyer was the journalist that Cotton most wanted to be interviewed on to gain fame. Back on the movie set, we have maybe our most obvious set of crew reference easter eggs yet on the director’s chairs. Yes, they are called that. This one’s for Peter Deming, the Director of Photography, this one belongs to Sheila Waldron, the script supervisor and there’s one for Bruce Alan Miller, the production designer. That evening, the cast gathers for the d

epressing wrap party at Jennifer’s house, where the killing continue with her security guard, and Roman continues to quote unquote write his movie by literally sending in script pages telling them what to do via fax. Uhh, if you don’t know what fax is, look it up. The house blows up, taking out Tom, aka: the new Dewey, and the old Gale punches the new Gale in the face, this is yet another twist on the Scream tradition, of Ms. Weathers getting a facefull of knuckles in each film. The characters e

nd up at the police station where they’re finally reunited with Sidney. One nice detail at the station is the display of movie posters and books about film. It’s like Randy suggested in Scream 1, that the cops should study movies to save time. Speaking of Randy, he makes his return, in the form of a post-mortem video message, which he would use to communicate a few new horror movie rules. (cinematic impact) – [Randy] True trilogies are all about going back to the beginning and discovering someth

ing that wasn’t true from the get-go. Godfather, Jedi, all revealed something that we thought was true, that wasn’t true. – This was not his first time referencing the original Star Wars trilogy, we saw him mention it in Scream 2, and it wouldn't be long before it came up again. The two Gales meet the Sunrise Studios archivist, who is played by Carrie Fisher, aka, Princess Leia in Star Wars. –[Bianca] I was up for Princess Leia. I was this close. So who gets it? The one who sleeps with George Lu

cas. – She also shares something in common with Sidney, her trilogy also involves the surprise twist where she discovers someone is her brother. They pull out the file for Maureen Prescott, who at the time was going by Rina Reynolds. At the bottom of her resume, we can see that she started her acting career in theatre, just as her daughter would go on to do. One of the plays she was in was even called I Want To Scream. So they’ve got a whole little family involved in the dramatic arts. Maureen w

ith her acting in plays and horror films; Roman, the director; and Sidney, the live performer. If Candy’s death was a callback to Tatum, this scene where Sidney is chased through the movie set is a repeat of her own scene in Scream, right down to her screwing herself by locking herself in with Ghostface at the front door. There’s also another similarity. In Scream, she calls the police using this program on her computer, and Dewey immediately shows up at her door. In Scream 3, she literally just

yells out for Dewey and he comes running because he’s already at the studio. The cops show up and we see this one new cop named “J West”. This is the last crew reference easter egg, it’s a reference to the assistant production coordinator John Burton West. After discovering Maureen worked in the movies, Dewey and the Gales confront the producer John Milton, who basically tells them that he held these parties back in the day where industry bigwigs took advantage of actresses, and he basically tu

rned a blind eye to this illegal activity. If you’ve followed the entertainment industry recently, this might sound familiar. In 2018 film producer Harvey Weinstein was arrested as many allegations came out against him, some of which dated back to the 1970s, the very same time period that John Milton claimed to have these parties. Could this be a coincidence? Maybe not. From my understanding, Weinstein got away with this for as long as he did because he targeted small time actresses. They did no

t take legal action because they were afraid they’d be blacklisted from the industry, since Harvey had contacts with all of Hollywood. For example, two actresses up for parts in Lord of the Rings lost their roles simply because Weinstein told Peter Jackson that they were a “nightmare to work with.” That’s the kind of influence that he had. But with the advent of the internet and social media, the victims were able to discover that they were not the only ones. There were a lot. Like a whole lot.

So they came together, knowing that they couldn’t ALL be blacklisted. The point of all this is, while they didn’t get him arrested for many years, there were rumors about Weinstein’s behavior. So it’s very possible that Wes Craven may have known about these rumors and pulled the biggest power move of all time, by putting a Harvey Weinstein character in his movie. Which by the way was produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein. But unlike these relatively unknown actresses, Wes Craven had already made

it in Hollywood. Weinstein couldn’t do anything to him, and besides, he was already nearing the end of his career. And despite being the executive producer, Harvey Weinstein couldn’t really stop Wes from using Scream 3 to make this indirect accusation. Because if he order Wes to change the John Milton scene, he’s just gonna look guilty. According to the film’s editor, Patrick Lussier, in an article on Slate, the only note to come from the Weinstein brothers at all, came from Harvey’s brother, Bo

b, he just had a note about the ending, which I’ll get back to later in this video. So Wes had his boss backed into a corner where he could not give any notes. It’s got to be one of the most legendary moves that Wes has ever made if this, in fact, is not a total, huge coincidence. –[Exec] Hollywood is full of criminals whose careers are flourishing. –[Roman] I'm not a criminal! – Yeah, I don’t think it is. And to further add to the suspicion, some of the accusers are connected to the Scream fran

chise. Rosanna Arquette is the real life sister of David Arquette, Dewey. And Rose McGowan, who plays Tatum in Scream, is the onscreen sister of David Arquette. Angelina Jolie, potentially has two characters named after her in Scream 3 Jennifer Jolie and Angelina Tyler who says this: –[Angelina] I did not f*ck that pig Milton to get a leading role just to die here with second-rate celebrities like you two! – The movie’s climax takes place at a mansion party where Roman’s birthday is to be celebr

ated. While we don’t realize it at the time, I don’t think it’s any coincidence that Roman puts his plan into action on his birthday, the day he became Maureen Prescott’s bastard child. The party splits up to explore the mansion and Jennifer finds herself stuck in a passage with Ghostface. She sees Dewey on the other side of this soundproof glass barrier and struggles to get his attention. This is the same situation that the real Gale was in in Scream 2, when she was unable to communicate with h

im in the recording studio. There's another repeat of a Scream 2 situation in the basement when Roman is knocked out after falling down the stairs, but his body blocks the only exit. This is like when Sidney had to climb over Mickey to escape the crashed car. Roman uses his capture of Gale and Dewey to lure Sidney into the house, but she's prepared and greets him with her hidden gun. Unfortunately for her, this is the one time that she didn't deliver a follow up shot to the head and it comes bac

k back bite her. The final confrontation takes place in the secret screening room where Roman was theoretically conceived. After revealing himself as the killer there are a couple more parallels to Scream 1, the bringing out of a gagged victim and Roman cocking his head just like Ghostface when he first pinned down Sidney at her dad’s house. After he is defeated, we’re treated to an epilogue. We see Sidney essentially let her guard down for the first time since that fateful phone call a few year

s ago. Then we see Detective Kincaid, the cop from LA, who apparently came back with her? He’s holding a bowl of popcorn and says they’re about to start a movie. So the Scream trilogy ends just as it began, with popcorn and a movie. I personally think this was supposed to be the end of the series. By comparing the last ever Scream scene to the first ever, we see the changed state of the world, before and after the defeat of Roman, the driving force behind all of the bad things that happened to S

idney in the 1990s. However, having only one killer doesn’t follow the Scream formula. There could be one more villain from the production of Stab 3 who has yet to be taken care of. (cinematic impact) ♪ Upbeat Music ♪ Earlier in this video I mentioned two darker topics, Weinstein and Columbine. I stated that Wes Craven and his editor only received one note on the film and it came from the innocent of the two brothers, Bob Weinstein. His idea was to remove the second Ghostface to just focus on Ro

man. The reason for this, or at least one of the reasons, may have been teased in the film. Remember the scene where the producers are having a discussion with Roman about the future of the film, emphasizing that stringed instruments in cinema are a big deal right now? A big reason for that was Columbine. So the shooting may have also been part of the reason that they moved away from the initial concept of having two killers. The accomplice was going to be Angelina Tyler, the woman who was set t

o play the fictional version of Sidney in Stab 3. You can still see remnants of this storyline in the film. In fact, some fans believe that Angelina is still canonically the 6th Ghostface, and she was killed before she ever got the chance to reveal herself. Her story is that she won the role in a talent search, but we later find she did this by sleeping with the producer. – [Tom] You gotta be praying this movie keeps going. –[Angelina] Of course I am, but not at the expense of people’s lives. –

[Zac] You either die a hero or live -- There are three main sequences that make Angelina look guilty. The first is shortly after Jennifer’s house explodes. She briefly disappears, and comes down the hill well after everyone else, almost like she knew where to jump to avoid taking fall damage. This allows her to completely miss the altercation with Roman. Dewey asks her about her whereabouts, and she never actually answers the question. – [Angelina] Tom was in the house! Then, there’s the bathroo

m scene, which by the way is setup exactly like the school bathroom scene in Scream 1. Sidney discovers her seemingly changing into the Ghostface costume, but Angelina plays it off as her wanting to take props as souvenirs now that the movie is shut down. But what if this is actually her getting caught, and, being the actress that she is, talking her way out of it? This could also be the reason that Roman decides to kill her off. He probably figured that Sidney knew she was guilty, and it was be

tter to get rid of her before she had the chance to be arrested and interrogated, where she could possibly give them both away. He knew Sidney wouldn’t accuse her immediately though, because she wouldn’t want a repeat of Cotton Weary on her conscience, who went to jail because he was wrongfully accused by Sid when she wasn’t quite 100% sure. So I think Angelina makes up an excuse, quickly scurries away, and goes into the sound stage to finish putting on the Ghostface costume. When Sidney goes in

to the movie set version of her room, there are clearly two killers here, someone is pushing on the door, and then 3 seconds later Ghostface is all the way on the other side of the room, behind her in the window. I think the one in the window is Angelina, because the shoes we see during the struggle are the exact same as the ones that Sidney noticed under the bathroom stall. When the lights go on, we get a better look at Angelina wearing these shoes with a black… Skirt? Uh... I don’t know the te

rminology for this piece of clothing, but the loose black fabric could easily help her blend into the Ghostface cloak. And the third sequence where she looks guilty is Roman’s birthday party. Sure, they appear to be using the buddy system for safety, but Roman and Angelina are each one-on-one with a victim. Dewey and Gale also poke around and find a Ghostface mask, cell phone and voice changer, in a closet. But these are not Roman’s because he clearly has his own. I can understand having a backu

p costume, but why have a second voice changer? Angelina was supposed to be with Tyson, but she disappears, and Roman fakes his death, just like Billy did. In hindsight, he’s probably the one who taught Billy to make that Hollywood level corn syrup mixture. During the big reveal, Roman even suggests that he gave Billy pointers on being a killer, such as having a partner to sell out once you get caught. This means Roman probably also had a disposable partner. When we last see Angelina, she’s fran

tically trying to leave the house. Could it be that at this point, she knows Roman is done with her, and she’s now fearing for her life? Or is this just part of the act? We don’t actually see her die, she just gets stabbed in the shoulder, and dragged out of view. It is awfully inconclusive for a Scream character to go out like this. Maybe Scream 5 will feature Stu and Angelina as the Ghostface killers. Personally, I don’t think there’s a ton of evidence to suggest she’s alive, though it is defi

nitely a small possibility. But I am of the belief that she was the Roman’s accomplice, and there’s a ton of evidence to support that. Let me know your thoughts on Angelina in the comments. Scream 3 was marketed as the last Scream. The final act. The very end. So join me next time on Things You Missed as I cover Scre4m. Also known as Scream 4. Scre4m welcomed us back to Woodsboro High School, it doesn’t look exactly the same, but this could technically be a different entrance, and this could jus

t be a different part of the building. But one aspect that is definitely a new addition, which you might have missed, is this bust, dedicated to the late Principal Arthur Himbry, who was one of the victims in Scream 1. Here’s a little bit of a better look from a behind the scenes photo. For other references you might not have noticed, like the movie props featured in the background of Stab-a-thon, stick around to the end of this video. This video is sponsored by NordVPN ♪ Metal Music ♪ Welcome t

o Things You Missed. I am ‘Don’t Look At My Tits I Have A Mind Morris,’ and if you remembered that reference, it probably hasn’t been long since you last watched Scre4m. And I actually think this is one of the most warranted examples putting a number in the title in place of a letter. In a movie like Se7en, or Thir13n Ghosts, there’s no real reason for it other than style. But since this movie serves as a satire of horror movie remakes, most of which have the same title as the original, insertin

g the number 4 allows you to read it as just Scream, while still differentiating that this is the fourth movie. Which makes it all the more disappointing that they didn’t follow suit with Scream (2022) by calling it 5cream. Let’s get in to the Things You Missed. ♪ Mysterious Music ♪ Being a remake, this one opens exactly the same way the original did, with a teen girl receiving a phone call. Sherrie and Trudie are trying to pick a movie, and we see the blue screen on the TV, something I talked a

bout when I covered the original Scream, which represents the idea that a movie is about to begin, not only for us, the audience, but also the characters, who are somewhat aware that they are living through a movie. However, this is the first movie to take place well after the others, it’s set in 2010, so the new horror reference points for the young characters are noughties horror like Saw and Final Destination. Saw in particular seems to have the biggest influence on Scream 4. It’s the movie t

hat Sherrie chooses for movie night, and the color grade takes after the Saw look. For example, look at the first outdoor scene, and how the bloom resembles the look of the Public Execution Trap from Saw 7. Or for a better idea of exactly how the look of this movie differs from the previous ones, try comparing the Stab footage from Scream 2 to that of the fourth movie. There are also a few scenes that seem to have Saw’s imprint on them. Olivia encounters her masked attacker hiding in her closet,

just like Adam from Saw. Rebecca is ambushed in an empty parking garage, just like Dr. Gordon from Saw. One of the side characters is Robbie Mercer, who is played by Erik Knudsen; he was Daniel Matthews in Saw 2, and both of them know a lot about cameras. Stab is now a seven movie series, just like Saw was at the time. Stab-a-thon is held in an abandoned barn. This was well before Jigsaw, the Saw movie set in an abandoned barn, but Gale’s coming across this creepy pig head next to these rusty g

ears still looks like something right out of the original Saw saga, or as some of you suggested on my Saw videos, the Saw-ga. The opening of Scre4m also serves as a mission statement about what we should expect for this movie. And that is, to expect the unexpected. – [Charlie] The unexpected is the new cliche. Modern audiences get savvy to the rules of the originals. So the reverse has become the new standard. – The intro does this with it’s false openings. First we see two girls get killed; tur

ns out that’s just Stab 6. Then we get some meta-cinema commentary from our new characters… –[Rachel] It’s all so predictable, there’s no element of surprise, you can see everything coming! (stab) – …but that just turns out to be Stab 7. So we’re seeing first hand how filmmakers are now actively trying to do what the audience doesn’t expect in the decade since Stab 3. And this, of course, also applies to our movie, Scream 4. Scre4m. So after those two false intros, we meet our real intro charact

ers, Marnie Cooper and Jenny Randall. Marnie does share a last name with Cici Cooper from Scream 2, but they probably aren’t related -- despite their shared eye and hair color. I’m actually more interested in her first name, Marnie, because it brings to mind the 1964 Alfred Hitchcock film. Being one of the most important figures in the horror genre, Hitchcock has already been the subject of several homages in the Scream franchise, like Billy Loomis sharing a name with Sam Loomis from Psycho, the

shower shot from Psycho being in Stab, and one of the actresses in Scream 3 incorrectly identifying it as a reference to Vertigo, among others. In the classroom where Cinema Club is held, you can spot a Vertigo poster. On the chalkboard, there’s a lesson about the plot structure of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, and Kirby’s room has a Rear Window poster as well. Marnie may not be the only Hitchcock namesake. Sidney has a publicist named Rebecca, which could be an homage to Hitchcock’s 1940 film Rebec

ca, and the police officer, Perkins, is actually named Anthony Perkins, we hear his partner call him that. –[Det Hoss] Anthony! Perkins! – Anthony Perkins is the actor who played Norman Bates in Psycho. The rest of the intro sequence features a lot of fun homages to the Scream franchise, like Ghostface trying to tell Jenny to think of him as her director. – [Caller] You’re in my movie. You’ve got a fun part! So don't blow it. – The last villain literally was the director of Stab 3. Marnie is sen

t crashing through the glass door a la Steve Orth from Scream. – [Caller] But you? You’re the dumb blond with the big tits. We’ll have some fun with you before you die. – And just like Sidney predicted in the first Scream, she makes the mistake of running up the stairs rather than out the door. She ends up going to the attic, like Sidney did while trying to escape Ghostface at Stu’s house, and then eventually to the garage, where her escape is foiled by the garage door, just like Tatum in Scream

. Dewey is woken up by his ringtone. (80s techno) The song is Axel F, from the soundtrack of Beverly Hills Cop. And Dewey is also a cop again, he’s not the Sheriff of Woodsboro. Also of note, this song has been remade many times, by the likes of TechnoCop, Clock, and yes… Crazy Frog. –[Crazy Frog] Ding. Ding. – Soon we meet the next generation of Woodsboro High School students. It seems that Kirby knows who the killer is without actually knowing who the killer is. –[Kirby] Before you get in the

car, you have to promise not to kill me. – There’s a similar foreshadowing moment like this later when Officer Hoss is doing a crossword puzzle and asks Perkins for a four letter word for courage. – [Perkins] Uhh… Guts. – It would not be long after that when Olivia’s guts would be ripped out by Ghostface. The event is also foreshadowed by these chinese take-out boxes that have a red splatter design. But before we get there, we would check in on the current state of Gale Riley, whose office plays

host to a few more Things You Missed. (Thunder) Each new character in the fourth installment of Scream is a spiritual successor to one of the characters from the original Scream. Which is why it’s a satire of horror movie remakes. Like a remake you have new actors playing old roles. Jill is the new Sidney Prescott, a high school student thrust into danger due to the attack of her family member. Trevor is Billy Loomis, the boyfriend who becomes a major suspect. Kirby is Randy Meeks, the biggest

horror film buff of the friend group and walking knowledge database. Olivia is Tatum Riley, the attractive popular girl who dies way too early. Charlie is Stu Macher, the easily peer pressured friend. Robbie Mercer is Kenny, the camera guy. And Rebecca is Gale Weathers, the media. She even makes the comparison between Dewey and Barney Fife, just like Gale did back in Scream 2. – [Dewey] Page 32. Deputy Dewey filled the room with his Barney Fife-ish presence. – [Rebecca] Just wait, Barney Fife, I

’m running an event here. – Speaking of Gale, she’s now writing a work of fiction, after penning the book trilogy that became the basis for the Stab movies, and we can see them right here: The Woodsboro Murders, College Terror and Hollywood Horror. It seems that she also wrote other stories about a Ghostface killer because there’s this additional book, Ghostface Returns, which we get a better look at later in Jill’s room. This is probably the basis of the fictional Stab movies 4 through 7. After

news that the killings have started again breaks, we see the Woodsboro police station, and if you pause, you can see the KQIS 6 van whirring by in the foreground. This is the same station that Gale worked for back in Scream 1, where the van was parked outside during Stu Macher’s party. We also see the channel 6 microphone appear a couple times throughout the movie. Rebecca is celebrating the news of the two girls being butchered, and she calls it a payday. The media sensationalizing the crimes

has been a theme that has run through each of the Scream movies so far. In the first and second films it’s the TV news media, in the third it’s the Hollywood film industry and now we’re seeing it happen in publishing. There would also be another angle to this present in Scream 4: social media. Robbie gets involved as essentially what we would now call the IRL streamer, and the killers are recording all their kills, which Jill plans to use to help frame Trevor and Charlie and anticipates that the

footage will go viral and garner her more attention. However, she fails, so this part never pans out. Later in the movie, Rebecca tries to convince Sidney to sign a new book deal. –[Rebecca] You’re a victim. For life. So embrace it! – And this is another aspect of the social commentary about the media. Rebecca doesn't understand the point of Sidney's book, it's about her journey to no longer be the victim. Jill, on the other hand, is on a journey to become the victim. –[Jill] How do you think p

eople become famous anymore? You don’t have to achieve anything. You just gotta have f*cked up sh*t happen to you. – She's an extreme example of someone with what we would now call victim mentality. Like the original Scream's social commentary about sensationalizing violence in the news, and Scream 3's commentary about inappropriate relations in Hollywood, Scre4m's take on victim mentality has only become more relevant over the years as more and more people try to invent a scenario where they ar

e perceived as having been wronged, with the intention of going viral. The "my experience with ____" trope on social media has become as cliche as the slasher movies that Randy idolized in Scream. –[sunhatkid] He had me unfollow all of them, which to me was really weird, and I didn’t like it. – But anyway, when Rebecca meets Gale, Gale tells her that she is Gale Riley now; she’s been married to Dewey for 10 years, to which Rebecca is surprised. – It always seemed like more of a movie romance tha

n a real one because it was a movie. And in real life you two would never be… ooh! – In my Scream 3 video, I mentioned that Dewey and Gale’s marriage was one of the many plot elements inspired by real life, because David Arquette and Courtney Cox actually got married. Now they had actually been married 10 years and, like in the movie, their relationship was in trouble. They separated in real life in 2010, the same year this movie is set. The trouble in the on-screen marriage is exemplified that

evening at the house, in a line that also serves as another callback to that Dewey and Gale scene from Scream 2. This time instead of Dewey quoting a specific page from Gale’s book, he’s quoting Sidney’s book in regards to his marriage. –[Dewey] Just when you think things can’t get any worse, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they get better. Out of Darkness by Sidney Prescott, page 220. – Later in the evening, after Ghostface comes for Olivia, Sidney tries to get into The Morris Household to save

her, and she does so by throwing a potted plant through the window. Sidney has always been seen as the slasher successor to Laurie Strode from Halloween, with her story even running parallel to Laurie’s in Scream 1, and now we’ve got her throwing a potted plant at a house, like Laurie in Halloween. As always, the movie is packed with Halloween references. When Sidney makes a guest appearance at the Cinema Club, Robbie hypes up her presence by comparing her to the actresses who starred in Hallow

een and The Exorcist. – [Robbie] Beyond Jamie Lee Curtis, forget Linda Blair, this is the ultimate. – Which is also its own kind of joke because they both appear in Scream 1. The cinema club holds their party, Stab-a-thon, at an abandoned farm house, much like the party in Halloween 5. But if you look closer, there’s a for sale sign outside the farm that says Roberts Reality. Roberts refers to Sidney’s mom’s side of the family. Her mother was Maureen Roberts before getting married, and Sidney’s

aunt is Kate Roberts. She is the realtor that this sign is referring to. Earlier drafts of the script make mention of her profession. Kate takes Sidney in while she’s back in Woodsboro. We can assume that Sidney’s dad moved away or died, because he’s not in the movie. So Sidney is staying with a realtor, who happens to be selling the location of “Stab-a-thon”. And this is another similarity she has to Laurie Strode, who, after losing her parents is taken in by the Strode family, and her new adop

tive father is a realtor who is selling a house, the Myers House, which was the location of more of a literal Stab-a-thon. With Sidney being part of the older generation now, she takes responsibility for the kids’ safety. Towards the end, she instructs Jill to hide under a bed and then makes it look as if she’s helped her escape off the balcony. This is very similar to Laurie’s strategy in Halloween. Of course, there’s one line where Sid is made out to look more less like Laurie and more like he

r brother… –[Jill] You just won’t die will you? Who are you? Michael f*cking Myers? – The last Halloween reference I want to bring up is this poster seen in the classroom where Cinema Club is held. If you’ve seen Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2, you know it is not a remake of Halloween 2. Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 is a remake of the original Halloween, however Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 goes off in it’s own… strange direction. I’m guessing this was likely a hint about what the plans were for the Scream fr

anchise. In January 2010, screenwriter Kevin Williamson, who had returned after an absence in Scream 3 stated that he was contracted to make Scream 4 and Scream 5. However, the fourth movie underperformed at the box office, director Wes Craven got brain cancer, and the fifth installment had to be put on the shelf. Save that one for a rainy decade. But as long as we’re talking about the meta of Scre4m, I’ve also gotta mention what is perhaps the most meta thing in the whole franchise. ♪ Suspensef

ul Music ♪ Remember that cop character, Anthony Perkins? Well not only is he named after a Psycho actor, but he also appeared in Scary Movie 3. Scary Movie is a parody of Scream and Scream is a satire of the horror genre. If you’ve kept up with my Scream Things You Missed series, you already know that the first Scream contained many references to slasher movies, including Wes Craven’s own work. So Scream 4 focuses on movies that were remade. The new version of the video store scene is the Cinema

Club scene where we see a whole bunch of movie posters, like this one: The Hills Have Eyes. This checks both boxes, it was directed by Wes Craven and it received a remake in 2006. If you’re really paying attention you’ll also notice the poster for The People Under The Stairs, a 1991 Wes Craven production. Before his death, Craven planned to remake this, but never quite got around to it. There’s also a poster for George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. It was remade in 2004. The Thing is a remake of T

he Thing From Another World from 1951. You may notice the poster on the left is not a horror movie, it’s a film called Zack and Miri Make a Porno. This is actually a continuation of a series of easter eggs between Wes Craven and Kevin Smith. I talked about this in greater detail in my Scream 3 episode, but the two directors have been exchanging cameos and easter eggs in their movies since the original Scream. If you look around the classroom, you’ll also see that the Cinema Club are big fans of

the Stab franchise. You can see the Stab poster right here, and the Stab 3 poster back in the corner. An interesting note here is the tagline for Stab 3 is “Hollywood Horror”. Which means this is not the same movie we saw being shot in Scream 3, whose tagline was “Return To Woodsboro.” It seems that since all the cast was killed, the studio decided to make Stab 3 about that, rather than trying to recast for Return To Woodsboro. Little did they know, the story would return to Woodsboro all on its

own. Behind this shelf is the Stab 5 poster, and the Stab 6 poster. But that’s really only just the beginning of the display of their Stab fandom. We see much more that night at Stab-a-thon where there are a lot of background details you may have missed. Here’s a girl dressed as Casey Becker, posing with a decoration of the “gutted” Casey Becker, which you can see more of behind the crowd right here. Another display shows Tatum Riley hanging out of the garage flap. Many of the attendees are wea

ring costumes of Scream and Stab characters. Something that is very accurate if you’ve ever been to a screening. These two guys in the audience are both dressed as Dewey, and one of them even has a mustache hat. There’s another Casey Becker on the left. A lot of the kids have Woodsboro High letterman jackets, like Casey’s boyfriend Steve Orth, but then again, those are also their actual high school jackets, so I won’t count that one. But I will count this couple dressed as Gale and Dewey, Gale i

n her green news dress and Dewey in his uniform. – [Gale] This party is all about the Stab movies, come on! How meta can you get? – [Dewey] How what-a can you get? – [Gale] I don’t know, I heard him say it. – Gale places cameras around the party much like she did in Scream, so that she can watch from her vehicle. In fact, one of the cameras is right beneath the movie screen, just as the surveillance camera in Scream was placed under Stu’s television. Now you’re probably wondering: are there diff

erences between the version of Stab we saw in Scream 2 and what we see in Scream 4? So I cut both films apart and lined them both up, and the answer is: yes there are a lot of differences. Enough to make a whole video about it, which I plan on doing. But for this video, I’m only gonna talk about the ones that are interesting. In Scream 4 we see this card at the beginning: A Robert Rodriguez Film. This sort-of qualifies as a crew reference easter egg, because Robert Rodriguez was brought in to fi

lm the Stab footage for Scream 2. After lining up all the cut points, there’s an interesting synchronization that occurs. Which is that Gale gets stabbed at the same time as Casey in Stab, which in Scream 2, occurred at the same time Maureen was stabbed inside the movie theater. Just thought that was kind of cool. Before being attacked, Gale holds her camera by her waist, looking behind her, unintentionally recreating the moment from Scream where the characters in the news van see Ghostface snea

king up behind Randy. –[Kenny] Behind you kid! –[Sidney] Randy! – This time it’s Dewey, concerned about Gale. –[Dewey] Gale! Gale behind you! – This is more than just a nostalgic callback though, it also sets up a scene later where Robbie puts his headset on backwards. We’re expecting Ghostface to appear behind him, so it’s more of a surprise when the killer ends up being right in front of him, just another example of this movie’s mission to do the unexpected. That also includes the film’s endin

g. We are led to believe that it will end at the party, just like the original, but… –[Charlie] This is what the reboots do, they one-up the original ending. –[Kirby] The Woodsboro Murders ended at a party. So in the remake… –[Charlie] The party’s the false ending. New rules. – However, this also ends up being a false ending, the true ending takes place at the hospital. Just as there were two false openings, there are also two false endings. This is also something that happens in the Halloween r

emake. The original ends at the Doyle house, but the remake continues on and ends at the Myers house. There are probably other examples of remakes in the 2000s doing this though. So in this case, we have the quote unquote remake continuing on past the original. Whereas, in the 90s, if you wanted to continue past the original, you had to watch Scream 2, which contains a scene of a character named Cici watching the movie Nosferatu, and getting killed shortly after. For this reason, I find it fitti

ng that Kirby’s room displays a Nosferatu poster, but who knows if there was any actual meaning behind this choice, it’s kind of a stretch on my part to make that connection. However, I am convinced that the wardrobe choices were definitely done for a reason. I talked before about how each character in Scre4m represents one of the characters from Scream. However, after the reveal of the killers, all of those roles are reassigned. Jill is now Billy, the mastermind behind the murders. Charlie is s

till Stu, the accomplice hoping to vent his romantic frustrations with a knife. Trevor is now Neil Prescott, the tied up victim who is going to be framed. So it’s no mistake that Jill is wearing a blue plaid shirt, just like what Billy wore at the party, and Trevor is wearing this exact outfit that Neil was captured in back in 1996. Other callbacks include Sidney escaping off the roof, Charlie being tied to a chair like Steve Orth, Kirby being quizzed on horror movies like Casey Becker, and of c

ourse, this iconic line. –[Jill] Hello Sidney. Surprised? –[Mickey] Surprise, Sidney. –[Stu] Surprise, Sidney. – I imagine she’s getting tired of hearing that. In my personal opinion, Scre4m was one of the more satisfying surprises though, which makes all the clues about the killers’ identities all the more impressive. ♪ Upbeat Music ♪ Upon rewatching the movie, I noticed that while Jill and Charlie pretend they aren’t particularly close, they do sit next to each other in class, and Jill is the

only one not to take out her phone when everyone is getting alerts about Jenny and Marnie, though I’m not sure why she doesn’t at least pretend to be interested. On a somewhat related note, fellow Zac and fellow horror creator Zack Cherry pointed out in his video that Sidney doesn’t appear to have a cell phone in this movie. She receives calls on Jill’s cell and on the Roberts’ landline, and after arriving at Kirby’s she borrows Jill’s phone to place an outgoing call to Dewey to plea for help. T

his is probably because Sidney is tired of all the prank calls and doesn’t want to give any future copycat killers a means of contacting her, it’s a nice touch. Mr. Cherry also attributes a lot of the kills to Charlie, which many were surprised by, but I personally think it kind of makes sense. Jill would have wanted to set it up that way because of the fact that they’re recording all of the kills and the fact that she’s secretly planning to frame Charlie as the one of the killers alongside Trev

or. It stands to reason that the police would probably study these videos, and take note of the killer’s height and broad shoulders. Charlie might also be the most forceful Ghostface we’ve seen. Check this out. (woman wimpering) When I analyzed Scream 1, I mentioned that the poster in Stu’s room matched a poster displayed in the video store, and that this linked his character to the movie obsessed killer. A similar tactic is used here. Jill’s room is filled with clues. This Farewell Republic pos

ter and this… uhh, I don’t know, reverse Griffon?... are both posters seen hanging in the Cinema Club. I will mention the possibility that there is actually no meaning behind that. They could have just reused posters and hoped nobody would notice. Because this War of The Worlds poster in Jill’s room also shows up in her English class. I can’t think of any reason they’d want to link Jill to her English classroom. So it’s very possible that the art department just ran out of posters and I’m just l

ooking for things that aren’t there. But at the very least, we can conclude that Jill is more interested in horror movies and serial killers than she likes to let on, from her American Werewolf in London poster, to her Edgar Allan Poe-ster, to her Gale Weathers books, books on psychology and serial killers and even her Fall Out Boy poster; this particular one is the cover for their single I Don’t Care, whose chorus matches her MO for the movie. “I. Don’t. Care what you think. As long as it’s abo

ut me.” This might be more happenstance, but this is also off their album Folie a Deux, which is French for madness in pairs, a term that could probably be used to describe each pair of Ghostface killers. I love this album, and I’d love to talk more about it, but this is not a music analysis channel, so let’s get back to Scre4m. After Olivia is killed, Charlie comes out of the dark to attack Sidney and Jill, and Jill receives a cut on her forearm, the same spot Derek got cut in Scream 2. –[Medic

] No struggle? He just cut you and ran away? You’re lucky he didn’t kill you. –[Dewey] Yeah, it’s awfully convenient. –[Derek] Say what? –[Dewey] Nothing, it’s just a shame he got away so easily. –[Derek] It’s just a shame you got there too late! – Of course, Derek ended up not being guilty, so Dewey would probably want to avoid making any similar accusation about Jill. When Sidney speaks to Jill the following night, she has what she thinks is a bonding moment with her cousin. – [Sidney] You kno

w when people say, ‘I know how you feel’, but they’re really just saying that because they have no freaking idea how you feel? I know how you feel. – I love that line, because in reality, Sidney has no idea how Jill feels because she doesn’t suspect her of being the killer. It’s like the sticker on the door of the Cinema Club says: Not your usual suspects. Jill claims she could never handle the attention of being the surviving victim, when in fact, that’s exactly what she wants, even if her 15 m

inutes of fame really is only 15 minutes. And finally, at Kirby’s afterparty, Trevor shows up unexpectedly, and just walks right in because the door is unlocked. – [Trevor] By the way Kirby, with everything that’s going on right now, you probably shouldn’t leave that unlocked. – [Charlie] Sorry. Charlie is not worried about locking the door because he knows there’s no threat. He and Jill are both in the room already. Scre4m would be the final legacy of director Wes Craven, but his creation would

live on without him after yet another 11 year gap with Scream (2022). Most Scream fans already know about how Scream (2022) paid tribute to Wes Craven, the director of Screams 1-4, by naming a character after him, having a house party dedicated to that character after his death, and repeating the words: “For Wes”, as the first thing we see in the end credits. What you might not have noticed was the hidden meaning behind Wes’s phone number. The “707” is just the area code for the part of Norther

n California where Woodsboro would be located, and all the Woodsboro characters have this area code, but “1939” refers to the year Wes Craven was born. We actually see Craven’s birthday come up again later during the YouTube video about Stab (2021). The channel’s subscriber count is 821,939, which could be read as 8/2/1939. Under the American date format of month, day, year, this represents August 2, 1939, the day Wes Craven was born. This page contains a lot of other easter eggs, including othe

r hidden dates in the numbers. To learn about many classic cameos, secrets on tattoos and meanings behind names on cell phones, stick around to the end of this video. ♪ Metal Music ♪ Welcome to Things You Missed. When I heard there was going to be a new Scream movie, I was hoping that the franchise would come back to tackle the phenomenon of requels, like Halloween (2018), Jurassic World and Candyman (2021). Then, I started watching Scream (2022) and realized, oh yeah, Scre4m already was a reque

l. Also, I generally don’t really like requels. But what I do like about them though, is that they’re basically easter nests. What do I mean by that? A nest is somewhere you might find a lot of eggs. In this case easter eggs, as in the hidden secrets found in contemporary media. One of my favorite things to analyze on Things You Missed. So let’s get in to the Things You Missed. ♪ Mysterious Music ♪ Each entry in the Scream franchise serves as a satire of the horror genre and sometimes of media f

ranchises as a whole. As you are very aware of if you’ve seen my previous videos on Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3 and Scre4m, there are a few franchises that they like to use as a blueprint of sorts. First there’s Halloween, the movie shown in the first Scream, which served as an example of horror movie rules. Then there’s Star Wars, which was most heavily discussed in Scream 3 when the characters were trying to figure out the rules for trilogies. Finally there’s Scream, which also exists in-univer

se where it’s known as the Stab franchise. So many things that happen in Scream (2022), from bigger plot points to little moments, are callbacks to things that have happened in the Scream franchise, which is also fitting for a requel, because these movies often share the same concept of: “it’s happening again.” So for the third time in franchise history, it starts with a phone ringing, then a female picking it up and speaking to an anonymous caller, then she starts playing with a knife block, th

en she gets attacked by Ghostface, and then she kicks her attacker in an attempt to escape. Then in a parallel to Scream 1, a group of friends discusses the attack the next day while sitting outside of Woodsboro High School while eating grapes. We find out boyfriend and girlfriend Chad and Liv aren’t sleeping together, like Sidney and Billy in Scream; an announcement from the high school principal cancels classes, just like in Scream. But did you notice who the new principal was? – [Principal] A

ttention, Panthers. A reminder that all classes and school activities are canceled tomorrow due to public safety concerns. – According to executive producer Chad Villela, in this interview with Bloody Disgusting, that was a voice cameo from Drew Barrymore, who is known for playing Casey Becker in the original Scream. There are many other voice cameos present in the movie. Most of them can be heard during Amber’s party. The first comes from Matthew Lillard, who played Stu in Scream. –[Party Guy]

Hey Freeman, cool house! – Fitting, considering that this is Stu’s old house. Several cameo voices overlap when the guests make a toast to the character Wes. – [Chad] Hey. To Wes! – [crowd] To Wes! – The article states that many people who knew Wes Craven contributed voices for this line, including 3 Scream actors: Henry Winkler, who played Principal Himbry, Adam Brody, who played Officer Hoss in Scre4m and Hayden Panettiere, who played Kirby. Co-director Tyler Gillett added that Jamie Kennedy,

who played Randy in the original Scream trilogy, contributed this line: –[Jamie] Somebody’s goofy ass dad is kicking us out. – …which he actually says right while his character is delivering his lines in Stab, which is playing on the TV, where we can see another cameo. Co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin revealed that he plays the on-screen Michael Myers in the movie-within-the-movie-within-the-movie. Maybe we should stop calling it Scream and start calling it Shrek because this thing has got laye

rs. Speaking of Halloween, there’s also a reference to its director. – [Sam] My name is Samantha Carpenter. – This is an homage to Halloween director John Carpenter. Or possibly Wes Carpenter. – [Tatum] Don't go there Sid, you're starting to sound like some Wes Carpenter flick or something. – The new directors for Scream (2022) went a little crazy with references to Wes Craven’s body of work, starting with Sidney Prescott’s address. – [Tara] Sidney Prescott! It’s Sidney Prescott and she lived on

Elm. Although it was mentioned in the original script, I don’t think that Sid’s street address was ever brought up in the first movie. But Elm is a reference to Elm Street, from Wes Craven’s famous franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street. We actually see the Elm Street intersection later when Sam and Richie roll into town. Then, when we’re reintroduced to Dewey, you can see the list of his cell phone contacts if you pause at the right moment. One of his contacts is “Kristy” which is probably a ref

erence to Kristy Parker from A Nightmare on Elm St 3 and 4. Kristy is played by Patricia Arquette, the real life sister of Dewey's actor: David Arquette. Also of note in Dewey’s list of contacts is B Miska. Which is a nod to Brad Miska, the owner of horror movie news website Bloody Disgusting, which may explain why they have all these exclusive interviews with the directors and producers, which I keep referencing. During the YouTube scene later on, the related videos panel also suggests an uploa

d from the Bloody Disgusting channel; another exclusive interview, but we’ll get to that later. Under B Miska, keeping up with the theme of internet horror personalities is Mr. Morris. That’s me, Zac Morris. You might be thinking, no it’s just the father of Olivia Morris from Scre4m. But no. She doesn’t have a father. – [Kirby] Your mom home? – [Olivia] She’s at her boyfriend’s. – So it must be talking about me. If Dead Meat gets to be in it, I get to be in it too, damnit! Another one of Dewey’s

contacts is Judy, which is probably just Judy Hicks, his old deputy at the police station. I was thinking it’s kind of a shame that he never got with her after he split up with Gale, but who knows, maybe he did. Actually, now that I think about it, she must have already had a kid by the time she was hitting on Dewey in Scre4m so… that’s weird. We actually see her list of contacts too, and you can spot more Wes Craven related homages. Tina G represents Tina Gray from the original Nightmare on El

m Street. Leroy is a character from Craven’s 1991 film, The People Under The Stairs. Nancy T, of course, is Nancy Thompson, the main girl from A Nightmare on Elm Street. B Adams is Brandon Adams, the actor who played Fool in The People Under The Stairs. Under her son, there are three deputies listed. Deputy Vinson and Deputy Farney are actual characters in the movie. Deputy Keith is not, I’m guessing this is a crew reference easter egg, because the movie’s production designer is named Chad Keith

. For all the Wes Craven related easter eggs, it seems like there’s only one easter egg related to Kevin Williamson, the screenwriter of Screams 1, 2 and 4. It comes when Tara is in the hospital watching an episode of Dawson’s Creek. This is Season 1 Episode 11: The Scare, which was written by Williamson, and the episode itself is kind of spoof of the original Scream. Like I said: there are a lot of layers to this. We’re not done with the Wes Craven easter eggs though. I’ll be continuing to anal

yze those, and Richie’s big slip up, that would have given him away as the killer if only his girlfriend had noticed. (impact) ♪ Dreadful Music ♪ Throughout the movie, we see a couple of memorials to past characters. Dewey has a box dedicated to his sister, Tatum; and Martha has a home theater dedicated to her brother, Randy. On the mantle there’s also a photo of a movie theater marquee with three movies playing: A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes and Last House on the Left -- all We

s Craven directed films. Sam Carpenter is essentially the new Sidney Prescott in this movie. Much like Sidney’s father in the original, we learn Sam’s mom is out of town. Both of their mothers are cheaters, and both characters have some psychological issues caused by Billy Loomis -- Sidney because Billy killed her mother, and Sam because Billy is her real father. Throughout the series I’ve discussed how Sidney shares similarities with Halloween’s protagonist Laurie Strode. Sam takes after her as

well. Laurie was a babysitter in the original Halloween, and it turns out Sam has some experience in childcare as well. – [Sam] There are Chad and Mindy, the twins. And Wes. I used to babysit them all. – The first victim to die this time around is Vince, who we eventually learn to be Stu Macher’s nephew. In a requel, everyone has to have some dumb reason to be related to legacy characters. There’s actually a little clue about this in the opening scene, where Tara looks up the cast of the origin

al Stab on her phone. There’s a new addition here, a cast member who wasn’t specified back in Scream 2, and that is Vince Vaughn playing the role of Stu Macher. So the names Vince and Stu are kind of linked from the beginning. There’s also a detail on the hood of Vince’s car. Not only a movie detail, but like an actual car detail. The words: Six Pack are written there, perhaps a hint that we’ll be seeing a sixth movie. Also this guy parked in front of him is parked in front of a fire hydrant. Co

me on man, the cops are right there. Vince also has a Jason tattoo. This is probably a red herring to make the audience think he might be the killer, considering the line Richie had earlier. –[Richie] And I gotta make sure we don’t get sliced up by some lunatic who saw Friday the 13th and thought, ‘you know what? That Jason guy, he’s got some pretty solid ideas.’ – Of course, Vince ends up being a victim, not a killer. During his death scene, we hear the song Red Right Hand, which appeared in ev

ery Scream movie besides Scre4m, so it’s good to see it back on rotation here. Ghostface actually takes out Vince with his own switchblade, not the usual Ghostface knife. I’m guessing this is just another red herring though, to make it look like Vince was somehow connected. Finally after like 35 minutes, we see Sidney Prescott. She’s a runner now, which seems like a reasonable hobby after a lifetime of being chased by psychopaths, and she finally owns a cell phone. She never had one in Scre4m, b

ut seeing as how that didn’t prevent her from being targeted by the next Ghostface, she probably decided to just cave in and get one. Dewey mentions that she’s married to someone named Mark. There is a Mark in the Scream franchise, that is, Detective Mark Kincaid, the cop from Scream 3 who weirdly came back to her house and watched movies with the trio at the end. One of the Bloody Disgusting articles I mentioned earlier addresses this; the executive producer confirms that Sidney’s husband is in

deed Mark Kincaid. I can’t say this fully makes sense to me, because where was he in Scre4m and where is he now? And why is Sidney’s name still Sidney Prescott? I’m guessing she still wanted to take advantage of the notoriety of her name for her career as an author. The original Scream featured a scene known as the video store scene, where Randy speculates on who the killer might be. Every subsequent sequel so far has had its own version of the video store scene. This time, it’s the Randy Meeks

Memorial Theater scene, and Mindy, the new Randy, fills the gang in on her ideas about who might be guilty. At one point during this scene, Dewey refers to Stu Macher as “A real Looney Tune.” This may be a reference to the fact that Stu was in the 2003 movie: Looney Tunes: Back in Action, where he plays himself, Matthew Lillard arguing, with Shaggy (also voiced by Lillard) about the quality of his performance in Scooby-Doo: The Movie; a scene probably meta enough to be in a Scream movie, if we’r

e being honest. In the background, there’s a Vertigo poster. This is now the third Scream movie in a row to reference Vertigo, starting with Sarah’s line in Scream 3, and this poster in Scre4m. Vertigo is directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who borderline invented the slasher genre with his movie: Psycho. Psycho has been referenced in every Scream movie, and that continues here, with this poster, Amber imitating the Psycho soundtrack as she gestures her knife… –[Amber] Ee, ee, ee! – …One of the Ghostf

ace killers even directly cites the movie this time around. – [Killer] Ever seen the movie Psycho? – And then we cut directly to this shot, where Wes is taking a shower. It’s the same camera angle used in the shower scene from Psycho and subsequently, the shower scene from Stab in the second Scream. The next character to die is Wes. As I mentioned, he gets out of the shower and explores around downstairs. In the kitchen there’s a note from his mom. “Wes, Lemon squares in the fridge. ♥ Mom”. This

is a callback to Judy’s famous lemon squares, which she made for Dewey in Scre4m. – [Judy] Sheriff, you’re not cheatin’ on your wife if you eat my lemon square. – The ones that Gale found disgusting. – [Gale] Your lemon squares taste like ***. Speaking of whom, she returns to the story by stepping out of this KQIS 6 news van. It’s the same station that Gale worked for in Scream, but ever since then, she’s worked other jobs such as uptodate, 60 Minutes II, Total Entertainment, and she even went

rogue for a while. Seeing her back at her original station is exactly the choice you’d expect from a requel looking not to upset the status quo. At this point, Dewey and Gale are divorced, an event we already saw brewing in Scre4m, but it sounds like their divorce went exactly like their break-up in between Scream 2 and Scream 3: Gale gets an important job opportunity in a big city and the two can’t make it work long distance. Dewey belongs in Woodsboro, Gale belongs in a big city reporter job.

Once again, history seems to be repeating itself with these two. Despite Gale being back in her old job, the underlying theme about the media and its effect on real world violence is not as present in the new Scream like it was in the first four movies. We do get a little bit of discourse about the entertainment news industry at the end, where Richie seems to imply he was driven to the brink partly by the media blaming the fans for the poor reception of the new Stab movie, but I see that as just

one aspect of a bigger conversation around this idea of toxic fandom. So what is toxic fandom? Is it real? Is it a problem? Should we be worried about it? The most agreed upon definition reads: When a person believes they have the only correct way of appreciating certain content. They will attack other fans that disagree with them even if they are discussing a topic the toxic fan knows little about or has only heard from second-hand sources. I will add that it seems that “toxic fandom” has also

become a buzzword used by journalists or salty creators to try to get clicks and sway a narrative. For example, let’s say a new movie from a popular franchise comes out and it’s bad. Those involved might soon be crying about “toxic fandom” to try to make all criticisms look invalid. I’m sure there are fans in those cases who dislike that new movie merely because it does not fit their belief about what that franchise should be like, but that does not make the entire fandom toxic, and it shouldn’

t invalidate good criticisms based on the quality of the work. So is it a problem, should we be worried about it? At the end of the day, it’s all online discourse. There’s no reason to take it that seriously. I feel like I can offer a unique perspective here as someone who is both a fan and a creator. As a fan, I try to separate my bias from my critique. For example, I don’t really like the concept of Toy Story 4, because I think the third was such a perfect ending. But I don’t think it’s a bad

movie. I recognize that it’s well made for what it is. But when something is bad, I think it’s important to be vocal about it in a constructive way. As a fan, it shows that you care, and a good creator will take quality criticism into account for future work. As a creator, you have to be able to separate good criticism from comments by those who were never going to like your content in the first place. And that brings us to my favorite cameo in the movie, the Dead Meat cameo, and this webpage ha

s more hidden content than you could possibly imagine. (impact) ♪ Intense Music ♪ For those unaware, the couple behind the “Film Fails” channel, which Richie can be seen watching on his laptop, is actually James A Janisse and his wife, Chelsea -- the hosts of YouTube biggest horror movie channel, Dead Meat, who we can actually see a real upload from in the recommended bar on the right. It struck me as strange that they would use a made-up brand for their channel, because this is a Scream movie.

All of the movies and shows referenced tend to be real movies and shows from our world, the only exception being Stab, which is a stand-in for a real franchise: the Scream franchise. I figured I might as well go straight to the source on this one, because I can, so I asked James why that might be. This is what he had to say: “Mostly cause we're being a-holes in it. It's a parody of more toxic YouTube channels that cover movies, it's not meant to be us or Dead Meat.” I think this is a great answe

r, because it fits right in with what I was saying earlier about toxic fandom. These Film Fails characters aren’t saying anything constructive about the movie, they’re basically just pouting that it’s not the Stab that they know and are comfortable with. And when I think more about it, there is precedent for this. Sunrise Studios doesn’t exist, it was just a parody of a predatory movie studio. KQIS 6 doesn’t exist either, it’s a parody of bloodthirsty journalism. Film Fails, more specifically, s

eems to parody YouTube channels that screeched about Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017, judging by that Dead Meat upload on the side: “Rian Johnson on Reinventing Stab”. Rian Johnson was the director of that very heavily debated Star Wars title, and was often the target of that vitriol from fans and content creators. I’m sure there are many people that would like you to believe that The Last Jedi was divisive or controversial, but if you actually look at the ratings, most people found it to be ve

ry average. I already talked about Film Fails’s subscriber count being Wes Craven’s birthday, but the view count is also significant. It has 122,096 views; 12/20/96. December 20th, 1996 was the release date of the original Scream. Then there’s the like to dislike ratio. It has 1,117 likes and 20 dislikes; 11/17/20 or November 17th, 2020 was the day that production wrapped on Scream 2022. Thanks to Richie for using the Return YouTube Dislike extension so we could see that one. On the side, there’

s a video from Bloody Disgusting’s YouTube channel that I mentioned earlier. It’s titled: “Interview with Woodsboro Survivor Kirby Reed!” Kirby was a major character in the fourth movie, and up until now, we were lead to believe that she didn’t make it, so this is actually big news! The fourth video is called “Not My STAB! Join the StabHead Army and #RedoStab2021!!” and it’s uploaded by a channel called StabHead. There’s a bit of a story behind this, so grab some popcorn. Dreadit is the name of

the horror movie community on Reddit. Mindy actually mentions it when she’s explaining the fan contempt for Stab 8. –[Mindy] You go on 4chan and Dreadit, all they’re talking about is how Stab 8 pissed on their childhoods. – To promote Scream (2022)’s release, the team behind the movie held an ask-me-anything session on Dreadit. One user, named StabHead asked, “Did any of the actors go above and beyond to prepare for their roles?” Their reply said: “We were meeting with Jack to talk about his cha

racter and he told us that he had created a Reddit account under the name StabHead to… ...wait a minute… WE LOVE YOU JACK QUAID!!!” Necessary information: Jack Quaid is the actor who played Richie, the second Ghostface killer. The account shows him commenting on topics like Halloween, The Last Jedi, and of course, Scream. So the way I see it, StabHead is actually Richie’s online persona. He was the one to create this channel and upload this video. Amber even mentions during the finale that she m

et Richie on the Stab subreddit. Under the StabHead upload, there’s one more video of importance. “Did the real-life Stu Macher survive?” As I mentioned in my Scream 3 video, the original plan for that movie was to have Stu return as the villain, but since this was right after Columbine, producers decided it was not the best idea to have a high school revenge seeker right now. But this video title suggests that maybe having Stu return in the future is not yet out of the question. If he is alive,

he’s been in prison for about 25 years now. Although Stu himself isn’t in the movie, his actor has yet another vocal cameo here as the voice of the new silver-faced Ghostface. –[Matthew] This sh*t is lit! – One of the common complaints about the new Ghostface in Stab (2021) is his new weapon: a flamethrower. Ironically, the new Ghostface in this movie ends up getting herself lit on fire. The link to Film Fails’s merch store is hastaelfuego.org -- Spanish for until the fire, which could also be

a clue about Amber’s fate. When she has her one last scare moment at the end, she’s covered in burn scars, very reminiscent of Freddy Krueger. You can bet that that was by design. About mid-way through the film, the deaths of Judy and Wes are discovered, and Sam realizes her sister may be in trouble at the hospital, so she gives Richie a call to check on her, and hears an unexpected voice on the other line. –[caller] Hello Samantha. Richie can’t come to the phone right now. He’s finding out what

happens to people who stick their noses in business that doesn’t concern them. – It reminds me of Jigsaw re-recording Daniel Matthews voicemail greeting in Saw 2. – [Jigsaw] You’ve reached Daniel's phone. He is not in right now. – I love a good horror movie voicemail greeting. If this was the fourth movie, which had a lot of Saw references, this might be an intentional nod to Saw, but this is the fifth movie, which focuses more on the so-called “elevated horror” genre. For example, Tara’s favor

ite movie is the The Babadook and she begs to be quizzed on the gems of the mid-to-late 10s. – [Tara] Ask me about It Follows. Ask me about Hereditary. Ask me about The VVitch. – She’s got really good taste! She describes elevated horror as being “scary but with complex emotional and thematic underpinnings”, not just cheesy jump scares, which Richie, as a fan of Stab, isn’t thrilled with. – [caller] Sounds kind of boring to me. – And in the Home Theater scene, Stab’s slasher stylings and “elevat

ed horror” are painted to be opposites. A major reason cited for fans not liking the newest Stab movie was the “crammed in social commentary”. So Richie was upset that his favorite franchise was trying to ride the trendy wave of elevated horror, and set out to craft his own entry more in line with the original by doing a requel. The huge gaping question that leaves is: isn’t that exactly what Jill already tried to do? And yes, it is, the only difference was their motivations. Jill did it for fam

e, but Richie and Amber just wanted to motivate the creation of another Stab movie -- it doesn’t seem like being the star was as important to them. Even if we are to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that these killers are an homage to Scre4m, rather than copying it, there are still a couple of details necessary to make it make sense, which I didn’t fully realize on my first viewing. The first is that there is no Stab movie based on Scre4m. If there was, Richie and Amber probably wouldn

’t have felt the need to make a new one. At the time of Scre4m there are 7 Stab movies, and in this movie, there’s only one new one, hence the #RedoStab8. Then, there’s the fact that the original Scream, and really all the Scream movies do feature some kind of social commentary -- which I’ve taken time to discuss in each of my Things You Missed™ videos. So why would Richie be upset about the new Stab having social commentary? This is because in the Scream universe, the Stab movies are considered

non-fiction. Nobody is making up the plot, so nothing that happens qualifies as commentary. –[Richie] Because that’s how you make a great Stab movie, Sam. “Based on actual events”. – And this ties right back into the theme of toxic fandom: Richie believes each Stab movie must be like the original. That’s why there are so many repeated elements from the original Scream. Like when Tara is trying to defend herself at the hospital. (Tara grunts) –[Richie] Ow! Ahh! God dammnit. Did you hit me with a

phone? –[Tara] LOOKOUT! – Must have been thrilling for Richie to be reliving events from the original Stab. – [Sidney] You’ve gotta find me first you pansy-*** momma’s boy! – [Billy] **** – [Stu] You ****ing hit me with a phone, ****. – In some cases lines are nearly lifted directly from a previous movie. – [caller] You think you're still the star. – [Sidney] This isn't a f*cking movie! – [caller] It will be. – [Sam] This isn’t a f*cking movie. – [Richie] No, but it will be… – The final act fea

tures plenty more references, some of which you might have noticed, but you probably missed this tiny detail, which was the reason Mindy was able to survive where others did not. –[Amber] Welcome to Act 3. –[Richie] RUN! (impact) ♪ Suspenseful Music ♪ – Before we get to the final act, let’s talk about Dewey. His fatal mistake is shooting Amber’s bulletproof armor rather than hitting her in the head. He realizes it a little too late. In Scream 3 he makes the same mistake with Roman, but Sidney is

there to remind him to aim for the head. This time she isn’t, and Dewey pays the price. Given Dewey’s ability to survive seemingly fatal blows in the past, I wasn’t convinced that he was really done for this time. We’ve seen this scene before. However, the more I look at it, the more I think he really might be gone this time. He’s being taken to the coroner this time, not the ambulance. I doubt the coroner would be called unless some medical professional was really sure that he was dead. – [Amb

er] Dewey had to die to make it real. To show that this wasn’t just some bullsh*t, cash-in, run of the mill sequel. – Well, this is awkward. It also fits the blueprint of a requel. When the cast is talking about requels, Mindy brings up Star Wars: The Force Awakens as an example. There will be spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens here, so if you don’t want to hear them, skip forward to the next chapter. The Force Awakens is all about passing the torch to a new set of characters. Luke, Leia

and Han are passing it off to Rey, Fin and Poe. This is accentuated by the death of a legacy character: Han Solo. So Scream (2022) is doing the same here by killing off Dewey as the torch is passed from Sidney, Dewey and Gale to Sam, Tara, Mindy and Chad. And just as The Force Awakens brought back familiar locations like The Millenium Falcon and The Starkiller, which is basically The Death Star, Scream (2022) brings back the Macher household, which plays host to another party, which is probably

the most tasteless thing ever, considering it’s supposedly supposed to honor their friend Wes, but it looks like a typical college party. I guess it’s kind of fitting though, considering the existence of this movie. Here we see a few more callbacks. The basement fridge is the new garage fridge. –[Robert] Not many people have basements in California. – Richie is wearing a blue plaid shirt, just like former Woodsboro killers Billy Loomis and Jill Roberts. When Sidney arrives, the first door she ch

ecks behind is the same one she hid inside when she donned the Ghostface mask in the original Scream. Perhaps the most obvious repeat is the infamous, “look behind you” scene, which we’ve seen play out in various forms across most Scream movies. Mindy is the new Randy, so fittingly, she’s the one being snuck up on, but unlike Randy, she realizes it and attempts to get out of the way. This is partially because she knows she’s in a movie and she might be a little bit sharper than Randy, but there’

s also an important clue in Stab. There are a couple of VHS tapes on the table behind Stab Randy. I think the top one might be The People Under Stairs, another Wes Craven reference, and I’m having a hard time making out what the bottom one is, let me know if you recognize it. But look directly below the TV she’s watching on, and you’ll see the same three VHS tapes, two of which are the same two on the table behind Randy. There’s a slightly better look a bit later, when Sam is tending to Mindy’s

injuries, it’s definitely the same two tapes. Mindy, by the way, does survive, which could be related to this little line from Scre4m. – [Charlie] In fact, the only surefire way to survive a modern horror movie, you pretty much have to be gay. – [Zac] It also helps to be the daughter of a serial killer, as it turns out. She may be related to Billy Loomis, but Sam wipes off her knife a lot more like Stu Macher. Now before I get into the ending, and my views on what this really means for the franc

hise, I’ve got to go over all the evidence seen throughout the film that proves who the killers really were, as I have at the end of each of my Scream analysis videos. So let’s take it back one more time to the start. In the opening, Tara invites Amber to come over, mentioning that her Mom was out of town. Amber and Richie were probably waiting for an opportunity like this and used it to decide that this would be the night they strike. When Tara starts receiving concerning phone calls, she gets

a text from Amber, which says “you should answer it.” The caller explains that Amber’s phone was cloned and no one really questions it. But the easier and correct explanation is that Amber was just the killer, using her own phone. When Sam gets a Ghostface call at the hospital, it’s also from Amber’s phone. Amber and Richie have to act like they are meeting for the first time. We see her look at him very lustfully, which makes more sense now knowing that they are secretly a couple. Sam is attack

ed at the hospital at the same time Amber was being questioned by Hicks at the police station, which means this one must have been Richie. This is the same old trick used to get Billy Loomis off the hook in Scream, get Roman off the hook in Scream 3. When are they gonna learn that there are always multiple killers? Then there’s the scene where Dewey correctly predicts a killer by accusing Richie. This is just like Randy in the original Scream, his first guess is Billy, and it’s correct. –[Randy]

He’s got killer printed all over his forehead. – The most damning evidence comes after he kicks Richie and Sam out though. Listen to what Richie has to say about him. –[Richie] Jesus! Yeah he’s way more fun in the movies. – Notice the plural use of the word: movies. At this point in the story, he claims that he’s only seen one Stab movie, the original. When he and Sam were driving to Woodsboro he claimed to have no idea about the Stab movies, and in the hospital, he says he’s watching the first

one on Netflix so he can be prepared. Lucky for him, Sam doesn’t seem to notice this slip up. While it’s not necessarily evidence, I do think the fact that he spends his spare time watching vitriol about Stab (2021) kind of telling about where his interests lie, even if his reasoning is that he’s trying to learn about the franchise. Later on, during the second attack at the hospital, Amber cuts Richie in the forearm. We saw this in Scre4m, where Jill was cut in the same spot by her fellow accom

plice as a way to deflect suspicion away from her. In my previous video, I labeled this as a nod to Scream 2, where Derek is cut in the forearm, and Dewey finds it suspicious because the cut conveniently missed major arteries. Despite some of the well hidden evidence I mentioned, I found these killers to be pretty obvious. Perhaps the fact that they are so similar to the killers from the last movie made them stand out a little bit more. We close with the same pull out shot of a news anchor givin

g a report in front of the house, but this time it is not Gale Weathers. Like the main characters and the filmmakers, the news anchor microphone has been passed down to the next generation. At the end, over the dedication to the series’ late former director, we hear a bird call. (whip-poor-will call) It links back to all the bird artwork seen in Amber’s house. It’s all part of one last tribute to Scream’s iconic director, Wes Craven, who, in his spare time, was an avid birdwatcher. The sound at

the end of Scream (2022) is the call of the whip-poor-will, a sound effect that Craven has actually used a few times in his films. In this 2008 interview in the bird enthusiast magazine Audubon, he explains how he has used bird sounds as a sort of orchestration in his work. “I’ve used the whip-poor-will a few times, probably inappropriately, but it’s such a haunting sound, and I do remember the sound from being a kid in the woods of Ohio and on camping trips. But yeah, I think they’re used a lot

in Hollywood. I would be the first to confess that accuracy is probably not the first motivation.” We get a quick flash of someone in a Ghostface mask wiping off a knife before the credits roll, maybe an homage to the quick scares seen before the credits of Scream (stinger) and in Scream 2 (knives slashing and screaming) No such scare occurs in Scream 3 or 4. To me, the implication is that seeing a new Ghostface right before the end credits is teasing a sequel. We don’t see it in 3 because Roma

n is defeated, and for now that means the end of the series. While Scream 4 was not planned to be the final movie, it was the end of that era of Scream and there’s nothing in the story that prevents the fourth movie from being the final chapter, unlike Scream 1, which specifically has a line about how there’s gotta be a sequel, and Scream 2, which specifically has a line suggesting that it’s a trilogy. So the quick flash of Ghostface at the end of Scream (2022), to me, is the directors’ way of t

elling us they planned for a sequel, and with a sixth movie being given the go-ahead before the fifth was even globally released, it seems likely the next chapter was planned and will tie in nicely with the material in the 2022 offering. (IMPACT) Towards the end of Scream VI, we see a quick shot of the contacts list on Sam's phone, one of which is Kristy. In my Scream 2022 video, I pointed out the Easter eggs hidden in the contacts on Dewey's phone and the meaning behind Kristy and the other nam

es listed. So this is our clue to be on the lookout for references again. So let's go through her contacts. Tara is her sister, the Jenna Ortega character. But Meyer is the son of Scream VI producer William Sherak. The next name is Eloise. She's the daughter of William Sherak. The next name after that is Niky. The fifth and 6th Scream were directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett who did a segment in the anthology horror film VHS where one of the characters is named Niky. I'm not sure

about River, it's too common of a word to search, but I did figure out that Eileen is Eileen Jones, the wife of Tyler Gillett. Mindy and Chad are the twins from the movie. Sidney is the main protagonist of the franchise who isn't in this one. Jay is the film's editor. Jay Prychidny, and T Ferg is the post production assistant, Tyler Ferguson. I wasn't able to find a Minnie, and Rebecca could refer to several people. But that's just a taste of the level of detail that this movie's secrets have t

o offer. If you want to know the Scream origins of every single prop in the movie theater shrine, all of the costume references on the subway train and info hidden in hard to find places, stick around to the end of this video. Welcome to Things You Missed. Just one year after the franchise was revived with Scream 2022, the next sequel would already be released, mirroring the quick turnaround from the original Scream in 1996 to Scream 2 in 1997. This would be our first of many clues that Scream V

I was going to be a requel of Scream 2 in the same way that the last movie was a recall of the original. For the third movie in a row, they changed the naming convention of the title. The fourth movie moved the number inside the word Scream, which was cool. Everybody likes it when I call it Scre4m. It's not annoying, and nobody leaves angry comments about that at all. The fifth could have gone with 5cream, but instead it just decided to call it Scream to fit the meta of recalls at the time, like

Halloween and Candy Man. I guess Scream VI was trying to do the best of both worlds by doing the standalone title, but also having the number in the M on the poster, which means they had to switch to Roman numerals. It reminds me of the Jak franchise. The first game was Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. Then Jak II switches to Roman numerals. Jack 3 used Arabic numerals, but then the fourth one was called Jax X, but it wasn't the Roman numeral X, it was just the letter X. Anyway, I'm gettin

g off topic. Let's cut in to the Things You Missed. ♪ Ominous Music ♪ The first thing I'm going to talk about is how similar this movie is to Scream 2. While the characters do point this out themselves -[Sam]Stab 2 took place in college. -[Tara] So do we think that the killer is trying to copy the movies? It goes much deeper than you might have realized. In addition to the college setting, one of the five Ghostface killers in this movie, Jason, is introduced in the opening where we find out that

he's a student in a class about 20th century slashers. Just like the killer in Scream 2, Mickey is introduced in the college film class discussing the Stab movie. Both movies feature a main character who's dealing with newfound fame after surviving murders the previous year. When a new string of crimes begins, they're both given special police protection. Each has a new boyfriend who's very suspicious but not guilty. When we're reintroduced to Tara, she's on her way to a party -[Tara]She went t

o the Omega Kappa Beta party. It's the same fraternity that Derek belonged to in Scream 2. We even briefly see their coat of arms that matches the necklace that Derek gave Sidney. At the party, we learned that Tara is considering joining sorority called Omega Beta Zeta. -[Frat Guy] You omega beta zeta. -[Tara] No, not yet. Which is the same one that CiCi Cooper was a part of in 1997. Speaking of CiCi Cooper, she doesn't last long in the movie, getting stabbed and thrown off the top of that soror

ity house. She has a counterpart in Scream VI, Anika who gets stabbed and tossed from the ladder she's trying to escape on. I don't know why Danny just has a huge ladder in his NYC apartment. Maybe he saw Nerve and was inspired. Tara later explains that the Core Four moved to New York for summer semester, very similar to how Sidney and Randy moved to Ohio mid-school year to escape their own trauma in Woodsboro. While Scream 2 was set in Ohio, the college that they filmed at was in Atlanta. Atlan

ta is mentioned several times in Scream VI. It's the place where Jason and Greg first met in middle school and Kirby works for the FBI's Atlanta field office. Could be a coincidence, or maybe an intentional connection. Kirby, by the way, has a scar from where Charlie stabbed her in Scre4m. She gets stabbed there again at the end of Scream VI, but lives. The same way that Dewey survived in Scream 2. -[Paramedic] Knife went into most scar tissue. Saved his life. The same thing seems to happen to G

ale Weathers. In Scre4m, she got it in the shoulder and that's where the new Ghostface gets her again in Six, and she manages to survive. After Sam and Tara survive the first attack, Gale Weathers comes investigating and the franchise tradition of her getting punched in the face by the victim continues. If you look at the reaction of the cameraman, it's the same look of surprise seen on the face of Joel, her camera guy in Scream 2. – ♪ Yes I got that on film! ♪ The reason Gale got punched was be

cause Sam was unhappy with her portrayal in Gale's latest Book. -[Sam] You called me unstable and a born killer. -[Gale] That's taken out of context. -[Sam] That's literally a quote. which mirrors Dewey's frustrations with his portrayal in the Woodsboro Murders book. He, too, supplies her with actual citations. -[Dewey] Page 41. As I mentioned, the first death out of the main cast is Anika, and she's wearing the same green jacket that Randy wore when he became a Ghostface victim in the second mo

vie. There's also another reference to Randy when they're walking through the park, trying to keep Ghostface on the line. And this similarity is called out by Mindy. -[Mindy] This is exactly how our Uncle Randy died. However, the person in danger here is actually Gale, who is at home. During her call with the killer, she tries to locate him by hanging up and calling back. This is also a reference to Scream 2. -[Maureen] Hang the phone up as *69 his ***. Damn. The finale of each film takes place

in a theater where all is revealed. At one point, Sam grabs a brick to defend herself with, which honors the method by which Sidney tried to defeat Billy's mother, crushing her with a pile of bricks. Quinn reveals herself as the final killer. -[Quinn] Hey my roomies. You didn’t see that one coming, did you? Actually, I did. Billy and Roman already tried faking their deaths, so it wasn't a huge surprise. More importantly, her line is almost identical to what Mickey said after the reveal of Billy'

s mother. -[Roman] Nice twist, huh? Didn't see it coming, did ya? Like in Scream 2, the main Ghostface the parent of the antagonist from the previous movie, out for revenge against their son's killer. The accomplice, or in this case, the accomplices are enrolled at the university, their education being funded by the other Ghostface. In Scream 2, Sidney is saved by Cotton, someone she previously believed to be guilty. In Six, Sam and Tara are saved by Kirby, who they thought was guilty. Finally,

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er. Combine that with Detective Bailey's line after Quinn's death. -[Detective Bailey] Both my kids are gone, my whole family is gone. And that's two oddly specific references to this mysterious dead sibling. The movie honestly could have used a few red herrings to throw us off because it was obvious that this brother was significant. Add in the fact that the first Ghostface call comes from Richie Kirsch's phone, and it starts to become clear. This is the same tactic that Richie and Amber used.

When a call came in from Amber's phone, everyone assumed that the killer cloned Amber's phone number, when in reality, all they had to do was use Amber's actual phone. Detective Bailey probably got Richie's phone back after his death and just used that. One area where the movie did successfully employ a red herring was in wardrobe. Fans know at this point that at least one Ghostface killer always has a light blue shirt or flannel. In this case, it was Ethan, and while I never really suspected Ta

ra or Sam, we're forced to notice Danny wearing light blue when we literally see him put it on. Someone wearing a Ghostface mask attacks Sam and Tara outside their apartment, the same apartment where they were literally just with Quinn and Ethan. Later on, after Quinn's death is staged, her father comes out of the building with a little bit of a limp, maybe from an injury sustained when he's knocked to the floor by Samantha. And he's staring right at Samantha as he says this. -[Detective Bailey]

You f*** with my family, you die. And when Gale gets the dreaded phone call later on. It's from a 707 area code, which represents Northern California, where Woodsboro is located. That's another clue that the killer is from that area, which Richie's family most likely would be. There's also an ominous clue that isn't related to the identity of the protagonist. Sam's psychiatrist can be seen watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers which literally tells him before he becomes the next Ghostface vic

tim. As always, it's one of many horror movie references in a Scream film. Every Scream movie makes a reference to Psycho, with the last film even containing a Psycho movie poster. That continues here with this poster in Jason's apartment. He also has a Vertigo poster, another thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In addition to the first Psycho, Psycho Two is also referenced this time. –[Mindy & Kirby] Psycho II is underrated. Psycho Two also features a character getting stabbed through the mo

uth, which is exactly what Tara does to Ethan at the end. But going back to Jason, given that he's a film student and a horror fan, there are a lot of references connected to him. The reason he killed his professor in the opening sequence was because she gave him a C-minus on his Giallo paper. Giallo is an Italian murder mystery genre, a perfect counterpart to Scream. Jason's t-shirt says 4 Mosche On Velluto Grigio, which translates to four flies on the gray velvet. It's a Giallo film directed b

y Dario Argento about a rock musician who becomes entangled in a gruesome murder case. Interestingly, Jason also has an Ice Nine Kills magnet on his fridge. Ice Nine Kills is a metal band known for theming their songs around horror movies. Their 2018 album, The Silver Scream has a series of accompanying music videos with a narrative through line about a series of deaths connected to the band's frontman Spencer Charnas. So kind of similar to Four Flies on the Gray Velvet. Ice Nine Kills also did

a deluxe version of The Silver Scream, which appropriately contains a song about Scream. And no, it was not lost on me that Jason gets home and turns on a Friday the 13th movie. His full name is Jason Carvey, and Jason Voorhees, the antagonist of the Friday the 13th franchise, likes to carve up his victims. This isn't just any Friday the 13th movie, though. It's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The one where he goes to New York. Much like how Scream VI is set in New York. Jason

is not the only new character who seems to be a horror fan. Sam's psychiatrist has some merch in his office. On the desk, you can spot a lineup of horror dolls, including Gomez, Pugsley and Fester Addams, as well as Leatherface. Above the fireplace, there's also a Leatherface doll and a Ghostface doll. The defunct movie theater marquee is advertising two events. On the left, it says Jennifer Jolie Retrospective. Jennifer Jolie was the name of the actress who played Gale Weathers in Stab 3. On th

e right, it says Rocky Horror Picture Show, which connects to this guy dressed up as Frank-n-Furter from Rocky Horror on the subway. Which brings me to the next section the costumes. It's always been a pet peeve of mine in movies that take place around Halloween, when everyone is dressed in generic costumes like vampire, pirate, nurse, et cetera, because in real life, most people are dressed up as something specific, usually some kind of pop culture thing. I was glad to see Scream finally do thi

s right and some of the costumes have a deeper meaning. Like at the Omega Kappa Beta party, where we see a girl dressed as Wednesday Addams from The Addams family. Since the release of Scream 2022, the star Jenna Ortega portrayed this character in a popular adaptation known as Wednesday. Is the recycling Wednesday flyer on her fridge related to this as well? Probably not. Other party guests include someone in a striped Ghostface mask hanging with Dwight Schrute from The Office. There's also a gi

rl in the crowd wearing a number ten jersey, a reference to the top that Tatum wears in the first Scream, which is a reference to what Glen Lantz wore in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Then we've got Harry Potter, Alan from The Hangover, and Mindy Meeks, who is dressed as Stormé DeLarverie, a woman known for her part in a lesbian movement in the 1960s. That's kind of her whole entire gimmick in this movie. She's constantly advertising her homosexuality. There are even more costumes in the subway sce

ne. First, there's Grace from the 2019 movie Ready or Not, which is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Just like this movie, there's a David Bowie in the crowd and a Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise, which is significant because of how the Scream franchise is a satire primarily of the Halloween franchise. In fact, when they arrive at the train station, you can hear people chanting, Evil dies tonight. -[Jason] Less scary serial killer movie. Which is the mantra from Ha

lloween, kills the sequel to the requel. Just like how Scream VI is a sequel to a requel. The Statue of Liberty makes an appearance. Makes sense. It's New York. This is Mojo Jojo, the main villain from the Powerpuff Girls. Nice to see Scream staying in touch with its 90s roots. It's not really a costume, but this guy has a Fangoria shirt. Fangoria being the famous horror magazine. On the train, there's someone dressed as The Babadook, which Tara cited as her favorite movie in the fifth Scream. -

[Ghostface] What's your favorite scary movie? -[Tara] The Babadook. Other than Ghostface, the train contains a variety of other slasher icons, like Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies, Jason from Friday the 13th, and Freddie Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Of course, this wasn't Freddie's first rodeo in a Scream movie. There's also someone dressed as Chucky from Child's Play, which was referenced in Scream 2022 as an example of a horror movie that was remade. That scene also talks about e

levated Horror. -[Amber]What's wrong with elevated horror? I mean, Jordan Peele fucking rules. So some of the costumes in the subway are from the elevated horror era, like Pluto from Jordan Peele's US, as well as several of the other tethered characters from that movie. There's also a chick dressed as Dani Ardor, aka The May Queen from Midsommar. Right after that, there's a quick flash cameo from Tyler Gillett, the co-director, before we move on to some Stephen King references. Including the Gra

dy twins from The Shining and Georgie Denbrough from IT. Other horror references include Melanie Daniels from The Birds, complete with Bird, Horace Pinker from Wes Craven's Shocker, Kayako Saeki from The Grudge, and Billy the Puppet from Saw, which was mentioned in Scre4m. -[Trudie] Did you pick a movie? -[Sherrie] Yeah, we're going to go scary, Saw 4. It seems there are also other pop culture references on the train, like Tyler Durden from Fight Club, and I didn't know what this was, so I tried

Googling hand around a neck costume, and apparently this was just an Oscars dress from Julia Fox, an actress from the movie Uncut Gems. There's one glaring hole in the train scene. They're trying to safely travel from the Upper West Side to the movie theater Everyone is in costume around them, so why don't they just get costumes to evade Ghostface? There are many hidden details in the costumes, and there may even be some that I didn't recognize, so let me know what you saw in the comments. But

there are even more secrets in the form of hidden Wes Craven homages, Scream easter eggs, and other things you might have missed. (Thunder) ♪ Mysterious Music ♪ If you follow my channel, you know I am very concerned with movie timeline accuracy. I have a series called Horror History, which is half character analysis and half timeline construction, so I can be the first to say that these last two Scream movies have screwed up the timeline. At the end of the fifth Scream, the reporter claims that

the original Woodsboro Massacre was 25 years ago, almost to the day. The original was set in 1996, so that would mean that it was set in 2021. However, Sam and Mindy both claim that the most recent Stab came out last year, and we can clearly see that was 2021, meaning that the fifth Scream is actually set in 2022, which seems to be backed up in Scream VI. The Woodsboro Truther subreddit refers to the most recent events in Woodsboro as the 2022 Woodsboro Massacre, and Kirby's timeline of events s

ays 2022 was the year of Richie and Amber's death. However, this board also claims that Roman's death was in 2000, which is incorrect. In Scream 3, Roman died in 1999. The production designers obviously just use the release dates of the movies rather than when they are set, but Kirby specifically says that Richie and Amber died last year. So we can probably just go with the fifth Scream taking place in 2022, and the sixth Scream taking place in 2023, right? Well, when we see the film professor's

phone at the beginning of the movie, it says Saturday, October 29, which would put this in 2022. Other phone screens also corroborate this. Sam's driver's license is two days away from expiration, although you could argue that she's not planning on renewing it because you don't need a car in New York. And the subway map says service suspended through September 2022. Why would that still be up over a year later? But on the other hand, the newscaster in Scream VI very clearly refers to Sam as...

-[Reporter] One of the survivors of the Woodsboro killings in 2022. So I think there's more evidence now that Scream 2022 does in fact take place in 2022, and Scream VI takes place 13 months later in 2023. This board also confirms that the Scream TV show is a separate canon entirely, which I'm very much fine with. Look, if anyone knows the people that work on these movies, can you please just send them my channel so they can stop screwing up their own franchise? I usually try to find a reason to

make the mistakes work by saying things like, this character was just estimating the date, but there are only so many excuses I can make for you. -[Kirby] Roman Bridger was the only single Ghostface. -[Kirby] Kudos to him for ambition. That's debatable. It's extremely debatable. See my Scream 3 Things You Missed episode for details, but not until after you've seen all the Wes Craven references here in Scream VI. As you know, Wes craven was the legendary horror director who brought us everything

from Last House on the Left, to The Hills Have Eyes, to A Nightmare on Elm Street. And, of course, the first four Scream. In Jason's apartment, he has up a poster for Last Podcast on the Left, a clear play on Last House on the Left. That film was released in 1972, and in the establishing shots at the beginning of the movie, we see West 72nd street. It appears that all of the east-west streets in Upper Manhattan corresponds to Wes Craven release dates. The characters board a train at 94th and 93

rd, which corresponds to New Nightmare and Body Bags, respectively. Gale's apartment is located between 96th and 97th. Scream came out in 1996, and Scream 2 came out in 1997. One of the posts in the Woodsboro Truther subreddit, comes from a user named 234Mimimimi23. Mimi Craven was Wes Craven's wife for a short time in the 80s. She appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street and Swamp Thing. Jason and Greg's apartment building is called Elmcourt, a reference to a Nightmare on Elm Street when we see Sa

m's driver's license her address is 2419 Solar Drive, Modesto, California. However, this address is not in Modesto. It's in Los Angeles, and it once belonged to Wes Craven. This next one is one of the weirdest ever. At the end of the convenience store scene, we see the exterior of the store, and it's called Abe's Snake Bodega. When I'm making these videos and I see a brand name that I don't recognize, I always look it up to find out if there's some significance. So that's what I did. And I found

this Slashfilm article which contains some odd trivia. It explains that one of Craven's friends got involved in producing adult films in the 70's and he decided to try making one himself. In 1975, in between the Last House and 1977s the Hills Have Eyes, Craven made The Fireworks Woman, also known as Angela the Fireworks Woman using a spectacular pseudonym Abe Snake. And just like Angela was packed with fireworks, Scream VI is packed with Easter eggs, referencing the rest of the Scream franchise

. If you look closely at the Woodsboro truther subreddit, which, by the way, the URL is www.r/woodsborotruther Pretty sure that's not how URLs work, but you'll notice that the sub was created 1/14/2022. This contradicts the timeline again, but at least this one is obviously just an Easter egg. It's technically the theatrical release date of Scream 2022, seen on posters. Even though the premiere was canceled. Another Reddit post advertises. 261 Turner Lane Part II. The All New True Story this is

essentially a story about the last movie's events because 261 Turner Lane is the address of the house once occupied by Stu Macher and his family, before being the host of Amber Freeman and her family. -[Amber] I'm at Stu Macher's house on Turner Lane. -[Amber] It's 261 -[Amber] Turner Lane. Despite leaving Woodsboro, some of the characters still seem to have pride about their old town. Chad hangs onto his letterman jacket and Mindy wears a panther patch on hers, the mascot of Woodsboro High. One

of the defining characteristics of a requel is rehashing existing scenes, and Scream VI is no exception. Sam and Tara visit the police station following their convenience store encounter, where they're told that they can't leave town by the detectives. In the fourth Scream, Dewey and Judy have to tell Sidney the same thing. Another Sidney parallel can be seen as they're leaving and the media swarm around them, just like when they mobbed Sidney Prescott in 1996 outside of the Woodsboro police st

ation. And the same music plays as well. Eventually, Kirby shows up, now a member of the FBI, and she and Mindy test each other on horror movie knowledge. – [Kirby] Best Nightmare on Elm Street? – [Both] The original. This is a reference to the original Scream, where Casey Becker has similar taste. -[Casey] Yeah, Freddie Krueger. -[Ghostface] Freddie. That's right. -[Ghostface] I like that movie. -[Ghostface] It was scary. -[Casey] Wow. The first one was, but the rest sucks. Or maybe just common

sense. Then there's Gale. During the part where she's talking with Sam about the importance of family, we hear Dewey's theme in the background, suggesting that Gale never stopped caring about him. This is also evident because she has the same photo of her and Dewey that we first saw in Dewey's trailer in the fifth one. She almost ended up joining him after an ambush by Quinn. At one point, she fires two shots through the door and says -[Gale] How's that for nostalgia, ******? Referring to when

she played hero by shooting Billy Loomis way back in the original. But it wasn't just the dialogue that was nostalgic, because the movie theater shrine is packed with background detail spanning the entire franchise. (Thunder) ♪ Synth Music ♪ Before heading into the theater for the final showdown, Sam splits off from her new love interest, Danny, for safety reasons. -[Sam] We don't know you? Not really. She says this in almost the exact same way as her old love interest. Richie, spoke about the S

tab franchise. -[Richie] No one has made a great Stab movie since the first one. -[Richie] Not really. From this point on, there's a lot of familiar line delivery. -[Ethan] I've always wanted to stick something in you, Tara. –[Stu] I always had a thing for you Sid! The movie theater shrine is a gold mine for Things You Missed, akin to Eleanor's studio from Jigsaw. I'll start with the first Scream and work my way forward. This is the outfit Tatum Riley wore on her final night. This is Stu Macher'

s robe from the night of his party. And here's Billy Loomis's shirt from that same evening. The black jacket and backwards hat belong to Kenny, Gale's Cameraman for Top Story with Gale Weathers. It's more obvious when you see the back of his Top Story jacket. This mannequin represents Stephen Orth, Casey's boyfriend and the franchise's first onscreen Kill. Here we have the Ghostface mask that Principal Henry confiscated from the pranksters at the school and cut up. And these are the scissors he

used to do it. -[Principal Henry] Two of your fellow students just savagely murdered, -[Principal Henry] and this is the way that you show your compassion and sensitivity. -[Principal Henry] Let me show you something. -[Principal Henry] You're both expelled. Get out. You know, I wonder if they just showed up at school the next day. It's not like Henry had time to tell anyone that he expelled them. On top of the mask is the rope that Henry swung from next to a sketch of where he was found on the

football fields and his obituaries. This is an employee shirt from Bradley Video Store, the store that Randy worked at in the first movie. I'm not positive why this is here, because as far as we know, nobody died at the video store. But I guess it's possible that it was still a scene in the movie adaptation of Stab. Rounding out the first movie, we have the Woodsboro High School Flag. Scream 2 opens with the Stab movie premiere, and there's a lot of memorabilia from that. We see the costumes, ma

sks and plastic knives that were handed out to patrons in attendance at the premiere, as well as a few movie tickets. In the corner is the giant Ghostface head that decorated the production office in Scream 3. This sketch depicts Sidney at various points in Scream 2 on stage, in the government car, and at the library. It's above a Windsor College sweater. The setting of Scream 2. I believe the camera that Chad picks up and throws at Ghostface is Joel's camera during his gig with Up to Date. This

big old set piece along the side of the theater is the thing that Derek was tied to at the end of Scream 2. And at some point, we can even see the Agamemnon mask that he was wearing when he was lowered onto the stage. There's also another mask from that play right here. There's also a glimpse of the white blazer that Debbie Salt, Nancy Loomis, was wearing during the finale, and I believe this is the gun that she used during that scene. Scream 3 is all about the production of the third Stab movi

e being terrorized by a new threat. Above the Stab 3 script is the slate used during filming. However, as an Easter egg, the cinematographer is listed as Brett Jutkiewicz, the cinematographer of Scream 2022 and Scream VI. I spotted a sketch of Sarah Darling, the first Scream 3 victim, and Jennifer Jolie, the actress who played Gale. Also visible here is the killer's voice changer and gun. Scream 3 had a special voice changer that allowed the user to imitate anyone's voice. Kind of funny that we'

ve only just recently unlocked that technology today, and it's being used to make politicians bicker over video games. In this case, there's a melted phone, a frying pan and a lighter. The frying pan is the one that the killer used to knock out the security guard, Stephen Stone. There's another frying pan attack in this movie when Gale uses it against Quinn. I wonder if that one will make the next museum. The phone is Jennifer Jolie's phone, damaged when her house exploded. And the lighter must

have been Tom Prince's lighter, which was responsible for causing that explosion. Overhead is the banner that says, Happy Birthday, Roman, which was displayed over the entryway of John Milton's Manor when Sidney arrived. It was not a happy birthday for Roman... Scre4m. By the time this one rolled around, several more Stab films had been made. These posters for Stabs Three, Four and Five are all in Scre4m, but this is the first time we've ever seen the Stab Four poster, or should I say the St4b p

oster, unobstructed. There are also sketches of the two killers, Charlie and Jill, as well as the shirt that Charlie was wearing when he died and the flannel that Jill had on before being taken to the hospital and changed into a hospital gown. There's a moment where we see Kirby looking at it with tears in her eyes, remembering the way that her best friend betrayed her and tried to have her killed. And we also see the knife that Charlie stabbed her with and the residue on the patio where Kirby w

as tied up. In the back, here you'll see the outfit worn by Jill's ex-boyfriend, Trevor, when he died. It could also potentially be Neil Prescott's outfit from Scream One, which looks the same. But since Neil never died, I'm guessing he got to keep his clothes. I see no reason they would have ended up in police custody. This one was the hardest to place. My first thought was that it was supposed to be Casey Becker, because nobody else died in a white long sleeve. But it doesn't match, and she wa

sn't wearing shorts. My guess is that it's actually supposed to be Jill's neighbor, Olivia Morris, who was taken down while wearing a gray long sleeve and flannel shorts. It's not a perfect match, but it's my best guess. There's also a Woodsboro police uniform, meaning that this belonged to Deputy Hoss or Deputy Perkins, the two cops who fell in the line of duty while parked outside of Jill's house. And we have a Stabathon t-shirt. Stabathon was the movie marathon event hosted by the Woodsboro H

igh Film Club, where Gale Weathers was nearly butchered. In addition to those, there's also a case full of Gale's books, most of which we've seen before in Scream 3 and Four, with one notable addition. The Gale Weathers book that we haven't seen before is Stabbed in the Back: The Real Sunrise Story. This actually comes from one of the promotional websites for Scream 3, Sunrise Sucks. This was an anonymous expose site that published dirt about the production company responsible for the Stab franc

hise, Sunrise Studios. I talk about it extensively in my Horror History episode on the history of the Stab IP. By the way, in Gale's apartment, there's one new book called The Woodsboro Horror Continues, which must be the one she wrote about the 2022 or whenever it took place, Woodsboro Massacre. All of these theater shrine items were part of Richie Kirsch's collection, despite the fact that he claims that the first Stab movie is the only good one. He dies in Scream 2022, so it makes sense that

there wouldn't be much from that movie. However, I did notice the Stab Blu-ray box-set, which was released at some point between Screams Four and Five. If there's one thing you can usually count on in a requel, it's the new characters taking up the mantle of the legacy characters. In the case of Scream, Sam Carpenter is the new Sidney Prescott, and she puts on the Ghostface costume to fight back against Detective Bailey at the end of the movie. It's the very same Ghostface costume that Sidney wo

re to strike back against Billy Loomis approximately 27 years earlier. And just like Billy, Bailey finds himself on the wrong end of a Ghostface call from his prey. -[Sam] Hello, Detective Bailey. -[Sam] Are you alone in the house? Bailey is not the only one to suffer a very 1996 fate, Ethan pops up in the final reel for one last scare and gets crushed by the same TV that fell upon Stu Macher. So what's the message this time? What are the filmmakers trying to tell us? Well, it's not that differe

nt from the last movie. This is kind of the second one in a row that condemns toxic Internet culture. This time, instead of toxic fandom, it's about the phenomenon of Reddit detectives who try to solve crimes on their own and usually just end up making things worse. Wavywebsurf has a really good video on the topic if you want to learn more. Throughout the movie, Sam has to deal with accusations that she was actually the killer in Woodsboro, like this guy who refers to her as being that psycho gi

rl. He looks like he could be an actual Redditor. Another chick recognizes her, dumps diet Cherry Coke on her, and calls her a murderer. Why would you dump a beverage on someone if you believe she was a murderer? That is not a smart move. Even her psychiatrist starts to get creeped out by her. If you're like me, you probably wanted to go back and look at the names in the psychiatrist's filing cabinet to see if there were any Easter eggs. As far as I can tell, these are just random patient names

with no deeper meaning. But Mars Jupiter is definitely a weird one. Perhaps the biggest twist with this movie is that none of the core characters died. It looked like Chad was a goner there for a minute, but he miraculously makes it out on a stretcher at the end. Although during that part where Tara takes off his oxygen mask to kiss him, I wish he just would have died right there. It would have been so ******* funny. Click the playlist on the left for more of my Scream franchise analysis videos,

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