Ellie Scholl- Scream Franchise

  While on spring break, I saw the newly released movie Scream 7 in theaters. It was my first time watching one of these movies in its franchise, so I decided to have a screamathon and watch all other 6 back to back. Every movie follows the same plot, making it a fun game to try to guess who the killer is before it's revealed at the end of the movie. At its core, the Scream movies follows typical slasher formula: a masked killer (Ghostface), a group of teens, and a string of brutally bloody murders..What sticks out to me, however, is the way that these movies make fun of themselves by having characters know the “rules of horror movies,” which they try to follow but always end up being the reason they get killed. The franchise is also known for its memorable cast, bringing its main characters back every movie after somehow miraculously surviving 22 stab wounds and 3 gunshots in the movie before, (which is where the supernatural feeling comes in since the characters are ordinary humans, most of the characters should have died by now due to the injuries they sustained, but they always end up being perfectly fine in the end.) But recently, the last few movies have been killing off original characters, making the endings of the movies extremely unreliable. Each movie is set in the year it is made, making the most recent ones extremely modern and connected to my generation, while the earlier ones are more closely connected to the generation that came before, which makes the franchise able to never get old. It also helps that they bring in very well-known actors of that time to be in the movies. Actors like Drew Barrymore, Patrick Dempsey, Jada Smith, Scott Foley, and Jenna Ortega have all shown up in one or two movies. All of these reasons are examples of why a movie that seemingly has the same thing happen over and over again keeps getting fans wanting more. I was able to correctly guess the killers in movies 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, whether that's because I was able to pick up on the odd behaviors of the characters or I have some sort of psychic ability, I'm not sure…