Scream 5: Everything We Know About The Slasher Sequel – GameSpot

From vampires and zombies to possession movies and found footage, the horror genre is marked by the rising and falling popularity of its various sub-genres. In the early '80s, the huge success of Halloween and Friday the 13th inspired a wave of slasher movies, which usually revolved around a masked killer picking off a group of unfortunate teenage victims. While none hit the commercial heights of those original films, films such as The Burning, Sleepaway Camp, and My Bloody Valentine--not to mention the many Friday the 13th and Halloween sequels--are among the defining scary movies of the era.

But it didn't last long of course, and the slasher cycle had burnt itself out by the end of the decade. By the time the early '90s rolled round, American horror itself was in a slump--the big movies of that era were mainstream studio films such as Silence of the Lambs and Misery, with very little emerging to take the genre in an interesting new direction.

So it's ironic that it was a slasher movie, titled Scream, that revived the genre in 1996 and gave it one of its biggest ever successes. But Scream wasn't just any slasher movie. Creator Kevin Williamson wrote a funny, clever, self-referential film, and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Eyes Have Eyes) ensured that it was as tense and scary as it was funny and knowing. Scream made more than $173 million at the worldwide box office, and inspired its own wave of imitators over the next few years.

Three Scream sequels followed, all written by Williamson and directed by Craven. But the comparatively mediocre box office results for 2012's Scream 4, plus Craven's sad death in 2015, seemed to end the possibility of further movies. The franchise moved to the small screen, with three seasons of the Scream TV show airing between 2015 and 2019.

But this is the horror genre, and nothing stays dead long. Confirmation that a new Scream movie was definitely happening arrived in early 2020, and since then, directors, writers, and cast members--both old and new--have been announced. Scream 5 now has a confirmed 2022 release date, meaning that the return of Ghostface is less than two years away. So here's everything we know so far about Scream 5.

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