A new year and a new Scream movie for us to sink our teeth into but this time it has been given the 4DX treatment as we bring you our Scream 4DX review.
Back when the first Scream movie was released there was no such thing as 4DX technology but now you can dive head first into your favourite films with effects, scents and movement throughout your favourite feature.
4DX is a very hit and miss technology when it comes to films. Some films utilise the technology wonderfully as you feel every movement, smell everything happening on screen and have the addition of atmospheric effects that drag you into the story.
Other times you can have films where the technology is badly calibrated, the movements are all over the place and everything feels disjointed as the 4DX distracts you from what’s happening on screen.
Too focused on your seat moving around and even more laser focused on not spilling your drink during the next movement becomes a priority over the film itself.
Disney and Marvel movies are certainly the best 4DX experiences I’ve ever witnessed on the big screen but Scream 4DX was much better than I was expecting!
From phone vibrations that you can feel in your seat when ghostface rings to the blood splatters as a fine mist canon hits you in the face during those grizzly moments. It’s a very cool and immersive experience.
With such brutal deaths in this new instalment the technology is used in a more gruesome way that allows you to experience the kills first hand and if you’re a big horror nut like myself, it’s pretty awesome.
“Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.”
Dylan Minnette (Goosebumps), Mason Gooding (Let It Snow), Kyle Gallner (Ghosts of War), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Love”) and Mikey Madison (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) join an ensemble that also includes Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, David Arquette and Courteney Cox who will return as Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers, as well as new cast members Jack Quaid (“The Boys”), Melissa Barrera (“In The Heights”) and Jenna Ortega (“You”). Marley Shelton is also returning as Scream 4 character Deputy Judy Hicks.
James Vanderbilt (Murder Mystery, Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Guy Busick (Ready or Not, Castle Rock) wrote the script.
In what I consider to be the best Scream instalment since the original we see new characters link up with legacy characters as a new killer is on the loose in Woodsboro dressed in a Ghostface mask.
Meta within meta throughout the movie Scream certainly takes the violence and its self awareness to new heights as it knows its not original and commentates on this numerous times throughout.
It’s letting us in on what we already know and the characters within the story are as aware as we are as an audience watching it.
Very clever in its delivery this ‘requel’ (reboot / sequel) keeps the nostalgia burning without leaning too heavily on it.
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and even David Arquette play more of a supporting role with the new blood coming to the fold and carrying the story.
With a new audience mocking the older generations of horror with a character in question saying her favourite film is The Babadook there’s a nice social commentary on horror fans, toxic fandom and more throughout this new movie.
It’s a classic Scream movie updated for a modern audience in this meta-slasher whodunnit.
The kills are gorier than many of the films previous and it’s smart, funny and more aggressive than the 3 movies that come before it.
It’ll never be a scratch on the original but it certainly pays homage whilst paving a new direction for sequels moving forward.
Scream (2022) review by Sean Evans
Our Rating
Summary
Scream manages to stay fresh whilst staying true to the original film and whilst a little lazy (in terms of repeated scenes from the original film) in places holds a solid second place standing for me in the franchise.
