Geo H

This film had so much potential. (Please don’t read on if you don’t want spoilers). I felt that it had some great ingredients; new characters with links to old characters, some great actors and old characters returning for example but this could have been written so much better! Firstly I don’t think Sam’s hallucinations were necessary at all, just her running away after finding out who her father was would have sufficed. Secondly, the killer’s motives weren’t great at all, I’d have believed it much more if it was someone who just wanted to punish the previous Ghostfaces by killing their relatives/loved ones either for revenge or because they had a warped sense of justice. Third, many characters attacked by Ghostface found themselves in ridiculous and impossible situations like hospitals with no staff or other patients? Is this Nightmare on Elm Street? Also how the heck did so many characters survive multiple stabbings? The male twin and Tara for example. Another thing, did these characters just carry the Ghostface costume around with them to get changed and unchanged so quickly while being seemingly accounted for? Fourth, I could tell Amber was the killer or one of the killers (due to her being filmed) from the opening when she wasn’t killed despite Ghostface somehow cloning her phone and being in such close proximity, I was certain that she was at least one of the killers when she threw the party and when they said who’s house it was - the thing I don’t get is why? She didn’t seem to be really into the previous movies the way the twin girl (name escapes me) was. Also I don’t buy that she got her obsession from living in Stu’s house. I guess it could work but I don’t know, didn’t buy it. Again I’d have much preferred her to be a warped teen with a faux sense of justice and not just a dismayed movie fan of “Stab”. While this would have been less of a threat to the original characters, it could have put them in the “who is it?” frame which for me would have been more interesting. Also there was too much hesitating over killing Sam, Gale and Sidney - the killers talked way too much and gave far too much room for the inevitable escape/killer takedown. I think sadly the main protagonists forgot they’d been stabbed or shot in parts - I get adrenaline could take over but they’d have bled so much and seemed TOO fine at the end. In terms of missed opportunities, Judy’s murder should have been discovered by her son before he was killed. Also I didn’t like that it was broad daylight and there were no witnesses and Ghostface could just walk around like that? I mean…doesn’t seem realistic. Moreover I think Dewey didn’t seem upset enough over Judy’s death and I dare say Gale didn’t seem upset enough over Dewey’s. Also there wasn’t any character development for most of the new cast so I almost didn’t care if they died or not. The most satisfying part of the movie was the killers’ takedowns by the protagonists but then, for me, they blew it when Amber came running in after being shot and burned alive (should have left it there).