Thoughts and Insane Predictions for Scream VII

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Edited to Add: This post was written before the terrible treatment of Melissa Barrera. Obviously most of these predictions are no longer relevant (I guess maybe Sidney’s mom and/or dad could come back from the grave/who knows respectively, but those were longshots to say the least. I will make a new post with thoughts for how they will switch directions with Neve Campbell coming back soon.)

I feel it’s hardly a wild theory by now that starting with Scream V we are in a sequel trilogy to the original Scream films. Scream (2022) and Scream VI both mirror Scream (1996) and Scream II respectively.

Obviously, massive spoilers ahead.

• Scream II vs Scream VI
• 5 Killer Predictions for Scream VII

The Quick Look at the Similarities and Differences Between Scream II and Scream VI.

Let’s look at a quick rundown of the similarities and differences between Scream 2 and Scream 6 (let me know in the comments down below if I miss any)

Major Similarities:

• The surviving characters move to a new college location outside of Woodsboro.
• One of the killers is the parent of the previous movie’s villain.
• The finale takes place on a stage-like setting instead of a house party.
• Gale Weathers is there missing clues.
• Most of the significant others (not included in the core group) are goners.

Major Differences:

• No characters from the previous film are killed (Randy Meeks famously didn’t survive Scream 2, both Meekses survive Scream VI)
• The film-student murderer(s) are killed in the beginning (ie, they killed off the Mickey character in Act I as a classic Scream subversion.)
• 3 Killers, an all-family affair (things are getting both bigger and more personal).
• The main character’s (Sam) boyfriend both survives and is not the killer, good for him.

So what could this “following in the same footsteps but bigger

Crazy Predictions for Scream VII

Okay so here are my top 5 predictions for the killer in Scream VII ranked in order of most nonsense to most sensible. Now, Scream 3 only had one killer, Roman Bridger. Given that Scream continues to get bigger, I do think it’s likely there will be multiple killers so assume I also think any combination of two or more of these people are possible.

if it’s a new character introduced in Scream 7 I’ll spit.

Top 5 Candidates for the Killer(s) in Scream VII (from least plausible to most likely)

5. Maureen Prescott (and possible unknown love child)

Okay, hear me out. Scream 3 had Roman Bridger as the sole Ghostface. It would make sense to bring a character that has ties to the very beginning of the series as the ultimate Ghostface. Her past revealed in Scream 3 details someone who is capable of restarting her life under a new name away from her hometown. What if the entire series was her orchestrating the means to escape her life and destroy all the loose ends her actions have caused?

Like, they could introduce another killer that is Sam’s half-brother because Maureen had also slept with Billy Loomis and had another secret love child (that would admittedly be pretty gross given the ages, but it *would* be a shocker a backstory for a despicable psycho character).

But…again, that last part of the theory is pretty gross, Maureen would be in her 70s, and while capable, completely faking her own murder seems beyond her abilities. So, while it would be shocking and crazy, probably pretty unlikely.

4. Neil Prescott

Lot of the same reasons as Maureen. He’s fed up with all these killers threatening his daughter so he goes around killing everyone even remotely related to the sprees (including Gale and at least one of the other survivors). I mean, he straight up vanished after the first Scream, what has he been up to if not holed up in a cabin somewhere obsessing over every Ghostface attack?

I’d rate this as still pretty unlikely as he’s also in his 70s by now. I ranked him as more likely than Maureen only because we at least know he’s (likely) alive.

3. Sam Carpenter

Sam is like the reddest Red herring ever put to film. The Series seems to *want* us to believe that she will be pushed to murder. She’s hallucinating her psychotic dead killer-dad for goodness’ sake. Because it seems so obvious I rank her as a good candidate, but I’m still unconvinced the Scream writers will go there.

It would be a pretty shitty thing to do to her character after all she’s overcome for one and it would be a pretty big flip for two.

2. Tara Carpenter

Tara has had a rough go of it. She’s probably been stabbed more times than any surviving (and most dead) characters by now (although Chad may be higher at this point). Perhaps she wants to turn the tables for once and feel what its like to be on the other end of the mask.

She’s also more of a Sydney stand-in than Sam, and the original script for Scream 3 called for the Sydney stand-in in that film (played by Emily Mortimer) to be one of the killers (this was later changed). How better to really subvert expectations than to finally make the heroic victim turn out to be the killer.

1. Mr.Carpenter (Sam and Tara’s Dad) and/or Mrs.Carpenter

These characters have been missing since the very beginning of Sam’s troubles and could plausibly be behind everything. Maybe the revelation that the daughter Mr.Carpenter raised was the biological child of an infamous serial killer sent him on a downward spiral.

Maybe Mrs.Carpenter was in on the murders with Billy and has been planning the continuation of his plan ever since.

Maybe one or both of them have secretly been in cahoots with Tara this whole time which is why all 93 (unscientific guesstimate) of her stab wounds were non-fatal. It both mirrors the Roman Bridger revelation from Scream 3 while subverting and escalating the series (the “dad” was a major red herring in the first Scream while the mother was a victim).

My best bet is one or both of these characters being Ghostface in Scream 7.

Bonus Killer Guesses That Are Nonsense

Okay, if they decided to pull something out of left field I could see Sydney Prescott and Stu Macher coming back to be killers because why the hey not, it’s a movie, anything can happen. Due to character stability in Sydney’s case and deadness in Stu’s case, I hope neither of these is Ghostface in Scream 7.

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