Keith's Horror Show Episode 6: Scream Franchise

You should all know the drill of these rankings by now if you've seen the other ones Ranking: 7th: Scream 7 - Unfortunately it's just the weakest scream movie so far by a pretty large amount, it's not very good, the kills aren't amazing, the cast feels weaker than in the prior entries and I just couldn't get into it much, sorry to any fans of this one. 6th: Scream 5 - I wanted to like Scream 5 a lot, I saw it in theaters and even then I was like "Wow this movie was kind of garbage." And that opinion has not changed, Scream 5 is awful. The returning cast barely play a factor aside from Dewey, a certain death in the movie is treated with zero respect by the writers with the characters who knew that character best crying for maybe 2 minutes and then immediately snap out of it and are hitting quips and shit? It's fucking stupid, and then the new cast members are all dogshit, Sam having freaky ghost ass Billy Loomis in her mind is the dumbest plot point in any Scream film. and the rest of the film ain't much better new cast wise, Jenna Ortega gets nothing to do for most of the film and most of the new cast is unremarkable compared to even weaker casts of the OG films like Scream 3's newer cast members, at least that one had Jennifer. 5th: Scream 6 - Can you tell I really hate the newer Scream films? This is the best one by a longshot, it's not even particularly close, but this one is actually good, has some really good kills and really good setpieces like the ladder and has some great moments, only to fall apart at the end with a dumb killer reveal that barely feels satisfying at all. 4th: Scream 3 - Scream 3 has the weakest cast of that original Miramax run of the series, it's weak as hell, most of the cast is pretty bad, but I think it has some good kills, it's still a fun movie, has a dumb gimmick with the voice changer but does have some great moments, especially the opening and I really love how they portray Sidney in this movie, with her still getting over all of the pain from the prior movies and closing herself off from the world only to come back into it when her friends need her most. Beyond that I love the commentary on the Weinsteins in this movie, very ahead of it's time in how it depicts the horrible abuse actresses in Hollywood went through, especially under Harvey Weinstein. 3rd: Scream 4 - One of the better scream films, some of the best kills in the series, a really strong newer cast compared to the cast of 5-7 and it's just a better film overall with probably one of the best killers in the entire franchise, some incredible moments and a great culprit make this one of my favorites of the franchise, but it's not my favorite sequel. 2nd: Scream 2 - Filmed 1 year after the original Scream, Scream 2 is very solid, with a lot of great kills, a really shocking one in particular, the casting is great, the characters still feel like the original film, some of the best moments of the entire series like the soundproof room stuff with Gale, Gale being excellent and debatably even better here than in her first film, Dewey is a strong character again, Sidney gets a ton of exploration which is nice and that moment with her boyfriend always feels sad to me, because he really did love her. Great film, great followup, my 2nd favorite of the franchise. 1st: Scream 1996 - The best film by far it's not even really that close, this is a borderline perfect horror film, from the cast to the cinematography to the great kills to the really fun meta stuff in the movie, I really love the killers in this movie, easily the best pair of the franchise. It's a peak film everyone should go and see. And with Scream down we now have 8 franchises left to go, I cannot wait to rank all of these on Halloween. Franchises Done: Halloween, Cube, Hellraiser, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th, Scream Franchises to go: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Nightmare on Elm Street, Candyman, Child's Play/Chucky, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Omen and The Exorcist