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Ghostface Returns For More Kills in First Scream 2022 Poster
The first official poster for the upcoming fifth Scream film shows the infamous Ghostface killer back for yet another killing spree. The new film is set to arrive in January of the new year and so far very little is known about either the film or its plot. It’s been a decade since the last installment in the slasher horror franchise arrived, and while Scream 4 wasn’t much of a financial success at the box office, it did provide new possibilities for future sequels.
Scream 4 also marked the last outing in the series for iconic horror filmmaker Wes Craven. After his death in 2015 at the age of 76, many Scream fans felt that the franchise had at last reached its final conclusion. The idea of anyone else but Craven, who directed every installment since the series kicked off in 1996, taking over was practically beyond consideration. But when Paramount made the decision to bring on directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the pair’s love for the franchise and everything that Craven had done with it enabled them to convince series star Neve Campbell to return. From that point onward, Scream (2022) has been building into something that fans remain somewhat clueless about yet extremely excited all the same.
Though very little is still known about the latest Scream film, a new poster has now arrived, courtesy of the official Scream Twitter account. Featuring nothing more than a terrifying close-up of Ghostface wielding his familiar bowie knife beneath the tagline “It’s always someone you know,” the poster continues with the new film’s efforts at keeping everything it can under wraps. This isn’t to say that the poster isn’t an impressive one, however, creating fear and excitement with one very simple image. Check it out below:
Without giving anything at all away about Scream, the new poster does offer what could be one very tiny clue. By stating that the killer (or killers) is once again someone we know, there is perhaps the chance that the new film will bring back a character (or characters) from one of the previous installments, i.e., Stu and Billy. Recently, both Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich insisted that their characters are still very much alive within the Scream universe. Of course, neither actor is listed in the current cast for Scream (2022), but given Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s determination to thwart spoilers at all costs, it’s not hard to imagine a spoiler as monumental as casting Lillard and Ulrich being hidden until the film’s release.
But of course, Scream fan knows that simply saying that the killer is “always someone you know” doesn’t necessarily mean a return of previously introduced characters. The series has thrived by introducing new characters in each new chapter, so there’s every possibility that the killer(s) in Scream (2022) will be characters that have been introduced within that film. Still, there are likely very few Scream fans who wouldn’t love to see Stu and Billy return after all these years.
Scream 5 (2022)
Release Date: Jan 14, 2022
