Scream’s New Poster Tries to Spoil You

One of the various causes the Scream sequence is so beloved is that it’s in on the joke. The motion pictures are predicated on the characters not simply understanding the principles of horror motion pictures, however particularly calling them out. It provides the franchise a singular edge that’s helped make it so successful.

The fifth movie within the sequence, simply known as Scream, opens January 14. A quite good New Year’s present, is it not? And being that the movie is simply a couple of month away, advertising continues to be launched with that very same sense of self-awareness. Case in level: this newest poster.

“The killer is on this poster.” How excellent is that? On the floor, it’s attempting to make you to guess which of the characters on the poster is the killer, one other trademark facet of the Scream movies. But there’s way more to it than that. Ghostface is on the poster, proper? So the tagline may simply be referring to them. There’s no telling who’s behind that masks. Also the singular of “killer” as a substitute of “killers” predisposes that there’s just one. More typically than not in Scream movies, there’s multiple killer. Is {that a} spoiler too? We don’t know.

Of course, the true reply to what this poster is attempting to do is “all of the above.” The reality we’re even serious about it’s the mark of an ideal tagline. But let’s be sincere: for this new Scream to essentially justify its existence, there must be some form of new twist. Maybe there are a number of Ghostfaces working independently. Maybe it’s somebody from the previous. Or, and this is able to be essentially the most enjoyable, it’s both Sydney (Neve Campbell), Gail (Courteney Cox), or Dewey (David Arquette)—or possibly even some mixture of them. The trick there, although, wouldn’t be the shock, it might be making a motivation legitimate sufficient that doesn’t undercut the unique 4 movies.

The excellent news is, we’ll discover out quickly sufficient. Scream opens January 14 in theaters solely.

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