Scream 6 star Melissa Barrera details how the sequel will have extreme gore. The upcoming film, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, will be a direct sequel to 2022's Scream and will reunite most of the cast from the movie, minus Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, who announced she would not be returning to the franchise after salary negotiations had stalled. Courteney Cox will reprise her role as Gale Weathers, and the film will bring back Hayden Panettiere's Kirby Reed, who was last seen in Scream 4.
During an interview with Collider, Barrera teased how gory the sequel would get. After stating that the directors were always looking for more ways to incorporate gore into the film, the actor talked about how this installment will be a hundred times gorier than the last, with the previous film being more contained to pay homage to Wes Craven's vision and bring back the legacy characters in a more modern update. Check out what she said on the next installment below:
"There was a saying on set because (directors) Matt [Bettinelli-Olpin] and Tyler [Gillett] were always asking for more blood and more sweat. They always just wanted more. "More blood spritz" was the saying because they would just always want more. With the last Scream, they were tip-toeing and trying to be very respectful of what the franchise had been, up until that point, and keeping their inner gory dreams at bay. But with this one, they were like, "We're going all out." It's potentially a hundred times gorier."
Scream's History Of Creative Kills
The Scream franchise has had its fair share of creative (and extremely gory) kills throughout its installments. In the first film, one of the most frightening scenes is when Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) tries to escape the clutches of Ghostface (Roger L. Jackson) by crawling through the garage's dog door. However, her stomach gets stuck, and her body electrocutes itself as it arrives at the top of the garage. This was the first film's most elaborate kill, but the franchise got gorier.
Scream 2 saw the franchise get nastier in terms of violence by killing off Maureen Evans (Jada Pinkett Smith) in front of a sold-out crowd at a pre-release screening of the fictitious film Stab, which was based on the events of the first film. Everyone thought it was a publicity stunt for the movie until she drops dead in front of everyone on the theater stage. The scene was parodied in Keenan Ivory Wayans' Scary Movie, where the audience joins in and starts to collectively stab Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), annoyed by her talkative behavior in the cinema while the movie was playing.
In Scream 3 and Scream 4, Craven delivered the most over-the-top kills of the franchise. While Scream (1996) and Scream 2 are generally liked by critics and fans of the franchise, Scream 3 and Scream 4 are the most divisive installments of the series yet. Scream 4, in particular, goes overboard with its meta-fictional premise and kills multiple characters in the most shocking form inside a "movie-within-a-movie" premise. And while 2022's Scream was more grounded in reality, it seems that the upcoming Scream 6 will be far gorier than anticipated. The directorial duo Radio Silence is known for having helmed 2019's Ready or Not, which featured a surprising amount of gory kills. And from the looks of Barrera's statement, it seems like the duo will deliver an even gorier sequel when Scream 6 opens in theaters on March 10, 2023.
Source: Collider