GHOST TOWN

GHOSTFACE IS BACK – BUT WHO ARE THEY THIS TIME? SFX TRIES TO UNMASK A KILLER

- DARREN SCOTT

When SFX takes a trip into the North Carolina hotel rooms of the cast and crew of Scream, it’s dark outside, there’s a glowing pumpkin and candles are lit. It’s Halloween 2020 and there’s a chill in the air. A chill isn’t the only thing in the air, of course, so it’s little surprise that all those rooms are separate and we’re joining them from London, via Zoom. No stalking Woodsboro for us, sadly. Or maybe that’s a good thing considering there’s a certain masked killer back in town. Yes, again – you can’t keep a good, sorry bad, movie monster down as the fifth instalment hits screams, sorry, screens this month…

DIRECTORS MATT BETTINELLIOLPIN & TYLER GILLETT

How do you make Scream relevant to this generation?

Tyler Gillett: One of the things that’s been exciting to us about all of the Scream movies, the franchise in its entirety, is how it does seem to not only comment on the current state of media and pop culture, but it’s also always wildly prophetic in the way that it does that. For us, the goal first and foremost is to just make something that’s really scary, and really fun. There is a lot, thematically, happening in this movie, but for us it was really about not wanting to make something that was super heavy-handed in terms of the kind of thematics that it was dealing with, but really just a fun, scary popcorn movie. That transcends any specific time or place.

How do you address horror for this generation?