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Halloween (2018) or Scream (2022): Which legacy sequel do you revisit more?

Both movies brought their franchises back by returning to the original film, bringing back legacy characters and introducing a new generation.

Halloween (2018) went back to basics by returning to the original movie and ignoring all the sequels, while Scream (2022) was a commentary on the legacy sequel trend that Halloween (2018) helped popularize.

Both took different approaches to bringing their franchises back, but which one do you find yourself revisiting more?

Not necessarily which one you think is better, but which do you revisit more?

In case anyone is interested Season 1-5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVNgedLhx6Y&list=TVSHSZSd2xKMGAoAScl8IVxnMlqdF-b53GSjQ&index=1&pp=iAQBsAQB

Yea or nay? She was the second person Xena knew that was murdered before becoming a murderer herself.

I'm a Gabrielle fan across the show but her best season was season 1 imo, she wasn't stupid or a follower of any cult leader who smiles at her (Najara, Eli, Krafstar)

I know it's slightly unfair since Beth had six episodes while Jessica only had one movie with a very small amount of scenes pre-Act 3, but strictly as characters, who do you like more?

Beth is a proud racist sociopath who succeeded in becoming a real-life slasher. She manipulates the Deadfast Club and kills Amir, the one guy who showed an interest in her.

Jessica has a parasocial obsession with Sidney that completely warps her idea of what a "final girl" should be. She kills her husband and her own son because he reminds her of his father, while planning to traumatize Tatum into becoming "Sidney 2.0."

Neither is sympathetic and both are universally hated Ghostfaces.

What are some of your headcanons about Ghostface as an identity? Not who killed who, but the mask, costume and voice itself.

I know Scream takes place in our world and isn't supernatural, but it's had plenty of outlandish shit before like a hallucination of Billy talking to his daughter in 5 & 6, so I like adding a slight supernatural element to Ghostface.

My headcanon is that Ghostface is a supernatural entity that takes over once a human killer puts on the costume and uses the voice changer. The human killers still choose to kill and are 100% responsible for their actions. But once they become Ghostface, he takes over until the mask comes off.

It's basically my Scream version of Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Wes Craven and Robert Englund created Freddy for the movies, then a supernatural entity took on the form of the character they created and essentially brought Freddy to life. I imagine something similar happening with Ghostface. Billy and Stu created the Ghostface persona during the original massacre, but afterward what they created took on a life of its own as a supernatural entity.

The movies already kind of treat Ghostface like his own person. In Scream 2, after Billy and Stu are dead, his first call to Sidney is, "Hello, Sidney. Remember me?" Then in VI he tells Gale, "Strange that you and I have never spoken on the phone. This is long overdue." That's Quinn underneath, but Ghostface talks like he's the same person who's known Gale all these years.

Then in Scream 7 Ghostface tells Sidney, "I see you found a new town to live in. It reminds me a lot of where we grew up." Sidney asks, "Oh, do we know each other?" and he says, "We sure do." Again, I like taking that literally. Ghostface remembers Sidney.

It also explains why Ghostface has basically the same build, strength and presence regardless of who's underneath and why the voice is always the same despite different killers using different voice changers. Once the costume and voice come together, they're Ghostface.

I also see Ghostface as the hidden director of each massacre. Sidney was his original final girl throughout the trilogy. Then after years of fictional Stab sequels and books about him, Scream 4 becomes his remake of Stab 1, with Jill positioned as the new final girl while secretly being the killer herself.

After that remake "flops," Scream (2022) becomes the Halloween 2018-style requel. Richie and Amber want Billy Loomis' daughter to be the villain, but the story ends up repeating the original instead. Richie becomes the new Billy, Amber the new Stu and Sam the new final girl. Like Ghostface said in Scream 2, "Don't you know history repeats itself?"

Sam remains the central focus of his next movie in VI. Then for 7, I like imagining Ghostface simply misses Sidney and comes back for his original final girl.

And just to be clear, that last part is strictly an in-universe headcanon for the story we ended up with. I know the real-life reason Sam isn't in Scream 7 is that Melissa Barrera was fired by Spyglass after speaking out in support of Palestine. I'm not trying to rewrite those circumstances or pretend the franchise naturally moved on from Sam. This is just my in-universe explanation within the supernatural Ghostface theory.

H1, H2, H4 is the classic Halloween saga imo other than the mask problems in H4 it's a damn near perfect slasher and Michael Myers comeback.

Where are you in your rewatch?

Both pairings began falling for each other at the same time (Buffy Season 6/Angel Season 3) but which pairing made the most sense narratively?

Cordelia and Angel's friends to lovers in Angel Season 3

or

Buffy and Spike's enemies to lovers in Buffy Season 6

Which felt more natural to the story than something contrived for drama

These are the most earliest known releases before the found footage genre became what it is today, but of these three movies how would you rank them from your favorite to least favorite?

The McPherson Tape:

On a typical fall evening in 1983, a young man was videotaping his niece's 5th birthday party. As the night's strange occurrences took place, he kept his video camera running, recording the entire evening.

The Last Broadcast:

A film crew ventures into the forest in search of the mythical 'Jersey Devil'.

The Blair Witch Project:

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

The Woodsboro Murders is the best-selling non-fiction follow-up novel to Wrongly Accused (1996) by Top Story journalist and reporter, Gale Weathers. It was released in 1997.