Anyone familiar with the slasher genre (or movies in general, for that matter) has been getting steady satisfaction out of the Scream franchise for nearly three decades; indeed, with only an arguable hiccup or two over the course of six films (which, realistically, will probably turn into seven before long), the Scream franchise looks unstoppable at this point.
The best part? The Scream formula has no business being as consistent as it is; toeing the meta-commentary/satire line is always a risky a move, and while the brilliance of the original film is perhaps a testament to Scream‘s genesis and core, at some point, you would expect the franchise to run out of steam. But somehow, someway, by turning just a few knobs here and there and never actually turning their noses up at that which they’re satirizing, the Scream films prevail.
But that doesn’t mean the franchise isn’t capable of a different sort of destruction, and leave it to the talent behind Mindy Meeks-Martin, the meta-commentary maestro of Scream VI, to point out the obvious plot point we all know is coming, and that we all know will tear us to pieces anyway.
In an interview with ComicBook, Jasmin Savoy Brown, who plays Mindy in 2022’s Scream and in Scream VI, regretfully acknowledged that, at some point, one or more of the “Core Four,” an endearing term for the four main characters of Scream VI (namely Mindy, her brother Chad, and the Carpenter sisters), will indeed fall to the cruel blade of Ghostface.
“Well, it would be devastating, which is why it’s going to happen at some point. That’s the way these franchises go. [David Arquette’s] Dewey passed, given, it wasn’t until five movies in, but he did. I think it’s inevitable, but I’m just so curious who it would be and how and why. It’s amazing Chad didn’t die, considering that man was basically gutted. Oh, my God, that was insane, I can’t get that image out of my head. I hope it’s not Mindy, I hope Mindy doesn’t go first.”
Indeed, after Scream VI cemented our love for the Core Four, we can only imagine how bad it’s going to hurt when one of them inevitably ends up among the body count; for a beat that hasn’t happened yet, this remark was far too soon on Brown’s part.
Scream VI is currently streaming on Paramount Plus.