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| Neve Campbell as Sidney in Scream. Not 5. |
This led to rewatching the series, including the solid (apart from the OTT Greek theatre stuff) 2 and 4 and my absolute least favourite 3 - with the commentary which is pretty interesting, explaining what went sideways.
See also this helpful and spoilericious guide at Empire. Or this Previously On recap video.
And I also just discovered that the TV series had a disconnected reboot, Scream: Resurrection (see, nice clear subtitling) on a different channel and with an entirely different cast, and the classic mask and voice after the original two-season run had a different design. It’s on Amazon here, not Netflix, to further explain the not knowing it existed. The first series starts badly but the mystery... more or less works.
There hasn’t been much game activity for the series. There have been no board games, surprisingly, despite Clue being an easy basis, a betrayal mechanic would work and so would a Werewolves style murderous deduction game. Ghostface masks not required but come on.
Even though the new film does have an official cereal.
And if you need a Ghostface miniature, there are plenty of cultists and wraiths that would work. HorrorClix never made an official one.
But this Studio Miniatures release looks familiar. Edit: now sold by Hayland Terrain.
(Also edit: sadly, Black Site sells their 35mm scale killer in one pack with other villains, separate from the Survivors set.)
In video games a phone game where you play Ghostface, and the inevitable appearance in Dead By Daylight and a much less inevitable appearance in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The new film has Survive Scream House on browsers. (I didn’t!)
Scream is a slasher and a comedy deconstruction but also a mystery, so could be played though probably in a Dread kind of way.
Or Dead Of Night, or Shriek or Slasher Flick, or EPOCH, or the now-archive-only and at times crass Squeam minigames.
Maybe They Came From but the characters evoke the meta references on screen?
The sequels and TV series suggest a longer option with more investigation, maybe for something GUMSHOE-ish like Fear Itself with a cut-down skill list and possible teen options like Bubblegumshoe, by upping the number of suspects and NPC victims.
Followers like I Know What You Did Last Summer (which also got a series) and Urban Legend could provide extra models to work from.
Add monsters for more variety of threats to your genre-savvy young heroes and you get The Faculty... and of course also Buffy.
(Compare Scream creator Kevin Williamson’s own show Dawson’s Creek where the genre-savvy young heroes hardly ever faced serial killers.)
For the record, my favourite scary movie is The Haunting.
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