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The OG Scream Queen is back to snatch the crown.

Neve Campbell returns to the Scream franchise after taking some time off.

More about that in a bit.

In Scream 7, Sidney's got a new life, a cop husband, a teenage daughter, and lots of baggage.

You know the drill.

Someone dressing up as the mass slasher ghostface comes for her, her friends, and family.

There's lots of stabbing and murder, and so many red herrings. It's practically a smorgasbord. I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about Scream 7 on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining me today is Jordan Cruciola. She's a writer and producer and the host of the podcast Feeling Scene on Maximum Fun. Hey, Jordan. Hello, wearing my scream tea. Thank you for having me today. In the house. All right. Also with us is Daisy Rosario. She's the senior supervising producer of audio at Slate, where she works with shows like death, sex, and money, and I see why am I, which I insist on calling Icum. I don't think it's catching on. Hey, Daisy.

Welcome.

You're not completely alone, Glenn, but it's good to see you. It is my fetch. I'm going to make it happen. So, Scream 7 refocuses the franchise back on Sydney Prescott. The last two films starred Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega. Barrera was fired from Scream 7 by the film's production company Spyglass Media Group for speaking out against Israel's bombardment of Gaza.

Ortega also dropped out of the film, as did the director Christopher Landon.

So now we find Sidney Prescott, badass survivor of multiple ghost face attacks, played once again by Nev Campbell, making a life for herself in the small town of Pine Grove.

They clearly met her quote this time out because she did not appear in the last film due to a salary dispute.

Sydney's chief of police husband is played by Joel McHale, her teenage daughter, Tatum, by Isabel May.

We meet a lot of Tatum's friends, a shifty boyfriend, a creepy neighbor, a party girl, and more.

But don't get to attach to any of them because this is a scream film, which means they're either victims or killers or both.

And once the blood starts flying, Courtney Cox shows up as Gail Weathers bringing with her a couple characters from the last two scream films.

Not Barrera and Ortega, as Sam and Tara, as we mentioned, but the twins, Chad and Mindy, played by Mason Gooding and Jasmine Savoy Brown.

Kevin Williamson is the director this time out, his first time directing this franchise.

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