20 Totally INSANE Moments From Recent Horror Movies

20. AI Deepfakes - Scream 7

The Scream franchise has always had its finger on the pulse of Hollywood and general pop culture, so when numerous dead characters were confirmed to be returning in Scream 7, many speculated that they would be resurrected through AI deepfakes.

And indeed, this turned out to be true.

Sidney (Neve Campbell) spends much of the film being taunted by videos of her apparently still-alive original tormenter, Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard).

And in the third act, she races home to find a video message from "Stu," who suddenly morphs into various figures from Sid's past such as fellow killers Nancy Loomis (Laurie Metcalf) and Roman Bridger (Scott Foley), and also the beloved Dewey Riley (David Arquette).

There's no doubt at this point that there's tech tomfoolery at play, and moments later killer Marco (Ethan Embry) reveals himself while confirming that he was the tech whiz behind all the deepfakes.

Unfortunately any semblance of satire here is hugely undercooked, but above all else the AI deepfakes featured throughout the film are just obscenely goofy, compounding the many issues of a desperate sequel that struggles to justify its own existence.