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4. The "Early" Ghostface Reveal - Scream VI
The marketing for Scream VI couldn't stop promising that its iteration of Ghostface would be very different from the rest, and so fans got incredibly excited when the film's pre-title sequence unfolded in a most unexpected manner.
The scene begins with film professor Laura Crane (Samara Weaving) being lured into an alleyway and killed by Ghostface, who after murdering her immediately removes his mask to reveal his identity: one of her students, Jason Carvey (Tony Revolori).
Given that this was the first time in the series that any Ghostface had been unmasked prior to the climax, it seemed to suggest that Scream VI would be seriously disrupting the series' rigid structure, and apparently unfold with the audience aware of Ghostface's identity the entire time.
A Scream movie with the whodunnit aspect stripped away is risky, but six movies into a series these are the sorts of gambles that are mostly encouraged.
Yet this daring upending of the series' formula turns out to be short-lived, as Jason is consequently killed by the series' real Ghostface, effectively making him a copycat footnote.
Ironically, the Jason reveal ended up being so much more satisfying and interesting than the rather lackluster reveal of the film's main Ghostfaces, which feels like another act of cinematic trolling in itself.