Scream Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

4. The BRUTAL Death Scenes

The fourth Scream film famously upped the gore in a few key moments to pass hilarious commentary on the uptick of torture porn movies releasing at the time, and the new movie carries on where it left off with arguably the series' most savage and visceral batch of kills to date.

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett proved with Ready or Not that they know how to stage a creatively gory death scene, and while certainly not as over-the-top as that movie, Scream's kill scenes are a lot of grisly fun.

The filmmakers linger on some absolutely brutal violence as Ghostface dismantles their victims, ensuring the screen is flooded with blood at times, and an impressive marriage of practical and visual effects was presumably employed to achieve some of the more ambitiously disgusting outcomes.

At least a few of the series' best-ever kills occur in this movie, which alone would probably be enough to give it a passing grade.