Scream VI

A year after the Woodsboro murders, Blackmore University film professor Laura Crane waits in a New York bar for a date from an app. He calls, says he is lost, and walks her into an alley, where Ghostface stabs her to death. The killer unmasks: he is her student Jason Carvey. Back at his apartment Jason and his roommate Greg are planning to finish the movie Richie Kirsch started by killing Sam and Tara Carpenter. Then Jason gets a call from Greg's phone in the Ghostface voice. It leads him to the refrigerator, where Greg's body is stuffed inside, and a different Ghostface kills Jason.

Sam is in therapy with Dr. Christopher Stone and is being accused online of being the real Woodsboro killer who framed Richie and Amber. Tara is at Blackmore with Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin, their roommate Quinn Bailey, Mindy's girlfriend Anika Kayoko and Chad's roommate Ethan Landry. Sam is secretly seeing their neighbor Danny Brackett. Quinn's father, NYPD Detective Wayne Bailey, calls Sam in because her ID was found at Jason's apartment, along with the Ghostface mask Richie and Amber wore.

On the way to the station Sam gets a call from Richie's old number. Ghostface attacks the sisters in the street and follows them into a bodega, where he kills two customers and the clerk with the clerk's own shotgun. That mask matches Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker from 2011. At the station the sisters meet FBI agent Kirby Reed, who survived Scream 4, and Gale Weathers, who wrote a book about the 2022 murders against their wishes. Gale says Sidney has taken her family into hiding. Ghostface kills Dr. Stone, steals Sam's file and leaves a mask from the Hollywood murders. Kirby and Bailey figure the killer is counting back through the old masks toward Billy Loomis.

Mindy lays out the rules of a franchise: bigger everything, nobody is safe, not even legacy characters. That night the friends stay at Sam and Tara's apartment. Danny, from across the way, sees Ghostface over Quinn while her date Paul is in the shower. Quinn's body is thrown through the bedroom door and Anika is stabbed. Chad and Tara get out, and the others escape across a ladder Danny lays between the windows. Ghostface shakes the ladder while the bleeding Anika is crossing and she falls to her death.

Gale leads the group and the police to an abandoned movie theater that Jason and Greg bought, dressed as a shrine to every Ghostface spree, with the killers' costumes, evidence and Stab memorabilia. Kirby and Bailey set a trap in the park, and the call is traced to Gale's apartment. There Ghostface kills Gale's boyfriend Brooks and hunts Gale through the loft. She shoots at him and he stabs her badly before Sam and Tara arrive. The group plans to take the subway to the theater to meet Kirby. Mindy and Ethan miss the train, and Mindy is stabbed on the next one.

At the theater Sam sees Billy again and takes his knife from its case. Bailey calls and claims Kirby was fired from the FBI and is the killer. Two Ghostfaces attack and stab Chad. Kirby reappears, and Bailey arrives and shoots her. He is the mastermind. The other two unmask as Ethan and Quinn, who faked her death. They are Richie's father, brother and sister, and they built the shrine from evidence Bailey stole. They want revenge on Sam for killing Richie and ran the smear campaign against her. Bailey plays Richie's childhood Ghostface home movie.

Tara hits Quinn with a brick and the sisters get upstairs. Tara lets go of the railing when Sam drops her a knife, stabs Ethan in the mouth, and Sam shoots Quinn in the head. Sam and Bailey fall over the railing. When Bailey wakes up, Tara calls him in the Ghostface voice while Sam comes at him in Billy's robe and mask. Sam stabs him over and over, then through the eye. Ethan gets up one more time and Kirby smashes him with the television set that killed Stu Macher. Chad, Mindy, Gale and Kirby all survive. Sam looks at Billy's mask, drops it, and walks off with Tara and Danny. In a post-credits scene, Mindy says not every movie needs a post-credits scene.

Story notes

• The rules: Bigger than last time: bigger budget, bigger cast, bigger body count.
• The rules: Whatever happened last time, expect the opposite.
• The rules: No one is safe. Legacy characters are cannon fodder at this point.
• Survivors: Sam Carpenter · Tara Carpenter · Mindy Meeks-Martin · Chad Meeks-Martin · Gale Weathers · Kirby Reed · Danny Brackett

Release facts

• Status: Released. World Premiere March 6, 2023 at the Amc Lincoln Square Theater in Manhattan. Shown in Standard, Reald 3d, 4dx and Dolby Cinema.
• Rated: R for strong bloody violence and language throughout, and brief drug use
• Worldwide: $169,063,850 per The Numbers; $166.6 million per Wikipedia

Scream VI premiered March 6, 2023 at AMC Lincoln Square in Manhattan and opened March 10 in 3,675 theaters, in standard, RealD 3D, 4DX and Dolby Cinema. It made $19.3 million on opening day, including $5.7 million from Thursday previews, and opened to $44.4 million, the best opening in the series. The audience was 71% between 18 and 34 and 51% male. It made $17.5 million in its second weekend behind Shazam! Fury of the Gods and $8.4 million in its third.

It passed $100 million domestic on April 5, the first Scream to do that since Scream 2 in 1997, and became the highest-grossing Scream in the US and Canada in unadjusted dollars. The Numbers lists $108,391,107 domestic and $60,672,743 international for $169,063,850 worldwide; Wikipedia gives $58.2 million international and $166.6 million worldwide. Deadline estimated net profit at $60 million.

Marketing sent people in Ghostface costumes to stand still or walk the streets in several cities, which led to 911 calls. There was also a website that placed personalized Ghostface calls, Scream-themed pop-up meals at restaurant chains, and a walk-through experience in California with franchise props and rebuilt sets, visited by Radio Silence, Mason Gooding, Dermot Mulroney and Tony Revolori.

Rotten Tomatoes has 77% from 316 reviews with an average of 6.7/10; its consensus says parts of the franchise may be going stale but the new setting and set pieces keep it sharp. Metacritic gives 61 from 53 critics. CinemaScore audiences gave a B+, and PostTrak audiences were 87% positive with 74% saying they would definitely recommend it.

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave three out of four stars and called the ending the most outlandish and brutal in the series. Owen Gleiberman of Variety found it too long but clever. Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave four out of five. Simon Thompson of The Playlist gave an A and singled out Hayden Panettiere. Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent gave four out of five. Olly Richards of Empire gave three out of five. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter was mixed. Jack Hawkins of Slashfilm named it one of 2023's most disappointing horror films. Many critics picked out Courteney Cox's chase scene.

Awards: won Best Movie and Best Fight (Courteney Cox vs. Ghostface) at the MTV Movie and TV Awards on May 7, 2023, with "Still Alive" nominated for Best Song. Nominated for Best Horror at the Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards (June 30, 2023). Melissa Barrera nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Golden Scythe Horror Awards (December 8, 2023). Nominated for Best Horror Film Release at the Saturn Awards (February 4, 2024). At the People's Choice Awards (February 18, 2024), Jenna Ortega won The Drama Movie Star of the Year, and the film and Ortega were nominated for The Drama Movie of the Year and The Female Movie Star of the Year. Nominated for Best Horror Movie and Best Actress in a Horror Movie (Ortega) at the Critics' Choice Super Awards (April 4, 2024). The Hollywood Reporter ranked it number three on its list of the best slasher movies of the decade.

Scores

Cast

Crew

Production

Before Scream 4 came out, Kevin Williamson said he had mapped out Scream 5 and 6. His pitch had Jill stalked on a college campus in the fifth film and Gale leading the sixth. That trilogy never happened. After the 2022 film opened, Spyglass green-lit a sixth film on February 3, 2022, with Radio Silence directing and James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick writing again. The release date was set for March 31, 2023, then moved up to March 10. By June 2022 it was known the story would move to New York City. Jenna Ortega said Ghostface would be more aggressive and violent. Busick and Vanderbilt independently arrived at the opening's early unmasking and shift into the killer's point of view, discovering their matching ideas during a Zoom story meeting. Busick remembered a rough first draft taking about four or five weeks, while Vanderbilt recalled the process as faster than the previous film. Williamson had noted the limited running in the 2022 film; he later singled out the sixth film's succession of chase sequences for praise.

Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding and Jenna Ortega were announced in May 2022, and Hayden Panettiere's return as Kirby the next day. Dermot Mulroney joined in early June as a police officer. Jack Champion, Liana Liberato, Devyn Nekoda and Josh Segarra were announced June 16, Henry Czerny June 23, and Samara Weaving and Tony Revolori July 14. The commentary says Revolori got the part partly through his friendship with Gooding. Champion and Liberato did not learn they were the killers until their costume fittings. Mulroney was told up front. Mulroney recalled receiving the screenplay in roughly thirty-page installments after he already knew he was one of the killers. Liberato learned about her callback during a trip to Italy and read Amber's killer-reveal monologue from the previous film. Nekoda recorded an audition with her boyfriend over FaceTime and performed one of Richie's monologues during the casting process. Delia wanted a familiar, likable actor for Bailey so viewers would feel comfortable with him without immediately treating his casting as a clue. Revolori found Jason's brief encounter with Tara particularly difficult: he had to suggest an established college friendship while letting the audience, who already knew he was a killer, sense the menace underneath. Champion approached Ethan's unmasked reveal with more manic energy, while Liberato grounded Quinn's behavior in grief; both described a contrast with the personalities their characters had shown before the reveal.

Neve Campbell announced on June 6, 2022 that she would not return. She said the offer did not equate to the value she had brought to the franchise, and later that she could not bear walking on set feeling undervalued and that the offer would have been different if she were a man. IndieWire called it the end of an era. Arquette, Brown, Barrera, Emma Roberts, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy backed her. Cox told Variety she missed working with her. The directors said in December 2022 that her exit affected the script greatly, and in March 2023 that it changed very little because she left early enough. They used it to focus on the four young survivors.

Principal photography began June 9, 2022 in Montreal, which stood in for New York. The Scream Wiki says the start was first planned for June 6 and gives June 10 as the first day. Panettiere was photographed on set with Brown on August 6, Cox finished her part by August 14, and filming ended in late August. The commentary says the opening with Jason and Laura was shot in the last week.

The subway sequence was built without green screen. Cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz said the special effects team towed a car in and out of the platform set, so the brief shots of a train pulling in are practical. He questioned how much the lights flicker; the directors loved it, and he called the approach heightened naturalism. A real 52-foot subway car was too heavy for the soundstage, so production designer Michele Laliberte's team built one from scratch. Legal cleared extras dressed as famous slashers on the train as long as none of them did the thing they are famous for.

Gale's loft and the narrow alleys meant night work, and the commentary describes four split days running from mid-afternoon to the middle of the night. The chase through the loft was choreographed much longer than what is in the film. The theater climax was moved earlier in the story so Mindy and Gale could be part of finding the shrine, and the shrine was dressed with warehouse touches so it would not look like a repeat of Scream 2's theater finale. Kevin Williamson's note on the reveal was that it had to be primal and emotional, which the team read as family against found family. The theater location was not actually abandoned. The crew used wallpaper to imitate peeling paint, added cobwebs and distressed the space. Laliberté said the earlier sets largely avoided red so the blood would stand out, before the finale moved into the theater's red and burgundy palette. Laliberté initially stopped reading after the opening violence and declined the job. Sherak encouraged her to watch the earlier films, and a conversation with Radio Silence about the finale and their affection for the franchise changed her mind.

The commentary says the directors had very little studio interference and consider the release their preferred cut. Prychidny recalled looking for moments of affection throughout the edit; the shared glances between Sam and Tara became a recurring point of attention. Mulroney offered many different emotional and improvised versions of Bailey's lines. Prychidny described selecting moments of genuine grief over Richie to give the reveal an emotional center as well as its frenzy.

Shot in Montreal doubling for New York between June and August 2022. The subway car was built rather than sourced, dressed with around 200 costumes across 140 extras. Devyn Nekoda performed 34 falls for the ladder sequence. The first film without Sidney Prescott. Neve Campbell declined over pay, saying the offer "did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise". Jack Champion and Liana Liberato were not told they were killers until their costume fittings.

June 9 to late August 2022, roughly eleven weeks, in Montreal. Sherbrooke Street in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce housed Abe's Snake Bodega and other exteriors. McGill's downtown campus became Blackmore University. The concert venue Le National became the shrine, dressed as an old movie theater. La Fontaine Park doubled for Central Park. The production added yellow taxis, changed store names and added Halloween decoration to sell New York. The subway platform was built on stage; instead of green screen, 70 feet of programmable lights ran down each side, with fabric diffusion and an operator cued over walkie-talkie to simulate a passing train, and the flicker was deliberate to create what Jutkiewicz called "heightened naturalism." A replica subway car was built from scratch because a real 52-foot car would have buckled the soundstage. The ladder sequence combined a real five-story building for wide shots with soundstage work for the closer angles. The alleyway was recreated on a 4-foot soundstage for safety. Jutkiewicz switched from anamorphic to spherical lenses for this entry, wanting something "a bit more true to how the eye sees" and "a little grittier."

Neve Campbell declined to return over her offer from Paramount: "I felt the offer that presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise." She later said she could not bear "walking on set and feeling undervalued," and that "the offer would have been different had she been a man." This is the only Scream film to date without her. Hayden Panettiere's return as Kirby Reed, now with the FBI, was announced May 11, 2022. Tony Revolori was cast late in production, largely through his friendship with Mason Gooding. Jack Champion and Liana Liberato did not learn they were playing the killers until a costume fitting and, per the commentary, "lost their minds." Dermot Mulroney knew in advance. It was the selling point for taking the job.

In December 2022 the directors said Campbell's absence affected the script "greatly"; by March 2023 they were saying the script changed "very little" because she exited early enough in the process.

Devyn Nekoda performed 34 falls off the ladder. Mason Gooding crashing through the van window was an accident. "Mason is really strong." Alex Cadieux choreographed a chase three to four times longer than what appears on screen. Ghost Face's floor crawl toward Gale is nicknamed on set "the shark attack." Detective Bailey is stabbed 43 times, including an eye stab. Dermot Mulroney said of his scream, "it was the first time that sound ever came out of my body."

Melissa Barrera suggested Sam and Danny already be secretly dating rather than developing on screen, and suggested the beer-can distraction in the bodega. Jasmin Savoy Brown added the kiss between Mindy and Anika before the ladder scene and improvised "fuck this franchise" after being stabbed on the subway. Jenna Ortega asked "Where's my asthma?" while reviewing the script, which is why Tara keeps the inhaler. Champion and Nekoda improvised swapping hats to establish rapport.

All Montreal, Quebec, standing in for New York City.

LocationAddress · Scene

Bar (opening)368 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest · Laura Crane / Jason opening

AlleyDollard Street (opposite the above) · Laura's murder

Jason Carvey's apartment3540 Rue Durocher · Jason and Greg's apartment; the fridge

Sam and Tara's apartment251 Rue Milton (exterior) · The building; fire-escape sequence

Attack on Tara3412 Avenue Harvard · Street attack

Bodega ("Abe's Snake")5701 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest · The bodega siege

Police station810 Rue Saint-Hubert · NYPD exterior

Dr. Stone's office/residence419 Rue Prince Arthur Ouest · Therapist's death

"Blackmore University"McGill University, 845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest · Campus

Courtyard3567 Rue Durocher · Courtyard scenes

Le National theatre1220 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est · Interior work

Parc La Fontaine, 3819 Avenue Calixa-Lavallée, Montreal: The Central Park stakeout.

Gale's apartment building456 Rue De La Gauchetière Ouest · Gale's loft

Empress Theatre5550 Sherbrooke Street West · Theatre/shrine exterior

Theatre alleyRue de Boisbriand / Rue Saint-Dominique · Alley sequence

The Ghostface shrine in the abandoned theater is a museum of the franchise, containing all nine previous Ghostface costumes (Billy, Stu, Nancy, Mickey, Roman, Jill, Charlie, Amber, Richie), Billy's in a glass case at the center.

Artefacts from Scream (1996): Steve Orth's letterman jacket (with duct tape) on a mannequin in a chair; the rope used to hang Casey Becker; Tatum's green top and orange skirt; Billy's white T-shirt; Stu's red robe; the television that killed Stu; Kenny's hat, jacket and camera; Randy's video-store shirt.

From Scream 2: the Agamemnon/Cassandra stage masks and the sun prop Derek was crucified on; Nancy Loomis' white "Debbie Salt" suit.

From Scream 3: the fax machine; Roman's voice changer; a Stab 3 clapperboard and script pages; a frying pan.

From Scream 4: Jill Roberts' and Olivia Morris' outfits; Stab-a-thon memorabilia.

From Scream (2022): the lighter from the house explosion.

Plus generic Stab memorabiliamasks, posters, knives, film reels, and Gale's books.

Richie's homemade Stab film is shown in flashback: his amateur fan production, made in the Bailey family's Midwest home.

Mindy addresses the fan theory that Stu Macher survived and the film explicitly confirms he is dead, a position Scream 7 then complicates.

A subway extra is dressed as Sherrie, Lucy Hale's character from the in-universe Stab 6.

The apartment set gained a shared bathroom with two entrances so Ghostface could get around the blocked bedroom door before the ladder escape. Champion wore the Ghostface costume for the beat in which the killer looks up at Danny's window and tilts his head, alongside his credited role as Ethan. Laliberté recalled showing the directors progressively bloodier mock-ups of the white bathroom on her iPad so they could choose how far to push the splatter. The Core Four's dinner used overlapping dialogue and improvised jokes to make the group feel like a family. Brown sometimes made off-camera jokes to provoke genuine reactions, while the edit kept the laughs and glances rather than every improvised line.

Gale's attack was filmed in a real residence. The scene was adjusted to fit the location, and the art department installed padded columns and patches of linoleum to protect the floors from the action and fake blood. Jackson performed Gale's phone call live. Gillett recalled him staying in the Ghostface voice even when the crew spoke to him between instructions; the film also gave Jackson a solo on-screen credit.

The art department spent about eight weeks building the subway car and the 96th Street station set. A mirror made the single carriage appear to continue into a second car, avoiding the cost of constructing two.

The bodega attack was originally meant to continue into a taxi chase and a flipped cab. The schedule made that plan impractical, so the filmmakers expanded the action inside the shop instead. The ladder escape also briefly became a drainpipe escape in a rewrite before the team returned to the ladder. Mason Gooding recalled that the bodega shotgun had been decommissioned, but Tyler Gillett still asked for its chamber to be plugged as an extra precaution. Jutkiewicz cited the children hiding from the raptors in Jurassic Park's kitchen as one reference for the bodega's movement and hiding places.

For weeks before filming, Radio Silence prepared versions with and without Sidney while Campbell's participation remained unresolved. The finished film explains her absence by having her take her family somewhere safe.

Filming locations

• 368 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montreal: The bar in the opening
• Dollard Street, Montreal: The alley where Laura is killed
• 3540 Rue Durocher, Montreal: Jason and Greg's apartment
• 251 Rue Milton, Montreal: Exterior of Sam and Tara's apartment building
• 3412 Avenue Harvard, Montreal: The street attack on the sisters
• 5701 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal: Abe's Snake Bodega
• Sherbrooke Street, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal: Street scenes, dressed with New York yellow cabs
• 810 Rue Saint-Hubert, Montreal: Police station exterior
• 419 Rue Prince Arthur Ouest, Montreal: Dr. Stone's home office
• McGill University, 845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal: Blackmore University
• 3567 Rue Durocher, Montreal: University courtyard scenes
• Le National, 1220 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montreal: Theater interiors for the Ghostface shrine
• Empress Theatre, 5550 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal: Theater exterior
• Rue de Boisbriand near Rue Saint-Dominique, Montreal: The theater alley
• 456 Rue De La Gauchetière Ouest, Montreal: Gale's apartment building

Effects and makeup

Adrien Morot is credited with special makeup effects through his company Morot FX Studio. Kathy Kelso headed the makeup department.

Devyn Nekoda did 34 falls off the ladder. They were not done at the real ten-foot alley location but on a four-foot soundstage copy that Laliberte's team rebuilt.

Stunt performer Max Laferriere played Ghostface, and the crew nicknamed this version Terminator Ghostface because of his physical style. Alexandre Cadieux coordinated stunts.

When Chad throws Ethan against the van, Mason Gooding and Jack Champion broke the window by accident, per the commentary.

In the finale Wayne Bailey takes 43 stab wounds including one through the eye. Mulroney said the scream he made was a sound his body had never made before.

The directors' commentary describes reducing Chad's visible stabbing from fourteen to seven during editing. That is an account of the cut, rather than a medical tally of separate wounds. Prychidny said the edit sometimes held the Ghostfaces relatively still so the scene could remain on Tara's emotional reaction without adding still more stabs. Gooding remembered being surprised during dialogue recording that Chad survived a sequence whose earlier version had been substantially longer.

A shot of Bailey standing over Quinn's body was removed and a throat slash was added in post-production to sell her fake death.

The film was released in RealD 3D, the only Scream to date shown that way, with Yoichiro Aoki as stereoscopic supervisor.

Nekoda spent about two and a half hours in prosthetic makeup for Anika's body after the fall. The ground shot took about twenty minutes; she drew on her dance training to find the contorted position. The stage replica of the alley used casts of the real location's brickwork to match the exterior shots.

Props and costumes

Avery Plewes designed the costumes.

The shrine's props and costumes are recreations built by the art and costume departments, not originals from the earlier films. It displays the robes of past killers, Billy Loomis's costume and knife in a case, and the television that killed Stu Macher, which Kirby uses on Ethan.

The killer leaves old masks at each scene: Richie and Amber's at Jason's apartment, Jill and Charlie's at the bodega, Roman Bridger's at Dr. Stone's, and a Windsor College mask at the apartment attack.

Richie's childhood Ghostface movie mixes Jack Quaid's real home videos with new footage and his voiceover. The title font comes from the first two seasons of Twin Peaks. Adam Stand and Adriana King shot the inserts on weekends, and King appears in the footage. Quaid and three friends had made sketches and fake trailers for Epic Fest, a summer competition in which their classmates voted on the videos. He recalled first seeing his Christmas-episode clip in the finished film at its New York premiere.

The police murder board needed approved headshots of many past actors, and usable photos of Timothy Olyphant were hard to find, per the commentary. The Scream Wiki lists photos of Matthew Lillard, Timothy Olyphant, Laurie Metcalf, Scott Foley, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin and Mikey Madison.

Tara carries an inhaler because Jenna Ortega asked where Tara's asthma went when she read the script.

Ethan and Anika swap hats between the party and the park scene, an idea the two actors came up with.

The Scream Wiki says the directors and the script put a subway passenger in the Lakewood Slasher costume from the MTV Scream series, though no footage of it has turned up.

Extras on the subway set chant "Evil dies tonight!", per the commentary. The subway costumes included Grace from Ready or Not. Plewes had designed the original film's costumes, then recreated that look as a Halloween outfit for Scream VI.

The aged mask. The conceit is that each killer inherits a previous killer's mask, so they decay by generation, the one in the shrine is presented as Billy Loomis's original from 1996, and Sam wears it herself in the finale.

The wardrobe team matched the shrine's replicas to the earlier films. Jill's shirt came from a children's Abercrombie resale listing, while Tatum's turtleneck replica had the right texture but needed to be dyed neon yellow. Billy's robe retained the first film's drawstring neck and attached gloves, which made its planned on-camera removal impractical. Plewes described assistants checking the earlier films frame by frame to recover wardrobe details that could not simply be found online.

Plewes used aged doll faces as a reference for the hand-painted, deteriorated masks. The masks were kept in unmarked shoeboxes to protect the reveal. Plewes said the robe and mask were sent directly to set in an unmarked garment bag rather than having the performer dress as Ghostface in a trailer. The wardrobe also included small tributes: Tara and Kirby wore peridot, Craven's birthstone, and Gale's signet ring carried a “W” for both Wes and Weathers. Quinn's necklace represents a family tree. Plewes also put Bailey and Ethan in plaid at points in the film, echoing a pattern worn by earlier killers. Fun World supplied dozens of masks, and Plewes recalled the team hand-painting at least ten that were worn, along with a smaller number used only as props. The distressed designs were artistic choices, not a demonstration of how those masks would really age.

The killers

Deaths

Brian Tyler returned and was joined by Sven Faulconer as co-composer, announced in January 2023, Faulconer's first feature. Wikipedia says new themes were written and Beltrami's earlier themes were not reused. The commentary says every licensed song lands in the first 35 minutes, and after that the film leans on "Red Right Hand."

Scream VI (Music from the Motion Picture), Paramount Music, March 10, 2023; 38 tracks, 95:23, opening with the Scream VI Suite. A six-minute suite premiered on Collider on March 9, 2023. It is the first Scream score album not released by Varèse Sarabande on first release, but Varèse and Craft Recordings put out a double CD with a 12-page booklet of set photos on September 1, 2023 and a double LP on 180-gram vinyl in stab green and black, in a gatefold with art by Doaly, on December 1, 2023.

"Still Alive" by Demi Lovato, written by Lovato, Mike Shinoda and Laura Veltz, was the lead single, released March 3, 2023 by Island Records. The video premiered on Good Morning America.

"In My Head" by Mike Shinoda featuring Kailee Morgue was released March 10, 2023.

Songs in the film: "Sí o No" by Tatiana Hazel; "Picaflor" by Lao Ra and C. Tangana; "In My Head" by Mike Shinoda and Kailee Morgue; "October Passed Me By" by girl in red; "Bijoux" by Soap; "Blow the Whistle" by Too Short; "Menthol" by Jean Dawson featuring Mac DeMarco; "Luchini AKA This Is It" by Camp Lo; "Walkin'" by Denzel Curry; "When the Party's Over" by Billie Eilish; "You Have Stolen My Heart" by Brian Fallon; "I Am Controlled by Your Love" by Helene Smith; "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; "Right Now" by Hugo Basclain; "Same Squad" by P-Lo; "Still Alive" by Demi Lovato.

The knock on Dr. Stone's door is a sound effect taken from Ti West's Pearl, per the commentary.

• Brian Tyler returned, joined by Sven Faulconer. "Still Alive" by Demi Lovato was the lead single, released March 3, 2023 on Island Records. "In My Head" by Mike Shinoda featuring Kailee Morgue followed on March 10, 2023. The score album was released March 10, 2023 by Paramount Music. Per the commentary, every needle drop occurs within the first 35 minutes; from there the film relies on "Red Right Hand." The door-knock sound effect is lifted from Ti West's Pearl.

Home Media

• Digital and Paramount+ streaming, US, April 25, 2023. Two-movie digital collection with Scream (2022) the same day.
• VOD, United Kingdom, Ireland and other regions, May 9, 2023. It debuted at number one on the UK Official Film Chart.
• 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD, US, July 11, 2023, from Paramount, with a 4K SteelBook also announced. Features: commentary by the directors, writers and executive producer; Death Comes to the City; The Faces of Death; More Meta than Meta; Bloodbath at a Bodega; An Apartment to Die For; The Night Train to Terror; Theater of Blood. A gag reel was a digital exclusive.
• Blu-ray 3D from the German label Turbine, February 8, 2025.
• The Numbers estimates US home video sales at $5,841,764 ($1,856,247 DVD, $3,985,517 Blu-ray).

• "Still Alive" single by Demi Lovato, Island Records, March 3, 2023.
• Scream VI (Music from the Motion Picture) digital album, Paramount Music, March 10, 2023.
• Scream VI score double CD with 12-page booklet, Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings, September 1, 2023.
• Scream VI score double LP, 180-gram stab green and black vinyl, gatefold with art by Doaly, Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings, December 1, 2023.
• 4K Ultra HD SteelBook, Paramount, July 11, 2023.
• Blu-ray 3D, Turbine (Germany), 2025.

Where to watch

Trailers and videos

Official Teaser Trailer

Paramount Pictures Australia

The first teaser, showing Ghost Face arriving in New York.

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Official Trailer

Paramount Pictures

The main trailer from Paramount's own channel.

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Official Trailer, international

Paramount Pictures International

The same trailer from Paramount's international channel.

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Official Trailer

Paramount Pictures Australia

The full trailer from the Australian channel.

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Final Trailer

Paramount Pictures UK

The final trailer from the UK channel.

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Teaser Trailer

Paramount Pictures UK

The teaser from the UK channel.

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Official Trailer, home release

Paramount Pictures UK

The official trailer as used for the UK home release.

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Super Bowl Spot

Paramount Pictures UK

The short commercial that ran during the Super Bowl.

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Ghost Face in New York

Paramount Movies

A featurette about moving the story to New York City.

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Behind the Screams

Paramount Movies

A very short behind the scenes piece shot upright for phones.

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Behind The Scenes with the Cast

Paramount Movies

Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera talking on set.

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The Bodega Scene, in full

Paramount Movies

SPOILERS

The complete corner shop attack, released by the studio.

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Making Of, behind the scenes

STREAM WARS

A compilation of on set footage from the sixth film.

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A Look Inside with the Cast

FilmIsNow Epic Movie Zone

The cast describing the film over behind the scenes footage.

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Raw Camera Footage

FilmIsNow Epic Movie Zone

Unedited footage shot on set.

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The Cast Find Out Which Original Characters They Are

BuzzFeed Celeb

A light interview game with the cast.

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Ghost Face With A Shotgun

JoBlo Movie Clips

SPOILERS

The scene where Ghost Face uses a shotgun in the corner shop.

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The Opening Kill

JoBlo Movie Clips

SPOILERS

The film's opening murder.

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Ghost Face is Home

Paramount Movies

A studio promotion for the home release.

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Watch Now At Home

Paramount Movies

Another studio promotion for watching at home.

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Ghost Face Sleep Story

Paramount Movies

A novelty promotion where Ghost Face reads a bedtime story.

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