If you’re trying to avoid all SPOILERS when it comes to the new Scream movie… well, unfortunately there’s a potential spoiler right there in the video embed above. A TV spot for the new Scream has arrived online, and this one is catching a lot of attention because it features a moment in which Ghostface, wearing a metallic version of the iconic mask, is seen blasting away at someone with a flamethrower. That seems like a hell of a moment to give away in a TV spot… if it actually happens within the story of the movie.
I have a feeling this metal-masked, flamethrower-wielding Ghostface may really be from a movie-within-the-movie clip, as it seems like something that would happen in one of the many Stab sequels that exist in the world of the Scream films. To me, it comes off like a nod to the metallic hockey mask seen on the cover of Jason Goes to Hell, or to the metal mask of Uber Jason in Jason X.
We’ll find out for sure when the new Scream reaches theatres on January 14, 2022.
This Scream “legacy-quel” is coming to us from Ready or Not (watch it HERE) directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The screenplay was written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Vanderbilt also produced the film for Project X Entertainment, alongside Paul Neinstein and William Sherak. Chad Villella, Gary Barber, Peter Oillataguerre, Ron Lynch, Cathy Konrad, and Marianne Maddalena serve as executive producers alongside original Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
The film has the following synopsis:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
You can read our set visit interview with the directors at THIS LINK, and our set visit interview with cast members HERE.
Returning franchise stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette are joined in the cast by Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Dylan Minnette, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Kyle Gallner, and Sonia Ammar, as well as Scream 4‘s Marley Shelton.
The new Scream has been rated R for “strong bloody violence, language throughout, and some sexual references“.