Scream 7 (2026)
Scream 7 is a 2026 horror movie directed by Kevin Williamson and Guy Busick, with a running time of 1h 54m. It stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Isabel May.
Sidney Prescott built a quiet life far from the killings that shaped her, until a new Ghostface surfaces and marks her daughter as its next target. Neve Campbell returns alongside Courteney Cox, with Isabel May as the daughter now pulled into the mask's game. Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original, directs this seventh chapter and keeps the series' trademark mix of real dread and knowing wit about its own rules. The premise is simple and personal: a mother who survived everything, forced back into the one fight she can never fully win.
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What is Scream 7 about?
Sidney Prescott built a quiet life far from the killings that shaped her, until a new Ghostface surfaces and marks her daughter as its next target. Neve Campbell returns alongside Courteney Cox, with Isabel May as the daughter now pulled into the mask's game. Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original, directs this seventh chapter and keeps the series' trademark mix of real dread and knowing wit about its own rules. The premise is simple and personal: a mother who survived everything, forced back into the one fight she can never fully win.
When was Scream 7 released?
Scream 7 was released on 25 February 2026.
How long is Scream 7?
Scream 7 runs 1h 54m.
Who made Scream 7?
Scream 7 was directed by Kevin Williamson, Guy Busick and James Vanderbilt.
Where can I watch Scream 7?
Scream 7 is available on Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Scream 7
Stream: Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime)
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Neve Campbell as Sidney Evans
- Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers
- Isabel May as Tatum Evans
- Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin
- Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin
- Roger L. Jackson as 'The Voice' (voice)
- Anna Camp as Jessica Bowden
- Joel McHale as Mark Evans
- Celeste O'Connor as Chloe Parker
- Sam Rechner as Ben Brown
- Asa Germann as Lucas Bowden
- Mckenna Grace as Hannah Thurman
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A few thoughts on Scream 7
Slasher fans who like their killers self-aware should read American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis at his most coldly funny about violence. For pure Japanese horror craft, the Uzumaki manga turns a whole town into a spiral of dread. Then play Until Dawn, a branching teen-slasher where every choice can get someone killed.
Slasher stories self-aware enough to name their own rules
Scream 7 keeps the franchise's trick of a killer, and a cast, who understand exactly which horror-movie rules they are following. Scary Movie and its new sequel push that same self-awareness into open parody, Phantom of the Paradise wears its genre references on its sleeve, and Future Diary hands its survivors an explicit rulebook for staying alive.
A killer with a game to play, and rules you have to follow to survive it
Ghostface always frames the hunt as a game with explicit rules, and these push that same idea from other directions. Saw and Saw III turn survival into a series of forced choices, Jigsaw and Spiral keep bending that format into new corners, Until Dawn hands players the same rewind-and-choose stakes, and The Promised Neverland traps its kids inside a system with rules of its own.
A parent standing between their kid and something with a body count
Sidney spends Scream 7 trying to keep her daughter out of Ghostface's reach. The Last of Us follows a guardian doing whatever it takes to keep one kid alive, The Institute follows kids who need an adult on their side to escape, Locke & Key keeps a family fighting to protect each other, and Amityville 3-D turns a haunted house into a threat to that family's safety.