We finally caught a screening of Scream 7, and I’ll be blunt: I’m struggling to remember the last time a movie gave me exactly what I asked for, yet executed it so poorly that I ended up hating it. The franchise that pioneered the "meta" slasher seems to have finally tripped over its own tropes. While there are flashes of the classic Scream tension, the film ultimately collapses under the weight of a nonsensical motive and a blatant lack of original identity. The "Stolen" AI