Film Preview: Scream 7 (2026)

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(November 9, 2025) Original
(February 15, 2026) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#12)
(March 1, 2026) New Trailer (#3) — New Posters (#13-#14)

Release Date:

February 27, 2026

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target.”

Poster Rating: C+ / B / C / C+ / C- / C+ / C / A- / C / C / B- / C / C (2)

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Review: (#1, C+) It’s a bit surprising that the series started out with this design. Typically, they are much more simplistic. This one, however takes those teasing elements and adds a house on fire in the knife reflection, which ties the older films into the newer one quite effectively.

(#2, B) A solid stacking of character images with them doing far too little to distinguish each of them. The red-yellow blend with the black-red-and-white is unnecessarily warm, even if that flows directly from the burning house in the background. (#3, C) An ’80s-inspired effort with too much white background, too much ill-fitting splatter and more reliance on infusing yellow into an established color scheme. (#4, C+) Reminiscing back to the original Scream poster design, it’s striking from a nostalgia perspective but it was never a thrilling design to begin with. (#5, C-) Since they are leaning heavily into the fire motif, it seems appropriate but unappealing to melt the mask in an inferno of overused colors. (#6, C+) Clearly the film is sticking with this color scheme and while this is an improvement over several other designs, it lacks much in the way of details. (#7, C) Another fiery, mask-melting design that is less boring than the prior but still underwhelming.

(#8, A-) After several garbage designs, it’s nice to see something that has some uniqueness to it. Rather than the red-yellow-black of the prior efforts, this focuses more on blending red and blue. The knife’s-edge to the 7 is a nice effect, though the blood on the blade doesn’t quite fit. It’s also a lot of characters to feature in one design, especially when they aren’t doing much but it’s a significant improvement over everything else this film has submitted so far. (#9, C) Dolby’s on fire. While that format once had some fairly strong, unique designs made for it, most of the more recent ones have fallen down a similar mediocre path to the underwhelming IMAX efforts. (#10, C) Back to black-white-and-red without excitement, background detail, or style. (#11, B-) A decent attempt to try something new. We’ve got many of the characters and a burning house but the yellow-blue blended with the red-black is still a poor choice. (#12, C) We’ll finish off the format specific with a smoky blend of prior design elements of the film series combined with the fiery house motif of this particular film, the blend of which isn’t that interesting.

(#13-#14, C) A pair of incredibly dull character posters featuring original film carry-overs Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell along with Ghostface, one of the few iconic horror villains still poking around.

Trailer Rating: B / C / C

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Review: (#1, B) Rather than teasing its premise like some prior entries in this series, the producers have chosen instead to dig into the plot entirely, giving a brief set up to the opening sequences and then bringing back two of the series’ most important stars. While the storyline is given perhaps too much information, the killer’s identity and who from Sidney Prescott’s past could be threatening her daughter it could be, are kept out of the trailer, it gives a surprising amount of heft to the mystery, which is what this series has always relied on. That alone helps keep the trailer from feeling well worn and predictable.

(#2, C) A far too short teaser announcing tickets on sale. Unless the viewer has seen the trailer or is already a fan, this effort will fall flat in its aims.

(#3, C) When you have a familiar brand, sometimes it’s best to let the brand speak for itself and this trailer doesn’t do that. It wants to highlight the return of one of the characters missing from the prior film but also feels derivative with the attempts to keep bringing in younger generations falling a flat.