Scream 7

A woman in Sidney's neighborhood receives a FaceTime call she thinks is from a long-lost relative. The face and voice are perfect — and completely fabricated. Ghostface has a new tool. When the murder makes local news, Sidney's PTSD fires immediately: the message left at the scene says "unfinished business" and names her. Mindy and Chad call. Gale heads to California, notebook and ambition in hand.

The kills escalate and a pattern takes shape: victims are connected to Sidney's family, involved in true crime content about the Woodsboro murders, or have built followings off the killings. The taunts get worse — Ghostface calls Sidney impersonating Billy, Stu, even Dewey, blending archival audio with deepfake reconstruction. Sidney's teenage daughter Tatum, headstrong and already resentful of being overprotected, becomes the real focus. Her private messages are leaked. Her boyfriend Ben is attacked in a parking lot. Deepfake videos of Sidney "confessing" to the original killings are sent directly to Tatum.

The killer lures the group to an abandoned soundstage filled with props from a canceled streaming series about Woodsboro. Giant screens broadcast AI-perfect recreations of Stu Macher and Roman Bridger, taunting Sidney with their lines and mannerisms. The film lets the possibility of something supernatural hang in the air before Mindy notices the glitches — wrong lighting, voice artifacts — and breaks it down: high-end deepfake puppeteering. Mindy and Chad run the "legacy legacy-quel" playbook, half-joking, half-terrified. The joke is getting old. The bodies are not.

The True Crime Expo outside town — Woodsboro merch, VR Ghostface experiences, monetized trauma — is exactly the kind of event Gale would cover and Sidney would never attend. But Tatum vanishes, a Ghostface message names the expo as the finale, and they have no choice. At the expo: Ben Brown, Tatum's boyfriend, is revealed as one killer — a Ghostface-franchise obsessive from underground fan communities who sees the killings as a story engine that should never end. The architect is Jessica Macher, Sidney's neighbor, revealed as Stu's sister, living under an alias and nursing a decades-long grudge over how the world made Sidney a celebrity and turned her family name into a punchline. She built the AI deepfake pipelines. She designed the whole system.