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When I saw the new Scream film earlier this year, the audience was a mix of zoomers sitting at the back giggling at how rubbish it was, and people my age and older fighting the urge to go, “No, see, it’s actually really cool and good how they say what the plot is and then that actually is the plot!” There were just too many layers to peel off the metafictional onion for a generation who didn’t love the original Scream from 1996. Heck, Scream 5 even opens with a joke about how kids today only like ‘prestige’ horror like The Babadook.

I’m convinced that there’s a middle ground, where you can have a slasher horror that loves the tropes and knows how to work them, but still feels smart and fresh in 2022. And, preferably, stars pro-wrestler and part-time actor David Arquette. This week I played some of The Quarry.

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