The Scream Franchise Outfit Commentary: Part 2
It's here! Happy Scream Weekend everyone!
First off, hello. Second, I saw Scream (5) last night and I LOOOOVED it. It’s exactly the kind of movie you should see in theaters, enjoy the crowd reactions, drink $7 Diet Coke, then walk home hashing out all the other theories of who should’ve been the murderer?(s?)? I’m not telling you anything. Except that I laughed plenty and thought it was very clever, and maybe whoever does the movie reviews at Vulture and The New York Times should be people who actually like the franchise. Just a thought.
Without further ado….
Sidney’s Frat Letters
The one thing I should’ve gotten out of being involved in an off-campus knock-off sorority in college was having no problem figuring out whatever the next version of Covid would be, but then we passed Delta and it’s just like??? Where the FUCK did epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu AND xi go??? I get how politically they wouldn’t wanna do Xi but did we just blast through all of those without knowing? Anyway. I think it’s hilarious this was probably filmed at the height of frats being cool and the writers were like, “this is the only way people will know she’s cool. She’s not IN a sorority, but a FRAT GUY loves her.”
Gale Weathers as 2015 Bushwick Bartender
The baby bangs were a master stroke in the arc of Gale Weathers’ transformation from local news reporter to Someone Everyone Should Start Taking Seriously. The baby bangs say: I will do anything. I am water. I will fill to the shape of my container. I will figure this situation out, no matter what it takes. Unclear what is going on with the huge statement necklace here, but I think it’s just to draw the eyes to a more balanced resting place.
Maureen Prescott Haunting Sidney in a Sleeping Gown from A Christmas Carol
I crack up every time this scene happens. All I am saying about this is that Sidney’s mom Maureen is not hot here, nor in the young picture they show later, and regardless of that being rude I just think it’s a bit of a plot hole if she was supposed to be such a big hoe. Like, we’re supposed to believe this lady is pulling Liev Schreiber.
Carrie Fisher, Smoking in an Office in the year 2000
This look? No notes. Iconic. “…I look just like her? I’ve been hearing it all my life. I was up for Princess Leia. I was this close. So, who gets it? The one who sleeps with George Lucas.”
The Parker Posey Playing Gale Weathers Gale-Off
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, the casting of the movie-within-the-movie, Stab, is incredible. Parker’s outfits as she continually gets more into character over the course of the movie get so meta that she basically wears an outfit that Gale just wore earlier in this current movie.
Kirby (what a name!) Dressed Like A 21-Year-Old At Their First Office Job All of Scream 4
I remember senior year of high school, I started incorporating a few blazers like this, thinking I was cool (to be fair this movie came out the year after I graduated) and I was voted “most unique wardrobe.” I do not think that this was a compliment.
The Painful Accuracy of the Circa-2011 Teen Popular Girl
There actually aren’t that many things to comment on in Scream 4 because the department did so well. I have an actual pang of nostalgia every time I watch because the outfits and hairstyles are too good. I won’t speculate on whether Kristen Bell and Anna Paquin were really supposed to be teenagers in Ke$ha’s 2011.
And as a special preview…(no spoilers, I promise)
The Character in the New Scream That Seems Unstuck In Time
Maybe I’m just old. But this doesn’t track to me. This is 2005, she’s still reallllly shaken by the Matrix Revolutions and Matrix Reloaded. The housing bubble is but a Lehman Brothers’ dream. She doesn’t know about a strongwilled Black man in Chicago looking to make a difference. Her dad still calls them Freedom Fries.
Happy Scream Weekend everyone remember to never go into the basement alone!!!!!