Scream 7 director, Kevin Williamson Interview

"I am Kevin Williamson and I am the director of Scream 7, I am also one of the writers as well as the writer of the first one, the second one, the fourth one and so on.

Now that I've directed it, yes, of course, I've always wanted to direct one. I didn't realize I... you know, you don't know what you want until you got it and then, you know, it all works out and uh... when I got the phone call and it became a reality and a real thing, I was like: 'yes, I do want to do this. I really desperately want to do this with all my heart'.

The thing that makes this movie so special for me is that Neve Campbell is back in a big way. In this movie, this is about Sidney. It's really about Sidney Prescott. What would happen if she had a daughter that was exactly the same age as she was when this all started back in 1996? And and what relevance that would have with her? She's been pursued by a series of killers throughout her entire life and how does that affect her her mothering her child? And how does she parent? And uh... I think that's what we explore in the film.

I love Scream so much. It is so personal to me. It is so my childhood, it is my early career, it is everything to me. So to do a Scream movie, uh... it just sort of reignited all those feelings.

Sidney Prescott desperately wants to protect her children and she wants to keep her her daughter from having to uh... sort of experience what she experienced. She wants a different life for them. And so when, you know, Ghostface comes calling, Sidney has to become the warrior that she's, you know, that we all know her to be. And not only that, she has to teach her daughter what what it means to be, you know, to be a warrior and a survivor.

I think what makes Ghostface so terrifying is you just don't know who Ghostface is. In every movie it's somebody different with a different person, a different motive. Is it one person, two people, three people? You know, we've played it so many different ways over this franchise, you don't know what you're going to get. And it's always a different character and it's always a different motive. And it's usually someone you know.

I love the horror genre, loved it since I was a little kid. And I just think I think uh... scary works so well for an audience. I think we love to go into the dark and be scared. And I just think it's such a rollercoaster ride. I think nothing's better than a really good horror film.

I just think people love to be scared. I think the whodunnit, the mystery, that's what makes it unique. There's ghost stories, there's, you know, monster movies, there's all sorts of stories, but a man with a knife in the dark is just for me immensely scary.

Sidney Prescott and her family come under attack by a new and vicious Ghostface killer. It's a story about a mother and daughter um... trying to connect and uh... you know, a daughter who desperately wants to know her mother and wants to wants her mother to tell her about her past and and she just wants to truly connect and know her mother in a very deep way and a mother who keeps shutting it down and and cutting herself off from her daughter because she doesn't want to relive her past.

Isabelle May is such a terrific actress. When we were casting Tatum, I wanted someone that uh... that rich, that that had that much more that emotional life that just sort of like leaped out of her. She has so much depth, so much heaviness, so much seriousness. She was very much Sidney Prescott's daughter.

Nothing is ever easy in a Scream film. And I think for Gale and Sidney, their relationship um... you know, it's built on their past and so I love their relationship because it is sort of a push-pull, it is sort of... it's not easy, you know, it's it's not without its strife and they fight and they bicker and they argue and they disagree, but they also have a great care and love and trust for one another. And I just love them as um... I love their sisterhood in this franchise.

I think with a a Scream film, you get you're taken on a rollercoaster ride. You know, it's comedy, it's drama, it's horror, it's blood, it's guts, it's it's um... jump scares, it's set pieces, it's um... I think we kind of have it all.

You want to watch these movies in a crowd full of people. You want to have that communal experience. You want to have people jumping and screaming and you want to be able to laugh after the after the scream and you all want to sort of pat yourself on the back and and there's sort of a comfort in the communal experience."