8 Things About Scream 7 That Make No Sense

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The latest movie delivers what fans expect from the series: clever self-awareness, emotional moments with returning characters, and some impressively gruesome deaths. This should bring in a large audience and boost the franchise. However, despite being a mystery, some of the plot twists don’t hold up under scrutiny.

The new Scream movie suffers from confusing plot points, misleading clues, and shocking reveals that don’t quite add up, leaving several holes in the story. Things like Ben’s strange video, Jessica’s unclear reasons for acting as she does, and how Ghostface managed to get into Sidney’s secure home are just a few of the moments that don’t make much sense.

One of the most obvious misdirections in the movie involves Sidney’s daughter, Tatum (Isabel May), and her boyfriend, Ben (Sam Rechner). They escape the Ghostface attack at the bar where all their friends are killed. However, Ben makes a silly mistake by leaving his laptop open, revealing a deepfake video he was creating of Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). This mirrors a similar moment in the original 1996 film when Sidney’s boyfriend accidentally drops a revealing cell phone.

Tatum is horrified when Ben starts repeating the cruel insults that AI Stu used against Sidney. She hits him and flees, unknowingly setting in motion the events that lead to Ben being fatally stabbed by Ghostface.

The movie had already shown us Ben was good with technology, which is why Sidney first suspected him. The scene with the laptop was a deliberate misdirection, designed to make both Tatum and the audience believe, for a moment, that Ben was one of the killers. But he wasn’t, and that leads to the question: what was he making those videos for?

Some fans of Scream 7 suggest Ben was simply testing a theory – creating a fake video to see if someone could have created the original Stu footage. However, it seems unlikely he’d choose the most shocking lines to repeat, and it doesn’t make sense that he wouldn’t tell Tatum, especially while they were all together at the tavern, that he was planning this.

Okay, so apparently Tatum is around 17 years old in Scream 7. That’s a little weird because, if you do the math, that would mean she was born before the first Scream movie! It’s strange because Sidney never said anything about being married to Mark or even having a kid in the original film. We only find out she’s a mom in the newer Scream movie from 2022. It just feels like a bit of a continuity issue, you know?

Sidney was dealing with a lot of trouble in Scream 4, so it’s surprising her young child wasn’t mentioned when she was around family or close friends.

The creepy, older version of Stu who was bothering Sidney on FaceTime turned out to be a fake, made using Marco’s artificial intelligence skills. However, one question remains: where did Marco and Jessica come up with the line, “I always had a thing for ya, Sid?”

As a big movie fan, I’ve always wondered how the characters in the earlier films could possibly know all those specific details. Sidney did write a memoir, which unfortunately fueled Jessica’s obsession, but it was basically a self-help book. It just feels unlikely that she’d have included really tiny, detailed information like that in it.

It’s possible the filmmakers included the lost autopsy results as a hint that Stu Macher might still be alive, even though he wasn’t the Ghostface killer in this movie. However, it’s more likely that this detail was simply forgotten.

When a crisis erupts and Sidney is forced to go into full security mode, it’s clear she has a very advanced system – understandable, given she’s been targeted by several serial killers throughout her life. However, it’s hard to accept that one of the Ghostface killers was simply hiding in her attic, waiting for an opportunity to attack while the house was full of police officers.

Honestly, it didn’t seem like Mark survived the attack. He was covered in plastic and stabbed in the face multiple times. It’s hard to believe Jessica and Marco managed to keep him alive long enough for the final reveal and showdown with Sidney and Tatum.

The timing in Scream 7 is off again – specifically, there’s a confusing gap after Mark is attacked. We don’t see him again for a surprisingly long time, making it unbelievable that he didn’t suffer more serious injuries or even bleed to death during that period.

It’s very unusual for Gale not to attempt to help Sidney, especially considering their recent argument on live television. Sidney is rightfully hurt and, when the killer suggests they’re targeting her daughter, she understandably leaves to find Tatum.

Gale watched Sidney leave, and then Sidney disappeared. What did Gale do next? Did she just stay at the TV station and argue with Mark Consuelos? After Sidney’s strange, long chase across town to reach Tatum (it’s odd she didn’t just turn around and drive!), the final showdown happens at Sidney’s house. Gale knew where Sidney lived, so why didn’t she immediately go there with the police as soon as Sidney left the station?

Many fans consider this latest installment to be the worst in the series, and for good reason. The motivations of characters Jessica and Marco feel weak, and it’s unclear what their plan was after revealing themselves to Tatum. Their actions—specifically killing Sidney in front of her—have simply started a new cycle of trauma, and their purpose remains unclear.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of the ending is Jessica’s explanation for killing her son, Lucas, who was fascinated by true crime. She claims he was ‘just like his father’ – her abusive husband, whom she was inspired to kill by a book – but the script never suggests any similarity between the two. It feels completely out of place.

Lucas is odd, but doesn’t seem dangerous. Earlier, Jessica clearly defends Lucas when Gale challenges them, so her choice to kill Lucas – and to do so in such an exaggerated and shockingly violent way with the beer spigot – feels completely out of character.

This moment feels like a missed plot point, likely due to scenes being removed during editing. We first meet George Willis (Tim Simons), Tatum’s harsh drama teacher, when he criticizes her performance as a dog costume in the school play. He delivers a particularly cutting insult that heavily emphasizes a central question of the movie: how can Tatum be so unremarkable when her mother is such a legendary survivor?

It’s cruel and frankly absurd for a teacher to say something like that to a teenager in front of their peers, but it also hints at George developing a strange fascination with Sidney. However, this idea doesn’t really go anywhere. There’s a brief moment after Gale is attacked and the first Ghostface is revealed, where Sidney scans the crowd of onlookers with suspicion. It’s like she’s trying to figure out who else might be a killer, and George briefly becomes a suspect in her mind.

The character simply disappears from the film, and his absence is never explained. It seems he may have originally had a larger role, but those scenes were likely removed to focus on Jessica and Marco as the killers. Including the odd rehearsal scene felt out of place and drew unwanted attention. And it’s hard to believe the security guard still has a job after two teenagers were murdered on school grounds while he was on duty.

Scream 7 is now in theaters.

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2026-03-07 23:38