Scream 7
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
22
Negative:
17

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
10
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithMar 6, 2026
If there’s a single witty idea in the entire two-hour slog, I missed it. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 5, 2026
The first Scream skewered Hollywood cynicism. The latest embodies it. Read full review
25
The Travers TakePeter TraversFeb 27, 2026
Seven is not a lucky number for this amateurish return to the well of a once hella horror franchise that drops the ball on gore, giggles and a reason to care. Its disposable, defanged thrills feel like chatgpt prompts fed the wrong info about what constitutes scary. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 27, 2026
The joyous gallows humor and horror-movie commentary of old are gone and some inspired working-in of new technology falls apart. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaFeb 27, 2026
Scream 7 is anything but cutting edge. Read full review
20
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 27, 2026
This seventh chapter just seems to be exploiting our affection for the Scream team’s history and thinking die-hards will simply go see anything with the name slapped on it. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 27, 2026
Genuinely inept in every way, “Scream 7” is far and away the worst of the franchise, a shallow rendering of things that worked better in other films. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 27, 2026
There’s only so far you can take a slasher series without doing something truly off-the-wall. Since the studio refused to attempt a radical refit, we’re left with this: a franchise-charring dumpster fire. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 26, 2026
Noooo! Anything but another slapdash horror film with a lazy plot that hinges on artificial intelligence! Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonFeb 26, 2026
From abandoned panic rooms to flubbed Ghostface executions, the characters make so many dumb choices that eventually we’re convinced that Williamson is frustrating us by design. Maybe in the boldest meta twist of all, the inventor of "Scream” wants to kill it off himself. Read full review
38
The Associated PressMark KennedyFeb 26, 2026
Lumbering along while fatally wounded, this is a franchise that doesn’t know it is dead, staggering ever onward without an ending in sight. Read full review
33
IndieWireAlison ForemanFeb 26, 2026
Marketed as a triumphant return to form and positioned as a nostalgic corrective move for Paramount after a year of public controversy, director Kevin Williamson’s latest lands like a corporate gesture that misunderstands both the franchise he created and the horror landscape it inhabits now. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshFeb 26, 2026
Scream 7 is an unfortunate tarnish on this otherwise sturdy franchise’s legacy. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganFeb 26, 2026
The resulting film is empty fan service, content with simply evoking appreciation for the characters that Williamson created 30 years ago instead of doing anything exciting with them. Read full review
35
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 26, 2026
Worst of all, Scream 7 doesn’t concoct the sort of ludicrous denouement that has always been these movies’ signature, instead delivering perhaps the most deflating conclusion in the series’ three-decade history. That alone should indicate that Ghostface has lost his luster and should withdraw to the Horror Hall of Fame where he deserves to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Freddy, Jason, and the rest of the genre’s genuine icons. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeb 26, 2026
Sorry, but you need to have something to think about during this latest edition of a franchise that is dead creatively if certainly not commercially. Read full review
30
Screen RantGregory NussenFeb 26, 2026
Scream 7 injects nostalgia and self-referentiality like a weak drug, a stash of weed purchased so long ago it has gone so stale it crumbles to the touch. Read full review
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