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Scream VI (2023) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and eighty-fifth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
One year after the Woodsboro killings orchestrated by Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman, Blackmore University professor Laura Crane is murdered by her student Jason Carvey wearing a Ghostface costume. Jason plots with his roommate Greg to kill sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter to finish the "movie" that Richie and Amber wanted to make. However, Jason receives a call from a different Ghostface, who has killed Greg and subsequently stabs Jason to death.
Sam and Tara now live in New York City, with Tara attending Blackmore University alongside fellow survivors Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin, their roommate Quinn Bailey, Mindy's girlfriend Anika Kayoko, and Chad's roommate Ethan Landry. Sam is ostracized in public because of an online conspiracy theory that she was the true mastermind of the latest killings. Ghostface attacks the sisters and leaves behind a Ghostface mask worn in the 2011 Woodsboro killings.
At the NYPD police station, the sisters meet Quinn's detective father, Wayne Bailey, FBI special agent Kirby Reed, a survivor of the 2011 killings, and reporter Gale Weathers, who tells them she spoke to Sidney Prescott and that she has gone into hiding to protect her family. Sam's therapist is murdered by Ghostface, who steals Sam's file and leaves behind a mask worn in the Hollywood killings. Mindy theorizes that the killer is following the rules of film franchises, specifically the rule that anyone can die while the franchise will still continue. Ghostface attacks the group in the sisters' apartment, murdering Anika and seemingly killing Quinn. Sam's boyfriend Danny helps the others escape and Ghostface leaves behind a mask worn in the Windsor College killings. Gale takes the group to an abandoned theater she found while investigating, which has been set up as a shrine to the Ghostface killers, featuring many items of evidence related to previous massacres now displayed like film props.
Ghostface calls Gale at her apartment and torments her about the death of Dewey Riley before killing her boyfriend Brooks and attacking her. Sam and Tara arrive just in time to stop Ghostface from killing Gale, who is taken to the hospital. The group agrees to meet Kirby at the theater to trap Ghostface. Mindy is stabbed by Ghostface on the train. At the theater, Sam sees a hallucination of her father, original Ghostface killer Billy Loomis. Taking his knife from the original murders, she realizes they have been locked inside. Two Ghostfaces appear and attack Chad. Wayne and Kirby both arrive with guns drawn. Wayne attempts to lend credence toward Kirby being the killer, only to shoot her, revealing himself as a third Ghostface and the mastermind; his accomplices are his children, revealed to be Ethan and a still-alive Quinn, who faked her death to ease suspicion.
The trio reveal that they are Richie's family who want to avenge his death. They were responsible for defaming Sam online and plan to frame her for their killing spree. Sam and Tara gain the upper hand and fight off the Bailey family, with Tara stabbing Ethan and Sam killing Quinn, while briefly knocking Wayne unconscious. Sam then dons her father's Ghostface costume, taunts Wayne with a phone call using the voice changer, and viciously stabs him to death. Ethan resurfaces, but Kirby smashes the television set that killed Stu Macher over his head, killing him.
Sam agrees to let Tara live her life more independently and Tara agrees to go to therapy. As Mindy, Chad, and Kirby are taken to the hospital, Sam stares at her father's Ghostface mask before discarding it and following Tara into the city.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Laura Crane - Stabbed at least 11x and slashed - 6 mins in
- Greg - Decapitated offscreen - 12 mins in
- Jason Carvey - Stabbed 1x in back, 11x in stomach, slashed - 13 mins in
- Bodega Customer #1 - Stabbed 4x in torso - 33 mins in
- Bodega Customer #2 - Stabbed 1x in neck - 33 mins in
- Bodega Owner - Shot point blank with his own shotgun - 34 mins in
- Dr. Christopher Stone - Head bashed, stabbed in face with knife - 42 mins in
- Quinn's Lover - Butchered offscreen - 56 mins in
- Anika Kayoko - Sent dumpster diving from 5 stories up - 59 mins in
- Brooks - Stealth killed, then thrown through bookshelf - 1 hr 16 mins in
- Quinn Bailey (For Real This Time) - Brought a knife to a gunfight - 1 hr 48 mins in
- Detective Bailey - Stabbed 31x, then once more with feeling in the eye - 1 hr 51 mins in
- Ethan Landry - Stabbed in mouth, later crushed with TV - 1 hr 53 mins in
Counted Fake-out Deaths[]
- Quinn Bailey - Throat slit offscreen - 55 mins in
Non-counted Deaths:[]
- Mrs. Bailey - Killed by Wayne before the events of the film
Trivia[]
- In the 2024 Dead Meat Horror Awards, this film was nominated for:
- Best Stunts or Choreography
- Best Lead Performer (Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter)
- Best Remake or Sequel
- Quinn's fake-out death in the apartment attack is the second fake-out death to have its own Kill Graphic, the other one was Jenni's fake-out death in The Look-See (KILL COUNT) & CRYPT TV Collab!.
- Unlike Jenni's successor, Quinn's Lover was billed as #8 like his girlfriend.
- Editor Sarah Leeper is the first person to die in a Sponsor Segment that's not Zoran or James.
- This is the first movie in the franchise without Neve Campbell and David Arquette.
- This is also the first Scream movie to use Roman numerals.
- This is Jenna Ortega's 4th appearance on the Kill Count (the others being The Babysitter: Killer Queen, X, and Scream (2022)).