Wiz Khalifa isn’t impressed with Scream 7.
The Pittsburgh rapper recently spoke about the latest installment of the horror franchise during a livestream, making it clear he wasn’t feeling the film. Wiz called the movie “trash” several times and criticized it for leaning too heavily into current tech trends.
“The thing that was trash about it was the use of AI and deepfake,” he said around the 22:15 mark of the stream.
“You can tell some writer just was like, ‘We have to add this,’” he said. “and that shit is so forced and fucking corny, bro. Y’all should let people make movies about shit that’s going to happen later. Like not try to base it so much off of right now that you just completely lose the plot. That shit is trash because you’re trying to capitalize so much off of what’s going on right now that you’re not even really fucking getting the point.”
In Scream 7, Neve Campbell returns as Sidney Prescott, who is now living in Pine Grove, Indiana, with her daughter Tatum (Isabel May) and her husband Mark Evans (Joel McHale). But the Ghostface killer resurfaces, setting his sights on Sidney and her daughter in their new home.
Despite the criticism, Scream 7 opened stronger than expected, pulling in a franchise-best $64.1 million at the domestic box office, according to Rotten Tomatoes. That surpasses the opening of 2023’s Scream VI, which debuted with $44.4 million.
