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One year after the Woodsboro killings, Sam Carpenter and her sister Tara Carpenter move to New York City. Tara attends Blackmore University with fellow survivors Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin, plus their roommate Quinn Bailey, Mindy's girlfriend Anika Kayoko, and Chad's roommate Ethan Landry. Sam sees Dr. Christopher Stone for therapy and faces public hostility because an online conspiracy theory names her the true mastermind of the earlier murders. Detective Wayne Bailey, Quinn's father, brings Sam in for questioning after her ID turns up at a murder scene beside a Ghostface mask worn by Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman. A new Ghostface then calls Sam from Richie's number and attacks Tara. The killer leaves another mask, this one from the 2011 Woodsboro killings.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Scream VI (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Neve Campbell did not return as Sidney Prescott in Scream VI because of a pay dispute, making it the only film in the franchise without her.
- To promote the film, the studio's marketing firm sent people wearing Ghostface costumes and masks to stand motionless in front of cameras and walk the streets of several cities, prompting multiple 911 calls from unsettled residents.
- For the climax's projection of a fictional movie made by the character Richie Kirsch, the filmmakers used actor Jack Quaid's real home videos, interspliced with footage shot for the film and voiceovers by Quaid.
- On April 5, Scream VI became the first film in the franchise since Scream 2 (1997) to cross $100 million domestically, and the series' highest-grossing entry in the US and Canada in unadjusted dollars.
