More than 30 years after her mother was murdered, Scream 7 marks a significant return for Sidney Prescott, who is now a mom herself.
Neve Campbell, who reprises the role after sitting out of the last movie, recently explained how the character gets to “sort of heal that wound” left by her mother Maureen Prescott when Sidney appears with daughter Tatum (Isabel May) in Scream 7, premiering Feb. 27 in theaters.
“It’s a whole full-circle story for Sidney,” she told TotalFilm. “There’s a lot of trauma around her motherhood and her mother. She’s made the very brave choice to have children herself. And she’s made this decision, she wants to live in this small town, have a family, and overcome her past.”
Campbell continued, “And of course, she’s got great fear that that will come to visit her family, which it does. But she gets to sort of heal that wound.”
In the first Scream (1996), [SPOILERS] someone in a Ghostface mask starts killing off Sidney’s friends one year after her mother Maureen was murdered. The killers are revealed to be Sidney’s boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and his friend Stu (Matthew Lillard) after Billy’s mom left his dad when she found out he was having an affair with Maureen.
Maureen’s backstory later played into Scream 3 (2000), [SPOILER] when her illegitimate son Roman (Scott Foley) goes on a killing spree years after she abandoned him in Hollywood years before, where it was implied that she was raped while trying to make it as an actress.
Scream 7 features returning stars Campbell, Foley, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding, as well as newcomers Joel McHale, Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Anna Camp, Mark Consuelos and Ethan Embry.