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Want to Know Who Opens ‘Scream 4’ With a Stab?!
In Wes Craven’s groundbreaking Scream, the movie opens with an infamous sequence where star Drew Barrymore is gutted an hung from a tree. Rumor has it that Scream 4, opening in theaters April 15, will also carry an homage to that moment. Screen Junkies may have just stumbled onto who dons the role in an interview with star Lucy Hale. Details – and potential spoilers – await you inside.Screen Junkies writes:
“Lucy Hale couldn’t say who she plays in Scream 4, but if you’ve seen any Scream movie, you can figure it out. They each open with a prologue featuring a major star getting a scary phone call (or going to the movies in Scream 2).
“It’s a small role, which I was very happy to play,” Hale said. “I’m at the beginning of the movie. They literally made me sign stuff that I couldn’t say much about it but it’s very exciting. It was very exciting for me to be a part of it and meet Wes Craven who’s an absolute sweetheart. I didn’t know what to expect but it was fun.”
Hale knows the importance of that opening scene though. The very first one was Drew Barrymore.
“I know,” Hale said. “To be a part that has a cult following, to look back at Drew Barrymore’s opening scene and be like I’m a part of this. This is unreal. It’s really cool.”
Hale also explains that she was supposed to be more prominent in the movie.
“It was totally last minute. I got the call, and they were like, ‘They totally want you to be a part of this movie,’ and I was like, ‘Absolutely. I will do any part.’ I was actually originally supposed to do another part and would come back for Scream 5, but it didn’t work with the schedule. So I did a few scenes.”
Wes Craven returns to the franchise on April 15, 2011.
After a massively successful box office run that scared up $364 million (and counting) at the worldwide box office, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is now available on Digital at home. But what about a physical media release? That’s now up for pre-order in the A24 shop!
A24 Shop Exclusive Blu-ray & 4K editions of Backrooms are now available for preorder, with nearly 3 hours of bonus features, including the “Everything Must Go” bonus footage.
The full Bonus Features package includes…
- “Everything Must Go” Bonus Footage (16m)
- Feature commentary with Director Kane Parsons, VFX Supervisor Edward J Douglas, Sound Designer Eugenio Battaglia, and Composer Edo Van Breemen
- “Building the Backrooms” Featurette (26m)
- VFX & Scene Breakdown with Kane Parsons (16m)
- Prop Walkthrough with Kane Parsons (1m30s)
- Two VFX Breakdowns with optional commentary (5m and 2m)
- Six Collectible Postcards
Pre-order your copy of Backrooms on Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD now!
A24 is expecting to ship out Backrooms physical media orders in late August.
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Meagan wrote in her review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
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