What is up Scream Team, Zack Cherry here, and I've already made a video where I've given you
my predictions for who I think the killers will be in Scream 6, so now I actually want to give
you my predictions for what I think the motive will be of those killers. I would actually argue
that the motive is the most important part of the movie and the thing that is the biggest surprise.
Because anyone can really predict who the killers are going to be, there's only so many characters
in a movie that you can say it's going to be this person, or that person, or a combination of
these two, or these three. But when you find out why they're doing it, that's really the factor
that could make or break the movie. Because if for whatever reason it doesn't work, it's just
gonna leave the fan base extremely frustrated and they're gonna walk out of the movie hating
it. So every time a new Scream movie comes out, we're hit with these fantastical, over-the-top
fan theories that are really so ridiculous that people think and believe that we could actually
see this happening because it's something that hasn't happened before. For instance, the return
of Stu Macher, who's organizing a huge cult of Ghostfaces, or a very unlikely possibility that
the killer will be Sidney, or Kirby, or Sam, or any number of returning survivors. A lot of these ideas
just really lack any sort of sound logic. Like I might be Bamboozled by it, but if you can't
coherently tell me how this has happened, I'm gonna hate this twist. So most of the people who bring up
these ideas just say "we'll just put it in there and we'll deal with it later... we'll figure it out later"
and that's where you run into your problems. Because if you can't figure it out now, you're
never gonna figure it out. If you can't sum up what the killer's motive is in a short paragraph, it's
not a good motive. So when you do look back at the motives of the past killers, they're not these big,
grand, fantastical schemes, they're more or less very simplistic and grounded in reality. Obviously
I know that we're six films in and they're gonna wanna do something that's fresh and inventive
and that we were not expecting, and I think that they're still gonna do that, but I think that it's
still going to take place on planet Earth. So when it comes to figuring out what the motive will be
I think the place you need to start is at the very end of the movie, and then reverse engineer it from
there. So the question you have to ask is "who is the person that the killers are planning to frame?"
and I think that just with the trailer and all the emphasis placed on Sam being Billy Loomis's
daughter, and her having this darkness within her, I think that very much like Scream 5, we're going
to see that Sam will continue to be this character who is going to be framed by the killers.
I think that they (the filmmakers) are really going to want to play with this aspect and maybe do a more successful
job of making us think that she could be the killer. That was kind of one of my gripes with
Scream 5, where they didn't really present her as being a possible suspect, even though they had all
the resources at their hands to to do so. So I do think that this script is going to cast a lot of
doubt on Sam's character and perceived innocence, and in that regard I think we're going to need to
think of what the killer's relationship to Sam is going to be, in which way they're going to exploit
her mental illness, or just the fact that she is Billy Loomis's daughter, and how they're
going to use that against her. The other thing that I think is being majorly overlooked here is Gale
Weathers, because most people are coming into this and thinking that this is Sam's story, or Sam and
Tara's story, and I think it very well is going to be about them overcoming the
trauma of last year, and moving on with their life, and her battling her demons. But I think that the
other half of this movie is going to be centered around Gale, and we even saw that in the
trailer where it seems like she is personally being targeted by this killer. She's receiving
her first phone call (that she picks up), so I think that a possibility that we might need to consider
is that the killer, or killers, aren't trying to get revenge on Sam, but are actually trying to get revenge
on Gale. And if that's the case I would argue that whoever this person is that's out to get Gale
is going to use Sam and frame her for Gale and everyone else's murder by the end of the movie.
So in my killer predictions video, I actually said that there was going to be three killers, that's
what I think this time. I think it's going to be the characters of Carly and Alison (they're seen
on the poster here), and then a third character who actually isn't on the poster, and they're not in
any of the trailer material, and that is Professor Freddie, who is played by Henry Czerny. There's also
a very interesting shot in the trailer where we see Sam sitting on a couch, and she's talking to
someone who is off screen. We don't see who they are. A lot of people have conjectured that this
is a therapist she is talking to, and that very well might be. We know that the characters are
going to Blackmore University, or at least some of the characters are. If that's the case, I can
see this Professor Freddie character being someone very much like Gus, the drama professor in Scream 2,
who's just kind of a mentor to Sidney. He just shows up in the one scene. But I can see them doing
another scenario where we have another hidden in plain sight killer, which is somebody who's very
peripheral. They're in the background. They're more or less a glorified extra in the movie, very much
like the way that Mrs. Loomis was in Scream 2, where they'll probably get a couple of scenes scattered
throughout the movie, and then just show up at the end and be revealed. So if that's the case, I think
that this character, this Professor Freddie is going to be the main Ghostface, the mastermind here. The
other two, Carly and Alison, I would imagine that their potential motive could be that if
they do go to school and Professor Freddie is also their professor, it could be a scenario where he's
getting them to to commit murders for him in order to get a good grade and pass. Pure and simple. I
mean we've seen motives that are even more basic than that, but I can see that potentially
being the second or third Ghostfaces motive. In terms of Professor Freddie, or this character who's
maybe posing as a professor (who knows?), this is the character who I think is tied to Gale from her
past. And what I believe is that this is somebody who probably worked alongside Gale way back in
the 90s. Obviously we've seen she's cutthroat, she's run over a lot of people to get ahead in
her career, and I can see this as being a scenario where the Henry Cerny character is somebody who
she steamrolled in order to get ahead. He might have been the reporter working for Top Story that
was supposed to cover the Woodsboro murders, but because of Gale doing her Gale
thing, she got to go there instead, and that was the event that launched her career and made her super
successful and famous and who she is now.
GALE: I should be in New York covering the Sharon Stone stalker, but who knew!?
Meanwhile, this guy lost out on the opportunity of a lifetime, and possibly that doesn't sit right with him.
He probably feels that he is owed so much more, that's usually the case with these killers. So I can see this as someone who might have obsessed
over the crimes of the Ghostface killers over the past 26 years, and went out of their way
to collect this memorabilia, or evidence, or whatever to create this shrine that
we see. And this was sort of his way of bringing it all back to this rivalry he has with Gale. And
just because we don't have Sidney in this movie, it does give Gale this opportunity to really
come to the forefront. We've never seen a killer go after her specifically for something
that is individual to her. We had Mrs. Loomis go after Gale because she shot Billy
at the end of Scream 1, but that was something that she shared with Sidney, whereas this is
something that's completely unique to Gale, and is a great way of integrating her into this storyline
with all these other characters. I also think that just because this is a character that is
more so connected to the university, or the school, that it's somebody who's not going to have any
interactions with Gail throughout the movie, very much like how Sidney never crossed paths with Mrs.
Loomis at any point during Scream 2 until the very end when she recognized her. And even though this
is something that is more so personal between the killer and Gale, it sort of thrusts Sam into it as
well, because it's now affecting her on a personal level as she's now been betrayed by somebody who
she may have trusted, and is also having to grapple with these demons that she possesses
inside of her, and how that makes her a killer, or a target to these killers. Anyway that's
my prediction for the killer's motive. Make sure to like snd subscribe, and check out these other
Scream related videos right over here. Until next time, I've been Zack Cherry, and I'll be right back.