"It's when Scream 7 starts resurrecting the dead that the movie completely loses the plot. Now terrorizing Sidney and her family in a new small town, Ghostface is no longer content to rely on Roger L. Jackson's iconically creepy voice. When he FaceTimes Sid, she's stunned to see an older, more scarred, but still instantly recognizable Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard), whom she famously dispatched with a TV set to the head in the first movie."
"The 'Stu lives' theory has flourished online for decades in Reddit threads and pre-Reddit message boards, and while it may have originated in a draft of Kevin Williamson's abandoned Scream 3 script, it has never really made any sense. As Mindy (Jasmine Savoy Brown) puts it in Scream 7, 'That's a ridiculous retcon.'"
"When Sidney and Gale (Courteney Cox) visit Fallbrook Psychiatric Hospital, an employee named Marco (Ethan Embry) recognizes Stu as a John Doe patient who was recently released, seemingly confirming th[e resurrection]."
Scream 7 continues the franchise's tradition of self-referential storytelling with Easter eggs and recreations of iconic scenes from earlier films. However, the film significantly departs from established canon by bringing back Stu Macher, a character definitively killed in the original 1996 Scream. This resurrection contradicts decades of franchise logic, though the 2022 film's introduction of Billy Loomis's secret daughter suggests the rules have changed. When Sidney encounters Stu via FaceTime, scarred but alive, the narrative introduces a psychiatric hospital subplot that attempts to rationalize his survival, fundamentally altering the franchise's approach to character deaths and consequences.
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