Scream 7 will pit Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott against a new iteration of the Ghostface killer, as she tries to protect her family from a brutal attack. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but there have been rumors that Scream 7 will have a time jump of five years, so her two eldest daughters can play an active part in the narrative as teenagers. Sidney Prescott will once again be the focus, but Ghostface could play a big part this time around, and it might be time to show the events of the movie from the killer's unique perspective.

Courteney Cox and Patrick Dempsey are rumored to be in talks to join Neve Campbell in Scream 7, and Kevin Williamson will direct the upcoming sequel, from a script written by Guy Busick. Filming is expected to get underway sometime this year, with a potential release date in 2025.

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The Scream movies usually follow the final girl, but Scream 7 could mix it up and follow Ghostface's POV for a change.

The Scream franchise has always told the story through the eyes of the final girl as they fight against Ghostface, with Scream 1-4 focusing on Sidney Prescott, and Scream (2022) and Scream 6 following the events from the point of view of Sam Carpenter's tragic story. Despite a different iteration of Ghostface appearing in every Scream movie thus far, the events have never fully been seen through the killer's point of view.

Scream 7 is heading into production soon, and it could finally see the events being told through the eyes of Ghostface. Whether the story is in part told through Ghostface's point of view, or a full-fledged Ghostface centered story, it would be fun to see the audience follow the events through the killer's perspective.

Whether it's a cult of Ghostface, or a killer acting on his own, or with one or two accomplices, Scream 7 could really mix things up by getting inside the mind of Ghostface as he stalks Sidney and her loved ones. The closest fans have come to seeing the events from Ghostface's point of view was in Scream 6, when Jason Carvey (Tony Revolori) killed Laura Crane (Samara Weaving) in the opening sequence, and then took off his Ghostface mask to reveal himself to the audience, for the first time in Scream's history,

After committing this murder, Jason bumps into Tara Carpenter before he returns home and gets a call from Ghostface, who he initially thought was his accomplice, Greg. But upon finding Greg cut up in pieces in the freezer, he realizes another Ghostface is on to him, and he ends up being murdered. It would've been interesting to follow a Ghostface killer for the entirety of Scream 6, but it was an intriguing taster of what a Scream movie would look like from Ghostface's POV.

What other slasher movies have followed the killer's POV?

Psycho

Psycho is widely considered to be a key movie in the formation of the slasher sub-genre, featuring a final girl, Marion Crane, (who, unlike other final girls after her, ends up being killed), and a vicious killer called Norman Bates, who the audience is forced to follow in his POV after Crane's death.

Psycho is not quite a slasher movie, but it definitely laid the groundwork for Halloween to fully give birth to the sub-genre in 1978. Psycho shocked audiences by following Norman Bates, and even making him somewhat sympathetic as the movie progresses.

Peeping Tom

Many audiences think that Psycho was the first horror movie to follow the killer's point of view, but that actually isn't the case, as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, (which was also released in 1960), narrowly beat Alfred Hitchcock's classic to the punch. The movie follows a young man who murders women, and uses a movie camera to film their dying expressions. Interestingly enough, Scream 4 references the POV fact during a scene involving Kirby Reed answering horror movie trivia set by Ghostface.

Kirby has to answer these questions in order to save Charlie Walker's life, (which ends up being a trick as he's the other Ghostface) and after she aces a series of questions about famous horror killer's weapons of choice, Ghostface asks Kirby to name the movie that started the slasher craze, and he gives her four options:

• Halloween
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Last House on the Left
• Psycho

Maniac

Maniac was an independent horror slasher released in 2012, and it follows the owner of a mannequin shop, who helps a young artist with an upcoming exhibition, but his deadly desires are released, and the movie follows his POV as he brutally slashes his victims.

The kills in Maniac are terrifying because the audience literally sees them take place through the eyes of Wood's character, Frank. It was a career invigorating role for Elijah Wood, and one of the most underrated slasher movies ever made, with the killer's POV being captured like never before.

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