There are many new horror films coming out in the coming year, which is exciting for fans. This contains Scream VI, which debuts in March on the obscene streets of New York City. Ghostface isn’t putting off ringing in 2023 with a bloody bang, as the slasher’s latest billboard is a terrifying interpretation of the NYC subway system. a Subway system with connections to the franchise’s troubled past.
The poster, which was posted on Scream’s various social media pages, sees six different NYC Subway lines drawing out a Ghostface mask. Seems innocent enough, but each stop is replaced with a past franchise character. For instance, on the green line you have characters like Marianne Evens (Jada Pinkett Smith, Scream 2), Cici Cooper (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Scream 2), Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy, Scream and Scream 2) and then on the Orange line you have characters like Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere, Scream 4 and Scream VI) and Jill Roberts (Emma Roberts, Scream 4). That’s only the beginning as each line represents one of the six films in the franchise. Red is Scream, green is Scream 2, yellow is Scream 3, orange is Scream 4, blue is SCREAM (2022), and purple is Scream VI. The latter of which is cleverly under construction. Besides the upcoming New York-centric sequel, each stop on each line follows the path in which each character was supposedly killed at the hands of Ghostface. As we learned in SCREAM the only character to survive Ghostface on this map — besides its final destination, final girl Sam Carpenter — is Kirby. To many fans’ delight, Panettiere is reprising the role for Scream VI.
Obviously the most iconic of these lines is Scream’s red line which follows the murder spree that started off the whole franchise with Sidney Prescott’s mom Maureen Prescott. That infamous red line goes through the opening scene with Casey Backer (Drew Barrymore) and all the way up to Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) and Billy Loomis’s (Skeet Ulrich) iconic Ghostface reveal. Every Ghostface since has modeled their killing spree after that psychotic pair. However, what these individual movies and lines have in common is that they all lead back to Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) — she’s Billy Loomis’ daughter after all. Ghostface seems to have big plans for her and her friends in New York.
