Twenty-five years after a masked killer terrorized Woodsboro, the town's original survivors are pulled back into a new round of violence in Scream 5.
What is Scream about?
Sydney Prescott's town has never fully shaken off its history, and when a fresh wave of attacks begins, a new generation of locals finds itself standing next to the people who lived through the original nightmare. The film pairs younger characters obsessed with the Stab horror franchise (itself inspired by Woodsboro's past) with the returning trio who know exactly how dangerous a Ghostface copycat can be. As the body count grows, the group has to work out who is behind the mask before the killer's list runs out, all while grappling with how a small town's darkest chapter gets replayed as pop culture by the people who grew up on it.
About the cast
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return as the three characters who anchored the original run, joined by a younger cast including Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Mikey Madison and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Woodsboro's next generation. Pairing the two generations on screen is the film's central hook: veterans who survived the first killer's rampage now have to teach instincts they never wanted to need, while the newcomers arrive with only horror-movie theory to go on.
Context & significance
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, this 2022 entry revives the Scream series after a long gap, leaning on the franchise's trademark mix of slasher tension and horror-movie self-awareness. At 111 minutes, it sits comfortably alongside the earlier films in pacing while updating the meta commentary for a generation that grew up streaming rather than renting. The genre lands squarely in horror-mystery territory, built around a whodunit structure rather than a single obvious threat, which keeps the mask's identity in question until the closing stretch.
Watching Scream on Ktime
Scream is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, in Persian dub and with Persian subtitles, through the platform's Farsi-first viewing experience built for Persian-speaking audiences who want a slasher classic without hunting for scattered, unreliable copies online.