Scream's Ghostface is looking pretty sus right about now.
To celebrate the release of the fifth entry in the Scream series of slasher films, official Ghostface cosmetics are being added to the popular multiplayer video game Among Us. The cosmetics were announced at the end of a YouTube video uploaded by Paramount Pictures, in which Scream stars Jack Quaid and Mason Gooding played Among Us with online personalities Chilled Chaos, 5up, TinaKitten and Kara Corvus. The brief announcement screen reveals that Among Us players will be able to unlock Ghostface's cloak and iconic mask in the near future.
Developed and published by Innersloth, Among Us is a social deduction game in which players take control of one member of a crew of colorful, armless cartoon astronauts. However, certain players are randomly chosen to be "imposters," and must either kill the other crewmembers or sabotage the ship, leaving the non-imposters to figure out who's behind the chaos. The came become a phenomenon following its initial launch for iOS and Android back in mid-2018, cultivating a sizeable player base and spawning a fair amount of memes. Among Us has since made its way to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Meanwhile, despite simply being titled Scream, the new slasher film is actually a direct sequel to 2011's Scream 4, picking the story up 11 years after the fact. Scream 4 was itself a follow-up to the original Scream trilogy, consisting of 1996's Scream, 1997's Scream 2 and 2000's Scream 3. Scream: The TV Series, a small-screen spinoff, aired for two seasons on MTV from 2015 to 2016. A rebooted third season, titled Scream: Resurrection, then aired on VH1 in 2019. 2022's Scream is the first feature-length entry in the franchise to not be directed by horror legend Wes Craven, who passed away in 2015.
The fifth Scream feature film, which just hit theaters today, is set 25 years after the events of the original Scream. The new movie welcomes back franchise veterans Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox and Roger L. Jackson, as well as Scream 4 star Marley Shelton. "Scream 5" also features several newcomers in the form of Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Dylan Minnette, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mikey Madison, Sonia Ben Ammar and the aforementioned Quaid and Gooding.
In their official review for 2022's Scream, CBR's own Cass Clarke wrote, "Scream uses its meta-commentary on horror pitch perfectly to critique the current divisions within the horror community... As the best of Scream films have always done, this entry points the critical lens as much at the fans of horror as the movies themselves. Harkening back to Craven's original film, this Scream also deftly represents the language of the horror community -- what we honor, what we argue about and what and who we choose to keep alive in the genre. More than anything, this is what the film means when it says it's #ForWes.
Scream is in theaters now.
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