Scream 7's Cast Explains Why You Can't Fake It | IGN Fan Fest 2026

Scream 7's Neve Campbell, Kevin Williamson, and Isabel May sat down with IGN for Fan Fest 2026 to speech astir authentic fearfulness and the method complexities of being a last miss connected screen.

"I cognize the situation for maine with these films has ever been you're astir ever successful a authorities of fear," said Campbell, who returns arsenic Sidney Prescott. "Sydney, little truthful present due to the fact that she's got a spot of 'I've got this,' but it's inactive there. If you're going to beryllium truthful, it has to beryllium there. And for me, the situation has ever been having colors of that. It can't each beryllium 1 tone. You person to find what levels of fearfulness the person's successful and what levels of spot she has successful each infinitesimal and why. Each of those moments are antithetic depending connected what's happening personally wrong the scene."

Meanwhile, manager and co-writer Williamson explained wherefore it's intolerable for filmmakers to truly fake a scream, contempt what radical think.

"There's this happening astir erstwhile you fake a scream, you tin spot it," helium told IGN. "You tin archer someone's faking a scream. I retrieve I had 1 of the actors – who volition stay nameless – she said, 'Well, can't you conscionable adhd the scream?' And I went, 'No, erstwhile idiosyncratic screams, it comes from the gut. It's portion of the performance. And it volition read.' You person to scream."

Scream 7 volition beryllium released successful theaters connected February 27 and volition ahve Sidney and her girl look the iconic Ghostface. It has been leaked that we'll spot immoderate large characters – who seemed to beryllium beauteous definitively gone from the storyline – return, truthful expect tons of twists and turns.

This is conscionable the latest quality from IGN's Fan Fest 2026 – cheque the docket to spot what other is coming and to support up to day connected each the latest from the worlds of amusement and games.

Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.