Volume 5: 'Verity' feat Ryan C Showers

I just want to take a quick second to talk about trailers and previews.

Where do you stand? Are you the type that just gobbles up every little bit of promotional stills, on-set photos, interviews from the cast and crew beforehand, the teaser trailer, the trailer, trailer number two, TV spot one, TV spot two? Do you take it all in? Or like me, do you try and avoid some of that stuff? I'll tell you a quick little story.

I do work for the Ryan C. Showers Scream podcast.

It's been a really lovely time over the last few years, assisting, producing, making graphics, working with him.

It does require me to be a little more engaged in the pre-release material because I am making flyers and content out of a lot of this stuff I just mentioned before the movie comes out.

So unfortunately, I can't really avoid some of this stuff.

However, when Scream VI was about to come out, I avoided everything as much as I could.

I had seen bits and pieces of the, uh, sequence in the bodega.

I had seen a couple snippets of the subway sequence.

But other than that, I had seen nothing.

And let me tell you what that did.

Now, you may not like Scream VI.

Obviously, that is a controversial film, more in the Scream community than I think in the film community at large.

I think horror fans in general and movie fans in general quite like Scream VI.

It is a quite divisive subject in the franchise.

Uh, that being said, when I went into Scream VI, having not watched any of the trailers, I had never seen the shrine sequence.

Now, whether you love it or you hate it, the shrine sequence in Scream VI is a bit of a take your breath away moment.

When that curtain rises up and we see the museum-like layout of all the Ghostface from all the movies, uh, and that really nice lighting as Sam and Tara walk up the steps there and, and see this, you know, really insane and incredible display of the history of the real-life events of these characters, it is a showstopper.

Now, what happens after that and, and how it all unfolds, we could quibble with.

But I think that moment is undeniably a pretty, uh, stop you in your tracks moment.

The marketing team knew what they had with that moment.

That's why it's heavily featured in the second trailer.

But guess what? I didn't watch the second trailer.

So as I'm sitting there watching the movie and we get to that sequence where they get to the shrine and they're looking at all the artifacts of all the movies, which, you know, obviously is near and dear to my heart, and they get to that moment where the curtains rise up, I was really taken aback.

And I was a little kid, and it felt incredibly special and cool in that moment, again, because I was not spoiled with this sequence from the trailer.