The Core Four: Why are the protagonists of ‘Scream VI’ the best since the original film?

Horror movies are as great as their villains, we already know that, but if those responsible for making you part of the story don’t work, neither does the product. An example of how to stand up to evil in the best way are the “core four”, the protagonists of ‘Scream VI’ who could be the best since the original film.

“The group that Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega form together with Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding make up the best leading foursome in the franchise since headed by Neve Campbell, absent for the first time in this title”, underlines our review of ‘Scream VI’. It’s time to explain why the sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter, along with Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin, have earned a place in Ghostface’s “legendarium” on a par with Sidney, Dewey, Gale, and Randy.

“I think that’s why he likes a sport like soccer. I think he’s a team player,” Mason Gooding explains of his character (via Collider). “I think that something admirable about Chad is how willing he is to cooperate and listen to the women in his life to let himself be guided by them.“.

It is precisely Chad who, within the plot of the film, creates the concept of “core four”, the nucleus of four protagonists who managed to survive in ‘Scream’ (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, 2023) and that now, in New York, they will have to unite again so as not to end up like a sieve. “In Chad’s case specifically, I think he enjoys being part of a family and something bigger,” he explains. “That’s why he loves his sister so much, but also why he tries to contribute and be there for the people he cares about.”

This involvement has seen her character grow from a sketchy sketch of high school comedy to a full-fledged co-star, something Mindy had already achieved effortlessly in the previous installment and is reinforced in this one.

However, the condition of a guide for the viewer of the character played by Jasmin Savoy Brown means that it is the one with the least amount of room for improvement, not like the scream queen of the new generation, Melissa Barrera, a protagonist who goes from being an unbearable common thread to a vengeful and magnetic heroine in trouble.

Sam continues to have a hard time, but now he faces his role face to face, as if the complaints in the real world had infuriated the very character himself and, now, he knows that he must take the knife by the handle and stop looking down on his poor sister, a Tara that has finally been discharged from the hospital from which, fortunately for everyone (especially for Paramount), she has left to continue waging war. Jenna Ortega’s career has only just begun.