Scream (2022)

I had to check with ChatGPT to find out at the halfway point whether, after all, this 'Scream' was a Scream episode I'd already seen, and when ChatGPT told me this particular one - informally known as Scream V - was made in 2022, features Melissa Barrera as Samantha Carpenter and Jenna Ortega as younger sister Tara and follows a thousand Woodsboro teens being hunted one by one by the masked killer Ghostface, with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette reprising their legacy character roles as Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, and Dewey Riley, respectively, I was none the wiser - except to say I had definitely seen it all before.

★★☆☆☆

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Don't Breathe (2016)

One of a spate of recent confined-space horror-thrillers in which there are no heroes just self-interested, largely unlikeable survivors (Green Room, 10 Cloverfield Lane), this story of thieves who get more than they bargained for when they break into a blind man's home goes places you wish it didn't, abandoning restraint for convoluted nastiness but nevertheless, once it is all over, you'll concede you haven't taken a breath during its tightly-packaged thrill ride.

★★★★☆

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