21 Hidden Details in ‘Scream VI’ (2023)

Scream VI follows the four survivors from Scream (2022) as they attempt to start over in New York City: Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown), Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding), Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega). They are joined by Ghostface survivors Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) and Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) as well as a handful of new cast members.
Here are some fun trivia facts about the sixth Scream movie:
- Samara Weaving was cast because the directors loved working with her in Ready of Not (2019).
- Weaving’s character is named Laura Crane, a reference both to Sidney Prescott’s pseudonym in Scream 3 and the character Marion Crane from Psycho (1960).

3. Tony Revolori’s character, Jason, wears a shirt that reads “4 Mosche Di Velluto Grigio.” This is the name of a giallo written and directed by Dario Argento, known to English speaking audiences as Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971). His character mentions that his professor (Samara Weaving’s character) gave him a C- on his giallo paper. There are other horror references in Jason’s apartment like how he watches Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) and has posters for Deep Red (1975), Last Podcast on the Left, and Vertigo (1958).
4. Later, when Mindy Meeks-Martin watches a news story about Jason’s murder, she comments, “That’s that chode from our film studies class, the one who’s obsessed with Argento.”

5. When Tara (Jenna Ortega) goes to the Halloween party, one guest is dressed as Wednesday Addams, who Ortega portrays in the Netflix series Wednesday.
6. Tara says she may rush “Omega Beta Zeta“. This is the sorority that Cici Cooper (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from Scream 2 belonged to.
7. Samara Weaving and Jenna Ortega previously worked together on The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020).
8. Scream VI is the first time Gale Weathers has received a direct phone call from Ghostface.

9. Courtney Cox has now played the role of Gale Weathers across four decades, a record she shares with Milla Jovovich, who was in all six Resident Evil (2002) films.
10. At the end of the bodega scene, we see that the bodega is named Abe’s Snake bodega. “Abe Snake” is thought to be Wes Craven’s pen name when he directed adult movies in the 70s.

11. Scream VI breaks the franchise’s unwritten rule of only showing Ghostface killers using a gun *after* they are unmasked.
12. Sam’s therapist (Henry Czerny) is watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) when he is attacked by Ghostface. In one version of the script Sam was going to notice that her therapist had a Ghostface memorabilia doll as she left his home.
13. Czerny also played family patriarch Tony Le Domas in Ready or Not (2019).
14. The song “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds plays in Scream VI directly following Czerny’s death scene. The song is basically the Scream theme song and appears in every movie except Scream 4.
15. Just like in Scream (2022) the real killer is called out early in the film near Mindy’s horror movie speech. This time Mindy correctly guesses that Ethan Landry (Jack Champion) and Quinn Bailey (Liana Liberato) are killers.

16. The guy from across the alley (Josh Segarra) that Sam is seeing is named Danny Brackett, likely a reference to the Halloween (1978) characters Annie Brackett (Nancy Loomis) and her father Sheriff Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers).
17. It was Jasmine Savoy Brown’s idea for Mindy and her girlfriend Anika Kayoko (Devyn Nekoda) to share a kiss right before Anika dies.
18. Anika Kayoko is named after Kayako, the ghost from Ju-on: The Grudge (2002).
19. The characters take the subway through station “96” which is probably a reference to the year the original Scream came out.

20. In the subway scene, many Halloween costumes are beloved characters from deceased Scream director Wes Craven’s films.
21. There is also a character dressed as Samara Weaving’s Ready or Not character, Grace.