Emperor Rhizic the MoreWrongThe Brilliance of the Scream movies is that no matter how smart, saavy, and sophisticated any of the characters believe themselves to be about the Slasher genre, every single character gets slashed - they know so much better than those people in the Stab movies within the movie, then blammo, they get stabbed - but the slashers' brilliant plan ALSO backfires and karmic retribution resolves the story happily... until next time! #BruteFacts
Time and time again, in Scream, Pride comes before a fall - for everyone - there's no escaping the cycle of birth and death, just traumas echoing through time
Like a lot of franchises, I can understand people feeling like somebody's beating a dead horse - but there's morals to these stories that people continually fail to learn... Which is probably why stories repeat themselves so often, sometimes as tropes or plot points or whatever - but there's always a new audience to attempt to reach