Overview

• Ashley Cullins’ Your Favorite Scary Movie gathers first-hand accounts that clarify Melissa Barrera’s firing, Jenna Ortega’s departure, and the project’s overhaul.
• Former director Christopher Landon says he left about a week after Barrera was removed, calling the original script centered on her unworkable and citing death threats that followed.
• Jasmin Savoy Brown describes the past year as really sad and stressful, confirms her and Mason Gooding’s returns, and expresses hope the Core Four reunites someday.
• Spyglass characterized Barrera’s social posts about the Israel–Hamas war as hate speech under its zero‑tolerance policy, while Barrera denies being antisemitic or Islamophobic.
• Neve Campbell returns for a Sidney-led story that shifts back toward tension over gore, with Courteney Cox also returning and Isabel May and Joel McHale joining as Sidney’s family.