He’s back — but this time, Ghostface is going head-to-head with Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott and her entire family. The Scream 7 trailer, released on Thursday, just revealed a brand-new story in the long-running slasher franchise, with the next generation fighting back against the latest in a lineage of serial killers.

The Scream 7 trailer opens as every film in the franchise does: with a body count. Jimmy Tatro and Michelle Randolph play a couple staying at what Randolph’s character dubs a “psycho killer B&B” — aka the Woodsboro house that one of the original Ghostfaces, Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard), lived in from the original Scream. (Airbnb hosted a real sleepover event at the house back in 2021.) Of course, the couple is stalked by the franchise’s latest Ghostface, who then calls Campbell’s Sidney to warn her, as a Ghostface has done multiple times before, that he’s back and ready to kill everyone she loves.

That includes Sidney’s teen daughter (Isabel May), who she named after her dead best friend Tatum (Rose McGowan). Teenage Tatum wants to be a survivor like her mom — and so, as Ghostface stalks both women, Sidney teaches Tatum how to live like a final girl. That includes always making sure you shoot the killer in the head to ensure he’s really dead — which, unfortunately for Tatum, she doesn’t do fast enough in one jump-scare-inducing moment.

Newcomers to the Scream 7 cast include Joel McHale, who plays Sidney’s husband, and Mckenna Grace as a friend of Tatum’s. Returning are Courteney Cox as reporter Gale Weathers, and Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown as the twins, Chad and Mindy. The twins appeared as a new generation of stalked Woodsboro teens in Scream 5 before reprising their roles in the New York City-set Scream VI. 

The Scream 7 trailer comes more than two years after the release of Scream VI, the first Scream not to feature Campbell, due to a pay dispute. It featured the return of Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter, daughter of the first Ghostface, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), and her sister, Tara, played by Jenna Ortega.

While both Carpenter sisters survived two back-to-back bloodbaths, Barrera was ultimately fired from the franchise after comments she made on social media about the war in Gaza. Ortega also opted not to return, initially citing scheduling conflicts. She later confirmed that Barrera’s firing — along with the departures of Scream 5 and Scream VI directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin — influenced her decision. Scream 7 will be the first of the franchise directed by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original Scream film.

Scream 7 hits theaters on Feb. 27, 2026.