Everything in Scream 7 plays out in a debilitating dimness that adds more confusion than menace. Photo: Paramount Of all the horror franchises out there, the Scream series is the one that feels most like being on the world’s most annoying hamster wheel. Here comes the opening kill; here come the killer’s tedious questions about “scary movies”; here comes the meta-textual explanation for why someone new has decided to dress up as Ghostface and start stabbing people; here come the homages to