Scream (2022)

[Rater202]

I see. So you think that a self defense court case would fit a series about deconstructing and reconstructing horror tropes? How so?

So far, none of the movies have shown the aftermath of a slasher attack. You'll note that a lot of slasher movies involve the Final Girl or other survivor executing the killer, sometimes in brutal fashion, rather than merely incapacitating them and either escaping or contacting the authorities. While it's highly unlikely that people would be charged, a vigilante execution is technically a crime.

If the self-defense kill is done in questionable enough circumstances...

Furthermore, in this movie they even make it a point to double-tap and make sure the slasher's dead(or at least try to.) The surviving characters become more and more paranoid with each film, so the idea of Sindey just carrying a gun at all times just in case she's attacked by another ghost face is plausible with how her character has developed over the movies.

Finally: Only the orignal Scream and Scream 2 were about horror movies specifically, and even then Scream was about sequels more than just horror movies specifically. Scream 3 was about trilogies(the examples it was compared to were Return of the Jedi and Godfather 3,) the fourth movie about Remakes, and this movie about Revivals.

If they do another sequel any time soon, they'd have to either just... Play the movie straight, or they'd have to a different kind of movie.