The Final Scream 5 trailer is a callback to the series' most iconic moments

The final Scream 5 trailer opens with David Arquette's Dewey Riley explaining to the movie's fresh faces how to survive a Ghostface encounter. This is an obvious callback to the original film's horror survival rules made up by Jamie Kennedy's Randy. Dewey adds that "the killer is a part of something in the past", which is another direct reference to the legacy of Ghostface.

Later on in the trailer, we see Courteney Cox's Gale Weathers and Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott come back just as Ghostface starts going on a killing spree. The trailer even features Ghostface's classic "Sidney" voice line. But, just as the trailer started to look a lot more like the past Scream films, Ghostface reminds Sidney and the viewers that this is not the same movie that they've seen before.

The upcoming Scream movie might be making a play on the nostalgia factor but it's also paving the way for the future of the series. This should allow the Scream reboot to appeal to older and younger audiences.

Of course, only time will tell if moviegoers are going to risk watching the movie in theaters. The last two Scream films had little luck at the box office. To make matters worse, Scream is premiering just as Spider-Man: No Way Home is going strong for the nth weekend along with the ever-looming threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, if it's any consolation, we know that Ghostface is stepping up their game, expanding their arsenal by using a flamethrower, among other things.