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Stab 7

Stab 7

The poster of Stab 7 (Poster made by Stabmovies.com
Directed by Max Weinberg
Produced by Don Crosby
Bill Birch
Floyd Malone
Fred Rifkin
Written by Will Kennison
Starring Kristen Bell as Chloe
Music by Marco Beltrami
Distributed by Sunrise Studios
Release date(s) 2010
Running time 115 Minutes
Language English
Budget -
Gross revenue -
Preceded by Stab 6
Followed by Stab (2021 film)

Stab 7 is a 2010 film, and the seventh installment in the Stab franchise, a fictional film series set in the Scream universe.

It stars Kristen Bell as the serial killer Chloe, one of the main antagonist Ghostface killers of the seventh film, now revealed in the opening scene. Her unknown accomplice is presumably revealed during the climax of the film.

The film is based on the 2009 novel, Knife of the Hunter by author Gale Riley, going by her maiden name Gale Weathers as a pen name.

This was the final meta whodunit slasher of the Stab films. It was also the final Stab to feature some form of Sidney Prescott's character (likely the actress portraying her), until the franchise was rebooted approximately 10 years later, with Rian Johnson's Stab 8, simply known as Stab, wide-released in 2021.

Plot

Background

In this story, the events of Stab 6 (and possibly the first six films) were all a series of movies within Stab 7. It appears to be a subtle reference to Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994 film), the seventh Nightmare on Elm Street movie in which Heather Langenkamp returned as a fictional version of herself as an actress to play Nancy Thompson one last time (despite the character's death in the third film).

Following the fictional sequel trilogy, the opening is seen in Scream 4 (2011 film) and shows Rachel and Chloe review the previous film, and dismissing the opening scene (possibly a meta reference to the backlash of Stab 6). Both scenes were parodic commentaries on endless sequels, and the backlashes against them.

Opening Scene

The opening scene is Stab 6 originally, then Rachel shuts it off, saying that it sucks. Chloe disagrees. She tells her friend that she likes the Stab movies because there is something scary about a guy with a knife who snaps.

When Rachel starts complaining about how in the Stab films, you can see everything coming with no element of surprise, Chloe stabs her in the stomach, saying, "Did that surprise you?". Rachel asks her why she did it and Chloe says it is because she talks too much. She turns the TV back on and watches the film as the title appears.

According to Richie Kirsch in Scream (2022), there are always two killers; also according to Mindy, Stab films prior to Stab (2021) are 'meta slasher whodunits, full stop', meaning the plot likely revolved around figuring out Chloe, portrayed by Kristen Bell's accomplice.

Cast

Crew

Executive Producers:

Producers:

Director:

  • Max Feinberg

Writer:

Music:

Trivia

  • The first and only Stab film to be released in the 2010s after various fictional sequels in the 2000s, due to the fictional film franchise going into development hell, following all of the brutality from the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011), seen in Scream 4.
  • As Richie Kirsch states, there is always a second killer, meaning Chloe's accomplice is likely revealed at the end of the film.
  • The third out of four Stab films to have been released a year or so either before or after a "real" Ghostface massacre in the Scream franchise, with Stab 7 being released just a year before fanatics and teen couple both from Woodsboro, Charlie Walker (of whom had a fan club dedicated to Stab, founder of its marathon and was in Cinema Club) & Jill Roberts (Sidney Prescott's cousin) conspired to commit the second generational Woodsboro Murders after the original in 1996 just 15 years prior, from the first film, Scream.
    • The first being the release of the original Stab (1997 limited theatrical release to 1998, as shown in the beginning of Scream 2) released either before and or just during the Windsor College Murders, copycat murders to the ones committed in Woodsboro a year or two prior. (See Continuity Errors).
    • Second being Stab 2 (1999) released a year before the production of the fictional sequel and later cancelled film, Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, due to the fact the Hollywood Murders were occuring while in its production in Scream 3 in 2000.
    • Fourth, succeeding Stab 7 and it's sequel being the release of Stab (2021), the eighth film in the fictional franchise, which was panned by fans and caused for Richie Kirsch and his teenager partner, Amber Freeman, a teen from Woodsboro, to commit the Third Woodsboro Murders (2022), a year later because of it and it would be their own film of it, set nearly 25 years after the Woodsboro Murders of 1996.
      • Before the retcon of Scream VI, the eighth Stab film was released in 2020 and the Legacy Murders would take place in September 2021 instead, with the eighth Stab film being released just 10 years after the seventh film & it's release being 20 years since Stab 3 was canceled (due to the murders).
  • Rachel's death at the hands of her friend, Chloe, is the first instance within the franchise, of Ghostface (albeit in the Stab films) killing and revealing themselves unmasked prior to the start of the film.
    • This is referenced and done so for the first time in Scream VI, after Laura Crane's death, her Ghostface killer unmasked, revealed to be her college film student and non-official Ghostface killer, Jason Carvey, who's a copycat and wannabe trying to finish Richie's film, as mentioned how Richie and his partner, Amber, within the fifth film, conspired on Reddit to commit the Third Woodsboro Murders.
    • Jason as Ghostface luring his professor by texting and calling on Flirtr, a dating site app within the universe, is a reference to Rachel commenting about Stab 6 and the killers using Facebook (due to those film-within-a-film characters, Sherrie and Trudie, mainly the latter, being called and texted by the killer) and with Chloe also commenting that the killers would use Twitter, and how it would've made more sense.
Franchise
Scream franchise
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