Be warned: This article may contain minor SCREAM 6 spoilers once we go further into an illustration posted by Paramount Pictures Brasil earlier today. It would be just a cute Holiday card, saying ‘It’s time to Panic in the City’ until you start noticing some details of the cultural phenomenon that is STAB inside the SCREAM cinematic universe.

Ghostface is everywhere in Times Square, NYC, where apparently they got STAB IX made. Has Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) kept the promise of leaving Richie and Amber on anonymity? Hollywood certainly couldn’t.

In another place, it reads: “Falsas Acusações – O Musical,” something that, when translated from Portuguese, also goes back to Gale.

Before we proceed, answer quickly: what is Gale Weathers’ first bestseller?

If you yelled “The Woodsboro Murders,” I’m sorry, that’s the wrong answer!

‘Oh, but it was the 1996 book that originated the STAB franchise! It shows in SCREAM 2‘. So, I need to go to GaleWeathers.com archive, that brilliant meta piece of the official web marketing of SCREAM 3 back in 2000 and check her resume.

Her first book was “Wrongly Accused: The Maureen Prescott Murder,” Ghostface didn’t show up until the sequel, and this was its plot:

“This gripping account of a real-life murder mystery and the ensuing trial held onto the top of the Bestseller list for nearly three weeks. Read about the tragic slaughter of Maureen Prescott and her daughter Sidney’s vengeful mission to convict her mother’s lover, Cotton Weary. Using the latest techniques of investigative journalism, Ms. Weathers’ detailed book was a key tool in Mr. Weary’s exoneration.”

It is so compelling that has inspired a Broadway musical.

The illustration also invites you to enroll at Blackmore University (that is the place where some of our Woodsboro survivors will be studying during the events of SCREAM 6); a subway is destined to SCREAM while the license plaque of the cab says SCRMVI; another mural has the tagline “New York, New Rules“; and below, Ghostface’s famous quote: “Do you wanna play a game.”

Above everything, there is a STAB poster on the highest point. Something seems written, but we couldn’t decipher and it sucks because nothing in this marketing piece looks random.

Edit: Just as we finished writing this, Paramount published the American version.