Elegant. Unsettling. Unexpected. That’s the energy Spencer Charnas and Mckenna Grace brought to the Scream 7 soundtrack announcement.

Charnas isn’t just a talented musician — he’s a Scream superfan. Ice Nine Kills has been flirting with Ghostface for years through lyrics, imagery, and kill-count theatrics. Having him here feels less like a feature and more like kismet: fandom finally bleeding into canon.

McKenna Grace, meanwhile, pulls double duty. She’s part of the film and part of its sound — acting and singing, screaming and shaping tone. Two very different musical worlds, colliding exactly where Scream thrives in horror and comedy.

A clean cut. A little chaos. And a twist we didn’t see coming.

The Scream 7 Soundtrack Rollout

The original songs from Scream 7 will debut throughout February, each release calibrated to a different corner of the contemporary music scene:

• February 13 — “Rearranging Scars” by Sueco
  A pop-punk artist rooted in the emo revival scene, known for blending vulnerability with sharp hooks.

• February 19 — “Twisting the Knife” by Ice Nine Kills feat. McKenna Grace
  The most overtly theatrical entry — metalcore meets cinematic menace.

• February 27 — “Criminal” by Jessie Murph
  A rising voice in dark pop and confessional songwriting, well-suited to Scream’s emotional undercurrents.

• February 27 — “The Kill” by Stella Lefty
  Emerging from the alternative scene, bringing rawness and edge to the film’s closing stretch.

Where Music Meets Memory

During a Meta.AI influencer event featuring Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, and Isabel May, the conversation drifted toward something far more intimate: Sidney Prescott’s theme.

Neve Campbell recalled the first time she heard Marco Beltrami’s original composition, “Sidney’s Lament” — and how rare it is for music to truly capture the interior life of a character:

“And it’s haunting. It’s truly haunting. I think he did such a beautiful job. It’s rare that you actually capture the essence of a character through music, and it takes a lot of talent to do that.”

What fans didn’t know until recently is that Beltrami had already been quietly planting emotional breadcrumbs months ago. Sheet music glimpsed earlier revealed a subtle but telling evolution: “Mrs. Evans’ Lament.” Not Prescott anymore — a surname left behind with the trauma. Evans, the name Sidney chose, the life she tried to build after survival.

Williamson then delivered what he himself called a “good spoiler.” Beltrami is back — fully — and Sidney’s theme isn’t just present in Scream 7. It opens the film.

“There are four versions of Sidney’s theme in this movie. And it’s the very first thing you hear — over the Paramount logo. I want everyone to know this is Sidney’s story from the get-go.”

Looking Beyond Scream 7

Williamson didn’t stop there. When asked whether there were ideas he’d never actually filmed, his answer was immediate — and quietly alarming.

“Yeah, there is. There’s a couple that will be in the next one.”

He went on to explain that he keeps a personal archive of concepts, set pieces, and kills he hasn’t used yet — a living document he affectionately calls “The Graveyard.” It’s where discarded ideas go to wait. And, apparently, to be resurrected. You know, like Kirby or even Stu, possibly.

Williamson described how some of those concepts have already found new life elsewhere. He cited Sick — the pandemic-era thriller he co-wrote — as a kind of creative recycling bin, built almost entirely from sequences he’d been carrying around for years.

“I love these things. I sit around and think of this stuff all the time. I have a book of notes. I have this thing called ‘The Graveyard’. And I just come up with a kill and I type it in.”

According to him, some of those ideas don’t reveal their purpose until much later — sometimes during a scene, when the characters themselves seem to suggest the moment.

“Once you’re in a scene and you’re talking to the character, the character talks to you. And you go, ‘Oh, this is where I can do that.’ There’s one in here that, after you see the movie, I go, ‘Oh, that is where that came from.’”

If Scream 7 is the culmination of a journey he’s been on since 1996, it also sounds like a gateway — one that leads directly to whatever is already waiting in The Graveyard.

Let Scream 8 come.

One Last Image — Worth Noting

Paramount also dropped a new Cinemark XD / Max XD poster, featuring Ghostface melting under flames — a striking visual that leans hard into Scream 7’s “Burn It All Down” mantra.

It’s bold. It’s on-theme. And yes — it’s absolutely worth clocking.