It's A Scream

There is a new Scream movie in theaters! And I have reviewed it! Click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts on Scream 6, the latest stab -- hehehe get it -- at this meta-slasher franchise from the dudes who made Ready or Not. And no, spoiler alert, this movie is not as good as Ready or Not. But it's an improvement over the last one, mostly. I mean we see both Mason Gooding and Josh Segarra topless so it kind of has to be, for that alone. 

Happy #Scream6 Day from Mason Gooding pic.twitter.com/AW1tIQjiBK

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 10, 2023

But wait hey look there is another movie out today that I also reviewed today, although this is a far less enthralling proposition in every way -- click here to read my thoughts on Champions, the "Woody Harrelson coaches a ragtag misfit crew of Special Olympian basketball players" movie that the world most definitely was not asking for. I mainly just used this review as an excuse to talk shit about sports and sports movies though, so I guess this movie did serve a purpose in one way. (PS fuck you Woody Harrelson for your anti-vaxx bullshit -- you're as good as dead to me now.) In summation... yeah, here is more Mason Gooding:

We have raised a generation of actors who know their every sexy move will be turned into gifs on the internet, and I like that pic.twitter.com/kusILfRtJL

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 9, 2023

Mason Gooding Five Times

Scream star Mason Gooding is filling out the pages of Men's Health this month -- you can read the chat with him here, although I imagine you'll want to actually see Scream VI this weekend before you do since I imagine they talk about the movie. I haven't read the interview so I don't know for sure if there are spoilers but best not tempt yourself. Anyway my review of Scream VI will be up  tomorrow I'm guessing, but here's a real spoiler for you -- it's set at Halloween and we see Mason Gooding dressed as a shirtless cowboy. So, you know, go buy your fucking tickets. And hit the jump for the rest of these snaps (although unfortunately, stupidly, they did not recreate the shirtless cowboy costume)...

Mason Gooding Wants Your Sex

Another batch of names have been added to the cast of Gregg Araki's upcoming movie I Want Your Sex, and one of them is Scream hunk and MNPP fave Mason Gooding! Yes I cannot wait for Araki's lens to frame this slab of man -- Gregg will know how to do it. This is the movie that stars Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman as a May-December pairing whose entire calendar goes outta whack due to the power of their passion. I just came up with that plot description myself, I really should work in PR. Here is the way Deadline puts it:

"A provocative film blithely exploring desire, domination, and fantasy, I Want Your Sex asks, how far is too far? When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder."

Also joining the cast are Johnny Knoxville, Daveed Diggs, Charlie XCX, Margaret Cho, and Chase Sui Wonders from Bodies Bodies Bodies, which is such an Araki-esque movie I'm just now realizing? Ooh why isn't Gregg working with Rachel Sennott??? My brain just exploded. They would be amazing together. Get to work on the next one right now, Gregg! Mason can come too!

Mason Gooding Seven Times

Mason Gooding posted these photos on Instagram saying thanks to Adidas for sending himself and his adorable doggy (who you'll see in a photo below) the clothes, and I think he's insinuating he took these photos himself? In which case I can only commend the man -- he sure knows his angles. Hit the jump for all seven snaps...

Take Another Little Piece Of My...

Heads up hot stuffs -- the Valentine's Day Slasher called Heart Eyes that stars the hot ass Mason Gooding has landed on Netflix today! You can watch it right here, or more importantly even you can read my review of it right here. It's fun! I didn't find it terribly scary but I liked it anyway. Maybe it was just staring at Mason Gooding for ninety minutes that did it. I guess we'll never know!

Mason Gooding's Pointy End

While you can never go wrong with watching the original My Bloody Valentine every February 14th it's nice to have a few options, so it was cool of Werewolves Within director Josh Ruben to give us a new one with his rom-com meets slasher Heart Eyes, starring the gorgeous Mason Gooding and Olivia Holt, that is out in theaters today -- click on over to Pajiba to read my thoughts upon it! Honestly Valentines is my second least favorite holiday (after New Years ugh) so watching lovers be butchered is always my kind of way to celebrate. But you do you! 

This Valentines Day remember there is a slot for every hole!

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM

Scream, Scream Again

I realize this is a spoiler for the previous Scream movie but enough time has passed that I don't give a shit -- I sure was glad to see Mason Gooding's name in thecast list for the new movie, reminding me that his character survived that dicey encounter with Ghostface last time around. I guess that makes him the Dewey of the new series -- the one who comes out on a stretcher at the end surprising everybody by not being quite as eviscerated as we'd thought they'd been. I guess we'll see if that stays true for Part VI though, which has just gifted us with its first NYC subway train set teaser trailer this morning...

It's a great tease, promising new ground for a Scream movie by moving the setting to New York -- of course the third film was set in Los Angeles, but everybody knows the New York subway is where all the violence has moved in the 20s, baby. I really hope the film forefronts the New York Post's right-wing hysterical coverage of its violence -- that'd be very funny.

Anyway lots of Scream this week -- if you missed it I wrote about the 25th anniversary of Scream 2 at Mashable on Monday. I don't think I even mention the last film in that piece, even while I make a case with regards to all of the films, specifically all of the killers and the faceless specter of Ghostface itself. Judging by this trailer it seems the new franchise might be carrying on the earlier one's tradition though, of foregrounding survivors over villains -- that would be the best legacy and I hope that's true. We will see on March 10th 2023 when Scream VI hits theaters! Tell me what you think of the teaser in the comments, and I'll share a few more hot photos of Mr. Mason Gooding (via) with you after the jump...

Gooding Mason, World

Remind me when I'm more in the mood -- i.e. when I didn't just finish a shitty subway commute on a rainy Friday morning that I want real bad to be a Friday evening already -- that I should do a proper gratuitous post on Scream and Booksmart and Love Victor actor Mason Gooding. Because the boy loves taking gratuitous selfies -- the net's littered with them. (His Instagram is a good place to start.) For today I grant y'all just three photos, the above one for obvious reasons (i.e. he's hot and there are gray sweatpants) and the bottom two for obvious reasons (i.e. they're real gay with his upcoming co-star Tyler Alvarez in a movie called Pools, which is about a bunch of bored hot kids pool-hopping one summer. Sounds promising!)

Good Morning, World

Lots of Mason Gooding in the past week or so! But I suppose that's to be expected with the new Scream movie -- and that shirtless cowboy Halloween costume he wears in it; did I mention that enough times? If you missed my review of the movie on Friday here it is -- if you saw the movie over the weekend tell me what you thought in the comments! Or we can just sit here in a post-Oscars post-time-change daze and stare at more photos of Mason until we're feeling awake. That works for me. Hit the jump for the new photos... 

Gooding Morning, World

Here are three photos that Mason Gooding felt kind and generous enough to share with us on Instagram this week -- say thank you, everybody!

I Only Have Heart Eyes For You

As I state basically every time I share a new horror movie trailer I have not watched this trailer myself because I have stopped watching almost all movie trailers but most especially ones for horror movies -- they always spoil too much. But I do want to toss this movie on your radar -- and share that photo of Mason Gooding while I'm at it because duh. So here's a post about a horror movie trailer all the same, and y'all can make your own adult choices about whteher to watch it or not. The film is called Heart Eyes...

... and it's a new Valentine's Day Slasher (out one week earlier on February 7th) from the great director-actor Josh Ruben, who's previously gifted us with the terrific horror movies Scare Me and Werewolves Within (not to mention acting in the terrific horror movie A Wounded Fawn). Here's what else I know about Heart Eyes even though I didn't watch this trailer -- it stars Gooding alongside Jordana Brewster and scream king Devon Sawa, and it was co-ritten by Michael Kennedy (of Freaky and It's a Wonderful Knife fame) and... that's it. The end. That's all I know. But Ruben has a hella proven track record so I'm sold. Here's the trailer, do as you like:

As I said Heart Eyes is out on February 7th -- it's nice to have a new V-Day horror movie, right? I was just thinking the other day that it's really weird that we never got a sequel to the original 1981 version of My Bloody Valentine, one of the greatest Slasher Movies ever made and which birthed one of the most iconic looking Slasher Villains, with its deranged miner Harry Warden, only to never capitalize on him again. Hell even the 2009 remake could've used a sequel -- there were far worse horror remakes in the Aughts than that one. And yes I have somehow come out swinging for TWO Aughts-era horror remakes today (along with House of Wax this morning) -- is something in the air or what? Have I been bitten by the nostalgia bug for Aughts shit like everybody else? Oh dear. 

Today's Mood

That about sums it up, Mason Gooding.

Good Morning, World

Thanks for the perk-up, Mason Gooding.

I hope your character survive the new Scream movie.

(10 days to go!) We all enjoy the looking at you.

Josh Ruben Gone Wild

Horror writer-director-actor-hunk Josh Ruben has announced his next movie after last year's Heart Eyes was a Valentine's hit and it sounds like a good 'un -- he's turning Matt and Harrison Query's 2024 novel Wilderness Reform into a movie! It sounds very Nightmare on Elm Street III but set at Crystal Lake -- it's about a troubled teenager who's sent to an isolated camp with a bunch of other misfits looking to get reformed, only to find the camp counselor's cheeriness turned up to a terrifying degree. So you could also say it's the Wednesday parts of Addams Family Values turned into a horror movie. Anyway I've dug all of Ruben's movies to date -- which also includes Scare Me and Werewolves Within -- so I'm already down for whatever he's looking to serve, but the added bonus of an overly cheerful camp setting really hits home for this "went to Church Camp four years straight" human being right here. Anybody read the book? And ohh what the heck since we're here and Heart Eyes came up here's a photo that its star Mason Gooding posted on Instagram earlier: 

Mason Gooding One Time

The slasher rom-com Heart Eyes is out this weekend and my review of it will be coming soon but first let's stare at the movie's leading hunk, a true Scream King of the moment, for a hot (emphasis on hot) sec. (via) Good lord. Good grief. Good...ing. Sorry I couldn't help myself. 

Good Morning, World

Move over, Mason Gooding, I'm climbing in.

Good Morning, World

Mason Gooding says good day, sir.

Gooding Mason, World

Mason definitely puts the "core" in the "Core Four" huh?