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Atlanta, Georgia

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Atlanta is the capital and most populous city of Georgia. It was the main setting for the third season of the television series Scream, following the city being mentioned in the first and second season. It's the known residence of Marcus Elliot, Kym, Liv Reynolds, Jamal Elliot, Manny, Amir Ayoub, Beth and Shane. It was the home of the 2018 College Park, Atlanta Murders, which was committed by Ghostface, albeit a separate entity (and murders), in the Scream franchise, where they'd specifically happened in the city of College Park, located as southern adjacent of Atlanta.

In the sixth film of the franchise, Scream VI (2023 film), it is revealed that Special Agent Kirby Reed was working as an FBI agent from the Atlanta office of the city, as well as following two former residents, Jason Carvey and Greg Bruckner, before they relocated to New York City due to their obsession with Ghostface. Kirby states to Detective Wayne Bailey that she investigates attacks regarding and surrounding the use of the Father Death costume. While unstated, it's unclear whether she investigated the events of the third season or if they're canon, thus only stating and establishing Atlanta as a location in the films.

History

The city was the home of the Elliot family from the third season, and the Hudson family from the first two seasons, with the city first being mentioned by Brooke Maddox in "Pilot". Former Lakewood Sheriff Clark Hudson and his sister, Tina, along with each's son Kieran Wilcox and Eli Hudson, resided there; although it's unstated whether the latter two were born there. In September 2015 (See Timeline), Kieran would relocate from Atlanta to Lakewood, following the death of his mother and stepfather in a car crash, to live with Clark who'd got a job as a sheriff in the aforementioned town, in order to avoid being placed in foster care. Four months later, in January 2016, Tina and Kieran's cousin, Eli, would also follow and move to live with Kieran in Lakewood after Clark's death in the Second Lakewood Murders (2015-2016) on October 30th, 2015, with both having attended his funeral, along with that of other victims, in November.

Murder of Deion Elliot

On Halloween night, 2010, in a rural neighborhood part of the city, twin brothers Marcus and Deion Elliot were out trick or treating with each other, with Marcus donning the Father Death costume and having spooked and trick or treated at 17 year old Becky's home, unaware she had gotten a call from someone asking "What's your favorite scary movie?", just before ringing her door. Marcus would leave afterwards, running gleefully, to go and meet up with Deion, who was wearing his football gear and uniform as his costume. However, due to not being able to find him after calling for him in a dark alleyway, Marcus's childhood bully, Tommy Jenkins, would corner and scare him, who takes his candy bag, prompting Marcus to chase him. Upon Deion finding his twin brother in the alleyway, he'd learn that Marcus's candy bag was chucked over on the other side of the fence to a junkyard, which belonged to Luther Thompson, a disgruntled war veteran, who went by "Hook Man", due to having a hand for a hook.

Deion doesn't let this myth stop him from returning his twin's candy, who in order to boost his confidence, does a costume switch and inadvertently, an identity one, with Deion now donning Marcus's Ghostface costume and Marcus in Deion's football gear. The twin brothers enter the junkyard and would split up to look for it. Unfortunately, Luther, believing he saw a ghost, would go out to find and attack. Deion would hear the hook scratch a car from the yard, and hides, who fails to warn his brother, with Deion loudly calling for him upon finding him. Luther attacks Deion from behind and would then be murdered by his hook impaling him in the forehead. Marcus would escape in fear and assume Deion's identity and name, with Deion then dying after he stumbled out into the yard to escape Luther, by hiding in a trunk of a car in the yard and dying due to suffocating after being trapped there and of the blood loss from his wound. Luther would find and bury his body approximately eight months later in April-May 2011. His death and Marcus taking on his identity, would prompt their older half brother, Jamal; who'd known the truth due to having met Deion last summer and knowing Marcus had switched to his twin's identity, due to not recognizing him when Jamal came to live with Marcus and Sherry, which would lead him to conspire and commit an anniversary killing spree eight years later, on the anniversary of his death.

Atlanta Murders

For more in-depth information, visit the page: Atlanta Murders.

Locations

  • Weaver High School
  • Atlanta Police Department
  • FBI Office (Atlanta)
  • Old Metro Station
  • Diner
  • Amir's family donut shop
  • Tattoo Parlor (Beth's workplace)
  • Abandoned warehouse (Atlanta)
  • Hook Man's Lair aka Shedyard
  • Unknown Truck Lane
  • 42 Pumpkin Lane (aka Beth's house/Morgue)
  • Shane's apartment
  • Elliot apartment (College Park)
  • Manny's apartment (College Park)
  • Kym's apartment (College Park)
  • Reynolds house

Places in Atlanta

In the third season of the television adaptation of Scream, the city is home to Weaver High School, which Deion (Marcus) and his classmates attend, as well as the Atlanta Police Department.

Residents

Current Residents (as of Season 3 and Scream VI)

Former Residents

Deceased (as of Season 3 and Scream VI)

In chronological order (2010-2023)

Mention Only/Unseen (as of Season 1-3)

  • Clark’s unnamed wife † (neé Wilcox; 1970s-2015)
  • Kieran’s unnamed stepfather †(1970s?/80s-2015)
  • Eli Hudson’s unknown father
  • Eli Hudson’s unknown various stepfathers
  • Unknown teenage girl who was exposed online
  • Unknown teenage girl’s mother/parents
  • Amir Ayoub's parents
  • Manny's aunt/parents
  • Beth's parents
  • Liv Reynold's mother

Trivia

  • This will be the second time in the history of the Scream franchise, apart from Scream 3, where the setting of a murder spree is real and not a fictionalized version of a city or town.
  • The city made its debut in the third season of the television series, Scream.
    • The city was referenced in the past two seasons. Kieran Wilcox, Eli Hudson and Tina Hudson (as well as Clark Hudson, prior to his death) lived in Atlanta, before moving to Lakewood.
    • It is also where Kirby Reed resides and works as an FBI Agent, which makes it the only city to play some sort of role with the characters and story to be referenced in all three seasons of the TV series and the film series (unstated if any of the seasons are canon to the movies due to this connection and Kirby investigating Ghostface activity).
  • Atlanta is the first (real-life) location from the TV series to have been included into the film franchise, following it's mentions throughout both Season 1 and 2, and later, its appearance in Season 3, due to it's mention in Scream VI.
  • The second out of three real world U.S cities in the Scream franchise, thus far.
    • Second instance in the franchise to include two real cities, Atlanta and College Park, in it's former as the main setting (as Los Angeles is the main setting of Scream 3, as most of the events take place in Hollywood), third being New York City and Manhattan (as a borough as the setting of the former), in Scream VI.
  • Atlanta is the first city of a Ghostface massacre to have took place in a state (Georgia) of the Southern United States, the fourth out of five cities in the franchise, following:
    • Woodsboro's three generational murders (Scream, Scream 4, Scream (2022)) and the Hollywood Murders (Scream 3), in Los Angeles, all from the West Coast/ Western U.S state of California.
    • Besides Atlanta from the third season, only New York City from Scream VI and Windsor College in Scream 2, are the only other settings in which are set in States from different regions of the country.
      • With Windsor College's fictional college town of Stone Ridge, set in Ohio being in the Midwestern United States, making it the first state outside of California for a Ghostface massacre and the first of this region, preceding Atlanta from Season 3.
      • Succeeded currently by New York City, it's state of New York being on the Northeastern U.S region also known as the East Coast, rivaled most commonly with Los Angeles, California, which is the West Coast.
  • Besides Season 3, this will be the second time in the history of the Scream franchise in which the city was used as a filming location; the first being Scream 2 (1997) used as a location shoot for Windsor College, Ohio. Filming dates for both projects also began for them nearly 20 years apart, albeit different seasons (the film in mid-June 1997, and the TV show's Season 3 in September-October 2017).
    • Now the city will be used for the third time due to Scream 7 being set to be filmed there in early 2025[1] (as filming slated for December 2024 as previously stated), as nearly being 7-8 years since Season 3 was filmed there, and almost 27-28 years since Scream 2 was.
  • Two cast members of the Scream franchise (films and TV series) were actually born in Atlanta:
  • The city has thus far, only one visitor, being minor character Coach Fisher from "Endgame", a San Diego State football scout.
  • The city, in retrospect, is a callback to Riley Marra's reference to Noah Foster during their nighttime picnic date during Season 1, in the second episode "Hello, Emma", when Riley mentions romance/horror in The Walking Dead.
    • This comment is subliminally regarded and narrated in new words by Beth, due to her and Amir Ayoub's faux-romance (unbeknownst to him; unlike the previous duo in Season 1 who were non-killers) in the season.
    • In regards to the original AMC show (in which she mentions the romance between Carol and Daryl, referenced by Noah as the hick (Daryl) and the housewife (Carol) mentioning Season 1- 5 of the show, in regards to the Timeline, with the seasons releasing from:
      • October 2010-March 2015; in-universe/reality, as the events of the 2015 Lakewood Murders occurred during TWD's release of Season 6, (which was October 2015), the original (temporary) setting before changing in the AMC show of the zombie apocalypse was in the same Southern state and city as the setting of the third season, as well.
        • Similarly used for the Western state of California (while not mentioning Hollywood, but overall; where the 2000 Hollywood Murders on the set of Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro occurred in Scream 3; See Timeline) and how its populous city of Los Angeles was used as the temporary setting for the zombie apocalypse in The Walking Dead's sister show Fear the Walking Dead (released also before and during the 2015 murders, in it's Season 1 in August-October 2015) which like the third season, in regards to California, is where the infamous three generational Woodsboro Murders (based off the fictional town in Northern California) took place.
    • Interestingly, during the 2011 and 2022 sprees, both the original Walking Dead show and Fear were also released throughout:
      • in 2011, just after Season 1 (2010) but before Season 2 of TWD, which was approximately 2 weeks and 1 day due to Jill Roberts's death in Scream 4 (due to TWD Season 2 premiering on October 16, and Jill died on October 1 of the same year)
      • While in 2022 (the Third Woodsboro Murders originally were set in 2021; see Continuity Errors) in regards to both AMC shows, the Walking Dead's final Season 11 took place after its events in Scream (2022) (in 2021, occurs after the eleventh season's fifth and sixth episodes, which was released between September 19 (Episode 5) and September 26 (Episode 6), mainly occurring in between the period of both but closer to the sixth episode for the 2021 events), while for Fear, it occurred after the show's Season 6 but before it's Season 7, as well.
        • However, the spin off show, Tales of the Walking Dead, was released in 2022, with it's final episode airing on September 18, 2022, released just five days before the events in-universe of the fifth film began.
    • Furthermore, in universe/reality of the 2018 Atlanta Murders, coincided during The Walking Dead's Season 9 (seeing as in Fear, the release of the AMC show and universe-murders happen before the show's Season 4 (April-September 2018) but whose finale in August 2019 flashed forward to perhaps coincide during some episodes of Season 5, in the same year, and which the premiere episode of the third season of Scream, aired a day after the fifth season's sixth episode, which was July 7th, 2019) sees the events of its events take place also a week (minus a day) in the ninth season's fourth and fifth episodes, respectively (in Scream, taking place on October 29th-November 3rd, 2018, while The Walking Dead released its fourth and fifth episodes of its ninth season from October 28 (Episode 4) to November 4 (Episode 5), less by a day, both in-universe/reality.
      • Kym makes a joke in "The Man Behind the Mask" during hearing Liv's theory of "Deion" being alive and the killer after them (unbeknownst that Marcus lived, not Deion, whose identity he assumed, wasn't revealed to her or anyone in the season finale except Liv), how unless "Marcus" came back as a zombie, there's no way he's Ghostface.
      • This is perhaps a slight nod to both Walking Dead (due to the show's original setting) and Fear, which had already been released at the time of the events of each of the 3 seasons of the TV series, as well as the decades between Scream 4 and Scream (2022) alongside the TV show, respectively.

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/georgia-entertainment-scene/scream-7-is-shooting-in-metro-atlanta-in-early-2025/ERMLDWSIHZERLMCM7OEQKMZKFI/#:~:text='Scream%207%E2%80%B2%20is%20shooting%20in,that%20represents%20most%20crew%20members.
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