Neve Campbell

EING PART OF AN ICONIC FILM FRANCHISE LIKE COMES WITH its own unique set of experiences. Neve Campbell, who is back for the fifth installment of the film (in theaters January 14), has been through them all: “I was really surprised is bittersweet: The director of the first four films, Wes Craven, died in 2015. “We definitely felt his absence, but we felt his presence as well because [directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett] really did want to honor the movies and keep it in the vein of all the other ones,” she says. Even though Campbell herself doesn’t watch horror films (“I’m a little sensitive”), she “hopes people feel safe enough to go back to the theaters [for ]. She notes, “I think a big part is the joy of sitting with an audience and being scared together and laughing together.”