Since news broke that Melissa Barrera will no longer be starring in Scream VII, the horror community has been in shock.

In a statement released to Variety, a spokesman for the production company Spyglass said its stance was “unequivocally clear”.

It said:

“We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.”

Happy Death Day filmmaker Christopher Landon who is taking over directing duties from filmmakers Radio Silence made a statement on X. He said:

“Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.”

The post has since been deleted.

Barrera has not yet made an official commented.

However, before her departure was announced, she reshared a quote from another account on her Instagram story which read:

“At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.”

That post has been interpreted by some of her followers as a reference to her being sacked from the film.

The actor was dropped from the project after a series of social media posts in the wake of the Israel-Hamas War.

Barrera first appeared in Scream, the 2022 feature that earned $137.7 million globally and combined generations of cast-members from the franchise. Barrera’s Sam Carpenter was the lead of that film, and the older sister of Jenna Ortega’s Tera. Barrera also starred in Scream VI, which was released in March and topped $168.9 million at the global box office.

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