It’s a scream, baby! As the entire horror universe already knows, Scream is one of the most successful slasher franchises in cinematic history. Mostly led by final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), each film introduces us to new characters, all of whom immediately make the list of prime suspects. But that doesn’t mean legacy characters are always in the clear either. Everyone is a suspect when it comes to Ghostface.
With on-screen slashings come injuries and, of course, deaths. Some were expected, but some left a wound in fans’ hearts now that the franchise has extended into seven movies.
News47.us breaks down all the major legacy deaths in the Scream franchise here.
Tatum, Sidney’s best friend, gets crushed by a garage door in the first film. The confident was played by Rose McGowan.
Randy, the franchise’s most passionate horror guide to surviving a slasher movie, was killed off in Scream 2 when Ghostface grabs and stabs him in a van. The character was played by Jamie Kennedy, and he returned to Scream 3 for a brief video of Randy warning Sidney how to survive the next Stab film.
Billy was one of the two original killers from the first movie. Although he tells Sidney and Stu that his so-called “movie” is “scarier” without a motive, he reveals he wanted revenge against Sidney’s deceased mother, Maureen Prescott, for having an affair with his father. Billy comes back in 2022’s Scream and Scream VI in the form of hallucinations by his biological daughter, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera).
Stu is killed off by Sidney at the end of Scream after smashing his face with a TV. Played by Matthew Lillard, he returns in the form of an AI version of himself in Scream 7.
