History Fridge / Scream

** Additionally, Billy and Stu's insistence on De-virginizing Sydney so they're "allowed" to kill her. While the cliché of the FinalGirl states that she's pure and virginal and doesn't do any of the wicked things the other girls do that get them killed, this is a case of UnbuiltTrope, many original Final Girls were "wholesome" only by comparison. [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Alice]] was implied to have had or be having an affair with Steve and participated in the [[StripPoker Strip Monopoly]] game. [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 Ginny]] was explicitly in a sexual relationship with Paul, and missed mist of Jason's rampage because she was in town drinking at the bar. Even [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nancy]], while not having onscreen sex like Tina, is the closest the film comes to having a MsFanservice. In short, even by the stringent rules of the slasher genre, Sydney's sexual activity or lack of same has little bearing on her suitability to qualify for FinalGirl status.

** Additionally, Billy and Stu's insistence on De-virginizing Sydney so they're "allowed" to kill her. While the cliché of the FinalGirl states that she's pure and virginal and doesn't do any of the wicked things the other girls do that get them killed, this is a case of UnbuiltTrope, many original Final Girls were "wholesome" only by comparison. [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Alice]] was implied to have had or be having an affair with Steve and participated in the [[StripPoker Strip Monopoly]] game. [[Film/FrudayThe13thPart2 Ginny]] was explicitly in a sexual relationship with Paul, and missed mist of Jason's rampage because she was in town drinking at the bar. Even [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nancy]], while not having onscreen sex like Tina, is the closest the film comes to having a MsFanservice. In short, even by the stringent rules of the slasher genre, Sydney's sexual activity or lack of same has little bearing on her suitability to qualify for FinalGirl status.

* In ''Scream 4'', the [[DeadStarWalking opening victims]] of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Stab 6]]'' are on a much lower rung of the ladder of fame than those of previous films. Creator/DrewBarrymore in the first film (and her counterpart Creator/HeatherGraham in the first ''Stab'') was a genuine star at the time, while Omar Epps, Creator/{{Jada Pinkett|Smith}}, and Creator/SarahMichelleGellar in the second and Creator/LievSchreiber in the third were all rising stars. Creator/LucyHale and Shenae Grimes, on the other hand, were TV TeenDrama actresses not much more famous than the rest of the cast of an average ''Scream'' (or ''Stab'') movie. Then you realize that this is ''Stab '''[[FranchiseZombie 6]]'''''. Either Hale and Grimes were the only famous actors they could get and the rest of the cast was stuffed with unknowns, or they had started to abandon the DeadStarWalking conceit of the franchise; either way, it's a sign of the growing {{sequelitis}} that gripped the ''Stab'' movies, even on top of the highly rushed and WereStillRelevantDammit nature of the scene. (As for the question of ''Scream 4'' [[HypocriticalHumor doing the same thing]] with Aimee Teegarden and Britt Robertson... well, when you've just featured Creator/KristenBell murdering Creator/AnnaPaquin in ''Stab 7'', you've already hit the quota by then.)

* In ''Scream 4'', the [[DeadStarWalking opening victims]] of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Stab 6]]'' are on a much lower rung of the ladder of fame than those of previous films. Creator/DrewBarrymore in the first film (and her counterpart Creator/HeatherGraham in the first ''Stab'') was a genuine star at the time, while Omar Epps, Creator/{{Jada Pinkett|Smith}}, and Creator/SarahMichelleGellar in the second and Creator/LievSchreiber in the third were all rising stars. Creator/LucyHale and Shenae Grimes, on the other hand, were TV TeenDrama actresses not much more famous than the rest of the cast of an average ''Scream'' (or ''Stab'') movie. Then you realize that this is ''Stab '''[[FranchiseZombie 6]]'''''. Either Hale and Grimes were the only famous actors they could get and the rest of the cast was stuffed with unknowns, or they had started to abandon the DeadStarWalking conceit of the franchise; either way, it's a sign of the growing {{sequelitis}} that gripped the ''Stab'' movies, even on top of the highly rushed and WereStillRelevantDammit nature of the scene. (As for the question of ''Scream 4'' [[HypocriticalHumor doing the same thing]] with Aimee Teegarden and Britt Robertson... well, when you've already featured Creator/KristenBell murdering Creator/AnnaPaquin in ''Stab 7'', you've already hit the quota by then.)

* In Scream 4 after [[spoiler: Jill]] is revealed to be one of the killers, she goes through a lot of trouble to pull off a WoundedGazelleGambit. It makes you feel a tad bit sorry for her that the whole thing would go bust, and probably sooner rather than later, given that she grabbed the IdiotBall immediately before she started kicking the crap out of herself. Her newfound fame would have vanished and she'd of likely ended up in jail or institutionalized if she was lucky. Anyone who watches Lifetime (and certainly a detective or forensics expert) knows that [[spoiler: shooting a man in the groin]] is not a defense wound. It's a revenge wound. Gazelle Gambit fail.

* In Episode 3, an exasperated Jake tells Brooke about a viral video in which a bobcat mauls a Great White Shark, suggesting that Brooke might not be as in control of things as she thinks she is. The kicker comes when you remember Brooke and Jake were going to be reenacting a GameOfThrones Jaimie/Cersei scene for English class. Cersei Lannister is also a beautiful blond woman who isn't as in control of things as she thinks she is.

* The garage door / cat door death is by far the silliest death in the first movie that is otherwise full of simple knife killings, an seems kind of out of place. But in a meta sense it fits in perfectly with a movie that parodies slasher tropes, as Slasher movies compete so much over creative murer methods that almost every slasher film has "that one kill". That's what the garage scene is for the first Scream.

* "They're all the same: some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can't act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. It's insulting." The first victim in the film is, of course, portrayed by [[Creator/DrewBarrymore an award-winning actress]] and is killed after escaping the house.

* "They're all the same: some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can't act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. It's insulting." The first victim in the film is, of course, portrayed by an award-winning actress and is killed after escaping the house.

* Although some basic horror movie ground rules are laid out in the first film, ''Scream'' was originally intended to be not only be a satire of the slasher genre, but a deconstruction of it; and the biggest deconstruction seems to be the notion of 'purity=survival' in regards to the hugely prevalent FinalGirl trope. In fact, the characters that lay the groundwork for said rules in the film leaned on this idea so heavily that [[spoiler:Billy went to great lengths to pressure Sidney into sex just so he could try to prevent this trope]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Billy and Stu's]] strict adherence to the rules of slasher films meant that [[spoiler:they were doomed from the get-go]], for one simple reason: regardless of circumstances, there is almost ALWAYS a FinalGirl; and having one that's GenreSavvy as well is never a good idea. By the final act, [[spoiler:Billy and Stu are injuring each other more than they're injuring her, haphazardly revealing their entire scheme, stating that horror movies are scarier when nobody knows the killer's motive only to reveal the killer's motive in the very next sentence, leaving Sidney unsupervised, falling for noise distractions and other such death-defying acts of GenreBlindness; by the time Stu is uttering the words "I'll be right back," it's clear to just about everybody ''but'' the killers that ''they're'' AloneWithThePsycho and not the other way around]].

* During Randy's rules for horror movie sequels, Dewey cuts him off as he starts explaining how to make the sequel into a franchise. Why? Keeping the same character as the lead helps build a franchise, and if Dewey let Randy finish, it would spoil the fact that Sidney lives throughout the series.

* As noted above, Ghostface is a lot worse at killing people than other slashers. Why is this? Because the Scream series is a Deconstruction of Slasher films! The victims are not TooDumbToLive, unlike other slasher victims.
** That and the killers are actually human and not NighInvulnerable supernatural beings like [[FridayThe13th a hydrocephalic zombie]], [[ANightmareOnElmStreet a fire-scarred nightmare demon]], or [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Halloween whatever Michael Myers is supposed to be]]. And the reason they seem to be able to [[OffscreenTeleportation teleport]] is the fact that there's always at least two of them.
* One has to wonder why every Ghostface has the same personality under the mask. It's because the post-[[spoiler: Billy and Stu]]Ghostfaces saw the Stab films, and therefore know how Ghostface acts.


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* In ''3'', had Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer remained on the cast of ''Stab 3'', they would have suffered the same fate as the rest of their fellow actors, who all ended up dead. It's an even more harrowing thought if you put them in the shoes of their replacements during their death scenes: the actress who won the part of Sidney was stabbed multiple times and the actor who played Dewey was blown up along with the rest of Jennifer Jolie's house.

** That and the killers are actually human and not NighInvulnerable supernatural beings like [[FridayThe13th a hydrocephalic zombie]], [[ANightmareOnElmStreet a fire-scarred nightmare demon]], or [[Halloween|1978 whatever Michael Myers is supposed to be]]. And the reason they seem to be able to [[OffscreenTeleportation teleport]] is the fact that there's always at least two of them.