WMG / Scream

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Dewey was a third Ghostface in the first movie.

• First of all, there's evidence that suggests there might've been a third Ghostface, specifically the scene where Sidney and Tatum are talking on Tatum's porch while being watched by a Ghostface. The very next scene shows that both of the confirmed killers are at the video store. Maybe enough time had passed between those two scenes that whichever one was watching them could leave, change, and go to the video store, but it doesn't look like much time passes between the two scenes, if any at all.
• There's two things that point to it possibly being Dewey:
  • The first is that he survives being stabbed, just like how the killers were planning to make it look with themselves.
  • And the second is the scene in the store with Sidney and Tatum. Right after, Dewey goes to meet up with his boss and says he was watching over Sidney. But if that's true then how could he have missed the clear-as-day Ghostface that was following her and Tatum in the store? Unless...
  • There's also theoretically nothing to suggest that it wasn't merely a tasteless teenager dressing up as Ghostface and trying to get a rise out of Sidney and Tatum. One such prankster was shown running through the high school and two kids were expelled; perhaps in revenge they stalked Sidney like that, at the porch and at the store. You have to figure that the two confirmed Ghostfaces, Billy and Stu, would never risk making appearances in the guise in broad daylight, especially in a busy store. Also, it's a theme of the movie that the youth generation is desensitised and somewhat heartless, lending further credence to the idea of sick pranksters stalking (but not actually attacking) a victim who has already suffered so much. As for Dewey, his competence has been brought into question by Gale and others. But even disregarding that, he probably found it sufficient to wait outside the store, watching the entrances and figured (as indeed Billy and Stu didn't actually go there) he would never show "(Ghost) face" in broad daylight. However, maybe this stalker went in wearing plain clothes and then changed into the uniform in a store toilet. In any event, neither Sidney nor the Riley siblings noticed this Ghostface, and he didn't attack, so they were safe and none the wiser.

Scream 5 will follow the rules of a film reboot.

• Since 1-3 follow the rules of a film trilogy, and 4 follows the rules of a remake, the only logical next step is to have Scream 5 follow the rules (or lack there of) of a reboot. While remakes can deviate somewhat from the source material but typically have to follow the same plot points, reboots, which have become fairly commonplace in Hollywood as of 2021, and by extension Scream 5 (who’s official title is simply Scream, similar to how reboots just use the original title, no numbers or subtitles) don’t have to follow these same rules, as they allow filmmakers and writers to essentially rewrite a preexisting story and create their own rules, shaking up a franchise that has possibly become stagnant over the years. This will give the new Ghostface a chance to truly shake up the formula set by their predecessors, possibly even resulting in the death or deaths of Sidney, Dewey, or Gale.
  • Partially confirmed. They pattern the movie more along the lines of a "requel", i.e. half sequel and half reboot, and Dewey does indeed die.

If Scream 5 has multiple killers, it will be established in the opening sequence.

• Scream 4 showed that Stab 6 did this.
  • Jossed. Scream 5 only definitively shows one Ghostface in the opening sequence, and logically the other one can be assumed to be out of town at time time.

One of the killers in Scream 5 will have their identity be revealed early on.

• It would heighten tension when they're alone with another character, as we know what the protagonists don't.
  • Jossed. They are both only unmasked at the end of the film.

If Stu is alive, he was in a coma during the second and third films.

• This would explain why no one thought to go to him in Scream 3 to question him about Maureen having a third killer.

Randy is not dead and may return in a later film

He is a far too popular and likeable character, and other fans have been pleading for him to come back. It could even be seen as a bit of Fridge Brilliance if the writer does ever decide to bring him back because the entire purpose of Scream 4 (the first in a new trilogy) is to subvert many events of the first film. For example:

• Jill is the new Sidney, but she was one of the killers
• Charlie is the new Randy , but was the other killer and dies and stays dead instead of getting up like Randy did in Scream
  • I thought Robbie was the new Randy, their initials are even the same (Randy Meeks, Robbie Mercer) he still most likely died though, but I'm hoping he lived!
  • Robbie seemed like the new Randy, and at the end Charlie actually calls himself the new Randy, but he degenerates quickly into a new Stu
    • But Charlie's a psycho, so his word isn't all that reliable anyways. He's probably just deluding himself.
    • True.
• Trevor is the new Billy, but was an innocent Red Herring etc...

The aforementioned Fridge Brilliance would come into play in the recently announced Scream 5, having Randy return in the second film of the new trilogy as a mirror to his death in the second film of the "old" trilogy.Whaddya think?

• And just for the record, this wouldn't be a resurrection like so many A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th movies, just make it so Randy didn't die. Maybe he survived his injuries, was transported to a hospital in a different city (one closer to his family, probably) and he's been laying low for the last little while.
  • Randy is, without a doubt, dead. Not only do we see him getting stabbed and killed, we also see that his throat's been slit. Add that to the fact that Joel mentions that his van is a crime scene, Randy's sister is sad about his death in Scream 3, and the fact that he has never been so much as mentioned as being alive for two and a half movies..... yeah. He's dead. It's like saying Tatum, Rebecca, or Trevor is alive. Their deaths are 100% final. If you want deaths which may have been survivable look at Kirby (same wounds as Sidney, never mentioned again) or Robbie (not wounded as bad as Dewey has been, alive for a while afterwards, paramedics are seen coming up and pulling out their equipment in the background of a scene) Now those characters may have survived.
    • Yeah, but it's just wishful thinking.
    • That I get, I'm still in wishful denial that Tatum died, Randy died, Cotton died, Jennifer died, Rebecca died, Trevor died, and that Kirby and Robbie could be dead!
    • Yeah, but it's especially sad when the characters that are in more than one movie are killed off. We Hardly Knew Ye.
  • As of Scream 5, a part of Randy lives on in his niece and nephews, and Kirby is confirmed alive in a Freeze-Frame Bonus.

Scream 4 had 3 killers, Judy was the 3rd

Think about it, there's NO WAY Jill and Charlie could have done half those kills, they aren't strong enough. There's also a lot of times where it seems like they're both in other places Rebecca, where Jill is in the hospital and Charlie is with Robbie, Olivia, where the cops were pursuing Ghostface while she was being killed, and Kate, Hoss, and Perkins. Where Jill was with Kirby and Charlie was most likely with Robbie. It just doesn't add up! Add the fact that Judy was so incredibly CREEPY and you have a perfect 3rd killer!

• I think it makes sense, but she was too obvious a suspect, and clearly set up to be a Red Herring, just like the cop in Scream 3 that Patrick Dempsey played. Though maybe the writers will reveal Judy to be the killer in Scream 5, and make her admit to some of the murders in Scream 4.
  • I definitely agree she's too obvious for a regular, it's just that NO ONE else could qualify and it'd be a huge shock to reveal a survivor to be a killer. Think about it, some scenes seem off without 3 killers and she's the only one who could possibly be a killer and alive. Robbie and Kirby may have survived, but their attacks were isolated and done in a way that they could not be killers. Judy is the only one that makes sense.
  • Considering Jill killed off Charlie when he outlived his usefulness, who's to say one of the other killers wasn't a victim who she killed for the same reason?
  • I don't think so. Jill left the hospital after getting checked by the doctor, giving her time to whip out her costume and kill Rebecca; Charlie attacked Sid and Jill and killed Oliva and could've ran back home or to Robbie's home to inform him of the murder as the cops came. As for the strength part, Jill was able to grab and throw Sidney against a glass cabinet in the hospital, lifting her a few inches of the ground.
  • Considering Judy was killed in Scream 5 and no hints were even alluded to that she might be guilty for some of the events of the prior movie, pretty safe to deem this one jossed.

The Scream films exist in The View Askewniverse, which is also the real world

How else would the Jay and Silent Bob cameo in Scream 3 make any sense?

• Or the scene in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where they walk onto the set of Stab 4, which is being directed by Wes Craven.
  • That would make sense because, as stated in Scream 4, only the first 3 Stab movies are based in fact, and the series apparently went downhill after that. (It would explain why the killer in Stab 4 was a monkey.
• Maybe the director`s assistant for the Bluntman & Chronic movie (played by Jamie Kennedy) was actually Randy Meeks, having survived his attack in Scream 2. (I refer you to an earlier WMG on this page.) It would explain why he is so meek, timid, and jittery ( being attacked by a killer would do that to you). But it would also show that he is working his way up in Hollywood from lowly director's assistant to an actual director, eventually.
  • Might be a stretch, considering there's a "Clerks" poster in the video store where Randy works & a "Clerks" VHS tape at Stu's house.
    • Jay and Silent Bob Reboot shows that Clerks is also a film in the View Askewniverse by having Jay and Silent Bob entering into a panel at a convention where the cast of Clerks are present, even in their Black and White form.

Scream 3 had 2 killers, Angelina was the second one

It was in the original script, and she was pretty suspicious. Maybe Roman betrayed and killed her because he wanted to be the sole survivor, a plot point later employed in Scream 4.

• What's more, the film seems out of place in that it only had one killer, rather than the two every other film had. Not to say this film isn't allowed to break the pattern, but it certainly does seem a bit off.
  • Due to the reveal of the back story in the third film, the first film had three killers (Billy, Stu and Roman). Many fans in real life had suspected as far back after the first film's release that there may have been a third killer due to the fact there are times where Billy and Stu couldn't have been Ghostface while certain scenes occur. With that in mind, that means the amount of killers were three in the first film, two in the second and one in the final film.
  • It could be possible that Angelina was involved with Roman in the killings, and his attacking her caught her completely off guard for her to be able to do anything about it because she didn't see him betraying her.
  • As mentioned in an earlier WMG, just because there's a Ghostface shown stalking around in the first movie doesn't mean it has to be Roman, or some other third killer. It could just be a prankster (or pranksters).

Kirby and Robbie from Scream 4 survived their knife wounds

I am reluctantly adding this WMG because of how prevalent this theory is. So, OK, there is a possibility that both of them, or only one of them survived. It would be nice to have a couple of new recurring characters in future Scream movies besides the usual three.

• I'm in total support of this theory. I'm a huge Kirby and Robbie fan! :P I really wanted them to make it. Besides, Dewey was stabbed way worse in Scream 2 and survived for much longer. It could definitely happen.
• Robbie definitely didn't survive. When The cops get to the house post-bloodbath, Judy feels Robbie's pulse and says "He's gone." Kirby, on the other hand...
• But that only happened in the Pay-Per-View cut. Also, she's not a doctor and she was obviously nervous, having seen so many corpses in one night ( Kate, Hoss, Perkins), she could've easily made a mistake. Not to mention she spent like half a second checking his pulse, which probably isn't enough time if the person is dying and his heart rate is slowing down.
• Kirby is confirmed alive as of Scream 5.

Stu's motive was revenge for Casey dumping him for Steve

• Early in the movie Randy has a quick line where he says that Casey dumped Stu for Steve. Stu says that he dumped her for Tatum. So if he was angry and jealous about it maybe that's why that pair had to die.
  • Well, that and peer pressure. He was very sensitive.

The true Ghostface is an old man who teaches teenagers how to become serial killers

• Well, that was kind of used as the plot twist at the end of Scream 3, with Roman telling Billy and Stu to start the original murders.
  • Yeah but he seemed a bit unstable to be a puppet master type villain.
• This would account for the change in the Ghostface voice (assuming the voice is the old man's, rather than the actual killer's), which was caused by Roger L. Jackson's real-life voice change (due to ageing), but was never addressed in-universe.

Dewey and Gale will not appear in Scream 5

• It's just a thought, but they really don't have much of a place in the franchise anymore. They get engaged at the end of Scream 3, and they have a rocky marriage that gets better in Scream 4, but their plotline has now been completely resolved. It's like when they removed Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, there is no need to have them in future sequels, it's the same for Dewey and Gale. Not saying that they should be killed off, just Put on a Bus. Let's say that they moved to another country to get as far as possible from any more killings. This, in turn will allow more new characters to have more screen time in the fifth and sixth films.
  • I second this. Even though they play a role in the climax of 4, they feel unnecessary to the storyline. It really wouldn't be a bad thing if the same thing happens to Sidney. The more she's in these movies the more likely it is she's going to end up murdered.
  • Jossed. In Scream 5 we are shown that Dewey and Gale did not have a happy ending and Dewey dies. Which brings into question as to whether Gale and Sidney's Plot Armor will endure in Scream 6.

Scream 5 is going to have a blatant joke about sequel numbers

• The joke is probably going to be Stab (some ridiculously big number) or Stab (followed by some Colon Cancer )
  • Alternatively, the 5th and 6th movies might be titled 5cream and S6ream.
    • For the sixth one, you could have just gone with Scr6am.
  • Confirmed in fact in the form of a Stab joke about the recent tendency of requels to not have numbers but instead take the same title as the original movie, as some Self-Deprecating Humor.

Dewey killed Stone The Bodyguard.

Ok hear me out here. Though Stone had some defining moments like catching Gale eavesdropping and fighting Ghostface to the death, he was a complete and utter dick to Dewey, treating him with disrespect despite Dewey surviving twice up to the events of Scream 3. During his death scene, he was snooping around Dewey's trailer, and even stole pocket change from him while on the phone with presumably Dewey. To top it off, he made a remark about Dewey's sister's death which was seconds away from the killer's Kruger style one liner. ("That Makes me *Stab* ANGRY!!!) Last but not least, he approached the group and pointed at Dewey before collapsing dead. I am not saying Dewey was the killer for all of Scream 3, but he used the ensuing chaos to his advantage to get even with Stone.

• But remember, Dewey was in the house with Gale and Jennifer the entire time, that's how the audience is supposed to know that it's not Dewey on the phone with Steven Stone.

Scream 5 is going to seemingly kill off Sidney, only to bring her back for the finale of Scream 6.

• Search your hearts, you know it to be awesome.
  • Jossed. Of the big three legacy characters, Sidney arguably gets off lightest, as Dewey dies and Gale is shot and stabbed (but lives) while Sidney is merely stabbed.

Ghostface really is a ghost.

He possesses people and motivates them to kill. As for possessing multiple people at once, either he's one ghost that can split up or many ghosts that can form into one collective.

• He's the ghost of Billy Loomis. Yeah, all of the killers to have gone after Sidney in the sequels are given their own motivations for doing so, but really, what are the chances that so many people would have reason to hunt this one girl? Billy's pissed over Sidney's screwing up his plans, and he won't move on until he's had his vengeance.

If Sidney is in Scream 5, she is going to kill herself

• Sidney can't possibly stay sane after all of that.
  • Jossed. In fact, she states that a major reason why she comes back is to help ensure the safety of her and Mark's family.

Scream 5 really will involve Time Travel.

• One of the characters in Scream 4 mentioned that Stab 5 involved time travel, which is possible foreshadowing of the sequel. It won't be the standard time travel, though. Instead, we'll have flashbacks of Sidney's mom trying to escape from a killer (maybe Billy and Stu), and at the same time, have Sidney running from the same killer and trying to figure out his identity.
  • Jossed. No time travel either in the conventional sense or in the figurative sense described in this WMG.

If Scream 5 really is made, it would be:

• A crossover between the worlds of Scream, the first two seasons of Scream: The TV Series and the reboot season of said show.
• A continuation of Scream 4.
• A complete reboot.
• A Kirby spin-off. She deserves it!
  • Jossed on all fronts. It is a requel, which means in part that it functions partially as a sequel to all it's predecessors. And therefore not a complete reboot, but a partial one.

There will be a Scream Cinematic Universe

A. Cinematic universes are very popular nowadays. B. The Scream films need a continuation. Sure, the Scream franchise does live on in a TV series, but it isn't the same.

• Speaking of which, the TV series could take place in the same universe as the Scream movies! Who knows? Maybe Lakewood is just a long stretch away from Woodsboro.

Ghostface as the Seven Deadly Sins

• Pride: Jill
• Wrath: Mrs. Loomis
• Lust: Billy
• Greed: Mickey
• Gluttony: Stu
• Envy: Roman
• Sloth: Charlie
  • I always thought Jill was envy.
    • Probably, but Roman was envious of Sid before she was famous and truly wanted to kill her.
  • I'd argue that Mickey is pride (he thinks so highly of his niche view of the social impact of film that he imagines his defence is impregnable). Jill then moves to greed, which fits well with her lust for fame.
• As for Amber and Richie, both of them basically have the same motivation, so they would both fall into the categories of Pride (in believing that their "movie" is worth killing and manipulating people for), Wrath (hatred of the recent Stab film has driven them to get revenge through murder, though on un-related participants) and Greed (they have such a desire to see their Stab film come to fruition, again to the point of murder).

Stu

is still alive.He was electrocuted I know, but take horror movie physics away and you got the odds of surviving an electrocution. Not to mention after the TV stopped shocking him he made a moan before passing out. It sounded like a faint sign of life.

• Quite possible as one of the circulating rumours and even Wes and Matthew Lillard themselves said that Stu would have survived and been orchestrating the murders of either Scream 2 or 3 (I can't remember exactly) but that they had to drop it after Columbine. Seeing as you said horror logic applies to this series, it could very well be possible that we may see Stu in the future.
  • It was 3, he was supposed to be The Man Behind the Man from prison. It isn't without merit, since Matthew Lillard (Stu) cameoed as a partygoer in the second film.
  • In all likelihood, doubtworthy. Stu thought he'd die from his stab wounds alone, which probably got even worse upon briefly fighting with Sidney. Couple that with the crush impact of the TV on his head (and the glass screen shattering on his face) and then the electrocution, and there's no way.

The entire Scream universe horror follows movie rules in a cosmic setting.

This isn't just to be one step ahead of the killer, this universe is cursed to live as an eternal horror movie. This not only includes the rules Randy and others mentioned throughout the films but ones they never mentioned:1. As long as the heroine/scream queen lives, someone will always try to kill her.2. Every killer has to wear the titular costume.3. No matter what their motive is, it will always lead back to why the heroine has to die in order for them to succeed.4. If there is more than one killer throughout the series, they will always pay tribute to their predecessor while adding their own style to the mix.5. No matter how much the heroine succeeds, she will always lose someone, or something she cares about.6. Only the scream queen can kill the killer.

While these rules are mostly set in stone, the characters on both the protagonist and antagonist ends of the curve strive to change them in some way. Such as Sidney surviving despite not being a virgin.

Billy Loomis

will return in the fifth movie. Not via resurrection, but by some bizarre way, he survived getting shot in the head (I looked it up, it's possible to some degree, like if the bullet is stuck in the skull). All new characters will be Red Herrings like in the previous films, making The Reveal much more surprising. He will express disgust on how horror is all the same now, and is trying to take it back to it's classic roots saying something along the lines of "You can't kill the classics" and "The best always come back".

• Mildly confirmed, but not as you envisaged. Billy appears in the form of a hallucination, looking much as he did when he died, in the mind of his bastard daughter. He offers her psychotic encouragement.

Scream 5 will have...

Sid, Dewey and Gale armed to the teeth waiting for the next killer to show up. They blow him/her away and the rest of the movie would focus on Maureen's life while adding new things to make it seem like Ghostface was around before Sidney.

• Jossed. The film plays out much like it's predecessors, so it's not like they get to just unload massive firepower on him, and it doesn't focus on Maureen or an earlier presence of Ghostface at all.

Dewey is Unbreakable.

Think about the sort of punishment he goes through throughout the series only to escape with little or no lasting effect. Even his limp from a 'severed nerve' is conveniently invisible and vague enough to be psychosomatic, a symptom he convinced himself he had, because a full recovery within months would be so implausible.

Scream 5 will be set in a version of the real world.

In a Wes Craven's New Nightmare style twist the fifth Scream will take place in a world where Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Jamie Kennedy really did play roles in films called Scream and now someone obsessed with the movies is after them.

• Neve Campbell will be the first one killed and Drew Barrymore will be the Final Girl.
  • Jossed, with no New Nightmare-style conceit in the film.

Jill survived.

It occurred to me that, in the unlikely event of a fifth film, this would be a great touch. Everyone talks about Kirby, but by the standards of horror movies a shot to the chest isn't exactly a confirmed kill. It could definitely be interesting to see Jill come back in a Hannibal Lector type role, analyzing the next Ghostface. Also, she would have achieved her goal of fame, in a perverse way, as "the only living Ghostface killer," giving her extra motivation to take the next one down.

The Ghostface costume is possessed.

When wearing the costume, the killers possess various abilities, such as increased strength, durability, high levels of stealth, and fighting ability. These abilities all fade when the person takes off the costume. Note: no one ever dies when wearing the costume. In fact, Ghostface survives a lot, such as a car crash, getting shot, high falls, beer bottles breaking on his chest, and never really shows any limp or pain. Once the killer removes the costume, the demon's blessing is no longer a factor and they are rendered mortal. The demon doesn't outright possess its victims, but subconsciously encourages them to pursue their darkest fantasies (Billy wanted revenge, Stu wanted to be popular, Jill wanted fame, Roman wanted a loving mother, etc).

I figure the costume was based on the visage of a demon, spirit, or otherworldly monster. The demon was amused at this choice and simply enjoys screwing with humanity through its various avatars.

Tatum is the third killer in Scream 1.

Tatum had a thing for bad boys and thrills, so she joined Stu and Billyin their murder spree. She was one of the Ghostfaces at the beginning of the movie. She was attracted to both men, and they knew it. That's why Billy and Stu had her killed because they didn't want their friendship ruined over a chick.

• Tatum can't be the 3rd killer. It was Roman. He admitted it in his reveal. Even if Tatum was the 3rd killer, who did she kill?
  • I like to think she helped kill Casey out of jealousy, and possibly others. You remember she gave herself and Stu an alibi? If she was innocent, then why did she lie about Stu being with her on the night of Casey's murder? Either Tatum was covering up for Stu, or she was in on it.
  • Another thing to add is how casual she was with Ghostface even though the killer hasn’t been caught yet, even thou she knows the killer is targeting Sidney, she was also kicking his ass pretty hard in that scene, better than anyone else the franchise really, besides Sidney. If only she didn’t try to escape. Also a good rebuttal is that Roman only helped kill Sidney’s mother, he isn’t involved in Scream 1 killings.
    • More likely, however, is that Stu escaped the house while Tatum were sleeping and then came back by climbing through the window. Billy did the same thing with Sidney, so Stu could probably do the same.
  • Exactly, she doesn't know if Stu could have killed Casey before or after she had sex with Stu, so her saying he was there with her as far as she knew, was not a lie. So she is likely not complicit. Also, there need not necessarily be a third killer in the first film.

Sidney and Dewey will become a couple in Scream 5 or 6.

• David Arquette and Courtney Cox are divorced in real life, and the character Sidney is currently single. Either Ghostface will kill off Gale, or she and Dewey will break up off-screen. Dewey and Sidney will get closer in the new sequels.
• Dewey and Sidney see each other as surrogate siblings. They won't become a couple.
• Eminently jossed with Dewey's death. Gale and Dewey have broken up, but Sidney has also started a family with Mark Kincaid.

If Casey have gotten that one question right, Ghostface would have killed her and Steven anyway.

• Given Stu and Billy's egos and self entitlement, I SERIOUSLY doubt Stu would let Casey and her boyfriend go after she dumped him for the other guy. I think they knew she would screw up on the last question. Can you really see Ghostface hanging up the phone and leaving the property, or even keeping his word?
  • To add to this, it's likely both killers were at each of the doors to the house, so it would be impossible for her to get the last question correct.

All of the Ghostfaces were hypnotized by someone.

• This may sound far-fetched, but what if someone is kidnapping Sidney's friends and brainwashing them into becoming Ghostface? Long before Billy dated Sidney, she was in an abusive and controlling relationship with a guy. She finally gained the courage to break up with him. The guy couldn't handle the fact she is dating other guys, so he hypnotized people into hating her, hoping they will kill her. He gave them motives, and planted false memories into their heads in order to throw off any suspicion from him.

Scream 4 is more of a, at least unintentional, tribute to Scream 2 rather than the first film

• Like Scream 2, all three of the "openings" for Scream 4 feature a pair of characters watching or getting ready to watch a horror movie. While one is more like Phil, excited or enthusiastic to watch the film, (Sherrie, Chloe, Jenny) the other is more like Maureen, in that they have a more dismissive attitude. (Trudie, Rachel, Marnie)
• Olivia's death is similar to Cici Cooper's in that it takes place right across the street from where the main protagonists are. She's also attacked while she was on the phone and at one point the killer smashes her through glass, much like Cici. They were both also the third victims in the film, not counting "Stab" deaths.
• Additionally, Marnie shares Cici's last name and was also thrown through a glass door.
• The fourth victim in both films, again not counting Stab deaths, received calls from the killer and later their bodies were found near news vans. Randy was found in a news van and Rebecca was thrown onto a news van.
• Rebecca and to a lesser extent Deputy Judy's interactions with Gale are very similar to that of Debbie Salt in Scream 2.
• Mickey often carried a camera around in his hand in Scream 2, Robbie obviously takes that quality to an extreme in Scream 4. It was also revealed that Ghostface filmed all the murders in Scream 2, another thing that's done in Scream 4.
• Hoss and Perkins' roles in Scream 4, as well as their deaths, are obviously similar to that of Officers Andrews and Richards in Scream 2. Even down to the younger officer being killed off rather quickly and the older officer dying after, from a head injury.
• Hallie and Kirby were both the last victims before the final showdown and killer reveal, and they were both killed by their respective boyfriends/love interests, Mickey and Charlie.
• Derek and Trevor, boyfriends of the "final girl" were both tied up and later shot to death.
• Both films feature a female Ghostface who betrays her male partner and kills him.

The Final Scream movie will have 3 killers, and Sidney will be one of them.

• It'll turn out that she planned the entire series of events from behind the scenes along with Randy and another character who'll be introduced in the final movie. Randy will have survived because his death was faked by the killers in Scream 2 because he was working with them all along. Each time Ghostface appeared it was a test run for their real goal. (Randy had to fake his death because he broke one of his own rules). The movie will end with them getting by with it (having learned from the others mistakes) and riding off in the sunset together after their successful killing spree.

The multi-voice changer seen in the third film isn't too far-fetched.

• It's certainly possible that Roman could have acquired the necessary voices. Everyone (except for the deceased Maureen) that had their voices on the scrambler was part of the cast and crew for "Stab 3". As the director of "Stab 3", he could record the voices (Cotton was scheduled for a cameo in the film and Gale and Dewey were consultants), so if they were around on the set, he could record their voices (or at least an approximation) and add them into his scrambler, alongside the default "Ghostface" setting. As for Maureen? Roman stalked her for weeks, if not months. He would have had ample opportunity to record her voice.

Scream is actually a Take That! to people who think they're genre savvy, but actually don't know what they're talking about

• Take a look at Randy's rules to survive a horror film:
  • No drinking, no illegal drugs: Alice drank and smoked pot in the first F T13th and survived. So did Ginny in Part 2. Even goodie two-shoes Laurie was smoking a joint with Annie in Halloween.
  • No sex: There's nothing to hint that Alice is a virgin (her flirting with Bob about continuing the game of strip monopoly hints she isn't) and Ginny in Part 2 has sex with Paul.

Conclusion, the people in these movies, or at least originally were not savvy to the genre. But more pop culture know-it-alls who think they know the genre, but actually don't.

• I think you misunderstood the idea behind the rules. Remember, the first set of rules are for "How to Successfully Survive a Horror Movie." They are based on horror movie tropes from years before, rules that people believed came to be with films like Halloween. John Carpenter himself stated he disliked how other filmmakers came to form the "sex leads to death"/"only a virgin can survive" cliché from his film, when he truly stated that Laurie survived because she was somewhat more observant while her friends were just too busy focusing on living life (Laurie is the one who notices Michael first before her friends did, just as much as Tommy was observant about seeing Michael outside of the Wallace house across the street while Laurie was too focused on finding out Annie had set up a date between her and her crush Ben Tramer, again a typical teenager issue). But, as anyone knows: rules are meant to be broken, and the Scream franchise clearly broken the typical "horror movie" rules. So, if anything, your argument is correct, but for the wrong reason: the rules of a typical horror movie is established, rules that are typical in horror movies before that point. The first Scream intended to break the rules, as it was meta-commentary on horror movies from before that point.
• No they're not based on horror movie tropes. In fact, it's the complete opposite of what Scream says as seen through my examples given. Those aren't "broken rules", those are actual examples including one from a movie that's playing while Randy is saying these rules. It's more playing into how people perceive horror films. Or smart Aleck pop culture know it all's who in fact don't know anything if you actually watch these movies.

• Randy is pointing out that sex and drugs are usually death flags in classic slasher films because slasher villains are notorious for interrupting sex/drug scenes. It's not a coincidence that Billy and Sidney are having sex while Randy watches Bob and Lynda die in Halloween since Ghostface is going to interrupt Billy and Sidney just as Michael did for Bob and Lynda.

Jennifer wasn't killed in Scream 3

• People have commented that her death was so fast and non explicit that it was easy to miss and she wasn't fatally stabbed on-screen and seemed to be yelling out after being thrown through the mirror, but before hitting the ground. She could have just been unconscious and Left for Dead by Dewey and Gale.

Sidney and Kincaid are together but estranged in the fourth film.

• Leaning jossed, because in the fifth film they are happily married with children.

In one of the future films, be it Scream 5 or 6, it will feature a vigilante who has taken his love of superhero movies too far.

• What better way to counteract a set of killers who uses horror movies as their niche than with a vigilante who is trying to be the real-world equivalent of a superhero and drawing influences from superhero movies for his niche? It would add another thing for Sidney and company to wonder about in addition to try to figure out who the killer is, or if the vigilante and whomever is in the Ghostface costume now are both partners in crime but are adding superheroes into the mix to confuse everyone.

Ghostface in Scream 5 will be one or more of the past main cast, related to the main cast, or both.

• One of things that the new 2022 Scream trailer reveals, is that this Ghostface is going after family members of the killers from past films. This means that he or she could be anyone from Sidney, herself, who finally snaps, to a past victim who survived, to a family member of a past victim who is getting revenge by going after the families, like Randy's brother or cousin for example.
  • Jossed. They are none of those things and instead are toxic fans of the Stab movies who wish to inspire a superior installment of that series.

Real world films in the Scream franchise are slightly different from the actual real world counterparts.

In the second film, it seems odd that Randy got such an iconic line from Aliens incorrect, saying it was "Stay away from her, you bitch" while the correct line was spoken by his classmate. But there may be a reason behind it, and that it wasn't a goof. In the Scream universe, the line really is "Stay away from her, you bitch" and it shows that despite the similarities between the real world we know and the world of the films, there are differences between them. It's not the only time that something like this happened. In the first film, John Carpenter's Halloween is seen at Stu's party. However, the scene where Bob gets killed is slightly different from the scene as it actually is.

For example, in the actual scene, there's two synth stingers that occur during the scene: The first one when Michael comes out of the closest to pin Bob to the door, and the second one when it cuts to the closeup of Michael before he lift's Bob off the ground. However, in the Scream universe, the second stinger occurs when Michael stabs Bob. And after the stab occurs, and Randy pauses the tape, it shows Michael holding up the butcher knife and breathing heavy. This indicates that for the Scream universe, Michael is shown pulling the knife back out of Bob after having been shown that Michael had him pinned to the door. So, for the Scream universe, the iconic line from Aliens may in fact be "Stay away from her, you bitch" instead of "Get away from her, you bitch" as we know it in the real world. It may be the filmmakers' way to show how the world of the films are slightly different from our reality.

Dewey has been suffering survivor's guilt since the first film, has been motivated by it and has been quiet about it the whole time.

A lot of people assume that Dewey has forgotten Tatum during the course of the films. However, Dewey is a guy with a big heart (David Arquette himself has even said so in promoting Scream 5), and there's a good chance that he hasn't forgotten Tatum. Due to Tatum dying when he was suppose to be keeping an eye on the party, Dewey may blame himself for her death, and felt guilt that he survived when she didn't, leading him to focus on not only fighting the killers of the films that have emerged after that, but protecting Sidney and their friends as a means of atoning for his inability to protect his sister without ever having to mention why or mention her to explain his actions. He doesn't forget Tatum, but he doesn't mention her because he's trying to keep himself together for the people he cares about. This also explains why he became somewhat better at being a protector and being proactive to try to find out who the killers are in comparison to how he was in the first film. He may have felt better at the end of the third film by protecting Sidney and Gale, believing everything was over, but he never told Gale or Sidney about his guilt over his perceived failure because he didn't want them to see him as The Load and worry about him.

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