Before Scream 5 arrives, we’re ranking the killer reveals from the franchise! Which one has been your favorite?
The horror genre knows no killer quite like Ghostface. In fact, the Ghostface killer isn’t just one person, and that’s what we love so much about this franchise. Throughout the Scream movie series, Sidney Prescott comes face-to-face with several individuals who don the signature Ghostface moniker.
With the release of Scream 5 (officially titled simply Scream) just around the corner, we thought it’d be a perfect time to rank each killer reveal from the movie franchise, the franchise that redefined the horror genre by poking fun at horror movie tropes while being a great horror film in its own right. So which killers had the best reveal?
The best killer reveals in the Scream movies
4. Scream 3 – Roman Bridger
In the third movie, Sidney Prescott has gone into hiding to prevent anyone she loves from being targeted by another Ghostface killing spree. Unfortunately, with Stab 3, the in-universe film based on Sidney’s life and the events of the first two films, in production, Ghostface decides to rear their ugly head.
With her friends Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers at the center of the murder spree unleashed on the cast of Stab 3, Sidney is forced out of hiding and makes her way to Hollywood, where she must confront her mother’s past. The biggest problem with this killer reveal is that Sidney is barely in the movie until the third act.
While this movie adds to the mythos of Maureen Prescott, aka Rina Reynolds, and provides an interesting motive for this string of murders, without Sidney at the forefront of the action, the final confrontation, while action-packed, lacks the emotional depth that makes the other reveals hit hard.
Ghostface in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s “Scream.”
3. Scream 2 – Mrs. Loomis and Mickey Altieri
In a nod to Friday the 13th, this movie finds the mother of Billy Loomis, the primary antagonist of the original movie, enacting good old-fashioned revenge against Sidney Prescott.
With the help of Sidney’s friend and Windsor College classmate Mickey Altieri, Mrs. Loomis puts Sidney and her friends in the middle of the sequel that Billy never got to write. While like Scream 3, Scream 2 waits to put Sidney face-to-face with the primary antagonist until the final act, Sidney’s in on the action from the beginning.
As a result, there’s some weight behind the reveal as Sidney comes face-to-face with the grieving and murderous mother of her murderous ex-boyfriend. Although you can see the killers coming from a mile away when the reveal ultimately happens, Mrs. Loomis feels more desperate than Roman, the man who started it all. Unfortunately, Mickey would be nothing more than an expendable Stu 2.0.
2. Scream 4 – Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker
What’s a better motive for murder than revenge? Fame, apparently.
In the fourth chapter, Jill Roberts is a girl who’s tired of living in the shadow of her cousin Sidney Prescott and decides it’s time for a reboot, only this time, she gets to be the final girl. With the hero of the original trilogy out of the way, Jill would take on the family legacy and with it Sidney’s notoriety.
As for Charlie? He’s in it for the girl. Unfortunately, unlike Randy, he’d never make it to the sequel. The killer reveals in Scream 4 pack a punch that no other film in the franchise since the original does because at the heart of each film is Sidney’s desire to protect those around her.
With every attack, Sidney feels an overwhelming sense of guilt, guilt that literally drives her into hiding in Scream 2. The stakes are raised when it appears that Ghostface has begun targeting those closest to her cousin. So, when it’s revealed that Jill and Charlie, two people she swore to protect, are the killers, it feels like the biggest and most shocking betrayal since the original film.
1. Scream – Billy Loomis and Stu Macher
Of course, you can’t screw with the original film. As the boyfriend and friend of Sidney Prescott, Billy Loomis and Stu Macher, respectively, are within Sidney’s circle of trust.
While Billy and Stu seem like the perfect suspects once the Ghostface murders begin, due to Billy’s bad-boy image and Stu’s general intensity, the movie effectively convinces the audience, and Sidney, to look somewhere else. As a result, when it’s revealed that we were right along, and Billy and Stu are even more frightening than we imagined, the stakes are automatically raised.
With this being our first rodeo, we have no idea what Sidney Prescott has to contend with, and that makes all the difference.
Where would you rank each of the killers in the series? Did we get it right according to your favorites? Where do you think the killer reveal from Scream 5 will rank? Only one way to find out! Don’t miss Scream in theaters on Jan. 14, 2022.
This post had been edited by FanSided staff.
Scream movies: Ranking all the Ghostface killer reveals before Scream 5
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