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Every Scream Ghostface Killer, Ranked

From the OG Scream to Scream VI , we count down our favorite killers in the long-running horror whodunit series.

Why is that? It's likely the revolving nature of the Scream series. While franchises like Friday the 13th , Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween keep trotting their trademark villains—Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers— out time and time again, Scream has Ghostface. Ghostface looks the same in every movie, yes, but there's always someone new under the mask, still stabbing like a maniac. The mystery of Scream has always been the allure, and in an era where movies like Knives Out have been mega hits, horror fans have loved to latch onto a good bit of mystery with their horror. Gripping tight to your armrests while wondering who's wearing that creepy-ass mask this time is just a good time at the movies.

As Scream VI arrives in theaters, it feels like the perfect time to look back at those who've donned the cloak and mask before. There's been a lot of stabbing in the Scream movies, and while it all makes for great horror movie fun, there's also a lot to each different Ghostface. Obviously, it's kind of hard to judge what's happening when our killers are cloaked, masked, and largely-silent, so we're going to judge them based on the whole of their character—their motivation, the logic behind it, and, of course, how convincing the actors are as absolute stabby maniacs.

Let's get to it.

Jason (Scream VI, 2023)

By default, Jason has to be last place on this list, right? He gets a pretty gruesome (and petty) kill in in Scream VI 's opening scene... and then gets taken out by one of the movie's real Ghostfaces not long after. Maybe in an alternate Scream universe, there's a world where Jason and his buddy Greg terrorize Sam, Tara and the Core 4 for an entire movie. But not in this one.

Charlie Walker (Scream 4, 2011)

Charlie (Rory Culkin) was set up as the "new Randy" in Scream 4, and his knowledge of the state of horror movies proved valuable in the early part of the film. However, Charlie was clearly the less impactful of the movie's two Ghostfaces, and while he certainly did a lot of damage, he was also easily outsmarted and easily disposed of by his other half. Credit to Charlie for getting a good dig in on one of our favorites (Kirby, played by Hayden Panettiere), but also kind of a failure because he couldn't even finish the job.

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Roman Bridger (Scream 3, 2000)

Roman (Scott Foley) was the only solo Ghostface, and did it while directing (or, well, trying to direct) a new Stab movie. That's got to count for something, right! Well, he lands in this spot because his whole deal is just... kind of a lot. He's Sidney's half-brother, and is fairly directly responsible for setting the events of the original Scream (and, thus, the whole franchise) in action. Scream 3 also has the whole voice-modifier thing, which I don't know if we can ever forgive. It's a fun movie! But Roman as Ghostface lands here.

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Quinn (Scream VI, 2023)

Quinn (Liana Liberato) is an interesting case as Ghostface. She spends the majority of the movie believed to be dead, so we never really even get the chance to suspect her all too much. But, at the same time, she's under the hood for Scream VI 's fantastic Gale Weathers chase sequence (not long after easily taking down Gale's boyfriend, muscles included, on her own) , is part of the movie's biggest twist, and is quite insane in the final showdown sequence . Fun time at the movies!

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Ethan (Scream VI, 2023)

It's not entirely clear which (if any) kills in Scream VI Ethan ( Avatar: The Way of Water star Jack Champion, looking completely unrecognizable from his role as Spider ) was responsible. After all, his alibi—he was in Econ!—checked out. The movie has a lot of fun with suspicion around him; Chad is a good friend until he has reason to be suspicious, and Mindy suspects him over and over again, before (wrongly) changing her mind after she was stabbed on the subway. But Champion plays the post-reveal with such an awkward, strange excitement, and it's really fun to watch. Not to mention you can really buy him as Richie's brother. Maybe the Jacks (Quaid and Champion) can team up in something else in the future.

Detective Bailey (Scream VI, 2023)

Detective Bailey (Dermot Mulroney) is the closest thing to a "mastermind" Ghostface that we get in Scream VI, and he gets the closest to a big villain monologue, and he's part of a big twist, and he ultimately gets an absolutely brutal and grisly death. So, for all that, he lands as our top Scream VI Ghostface. It's also not clear if his cheesy cop dialogue ("You mess with my family... YOU DIE!" ) was intentional, but it made his character pretty entertaining in a campy slasher kind of way even before the big reveal.

We realize we have four killers from Scream VI in the bottom half of our list, but don't take that the wrong way—the movie is exceptional, and one of the best Scream sequels yet. It's just built to be stronger in terms of its chase and action sequences than the ultimate killer reveals.

Amber Freeman (Scream, 2022)

We've got to give actress Mikey Madison, who plays Amber, one of Scream (2022)'s Ghostfaces, some serious props. She is good at playing extremely, extremely off the rails. Given her ultimate outcome in both Scream (2022) and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, she also seems to be making quite the niche for herself as 'extremely off the rails young woman who winds up set on fire.' Amber is a pretty solid Ghostface (and she got the devastating kill on a true Scream fan favorite) , but doesn't quite have the depth of her Scream (2022) counterpart, and so she lands here.

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Mickey Altieri (Scream 2, 1997)

When there are multiple Ghostfaces, there tends to be a pretty familiar dynamic: one brain of the operation, and one total loose cannon who's kind of just along for the ride. In the case of Scream 2, Mickey Altieri (Timothy Olyphant) falls firmly in the latter camp. But while Mr. Olyphant has become known for his portrayals of badass lawmen—in Deadwood, Justified, Fargo, and even The Mandalorian —he can also really bring it as criminals or villains, in movies like The Girl Next Door, Go, and here in Scream 2. Even before the movie's big reveal, Mickey basically seems to have one foot in sanity and one foot out (he mindlessly joins in when Sidney's boyfriend starts singing and dancing on the lunchtable in the middle of the movie) and is a very great lunatic when the other hammer drops.

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Mrs. Loomis (Scream 2, 1997)

While Mrs. Loomis (Laurie Metcalf) spends much of Scream 2 being called "local woman" by our beloved Gale Weathers, she kind of turns the table in a very surprising way when she reveals herself to be the mastermind of the events of the entire movie in a scatterbrained attempt for revenge on Sidney. It's a real surprise, and Metcalf sells it like the great actress she is and always has been.

Richie Kirsch (Scream, 2022)

As the mastermind Ghostface in Scream (2022), Jack Quaid really brings his A-game as surprise Stab superfan Richie Kirsch. If you've seen Quaid before, you've probably seen him as a pretty classic "Nice Guy," whether that be in The Boys, the underrated romcom Plus One, or even Tragedy Girls, another solid horror movie. In his scenes with his girlfriend Sam (Melissa Barrera), he's supportive, pragmatic, and just seems like a solid guy. Which makes his big, evil reveal that much more compelling, and that much more believable. And as much as Quaid can sell the Nice Guy stuff, he really sells the maniac stuff. And we go from hoping he'll be OK to hoping he gets what he deserves real quick. That's how you know he's doing his job well.

Jill Roberts (Scream 4, 2011)

As shocking as the twist in Scream 4 is, I almost feel like to fully grasp just how surprising, subversive, and just all-around great it was, you have to know the context of 2011. This was a time when it seemed like just about every horror movie coming out was either a reboot or a straight-up remake. While Neve Campbell was returning for Scream 4, all the chatter in the lead-up to the movie was how Emma Roberts, as Sidney Prescott's cousin Jill Roberts, would be "taking over the franchise," and becoming the new final girl. And then you watch the movie, and that twist hits. And Roberts—who, at the time, hadn't even landed on American Horror Story— just absolutely nails it, having us believe her at first, and fully selling us on her murderous master plan after the reveal. A truly great villain in the franchise.

Billy Loomis (Scream, 1996)

We could flip these top two back and forth over and over and over again, but it was never going to be anyone else. The original reveal that Scream 's Ghostface wasn't one but two people—and two people we had essentially crossed off our list—is one for the ages. Toss in the fact that Ulrich was essentially cast as a knockoff of a previous Wes Craven character (Johnny Depp's innocent boyfriend in Nightmare on Elm Street) , and he really, really, sold this character. An absolute mastermind maniac, and one the franchise would be trying to match (sometimes coming close) for decades to come.

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Stu Macher (Scream, 1996)

Yes, Billy Loomis is the mastermind. But what makes Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) the best Scream Ghostface is the fact that he so doesn't have to be doing this. Lillard is off-the-rails funny the whole movie (the way he says "I'll bE rIgHt BaCk" after Randy's horror movie speech is unparalleled), but it's only after the movie's big reveal that he truly goes into another stratosphere. Lillard goes from menacing to deranged to pathetic to hilarious within a few moments notice, and it's never less than EXTREMELY FUN TO WATCH at any point. Stu took a TV to the head and is probably dead, but there are many, many, many fans online hoping that didn't quite do it, and that we'll someday get to see Matthew Lillard in this role again (at a certain point, he was actually set to return for Scream 3 ) . And we can't blame them for that.

Evan is the culture editor for Men’s Health, with bylines in The New York Times, MTV News, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE. He loves weird movies, watches too much TV, and listens to music more often than he doesn’t.

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‘Scream’: All 14 Ghostface Reveals Ranked From Worst to Best

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Scream is unlike any other slasher. Where the likes of Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street have the same killer who just won’t die, in Scream , Ghostface’s identity changes from film to film, while each film tends to have at least two Ghostface reveals.

In many ways, he’s more invincible than Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger! And now that Scream VI (2023) has already unmasked the latest Ghostface killer, it’s time to rank all the Ghostface reveals in the Scream film series.

We think the quality of a Ghostface reveal is a combination of the surprise of the reveal itself, as well as the way in which they’re unmasked to both the characters and the audience. So, here are all 14 Ghostface reveals, ranked from worst to best!

WARNING: There are HUGE spoilers ahead for  Scream VI  from the get-go!

14. Greg Bruckner

There’s not much to say about the character of Greg Bruckner, seeing as we never actually meet him! Partner to Jason Carvey (Tony Revolori), who’s revealed as a Ghostface in the first few minutes of Scream VI , the only time we see Greg is in pieces in the refrigerator! One of the most bizarre Ghostface reveals for sure, but no points for one that doesn’t really count.

13. Ethan Landry (one of five Ghostface reveals in Scream VI )

Ethan Landry (Jack Champion) is one of the three main Ghostface killers in Scream VI . Not only does Ethan share the exact same motive as his two accomplices, his “Looney Tune” persona, which emerges as soon as the mask is off, means he’s the most cliché of the three.

Perhaps the worst thing about this unmasking, though, is the fact that film buff Mindy Meeks (Jasmin Savoy Brown) repeatedly tells her friends she thinks Ethan is one of the killers, so much, in fact, that it becomes increasingly obvious that he is.

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12. Wayne Bailey

Father to Ethan Landry and the deceased Ritchie Kirsch (Jack Quaid), one of the killers in Scream (2022), detective Wayne Bailey (Dermot Mulroney) makes up another third of the Ghostface trio in Scream VI . Unfortunately, his reveal is about as surprising as Ethan’s.

Perhaps it’s because Mulroney’s acting just seems off up until that point, particularly when he’s supposed to be grieving over his dead daughter. As for the reveal itself, Bailey takes the whole “ I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you pesky kids ” thing a little too far.

11. Quinn Bailey

Of course, it turns out that Bailey’s daughter wasn’t dead the whole time in Scream VI ! We haven’t seen that before (here’s looking at you Scream and Scream 3 ). Although, for that reason, this is at least more surprising than the other two Ghostface reveals.

But while this reveal is a huge copout given the fact we were led to believe she’d been killed earlier in the film, Quinn Bailey (Liana Liberato) isn’t quite as wacky as her father and brother. With that said, she’s utterly insane, nonetheless.

Related: ‘Scream’ (1996) Reveals Billy Loomis Is Ghostface BEFORE the Third Act

10. Roman Bridger (the loneliest of Ghostface reveals)

Scream 3 (2000) certainly has its haters, which is largely because it becomes too fourth-wall in its meta commentary and humor for its own good. In short, it just feels too silly at times, although, to give credit where its due, it does wrap up the first three films perfectly.

As for its Ghostface reveal, the fact that Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) didn’t even know her half-brother Roman Bridger (Scott Foley) beforehand takes away any shock the audience feels on behalf of the character. Also, his fake-out death was a cheap parlor trick.

9. Amber Freeman

In ranking Ghostface reveals, it’s all too easy to get confused with which killer is better than the next, but this is based purely on the surprise of the reveal itself, and we consider Amber Freeman (Mikey Madison) in Scream (2022) to be a pretty solid Ghostface reveal.

Deep down, we all knew Amber was one of the killers — there was just something slightly off about her the whole time — but the way she’s “unmasked” is unforgettable, as she executes Woodsboro teen Liv McKenzie (Sonia Ammar) while in non-Ghostface attire.

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8. Charlie Walker

Charlie Walker (Rory Culkin) might not be one of the most memorable killers — after all, alongside main Ghostface killer Emma Roberts (Jill Roberts) in Scream 4 (2011), Charlie serves as something of a sidekick, like many others in the Scream film series .

However, when we finally learn that he’s part of the deadly duo, it comes as a bit of a shock. After being (supposedly) tied to a chair by Ghostface, Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) comes to his rescue, only for Charlie to stab her in the stomach, leaving her for dead!

7. Ritchie Kirsch

Ritchie Kirsch is yet another killer who isn’t all that memorable, even if his motive (toxic fandom) is one of the best in the entire series . But his Ghostface reveal in Scream (2022) is very memorable, which sees him turn out to be the mastermind, alongside “sidekick”-killer Amber Freeman.

The film spends a lot of time trying to convince us that, like Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), Ritchie is another “boyfriend/killer”, to the point that it couldn’t possibly be him. But when he stabs Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) in the gut, well, like Sam, we didn’t see it coming.

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6. Billy Loomis

The original Scream (1996) plays with the idea that Billy Loomis is the killer so much, that you’re left almost knowing it isn’t him. And this is cemented when he gets fake-killed by Ghostface in front of Sidney (which was pretty convincing at the time, at least).

Later on, a bloodied Billy comes tumbling down the stairs in front of Sidney, where he suddenly shoots Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy). In hindsight, though, it’s pretty obvious Billy was the killer — there’s even a song in the film that contains a huge clue !

5. Stu Macher

Despite being something of a sidekick-killer himself, Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) has become one of the most beloved characters in the entire Scream franchise, so much so that many fans expected him to come back from the dead in Scream VI  — which unfortunately isn’t the case.

Nevertheless, Stu has one of the best Ghostface reveals. After Sidney learns Billy is a killer, Stu appears, pulls out a voice changer — which, up until this point, we didn’t even know was a thing — and says, “Surprise, Sidney!”, revealing himself as the second Ghostface, something we also didn’t expect.

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4. Mickey Altieri

Much like Billy Loomis, in hindsight, it’s plain to see that “the creepy Tarantino film student” Mickey Altieri (Timothy Olyphant) in Scream 2 (1998) was a killer. That crazy hair, creepy smile, and the almost sly way he speaks to Sidney during the hospital scene.

But, at the time, of course, we had no idea, and when he unmasks himself in front of Sidney, we can’t say we weren’t surprised. Mickey remains one of the best Ghostface killers to date, not only because he has the “look”, but also because of his desire to get caught!

3. Jason Carvey (one of the most unique Ghostface reveals)

Jason Carvey is the most unique entry on this list, and the most unique Ghostface in the entire franchise, for that matter. Why? Well, because he reveals himself before the Scream VI title card even appears on the screen, just a few minutes into the film!

Jason also breaks the record for being the most short-lived killer, as he’s taken out minutes later by the film’s “main” Ghostface. It’s tempting to put him even higher, but the fact that we had never met his character before does take away from the reveal.

Related: Every ‘Scream’ Movie Ranked From Worst to Best

2. Debbie Loomis

Many fans probably don’t consider Debbie Loomis (Laurie Metcalf), vengeful mother of Billy Loomis, to have one of the best Ghostface reveals, which is understandable given the fact she’s not in Scream 2 all that much, save for a few scenes with Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).

Not only that, but we’d never even met Billy’s mother before — at least not without knowing it at the time. What’s particularly great about her reveal, though, is that for a brief moment we actually think it’s Gale, who Mickey has seemingly introduced as the second killer! But it quickly turns out that Debbie is hiding behind Gale with a gun to her back. Genius .

1. Jill Roberts

Though far from the strongest film in the series (we happen to think it’s the weakest), Scream 4 does have one of the most surprising Ghostface reveals in Jill Roberts, who, up until removing the mask in front of Sidney, is played as the series’ new “final girl”.

What also works in the character’s favor up until the reveal is the fact that Emma Roberts is only 5′ 2″, so it’s hard to imagine that she’d be able to pass as Ghostface. But when she beats herself to a pulp during the third act, she certainly proves she has what it takes!

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Check out the official Scream VI  trailer below:

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As per Wikipedia , here’s the official synopsis for Scream VI :

The film continues with the survivors of the latest Ghostface killings, sisters Samantha and Tara Carpenter and twins Chad and Mindy Meeks, leaving Woodsboro behind and starting a new chapter of their lives in New York City only to again be plagued by a streak of murders by a new Ghostface killer.

Scream VI stars Jenna Ortega (Tara Carpenter), Melissa Barrera (Sam Carpenter), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Mindy Meeks), Mason Gooding (Chad Meeks), Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers), Hayden Panettiere (Kirby Reed),  Roger L Jackson (the voice of Ghostface), Dermot Mulroney (Wayne Bailey), Henry Czerny (Christopher Stone), Tony Revolori (Jason Carvey), Jack Champion (Ethan Landry), Devyn Nekoda (Anika Kayoko), Liana Liberato (Quinn Bailey), Josh Segarra (Danny Brackett), Samara Weaving (Laura Crane) and Skeet Ulrich (Billy Loomis).

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How would you rank all the Ghostface reveals? And what’s your favorite scary movie? Let Inside the Magic know in the comments below!

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Ghostface was named after a vinyl Halloween mask. It was sold as a Father Death costume in real-life. The mask was inspired by the Edvard Munch painting, The Scream .

Ghostface often called their victims on the phone, taunting or threatening them before stabbing them to death with an eight-inch hunting knife. They occasionally asked their victims horror movie trivia and stalked them in a manner reminiscent of said films.

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• 2.4 Scream 4
• 2.5 Scream (2022 film)
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• 5 Relationships
• 6 Parodies in other media
• 8 Weapons and Equipment
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Scream (1996 film)

High school student Casey Becker received a series of phone calls from a flirting stranger while she prepared a movie night with her boyfriend, Steven Orth . She realized her caller could see her, and that he had already beaten and tied Steve to a lawn chair outside her home. The caller forced her to answer horror movie trivia, and then gutted Steve when she answered a question wrong. Casey made a run for her life, but Ghostface caught her. He gutted her and strung her up to a large tree for her parents to find.

The next day, with the town of Woodsboro, CA reeling from the double homicide, Ghostface called Sidney Prescott at her home. Ghostface taunted her before attacking. She staved him off, but discovered her boyfriend, Billy Loomis , nearby. Billy was brought into custody, but Sidney received another call from the killer. He informed her that she "fingered the wrong man...again," implying that he was responsible for her mother's murder a year previously.

Woodsboro High school was temporarily shut down for the students' protection after Sidney was attacked by Ghostface in the school bathroom. With hardly anyone around, Principal Himbry was murdered in his office after school let out. He was later strung up to the flag pole as a diversion to get many students to leave Stu Macher 's party, where Ghostface struck again.

Sidney's best friend, Tatum Riley, was murdered in the garage. Next, Ghostface seemingly murdered Billy Loomis in the upstairs. Ghostface stalked Sidney outside, where he slashed the throat of Kenny Brown . Ghostface stabbed Dewey Riley and continued chasing Sidney outside. Eventually Sidney made her way back inside the house, where she learned Ghostface was really Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. With the help of Gale Weathers, she saved her father and killed both Billy and Stu.

Ghostface struck at a premiere showing of Stab (1998), the slasher movie based on the Woodsboro Murders . He stalked Windsor College students Phil Stevens and Maureen Evans outside the theater before murdering Phil in the restroom. He put on Phil's leather jacket and joined Maureen inside the theater, posing as her boyfriend. Ghostface stabbed Maureen to death in plain sight of the entire audience.

The next night, Ghostface called Cici Cooper at her sorority house. He taunted Cici before chasing her upstairs and throwing her off the roof to her death. This drew the attention of police and local partiers, leaving Sidney alone. Ghostface called and attacked her, but Derek Feldman interfered; Ghostface escaped after slicing his arm.

The next day, Ghostface scared Sidney at her play rehearsal before calling Randy, Dewey, and Gale in the campus center. Randy stalled the killer on the phone while Dewey and Gale tried to track him down, but Ghostface pulled Randy into Gale's news van and murdered him.

Shortly thereafter, Sidney received an instant message from Ghostface at the school library stating: "You're going to die tonight."

That night, Ghostface surprised Gale and Dewey in Windsor's film department with footage of the first three victims. The two ran, but Ghostface chased them down and stabbed Dewey viciously. Simultaneously, a second Ghostface killed Sidney's police escorts while stopped at a red light on the way to a safe house. He tried to kidnap Sidney and Hallie, who were trapped in the backseat, but he lost control of the car when Officer Richards died stopping him. Ghostface was knocked unconscious in the crash, which allowed Sidney and Hallie to escape. He came to and murdered Hallie, then chased Sidney to the theater.

Inside the theater, Ghostface revealed himself to be Mickey , and shot Derek. "Debbie Salt" brought Gale in at gunpoint, and Sidney recognized her as Billy's mother, Nancy Loomis . Sidney made use of the theater's set and she and Gale killed Mickey and Mrs. Loomis with the help of Cotton Weary.

A woman claiming to be from the Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro production called the Woodsboro Police Department looking for information on Sidney. They refused to give her any and a month later there was a mysterious break-in. This would prove to be the work of Roman Bridger with his multi-voice changer. He didn't get Sidney's file because Dewey removed it to keep her safe.

Ghostface next tried to get Sidney's whereabouts from Cotton Weary . Ghostface called Cotton and threatened to kill his girlfriend, Christine Hamilton, if he didn't talk. Cotton refused, so Ghostface attacked Christine . He used his multi-voice changer to impersonate Cotton to confuse her. When the real Cotton showed up to protect Christine, she beat him over the head with a golf club. With her back turned, Ghostface stabbed her to death. Cotton tried fighting Ghostface off, but the killer stabbed him to death as well. Ghostface left a mysterious photograph of a young Maureen Prescott at the murder site.

Sidney dreamed that her dead mother came to her from outside. Maureen turned into Ghostface as Sidney approached the window. This startled her into waking up.

Actress Sarah Darling was soon lured to the empty Stab 3 production offices for a rehearsal with Roman Bridger. Ghostface appeared and chased her through the offices until he finally knocked her through a glass window and stabbed her in the back. He left another photo of Maureen with Sarah's body.

Ghostface called Sidney at her secret home using Maureen's voice at first. He switched to the sinister baritone and threatened her life.

That night at an informal wrap party at Jennifer Jolie's house, Ghostface struck again. He called Jennifer's bodyguard, Steven Stone , as Dewey, and then stabbed him to death. When the others found Stone's body, Ghostface cut the lights. He faxed fake script pages, tricking Tom Prinze into using a lighter to read. It ignited the gas Ghostface filled in the house and blew Tom up. Ghostface attacked Gale outside, but Dewey shot him. The killer fled, but left behind a third picture of Maureen Prescott. This photo included the message: I killed her .

Sidney came to Hollywood the next day to join Dewey and Gale since her location was compromised. Ghostface attacked her on the Stab 3 set and used a body bag to remind Sidney of Maureen. Sidney fought him off and the killer escaped.

That night, Ghostface crashed Roman Bridger's birthday party at John Milton's mansion. He seemingly killed Roman, and stabbed Angelina Tyler to death. He fought the others, murdering Tyson Fox and then Jennifer Jolie before subduing Gale and Dewey. He called Sidney and told her he'd kill Dewey and Gale if she didn't come to Milton's mansion. Sidney arrived at the mansion, and the killer made her pass a metal detector over her body, then discard her gun. He confronted her with the bound John Milton and revealed he was Roman Bridger, still alive, and confessed he was her half-brother. Roman filled her in on the missing pieces of Maureen's life and murdered Milton. He and Sidney fought to the death, and Sidney prevailed with the help of Dewey and Gale and Mark Kincaid.

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of The Woodsboro Murders , Ghostface breaks into the home of Jenny Randall where she is having a sleepover with her friend Marnie Cooper . Ghostface interrupted Marnie as she was being pranked with a fake Ghostface phone call by Jenny and he killed her outside the house. Jenny came downstairs to find Marnie and finds a phone on the floor which starts ringing. When she answers it's the real Ghostface on the other line who threatens her and then throws Marnie's body through the window of the house. Ghostface chases Jenny through the house and into the garage where he crushes her back with the garage door and then stabs her to death.

The next day, Ghostface hid evidence of Jenny and Marnie's murders in the trunk of Sidney's rental car which the police find after following a trail from Jenny's house. That night whilst Jill Roberts , cousin of Sidney, and her best friend Kirby Reed are watching a movie together, Ghostface calls Jill from her ex-boyfriend's phone, which Kirby answers, and alludes to the fact that he knows Jill and Kirby are watching a movie and that he is hiding in the closet. When Kirby finds the closet empty Ghostface reminds them that he never said Jill's closet and the pair realise he is talking about the closet of neighbor Olivia Morris , a friend of Jill and Kirby's. Ghostface bursts out of Olivia's closet and guts her to death. Kirby and Jill's screams attract the attention of Sidney who runs next door and finds Olivia's dead body. Ghostface calls her on Olivia's phone and threatens that he'll be coming for her when he's ready and that he'll make her suffer until then. Ghostface then barges out of a closet behind her but Sidney fights him off and throws him down the stairs but he is able to escape before the police can catch him.

Whilst at the hospital treating Jill's wounds, Sidney fires her publicist, Rebecca Walters , who is followed into the parking garage by Ghostface. Rebecca tries to flee in her car but Ghostface had already cut wires from her engine. He chases her through the parking lot but as she tries to get back into the hospital the handle breaks off and he catches her, stabbing her in the gut and then throwing her off the roof of the parking garage into a crowd of reporters witnessing a press conference by Dewey. The next night at Charlie Walker and Robbie Mercer 's annual Stab-A-Thon , Ghostface disables cameras set up by Gale to catch the killer and when she goes back to fix them he emerges from behind and stabs her before fleeing into a crowd of other attendees dressed as Ghostface. At the Roberts house, Ghostface kills Deputy Hoss and Deputy Perkins in their police car. After discovering Jill has escaped to Kirby's house, Sidney and Kate Roberts try to go after her but Ghostface attacks and kills Kate before Sidney flees.

At an afterparty at Kirby's House , Ghostface stalks the remaining teenagers. He follows Robbie outside who is live vlogging to his audience and kills him. Sidney arrives to get Jill away but when they try to leave, Ghostface attacks them and Kirby. Ghostface chases Jill and Sidney upstairs and Sidney helps Jill hide whilst she climbs out onto the roof where Ghostface chases her and then throws her off. Sidney runs back inside and Kirby takes her down to a room in the basement to hide but Charlie finds them and begs to be let inside. Kirby, not trusting Charlie, doesn't unlock the door and Ghostface emerges behind him and ties him to a chair, similar to Steven Orth in 1996. Ghostface calls Kirby and Sidney on Charlie's phone, and whilst Sidney goes upstairs to find Jill he plays a trivia game with Kirby which she wins. When she goes outside to free Charlie he pulls out a knife he had hidden and stabs Kirby, leaving her for dead.

Sidney comes back downstairs and as she calls out for Kirby, Charlie grabs her from behind and holds a knife to her throat. She escapes his grasp and she runs to the front door into the path of Ghostface's knife. He takes off his mask to reveal Jill underneath. Jill and Charlie take Sidney into the kitchen and reveal that they played the role of Ghostface together, fooling everyone around them to think it was anyone but them. Jill's motives were to earn fame and fortune by being a final survivor of the Ghostface killing spree, obviously affected by growing up in the shadow of her famous cousin. Charlie's motives were to recreate the Stab movies and to win the heart of Jill. They planned on framing Jill's ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon , as the killer but as they prepared to stab each other like Billy and Stu did 15 years ago, Jill stabs Charlie in the heart and stomach to kill him and frame him as an accomplice of Trevor's.

Jill reveals that it was her plan all along to frame Charlie and that the media would prefer a sole survivor like Sidney was after Randy died. She then stabs Sidney. Believing her to be dead, she further pursues her goals by self inflicting pain to make it appear as if she was attacked by Ghostface, but lived and defeated him. As the police arrive, Jill falls down next to Sidney's unconscious body and pretended to be unconscious too. Jill is taken to the hospital and as she imagines, she gets her 15 minutes of fame. She discovers Sidney is still alive and slips up by revealing she knows where Gale was stabbed. As Dewey realises this, he runs up to Sidney's room where Jill is attempting to finally kill her. With help from Dewey, Gale and Judy Hicks , Sidney is able to electrocute and then shoot Jill to death.

Scream (2022 film)

Ghostface calls Tara Carpenter whilst she's home alone, claiming to be a man named "Charlie" who knows her mother from "group". Tara believes this man could be her mother's boyfriend and so she goes along with the conversation, keeping her friend Amber Freeman informed the whole time. Charlie quizzes Tara about her love for horror movies and asks if she wants to play a Stab trivia game, which Tara is forced to play when the caller reveals he'll kill Amber if she doesn't. Tara plays along and mixes up a question about the original Stab movie and when she tries to run and save Amber, Ghostface appears at her door and stabs her. Ghostface breaks into the house and stabs Tara seven times and breaks her leg before being interrupted by the police.

The next day, Ghostface kills Vince Schneider outside a bar after he threatens Liv McKenzie , it is then revealed that Vince was related to Stu Macher. At the hospital, Ghostface calls Samantha Carpenter and reveals that he knows she is the daughter of Billy Loomis and will expose that secret. Ghostface then appears from behind the door and attacks Sam, who escapes. It is later predicted by Mindy Meeks-Martin that Ghostface is trying to create a requel to Stab 8 to appease the "toxic" fandom.

Yes, today! A triumph over an old and bitter enemy .

The next day, Ghostface attacks and kills Judy and Wes Hicks and then attacks Tara at the hospital where he kills Deputy Clay and eventually Dewey Riley , who attempts to kill Ghostface by shooting him in the head. Sam, Tara and Richie Kirsch are lured to Amber's house at 261 Turner Lane to get Tara's spare inhaler and Ghostface attacks Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin leaving them both for dead. After an argument breaks out between Liv, Sam and Amber, Amber pulls a gun and kills Liv, revealing herself as a killer.

Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers arrive to the house and immediately know Amber is lying, so Amber shoots Gale and lures them inside. Sidney and Ghostface, who is Amber underneath, get into a fight and Richie appears to come to their rescue, only to reveal himself as the second killer. A fight breaks out between the group with Sidney, Gale and Tara killing Amber by setting her alight with hand sanitizer and then shooting her through the head, and Richie getting stabbed repeatedly by Sam before she slits his throat open, bringing the new killings to an end.

University professor, Laura Crane , matches with a man on Flirtr who asks her out on a date. Whilst waiting for him, she gets a call from him and he claims he is a lost but is coming down an alley near the restaurant. As she gets closer, he begins to get panicked and says someone with a knife is following him. Laura runs down the alley and the voice on the phone changes to the Killer's voice and he taunts Laura before jumping out of the alley and killing her. Ghostface takes off his mask to reveal Jason Carvey underneath. He returns to his apartment and puts the used mask in his Ghostface shrine.

He then gets a call from his roommate Greg and they discuss their plan to finish making Richie's film, however Jason realises the voice on the other end isn't Greg but is actually Ghostface who leads him to Greg's body in the refrigerator. The real Ghostface appears behind him, and stabs him to death, leaving behind Richie's old mask.

Later that night, Sam and Tara are called down to the police station by NYPD Detective Wayne Bailey and along the way, Sam is called from Richie's old phone number. Sam answers and the killer on the other end taunts the sisters before ambushing them from an alley. The sisters evade Ghostface and run into a Bodega where Ghostface follows them in and kills two customers and then the Bodega owner using his own shotgun. He stalks the sisters through the bodega and they are able to run outside when the police arrive, but the killer escapes through the backdoor and leaves behind the mask belonging to Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker . The next morning, he kills Sam's ex-therapist Christopher Stone by breaking through his front door glass and stabbing him in the eye. He steals Sam's therapy file and leaves behind the mask belonging to Roman.

That night, he seemingly murders Quinn Bailey and her latest gentleman caller, and whilst Sam, Mindy and Anika Kayoko try to escape by climbing across a ladder between their apartment and Danny Brackett's , he flips the ladder, causing Anika to fall to her death. The next day, Wayne comes up with a plan to bait Ghostface by having Sam and Tara wander around in a park and hopefully trigger a phone call from him that they can trace. The plan is successful and they track the call down to Gale's Upper East Side penthouse. In the penthouse, Gale gets her first phone call from Ghostface who murders her new boyfriend, Brooks , whilst he is distracted. Ghostface then attacks Gale and she shoots him before getting another call from him.

As she searches the penthouse for him, she hangs up and re-dials his number, exposing his hiding spot. She fires multiple rounds through the door but Ghostface breaks through the door and stabs her multiple times and leaves her for dead when he's interrupted by Sam and Tara'a arrival. Presumably here he left behind (or wore) Mickey Altieri's mask.

That night, Tara comes up with a plan to trap and execute Ghostface and they decide to use the theatre to do this. Wayne agrees to the plan and tells them to travel in public. Along the way they get separated in the subway station, forcing Mindy and Ethan Landry to travel on a separate subway. On the subway, Mindy is backed into a secluded corner of the subway car and Ghostface emerges, disguised as a commuter and as the subway passes in and out of light, he covers her mouth and stabs her in the gut before disembarking at the next stop. Ethan notices Mindy's injuries and seeks medical attention for her.

At the theatre, Kirby is wandering around (off-screen) and is ambushed by two Ghostface killers. One of those killers then attacks Tara, Sam and Chad and when Chad tries to hold the killer back to allow Sam and Tara to escape, the second Ghostface emerges and they take turns stabbing Chad over and leaving him for dead. The two killers wipe the blood off their knives in sync and follow the sisters into the theatre where they prepare to fight. At that same time, Kirby regains consciousness and returns to the theatre hall however Sam and Tara are distrusting of her as Wayne told them that she was expelled from the FBI for mental health reasons. At that same time, Wayne arrives and shoots Kirby, revealing himself as one of the killers.

The two masked Ghostface's emerge behind him, wearing Nancy Loomis' and Stu Macher's masks and unmask themselves to reveal Ethan and Quinn, respectively. They reveal that they are all the family of Richie, Wayne being his father and Quinn and Ethan being his brother, and they all want revenge for Sam killing him, which included them fueling a rumor that Sam was the real killer. The sisters evade the three killers and after fighting throughout the theatre are able to kill Quinn and Ethan. Sam falls over the railing with Wayne and Wayne is knocked out. When he comes to, Sam calls him using the Ghostface voice and then stabs him to death using Billy Loomis' mask, robe and knife. Ethan tries one last time to kill anyone but Kirby crushes his skull using the same TV that killed Stu, bringing an end to the New York Ghostface murders.

Identities and Motives

"We all go a little mad sometimes..." -Billy Loomis

• Billy Loomis: Maureen Prescott had an affair with Hank Loomis, which prompted Hank and Billy's mother to divorce. Billy killed her out of anger. A year later, Billy and Stu started a murder spree in Woodsboro, planning on copying their favorite movies and becoming heroes when they survived. Their plan was to frame Maureen's husband, Neil Prescott, and culminate in killing Sidney. It was then revealed two movies later, that Roman mentored Billy to kill Maureen and eventually kill Sidney since Roman made it sound like Maureen was the cause of Billy's parent's divorce.

"Surprise, Sidney!" - Stu Macher

• Stu Macher: Stu was a horror movie fanatic who followed his best friend, Billy Loomis, around. Submitting to peer pressure from Billy (and possibly being in some sort of secret relationship), Stu helped murder Maureen Prescott. A year later, they committed a murder spree in their home town, planning on recreating their beloved horror movies and becoming heroes for surviving the bloodbath. Their first targets were Stu's ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend (Casey Becker and Steve Orth). They also killed Stu's current girlfriend, Tatum . They eventually went on to kill multiple people however, he came to his death when he chased Sidney and bit his hand, which gave her time to drop a TV over his head, electrocuting and killing him almost instantly.

"Surprise, Sidney!" -Mickey Altieri

• Mickey Altieri: A psychopathic film geek, Mickey wanted to create a sequel and be the star of a trial-of-the-century type media circus. Mrs. Loomis found him online on a murdering kind of website and paid for his tuition at Windsor College, where he worked himself into Sidney's close circle of friends to make it look like he wasn't the Killer when the murders first started, however, Mickey actually planned on not getting away with the murder spree, wishing to be the center of the following media circus and debate on movie-making ethics. It's possible he wanted revenge for something, as that most of the Ghostface Killer's have another motive, however it was never revealed.

" It's called a makeover. You should try it. Looking a little tired yourself there, Gale. " -Nancy Loomis

• Nancy Loomis: Billy's mother orchestrated the Windsor College murder spree out of vengeance for Billy's death. She also channeled her hatred for Maureen Prescott, who slept with her husband, onto Sidney. Mrs. Loomis found Mickey Altieri online and paid for his college tuition, giving him her motherly help and guidance. Secretly, she set Mickey up to take the fall for the entire copycat killing spree, planning on murdering him after she achieved her revenge. Even if anyone suspected there was a second killer, the persona she created of "Debbie Salt" couldn't be traced back to her. Sidney originally thought Gale was the killer, when Mickey told the second killer to reveal herself however, she used Gale as a hostage and Sidney noticed it was Billy's mother.

"Roman Bridger: director, and brother." -Roman Bridger

• Roman Bridger: A director, Roman tracked down his birth mother (Maureen Prescott), who shunned him and told him that she already had a family. Roman, the offspring of a vicious rape, was not wanted. Roman mentored Billy Loomis to kill Maureen, and was enraged by the fame gushed upon his half-sister, Sidney Prescott. He planned on framing Sidney for a murder spree and walking away as the new hero. However, he came face to face with his sister and exposed himself to her. Saying that Maureen didn't want him and she had a whole new life, with another child.

"Kirby? This is making a move ... " -Charlie Walker

• Charlie Walker: A film fanatic, he aspired to win the heart of Jill Roberts and saw them as a remake version of Randy Meeks and Sidney Prescott. Jill strung him along, and together they planned a new murder spree in Woodsboro. This would work to continue the stagnant Stab series, as well as propel Charlie and Jill into the limelight for surviving Ghostface's attacks. In the end, Jill betrayed him and stabbed him to death, stating that it would work best for her if she was the sole survivor.

"Hello, Sidney! Surprised?" -Jill Roberts

• Jill Roberts : Jill grew up in the shadow of her famous cousin Sidney Prescott. She felt like her mother loved Sidney better, which translated itself into an irrational jealousy toward Sidney's attention, and sought to take it for herself. Not wanting to work hard or get a job, Jill planned a murder spree in Woodsboro to achieve this. She partnered with her friend, Charlie Walker, who was in love with her. Jill betrayed Charlie, stabbing him to death, and set-up her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, to look like the second Ghostface killer. She then horribly injured herself to maximize sympathy for her as the new hero. However, Dewey and Gale, find out that Jill was the real killer and not Trevor. They go to Sidney's room and find Jill trying to kill her but they got there in time to pull her off. In the final showdown, Gale is able to distract the psychotic teenager long enough to give Sidney enough time to recover from Jill's attack and be able to electrocute her. Jill recovers and picks up a shard of glass planning to stab Sidney with it, but she is shot by in the chest by Sidney who knows the killer always comes back for one last scare.

"Welcome to act three." -Amber Freeman

• Amber Freeman: Amber was a fan of the Stab movies ever since her parents bought Stu Macher's old house . After being appalled by the events of Stab 8 , she connected with other fans on a Stab subreddit, one of those fans being Richie Kirsch. The pair devised a plan to create their own "requel" to Stab and Amber revealed information about her girlfriend's sister, Samantha Carpenter, that she is the daughter of Billy Loomis, that they could use as the basis for their movie, as well as framing her as the Killer. They went along with their plan, eventually unmasking themselves and Amber is killed after being set on fire and then shot in the head.

"Oh, thank god, you're still alive... Because I really wanted to be the one to kill you." -Richie Kirsch

• Richie Kirsch: Richie was a fellow Stab fan and another one who was appalled by Stab 8. After meeting Amber Freeman on a Stab subreddit, they devised a plan to create their own "requel" and they were going to use Samantha Carpenter as their Killer and Tara Carpenter and her friends as the basis for their movie. Richie tracked down and got close to Samantha, eventually gaining her trust and starting a relationship with her. When Tara gets attacked, he returns to Woodsboro with her and after a few more murders, Richie unmasks himself and is ultimately killed by Sam after underestimating her.

"The worst part is... you teach a class about slashers and you still walked into a dark alley. Alone." -Jason Carvey

• Jason Carvey: Jason planned to instigate a own killing spree with his friend Greg to finish off Richie's movie, a killer he idolised. Acting alone, Jason donned the mask to kill his professor, Laura Crane by luring her in through a dating app. He had a hidden Ghostface shrine in their dorm room. It is likely this wasn't the first time Jason killed as he made a comparison to having blue balls over killng, it is unknown if Greg had killed anyone before this. Jason is the first Ghostface killer to be killed by another Ghostface killer in a massacre.

"Warmer, warmer, you're on fire!" - "Greg Bruckner"

• Greg Bruckner: Greg planned with Jason start a own killing spree to finish off Richie's movie. The two enrolled at Blackmore University to follow Samantha Carpenter , Tara Carpenter , Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin . He wasn't relevant as Ghostface since he was killed by Wayne .

"Good work. Both of you." -Wayne Bailey

• Wayne Bailey: Wayne was a police detective and the father of Richie Kirsch. He indulged Richie's love of the Stab movies and helped him build a shrine in an abandoned theatre in New York City . After discovering the truth behind Richie's murder in Gale's new book, Wayne sought revenge against Samantha Carpenter for killing him and joined forces with his son and daughter to carry out his plan. He was killed after being stabbed over forty times and once in the eye by Sam.

"Ta-ra! Mindy was right. It was easy to juke the 'roommate lottery. All I had to do to meet you is room with a conceited, condescending Alpha, literally named Chad!'" -Ethan Landry

• Ethan Landry: Ethan was the brother of Richie Kirsch and son of Wayne Bailey. After discovering the truth of Richie's murder, Ethan sought revenge against Samanatha Carpenter for killing him and agreed to his father's plan. Ethan enroled at Blackmore University and manipulated the housing arrangements to be roommates with Chad to get close to him and the rest of the Woodsboro survivors. He met his death after having his skull crushed by Kirby Reed with the same TV that killed Stu.

"Hey roomies. You didn't see that one coming, did you?" -Quinn Bailey

• Quinn Bailey: Quinn was the sister of Richie Kirsch and daughter of Wayne Bailey. After discovering the truth of Richie's murder, Quinn sought revenge against Samanatha Carpenter for killing him and agreed to her father's plan. Quinn enroled at Blackmore University and answered a roommate listing by Sam and Tara in order to get close to them and the rest of the Woodsboro survivors. She met her death after being shot in the head by Sam.

"No, you listen you little bitch! Hang up on me and I'll gut you like a fish, understand? Can you handle that...Blondie?" — To Casey Becker in Scream (1996)

"You should never say 'who’s there?' Don’t you watch scary movies? It’s a death wish. You might as well come out to investigate a strange noise or something'' — Still to Casey Becker

"What's your favorite scary movie?"

"I guess you've fingered the wrong guy... AGAIN!" — To Sidney Prescott for accusing Billy Loomis

"SURPRISE, SIDNEY!" - To Sidney after the reveal in Scream (1996)

"You wish it was Ted! Don't forget to set the alarm!! " — To Cici Cooper in Scream 2 .

"Have you ever felt a knife cut through human flesh and scrape the bone beneath?" — To Randy Meeks shortly before his death.

"It was a simple game, Cotton. You should have told me where Sidney was. Now, YOU LOSE!" — Scream 3 .

"...And it's called, Sarah gets skewered like a fuckin' PIG!" — To Sarah Darling in Scream 3 .

"Think of me as your director, you’re in my movie, you've got a fun part so don't blow it". — To Jenny Randall in Scream 4.

"This isn't a comedy, it's a horror film. People live, people die and you'd better start running." Scream 4

"...Same one Marnie's in, only her part got cut WAY back, but you... you're the DUMB BLONDE WITH THE BIG TITS! We'll have some fun with you before you die" Scream 4

"I'm gonna slit your eyelids in half so you don't blink when I stab you in the face" — To Sidney Prescott in Scream 4

"NONE OF THE ABOVE!" — To Kirby missing a trivia question Scream 4 .

"YOU HANG UP ON ME I'LL CUT THROUGH YOUR NECK TILL I FEEL BONE!" — To Sherrie in Stab 6 within Stab 7

,,Would you like to play a game, Tara?'' — To Tara Carpenter in Scream (2022)

,,Really? You can’t save your own sister? All you have to do is say, “Kill Richie”! Or say, “Kill Tara'', and I’ll make sure to hit all the organs I missed last time!'' — To Sam Carpenter in Scream (2022)

"Now I see something red" — Jason Carvey to Laura Crane in Scream VI

"Who gives a fuck about movies?" — Wayne Bailey to Jason Carvey in Scream VI

"Maybe you did hit me. Maybe I'm wounded. Or maybe I'm wearing a bulletproof ve st" — Quinn Bailey to Gale Weathers in Scream VI

Behind the Mask

There is much debate and speculation about which killer is Ghostface during the series. Some instances are obvious while others can be argued endlessly. It is believed Kevin Williamson revealed who he intended to wear the costume in comments made through the years concerning the first Scream. If any can be verified please link to source.

The Different Ghostface Masks used in all 4 Scream movies.

Maureen Prescott's murder: Billy and Stu committed the murder, as referenced in their dialogue. But it is unknown whether or not they wore the Ghostface costume. In the Stab 3 flashback set, Maureen's body is seen with a phone, suggesting she may have been called by them first (she may also have been attempting to call for help)

Casey's phone calls: Billy. From Casey's kill (stabbed one handed), one can work backwards to tell it was Billy on the phone with Casey from the front entrance of the house as Ghostface was able to hear her ask "who's there?" after playing mind games on her by ringing the doorbell (then chastising her for it)

Casey and Steve's murders: Stu killed Steve, Billy Killed Casey. Going from the above, Stu would be placed at the patio entrance with Steve. He then breaks in through the back and runs to the front to open the door for Billy. The Ghostface that killed Casey stabbed her with one hand. This is Billy's M.O. whilst Stu's is to use two hands on the knife for his killing blows. Working backwards from this, one could tell Billy switched off with Stu (who found her first) after Casey knocked Stu off with the phone

Sidney's first phone call: Billy. He is seen with a phone and appears at the bedroom window too soon after Sidney locks herself in her bedroom

Sidney's house attack: Stu. For Billy to be Ghostface here he would have to have run downstairs, go outside to run around the perimeter of the house, ditch the Ghostface costume and climb into Sidney's second story window in a matter of seconds

Call at the Riley house: Stu. He called to 'prove' Billy was innocent since he was locked up at the time

Sidney's bathroom attack: It was a prankster, because Ghostface didn't have a knife.

Principal Himbry's murder: Billy. His whereabouts were unknown at the time while Stu was seen with Sidney and Tatum outside the school. Though he left somewhere unknown, he was most likely setting up the party still. Even with this, we see Ghostface playing mind games with Himbry, which is also Billy's M.O. of the two (as he did so with Casey before then Tatum and Sidney after)

Stalking Sidney and Tatum: It was most likely Billy, or possibly another prankster; either of the killers making these moves would be risky. If it was one of the killers, it would most likely be Billy since the mind games were more his M.O.

Tatum's murder: Billy. Stu was still hosting the party and may have been noticed excusing himself to the garage right after sending Tatum there for more beer. Billy also plays more mind games with the faux-acting and 'wanting to play psycho killer'.

Billy's 'murder': Stu, as Billy is playing victim.

Sidney's chase: Stu still, after 'killing' Billy.

Randy's near murder: Stu. Billy would most likely still be upstairs and we can also see Ghostface holding the knife with two hands, which is Stu's M.O.

Kenny's murder: Stu still, after nearly killing Randy.

Dewey's and Sidney's attack: Billy. As Stu would still be outside somewhere (probably checking on Gale at this point), Billy would hear Dewey poking around and assume the Ghostface role to stop him.

Sidney's car attack: Billy. He chases Sidney to the car and then plays his mind games on her upon revealing that he has the keys to it after she tried to start it up.

Randy's shooting: Billy, we witness this.

Neil Prescott's abduction: Both, as he was their target to frame for the murders. After leaving Casey's, they likely both went to Sidney's (though we only see Billy) to get Neil since he's seen in the same outfit during the closing act.

Gale's attack: Billy

Billy's closet attack: Sidney

Stu's murder: Sidney

Randy and Sidney's attacks: Billy

Billy's murder: Sidney

Phil's and Maureen's murders: Nancy kills Phil and gives Mickey his jacket to trick Maureen into thinking he's her boyfriend. She touches him and isn't suspicious, pointing at Mickey being Ghostface here. His body is similar enough to Phil's to fool her, while Nancy would be obvious. Nancy likely kills Phil as you can hear a women's voice can be heard in the other stall. The most likely scenario is that - to save time Nancy probably hid Phil's body while Mickey put on Phil's clothing.

Sidney's prank call: Cory Gillis

CiCi's phone calls: Mickey. He would be the one to most likely know both that CiCi is at their sorority house as well as her situation with her boyfriend, Ted. He was also at the mixer across the street, meaning he most likely isn't the Ghostface we see sneak into the house without a phone in hand whilst the killer is on the phone with CiCi and her sorority sister

CiCi's murder: Mrs. Loomis. As Mickey was at the mixer and most likely on the phone with CiCi, this places Mrs. Loomis as the Ghostface that sneaks in and eventually kills CiCi.

Sidney's phone call: Mrs. Loomis. She hurriedly rushed off after CiCi's murder (she had a 'deadline') to coordinate the attack on Sidney as the news of CiCi's murder would reach the mixer which was right across the street.

Sidney's Greek house attack: Nancy, because she told Gale she had a deadline after the scene where Cici was murdered. Nancy also wanted revenge on Sidney and Gale for killing her son, Billy. The killer was eager to attack Sidney during the attack, making the killer being Nancy.

Derek's injury: Nancy, still.

Sidney's theater scare: Mickey. There's much better chance of him having knowledge of the play and it's rehearsal schedule as well as even the movements in it to blend in. Also, him swapping with Derek probably gave him greater freedom since he would not have to reappear as himself to pick her up

Randy's (Gale's) phone call: Mrs. Loomis. She hid in Gale's van and called Gale's phone at a time when Gale was seen using it. She also seems to have almost as great an interest in Gale as she does Sidney for her role in Billy's death. Randy just-so-happened to pick it up before Gale could

Randy's murder: Mrs. Loomis. She admits to this during the closing act.

Sidney's IM: Mickey. He would have access to the campus computers as well as the library.

Gale and Dewey's attack: Both. Mickey was the one in the projector room and would know how to operate it and then left to catch up to Sidney and Hallie. This would place Mrs. Loomis as the Ghostface that pops up behind Gale and takes over the attack. Also, with the physical strength that Mickey's Ghostface displays during the movie, it makes more sense that Mrs. Loomis' Ghostface was unable to get into the room Gale barricaded herself in (either by pushing past the shelf Gale used or by breaking the glass pane to the room)

Andrews', Richards', and Hallie's murders: Mickey. Having left the projector room, Mickey goes for Sidney and Hallie before they're out of reach and is able to physically overpower the second detective using the great physical strength we see him use throughout the film. Also, he has a nasty gash on his forehead once he removed his mask later on which he most likely gained from the car crash

Derek's murder: Mickey

Mickey's shooting: Nancy.

Gale's shooting: Mickey

Nancy's murder: Cotton (possibly Sidney, just in case)

Mickey's murder: Sidney and Gale

All Phone Calls: Roman is revealed to be sole killer.

All Attacks: Roman is revealed to be sole killer.

All Murders: Roman is revealed to be sole killer.

Roman's Death : Dewey

Marnie's murder : Both killers were present . Charlie was the one, who killed Marnie, because his M.O was stabbing his victim multiple times as Jill stabbed once.

Jenny's phone call : After Charlie killed Marnie, Jill took the body and when Charlie started talking on the phone with Jenny, both of them threw Marnie’s body through the window.

Jenny's and Marnie's murders: Jill chased Jenny and killed her by crushing her back with a garage door and then stabbing her while Charlie went to the garage door from outside the house and filmed Jenny's murder. The reason for Jill killing Jenny was because she was the girl Trevor cheated on Jill with. Jill also wanted everything to do with the first kills since they were meant as a signal to everyone that Ghostface is back. However, it is heavily speculated that Charlie is Jenny's killer, as he tells Sidney after revealing himself that he has great footage of her murder, though that doesn't exactly mean that he had to her killer, he could just follow Jill chasing Jenny, and record the kill.

Olivia and Jill's phone calls: Charlie, because Jill cannot call herself.

Sidney's car boot: Most evidence points towards Charlie. As Jill was with Kirby and Olivia since she left her house, the same day Sidney and Rebecca arrived at Woodsboro, while Charlie's whereabouts are not established until the beginning of school. It is more likely that Charlie planted the blood, Out of the Darkness novels and Ghostface merchandise in Sidney's car boot while no-one was around because Jill would probably still be with Kirby and Olivia at the time.

Jill and Kirby's call: Charlie, because Jill cannot call herself #2.

Olivia's murder: Logically, Charlie kills her while Jill is next door with Kirby. Charlie also states during the climax of the film that he has great footage of his Olivia kill. Kirby's caller from Trevor's phone is also obviously Charlie as Jill is with Kirby when she receives the phone call, and maybe also to distract Olivia from the sound of Charlie talking inside her closet. Jill's prank call to Olivia before Kirby's call was probably a signal to Charlie to begin his phone call to Kirby. However, an error occurs, in that the police were in the car when Olivia arrived home, but some time after went after a "suspicious figure." Charlie would have to have been in the closet before Olivia got home. The only solution here is that the "suspicious figure," was not Ghostface, but rather a random, unknown person or a figment of the officers imagination.

Sidney's first phone call: Jill was on her way to Olivia's house. If she had called, someone would have heard and noticed her. Besides, Charlie might have hid in a good place to call Sidney.

Jill and Sidney's attack: Jill is playing victim, while Charlie is attacking in the costume.

Rebecca's murder: This one is debatable. Some would think that this was Jill because Charlie is seen with Robbie at the press conference when Rebecca is thrown onto the newsvan from several stories above. Jill was probably also the one who made the calls to Rebecca as Charlie was probably with Robbie at that time. Jill is also the one who sabotaged Rebecca's car so she couldn't start it because Ghostface is seen with cords in his hand when she jumps onto the bonnett of Rebecca's car. In order for Jill to be the sole survivor, she had to kill Sidney and people close to her. However, Rebecca's more likely killer is Charlie, as Jill was treated and watched at the hospital, making it virtually impossible for her to sneak out, while Charlie eluding Robbie would be easier. Also, Jill didn't have a Ghostface costume with her at the hospital, while Charlie had his with him after Olivia's death. Also Olivia died in the same night as Rebecca.

Gale's attack: Charlie attacked Gale while Jill watched on her computer from home. Jill had no way to get to the Stab-a-thon and back without being noticed by somebody. Gale sees a webcam in the haystack and it moves to focus on her. This is Jill operating it from home and how knows she and Gale have the matching "shoulder wounds" she mentioned to Dewey at the end of the film. Some fans believe that Jill is the one who actually attacked Gale, but Charlie may have just told Jill about it.

Hoss and Perkins' murders: Both Ghostfaces were involved as Jill stabbed them to death after she left the house, (Hoss in the back and Perkins on his forehead) while Charlie drove the car two blocks away and then stabbed the corpses of Hoss and Perkins several more times just to make sure that they're dead. During the climax of the film, Charlie hands Jill a gun stating "the cops would've wanted you to have this, for your protection", which he probably gathered from the police car after driving the car two blocks away. During the climax, when Charlie is mentioning all of the footage he has of his kills, he does not mention Hoss or Perkins, which further implies that Jill was the Ghostface that attacked and stabbed Hoss and Perkins the first time.

Call at the Roberts house: Jill is the one who made the call because the caller told Sidney to put on the TV so she could see the report about Gale's attack. Charlie was in the car on the way to Jill's house after attacking Gale and he had no idea that the attack was already on the news. After arriving in front of Jill's house, Charlie also informed her about Gale's attack. Shortly after that, Jill called Sidney.

Kate's murder: Both Ghostfaces are present as one is at the backdoor and one is at the front door, but the Ghostface responsible for Kate's death was Jill, as Charlie states during the climax of the film that he scared Sidney and Kate from the backdoor of the house, and Kate was stabbed at the front of the house. Jill also states that" I mean for fucks sake my own mother had to die". Jill wanted to be the sole survivor so she wanted to kill people close to Sidney.

Trevor's abduction: Jill subdued Trevor somehow (more than likely by seducing him) and tied him up. It's unknown when he was brought downstairs as neither killers really had the time for that.

Robbie's murder: Killed outside Kirby's house by Charlie. Charlie admits later that he has great footage of his Robbie kill. Jill is also seen without costume in this scene.

Sidney and Jill's attack: Charlie is the killer here as Jill is seen.

Sidney's roof attack : Still Charlie because Sidney told Jill to hide under the bed while she was covering her escape out to the balcony.

Charlie's attack: Jill is the killer here as Charlie is seen.

Kirby's phone call : Jill is the caller here as Charlie is seen.

Kirby's attack: Jill calls her while Charlie is tied up. After Charlie is freed by Kirby, he stabs her revealing he is one of the killers.

Sidney's attack in Kirby's foyer: Charlie grabs her and holds a knife at her throat but she gets away, only to be stabbed by "Ghostface" who then takes off the mask and it's revealed that the killer is Jill.

Trevor's murder: Jill shoots him in the groin and forehead while he is tied up on the floor with duct tape.

Charlie's murder: Jill betrays him and stabs him in the heart and stomach.

Sidney's stabbing: Jill is doing it without costume.

Jill's beating : She is doing it herself, to look like a victim.

Sidney, Dewey and Hicks' hospital attacks: Jill is doing it without costume.

Jill's murder: As Jill is about to shoot Gale, Sidney comes from behind her and electrocutes her head with defibrillator paddles. Still alive, Jill tries stabbing Sidney with a glass shard but Sidney knows killers always come back to life for "one last scare" and shoots Jill in the heart.

Tara's phone calls: This was both Amber Freeman and Richie Kirsch . Richie made the phone calls and recorded the video of Amber with a view of his knife to scare Tara.

Tara's attack: This was Amber with Richie on the phone. Amber also seemingly confirms this later in the hospital attacks when she says that she'll hit all the organs she missed last time.

Vince's murder: This is ambiguous, but Amber is probaly the one who killed Vince. Amber was already at the bar with the rest of the teenagers and she could easily eluded her friends, while Richie was at the hospital with Sam and Tara. Even Richie's single stab MO doesn’t matter here, because Richie would rather not leave the hospital and then return there only to kill Vince, because Sam would have noticed him not being present and be suspicious over him.

Sam's phone call: Amber did the phone call. If Richie called her, she would have heard him.

Sam's hospital attack: Richie attacked Sam as Amber was at the Sheriff's Department having been questioned by Sheriff Hicks around the time Sam was attacked.

Judy's phone call: Quote: ''Ever seen movie Psycho?'' reveals Amber, because in the later scene of the movie Amber imitates the noises from the shower stabbing sequence in Psycho.

Judy's murder: Both killers were there. Amber killed Judy, because Ghostface used Amber's M.O (stabbing multiple times). and then went to the hospital.

Wes' murder: After Amber went to the hospital, Richie stayed behind to finish off Wes because he was stronger than Amber and he had the better chance to overpower him.

Clay's murder: In the hospital, all the work was likely done by Amber, while Richie was playing victim.

Richie, Tara and Dewey's attack: It was Amber, because Richie was still playing victim.

Dewey's murder: Obviously Amber, because Richie was with Sam and Tara in the elevator.

Chad's attack: This was Amber as Richie was driving to 261 Turner Lane with Tara and Samantha and arrived just as Ghostface finished his attack on Chad.

Mindy's attack: This was Richie, as Amber was upstairs with Tara getting her inhaler and Richie had excused himself to the Basement where he likely changed into the Ghostface costume and then came back upstairs to attack her.

Liv's murder: Amber is doing it without her costume.

Gale's shooting: Amber is doing it without her costume.

Sidney's phone call: You can hear Richie's voice, when he says ''Wait!''.

Sidney's attack: Sidney is talking to Richie, when attack was occurred.

Sam's stabbing: Richie is doing it without his costume.

Amber's attack: Tara, we witness this.

Richie's murder: Samantha killed Richie by stabbing him countless times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head.

Amber's murder: Sidney, Gale and Tara all took part in Amber's murder. Sidney doused Amber in hand sanitizer as Gale shot Amber forcing her onto the stove and setting her alight due to the hand sanitizer they threw over her. Tara then shot Amber through the head as she came running out of the kitchen.

Laura's phone call: Ghostface, who calls Laura, is the same Ghostface who later kills her, for evidence see below.

Laura's murder: This was Jason Carvey , as he unmasks himself after killing her.

Greg's murder: It is not known exactly when Greg was killed. It's possible he was killed before Laura was killed. It is also unknown since when Ethan was at the Frat Party, and since Paul came to Quinn's apartment. Despite the fact that we do not know the exact time of Greg's death and the whereabouts of the Kirsch families at that time, it is most likely Wayne who killed Greg, because it is hard to imagine Ethan or Quinn dismembering Greg's body in such a brutal way. Wayne mentions to Sam in the final act: " We had to kill those two wannabe film students". Just as Wayne is Jason's killer (see evidence below), the fact that Wayne says "We had to kill" instead of "I had to kill" suggests either Quinn or Ethan may have been involved in Greg's death. However, as previously mentioned, it was Wayne who was most able to dismember Greg and had the best conditions to do so.

Jason's phone call: This call is falsely attributed to the same Ghostface, who killed Jason. Wayne waited in Jason's apartment until he found Greg's body in the refrigerator, and if he had called, Jason would have heard him, meaning that if Wayne killed Jason, Quinn would have been the one to call Jason. Ghostface calls Jason from Greg's phone, this would imply that it must have been the same Ghostface who actually killed him (we already know it's Wayne), however the fact that Wayne was hiding in Jason's apartment and if he was calling, he would have been heard by Jason, this fact excludes Wayne from being the caller in this scene. It is not known exactly how much time passed between Jason's murder and Sam's return to her apartment where Quinn was present, and it is also unknown when Paul came to Quinn. Ghostface in this scene is also watching Jason through the cameras, and Quinn would be in a better position to do that than Wayne. To see how Quinn might have gotten Greg's phone, check: Sam's stolen ID .

Jason's murder: The murder happened sometime after 9:00 p.m., and as Quinn was in her apartment (and also probably the caller in this scene) and Ethan Landry was at the frat party with Chad, Ghostface, who kills Jason is Wayne. With this murder, the Richie Kirsch's and Amber Freeman's masks were left.

Sam's stolen ID: Quinn was Sam's roommate. When Sam left to Dr. Stone, Quinn most likely stole Sam's ID and delivered it to Jason's apartment, where Wayne killed Greg. That's when Wayne was able to give Greg's phone to Quinn, who then went back to her apartment and called Jason while Wayne waited for Jason.

Sam's first phone call: First, we need to establish one fact: Ghostface who calls and then attacks is not the same Ghostface . Ghostface who attacks Tara from behind doesn't have a phone on him, and even if he had somewhere to hide it, it's a similar situation to Jason's call: Sam and Tara would hear Ghostface calling. This brings us two scenarios, that also immediately give us a clue as to who was responsible for the Bodega murders, see them below:

Sam and Tara's attack/Bodega Murders: Two people are mostly suspected of being Ghostface in the Bodega: Wayne and Ethan. However, he also can't exclude Quinn for being the Ghostface in the Bodega, below will explain why. The argument that tells us it's Wayne is that Ethan and Quinn were in the apartment at the time of the attack and had no way to sneak out. On top of that, Ghostface in the Bodega showed great shotgun skills, which would suit Wayne since he was a cop. Assuming Wayne was the Ghostface at the Bodega, the caller to Sam was probably Quinn. It is possible that after Sam and Tara left for the police station, Mindy, Anika, Chad and Ethan also left the apartment. This would leave Quinn alone in her apartment again, allowing her to call Sam without anyone else being suspicious. As absurd as it may seem at first glance, Wayne was most likely not the Ghostface at the Bodega, but just a Ghostface, who calls Sam, here's why: Wayne was at the crime scene in Jason and Greg's apartment. Wayne first calls Sam (at 9:57-9:58 p.m.) from there and lures her to come down the station, and after Sam and Tara escaped from the Bodega, Wayne was already present at the police station. For Wayne, it would be problematic to move from place to place so quickly, as well as to hide the costume. Later in the movie, when Kirby and Wayne are tracking the timeline of Ghostface, on the Ghostface's timeline board it is shown that the Bodega attack occured on 10:03 p.m., meaning that: Wayne would have to leave Jason and Greg's apartment in less than 5 minutes (in addition, put on the costume somewhere unnoticed) and later after the attack get faster to the police station before Sam and Tara, and in addition hide the costume somewhere. Wayne, however, wouldn't have much trouble being the caller in this scene. Ghostface in this conversation also takes credit for killing Greg and Jason, and we know it was Wayne, and also, what Ghostface says to Sam on the phone, is very similar to what Wayne says to her in the final act, about Sam "being punished" . That leaves us with either Ethan or Quinn as the prime suspects to be the Ghostface in Bodega. If we assume that Mindy, Anika, Chad and Ethan left the apartment along with Sam and Tara, then Quinn was left alone in her apartment again. This would allow her to sneak out undetected in a Ghostface costume and attack Sam and Tara, since Ethan would be with Chad then. However, if we assume that only Sam and Tara left the apartment, Ethan was the Ghostface in this scene. Somehow Quinn would have to distract the rest of the group to allow Ethan to slip away, or Ethan might just be lying to his friends about going back to his apartment. It also should be noticed, that when Ghostface is pushed onto the bikes by Sam and Tara, he grunts in a voice similar to Ethan's, and a moment later he says "Shit!", which also sounds like Ethan. What remains unclear is how Ethan (or possibly Quinn) would have learned to use a shotgun. However, it can be inferred that Wayne taught his kids using a shotgun. In summary, we have two possible scenarios: Quinn being the caller, and Wayne being the attacker , or Wayne being the caller, and Ethan or Quinn being the attacker . With this murder, Ghostface leaves behind Jill Roberts' and Charlie Walker's masks.

Dr. Christopher Stone's murder: This murder happened sometime around 8 am. Every Ghostface actually had the ability to kill Dr. Stone. Despite that, the most evidence points to Wayne, because it was him, who Sam told and gave details about Stone, such as where he lived. At the police station, where Wayne informs Kirby about Dr. Stone's death, Wayne strongly emphasized the cause of Stone's death as if he was proud of it. With this murder, Ghostface leaves behind Roman Bridger's mask.

The Apartment Attack: This attack includes Paul's death, Quinn's fake death, Mindy and Sam's attack, and finally Anika's murder. It obviously couldn't be Quinn because she was seen faking her death. Quinn is also seen talking to her father on the phone before the attack, which would also exclude Wayne from being Ghostface here. Wayne, after revealing himself, also tells Sam and Tara how he faked Quinn's death and that "he had to be sure he was first on the scene so he could switch Quinn's body out with a fresh one". This tells us that Wayne came to the apartment after the attack, and was unlikely to be responsible for it. It's possible that during the attack, Wayne killed an unknown teenage girl and dragged her corpse to the apartment so everyone would think it was Quinn. Thus, the only possible Ghostface in this scene is Ethan. This can be deduced from the way he slices Mindy's arm (just like he did twice with Sam during the revelations), and stabs, then rips open Anika's stomach. Wayne had a different way of stabbing his victims, like he did with Jason. Even though Ethan had an alibi that he was in Econ Class the whole time with hundred other people, it is probably false, as it is likely that he left class earlier than the other students, and since "he was in a study hall with a hundred other people", nobody really would notice him being absent.

Sam's second phone call: This was Quinn, who was hiding in Gale's penthouse to lure them there, as Wayne was in the park with Sam and Tara and Ethan was in the police van with Kirby, Chad and Mindy.

Gale's first phone call : This was probably Wayne. Since Quinn is responsible for Brooks' death happening at the same time as Gale's call, Gale would overhear Quinn attacking Brooks.

Brooks' murder, Gale's second phone call and attack: This was Quinn as she both admitted to being responsible and was already in the apartment making a phone call to lure them in. Wayne and Ethan were also both at the park with Sam, Tara and Kirby.

Mindy's attack: This was Quinn as she admitted to attacking Mindy, Ethan was also on the subway in plain sight and Wayne was at the police station.

Kirby's attack: This was both Quinn and Ethan as Kirby confirmed that "they" both attacked her and Quinn and Ethan were the two masked Ghostface's in the theatre.

Tara and Chad's Attack: Quinn stabbed Tara in the back and chased the group before being beaten up by Chad. When Chad was about to finish Quinn, Ethan stabbed him from behind, saving his sister, and then Quinn and Ethan attacked Chad together and stabbed him wearing Nancy Loomis and Stu Macher's masks.

Kirby's shooting: Wayne, in his reveal.

Quinn's murder: This was Sam who shot her through the head.

Wayne's murder: This was Sam who stabbed him to death using Billy's robe, mask and knife various times on his chest and arms, despite wearing a vest, with the fatal stab being to his eye.

Ethan's murder: This was both Tara, who stabbed Ethan on the inside of his mouth, and Kirby who crushed his skull with the same TV that killed Stu.

Relationships

• Mortal Enemy
• Girlfriend ( Billy Loomis )
• Friend ( Mickey Altieri and Stu Macher )
• Half-sister ( Roman Bridger )
• Cousin ( Jill Roberts )
• Frequent Target
• Girlfriend ( Richie Kirsch )
• Roomate ( Quinn Bailey )
• Friend ( Ethan Landry )
• Police ( Wayne Bailey )
• Daughter ( Billy Loomis )
• Granddaughter ( Nancy Loomis )
• Friend ( Amber Freeman and Ethan Landry )
• Acquaintance ( Richie Kirsch )
• Friend ( Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker )
• Acquaintance ( Ethan Landry and Quinn Bailey )
• Suspects ( Jason Carvey and Greg Bruckner )
• Friend ( Amber Freeman and Quinn Bailey )
• Roomate ( Ethan Landry )
• Nephew ( Randy Meeks , victim of Nancy)
• Acquaintance ( Richie Kirsch and Ethan Landry )
• Niece ( Randy Meeks , victim of Nancy)
• Son ( Nancy Loomis )
• Accomplice ( Stu Macher )
• Protege ( Roman Bridger )
• Father ( Samantha Carpenter )
• Accomplice ( Billy Loomis )
• Girlfriend ( Stu Macher )
• Friend ( Billy Loomis )
• Mother ( Billy Loomis )
• Accomplice ( Mickey Altieri )
• Grandmother ( Samantha Carpenter )
• Accomplice ( Nancy Loomis )
• Mentor ( Billy Loomis )
• Half-brother ( Sidney Prescott )
• Accomplice ( Charlie Walker )
• Accomplice ( Jill Roberts )
• Accomplice ( Richie Kirsch )
• Son ( Wayne Bailey )
• Brother ( Quinn Bailey ) ( Ethan Landry )
• Accomplice ( Amber Freeman )
• Boyfriend ( Samantha Carpenter )
• Father ( Richie Kirsch ) ( Ethan Landry ) ( Quinn Bailey )
• Accomplice ( Ethan Landry )
• Accomplice ( Quinn Bailey )
• Brother ( Richie Kirsch ) ( Quinn Bailey )
• Accomplice ( Wayne Bailey )
• Daughter ( Wayne Bailey )
• Sister ( Richie Kirsch ) ( Ethan Landry )

Parodies in other media

The comedy parody films Scary Movie and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth depict killers based on the Ghostface character.

In the climax of Scary Movie , the killer was revealed to be both Bobby Prinze and Ray Wilkins. However, it turns out they were copycat killers of a serial killer that already existed. The real killer was Doofy Gilmore, a policeman who had been faking mental retardation.

In Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth , the killer's mask is not originally that of Ghostface, but begins as a hockey mask which resembles the one worn by Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series . After being set on fire when the killer tried to smoke a cigarette, it melted to resemble Ghostface. In this film, unlike the "Scream" version of Ghostface, he constantly fails to kill anyone important; the various kills are accidental, or people in the background with almost no part in the plot. In the climax of the film, the killer turns out to be Doughy's long lost twin cousin. He is accidentally shot by Hagatha, who was using a gun as a mirror to touch up her make-up. He later attempts to escape, after waking up in a mockery of the usual horror shock endings, only to be shot many times by Doughy and beaten up by a mob of cops who mistake him for being black. He still survives, and as revealed in a where-are-they-now segment, he apparently settled down. At the end of the film, it turns out that another person has taken up the guise of Ghostface, and apparently has better skills, attacking his victims with ninja-like tactics.

In an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch , Ghostface calls fighters saying that he will kill a scream queen every round, he ends up murdering Drew Barrymore (Scream) , Jamie Lee Curtis ( Halloween ) , and Jennifer Love Hewitt ( I Know What You Did Last Summer ) . Later a cell phone that belongs to him is planted on a platypus and Neve Campbell and Sarah Michelle Gellar manage to defeat it, believing it to be the killer. At the end of the show he makes a phone call to Nick Diamond.

Roger L. Jackson reprises his role of Ghostface in the Robot Chicken episode "That Hurts Me" as one of the movie killer contestants in a show that parodies Big Brother . He portrays the token black character so often seen in reality shows. He launches a prank war on Pinhead , purposefully shrinks Freddy Krueger's sweater in the wash, and when given a free cell phone call, he calls Drew Barrymore to threaten her and complain that the Charlie' s Angels sequel sucked. When both he and Michael Myers were set to be eliminated, Ghostface gave a heartfelt speech about how he'd cherished his time on the show and wouldn't hold any grudges over being eliminated, which saved him from elimination, as opposed to Michael, who simply stabbed Freddy repeatedly as a response, which didn't even make Freddy bleed, but instead merely annoyed him.

Ghostface has also made a cameo in Tripping the Rift , as the judge in the episode when Chode sells his soul to the devil and finds a way to sue him.

In the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , Shannen Doherty and Wes Craven provide cameos as themselves making the (at that time) non-existent Scream 4 , but Doherty objects when Ghostface turns out to be played by the orangutan, Suzann.

In the anime Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei , Mr. Despair attempts to dream of his own death scene. The screen switches to a familiar shower scene from Psycho as Mr. Despair is taking a shower. Suddenly he is attacked by Bruce Lee , Darth Vader , Ghostface, and other familiar faces before dying the exact same way in Psycho .

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In his book Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film , Adam Rockoff opined that Ghostface's mask was a "striking, surreal and downright terrifying presence". Calling the mask a "hyperbolic rendering" of Edvard Munch's The Scream , Rockoff wrote that the 'face' is "twisted in an exaggerated, almost mocking grin, as if reflecting the look of terror and surprise on his victims' faces."

Scream Ghostface costume. A popular choice for Halloween

Tony Magistrale also discussed the similarities between Ghostface's mask and The Scream in his book Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film , stating that the painting "an apt representation of the degree of alienation from other people inspires the killers' murderous agenda". The mask of Ghostface is widely renowned for it's major appearance on Halloween night. It has been the most common costume on Halloween since the launch of it. There are many variations such as a mask where it can produce fake blood. Also, in the 2010 Halloween, there were new costumes of Ghostface. One that was a scarecrow, and the other, having the regular robe, but with a zombie mask.

Weapons and Equipment

 Buck 120 Hunting Knife: The iconic weapon of the Ghostface killer. Usually used to stab victims, slit their throats or gut them.

Gun: Usually used when Ghostface finally reveals his/her identity to their last victim.

Father Death costume /Ghost mask: Used to hide his/her identity. The iconic wardrobe of the killer of the Scream franchise.

Bullet-proof vest: Used by Roman Bridger to protect himself from gunshots to the chest.

Voice-changer: An electronic device used to mask the killer's real voice and change it to a deep, grunting voice.

Video Camera: Used by the 'Remake' killers, to record a video of them murdering their victims in order to obey the rule of which the Killer should film the murders.

Abilities and Attributes

Unlike supernatural killers, such as Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger, Ghostface is human, but has several skills of a deadly killer. Ghostface is skilled in spying and stealth, allowing him or her to hide in unexpected places. Also, he or she exhibits extreme durability against physical harm and has high levels of physical strength. As seen in Scream 2 he was able to kill Officer Andrews and Officer Richards, who were considered two of Chief Hartley's best men. In the 4th and 5th entries, they are able to kill multiple deputies and eventually Sheriff Judy Hicks. Also, in the 5th film Dewey Riley finally meets his demise after surviving multiple near fatal attacks throughout the series. In the 6th film, Kirby Reed is revealed to be an FBI Agent and towards the end of the movie nearly dies after being shot by Wayne Bailey after he reveals himself and children to be the killers. In Scream 3 he was able to kill both Cotton Weary and Jennifer Jolie's bodyguard, Steven Stone despite their size.

They are also shown to be great at Evasion. In the first Scream, after killing Casey Becker and Steve Orth, they are able to escape before Casey's Parents find her body. In Scream 2 at the start of the movie they are able to kill both Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens at a screening of Stab and able to leave without been seen, due to most of the patrons wearing Ghostface costumes throughout the theater. Later on they are able to Kill Randy Meeks on campus with hundreds of students nearby during broad daylight and able to escape without being seen. In Scream 4 after Killing Olivia Morris, they are able to evade Sidney Prescott, who attempted to try and help Olivia before finding her dead body. In the 6th film, They are able to Kill Dr. Christopher Stone and break into his home during the day and are able to leave without being seen. Later in the movie they wound Mindy Meeks-Martin while on the subway with dozens of passengers onboard and able to leave without being seen.

Ghostface seems to display a heightened sense of awareness. He or she is often able to know where his victims are located before a physical attack, where they are hiding, and/or to be where they will attempt to escape. As seen in Scream 2 , he was able to tell if, when, and where his victim would place his head against a bathroom stall dividing wall (enabling Ghostface to stab the target in the head from the next stall over).

Ghostface is strong enough to lift up a person and to stun his victims with punches. He can endure several damages like having a beer bottle thrown on his face and surviving some stab or bullet wounds. Ghostface is very skillful in wielding his knife and has enough strength to puncture through doors with his knife. Ghostface kills his victims by stabbing them on vital points or slitting their throats.

He is also fast enough to catch most of his victims. Wayne Bailey was shown to be quick enough to dodge a shotgun blast from the Bodega Clerk that he eventually steals the weapon from and kills.

The first two Ghostface killers (Billy and Stu) would often gut their victims and hang their corpses.

Throughout the series Ghostface is shown to be great at manipulation. At the start of the first movie they are able to trick Casey Becker into playing a game of trivia in order to save her boyfriend Steve Orth, however when she gets a trick question wrong they kill him and eventually her soon after. Then towards the End of the movie Billy Loomis tricks his girlfriend Sidney Prescott into thinking the Killer (Stu Macher) attacked him, before revealing himself to indeed be one of the killers. In Scream 2 when Mickey Altieri reveals himself as the killer, he tricks Sidney into thinking her boyfriend and his friend, Derek Feldman was his partner in the killings, which makes Sidney hesitant to help Derek despite his pleas. Mickey then kills Derek and mocks Sidney for not trusting him. In scream 3 Roman Bridger had a voice changer that could copy other voices, confusing his victims. At the start of Scream 3 he calls Cotton Weary and pretends to be a female flirting with him before using the Ghostface voice and taunting him by saying he broke into his home and is going to Kill Christine Hamilton. He then attacks Christine and uses Cotton's voice and tells her he is just playing around. By the time the real Cotton gets to his home, Christine is convinced he is her attacker and ignores his warnings about Ghostface and attacks him with a golf club, Ghostface then Shows up and kills her. Cotton tried to fight back, but was too weak, due to his injury from the golf club and Roman kills him. He was able convince Sarah Darling to come meet him at the studio, which she gets locked inside in all alone and Roman Taunts her as Ghostface before killing her. Later at John Milton's Mansion, Roman fakes his death with a fake dummy of himself and goes on to kill the rest of the Stab Cast and eventually revealed himself as the killer and kills Milton too. In Scream 4, Ghostface (Charlie Walker) calls Kirby Reed and Jill Roberts and tells Kirby to check the closet, she goes to check and finds it empty, which he taunts them and says he wasn't talking about Jill house and reveals himself to be hiding at Olivia Morris' house and kills her. At the start of the 5th film Ghostface calls Tara Carpenter and tricks her into a game of trivia after threating to kill her best friend, Amber Freeman (Not knowing she is one of the killers alongside her sister's boyfriend Richie Kirsch). Towards the end at Amber's house, they are able to steal Liv McKenzie's phone to Lure her boyfriend Chad Meeks-Martin and attack him. When Chad doesn't return, his sister Mindy suspects Liv of being the killer, before being attacked herself. Liv then returns to the house with blood on her hands claiming to find Chad's wounded body, before being killed by Amber Freeman, who reveals herself to be the killer alongside Richie Kirsch. In the 6th film Quinn Bailey (With the help of her father Wayne) is able to fake her death before reveling herself to be one of the killers alongside her family. Wayne Bailey is able to trick The Carpenter Sisters and their friends towards the end by saying Kirby Reed was exiled from the FBI due to her mental health, which allows Wayne and his children to trap them all at the theater before they reveal themselves to be the killers.

Wore a bulletproof vest under his Father Death costume, which allowed him to survive gunshots to the chest. The bulletproof vest would then turn out to be an essential tool later used as protection for other killers, such as Amber Freeman, Wayne Bailey, and Quinn Bailey.

While all the Ghostface Killers are shown to use handguns after unmasking themselves, Wayne Bailey is the first to kill with a shotgun while still masked after successfully disarming the Bodega clerk. Bailey was likely the most skilled Ghostface in firearms due to his law enforcment background.

Ghostface is sometimes a little bit of a klutz; Ghostface gets hit by doors and other objects like a refrigerator door while fighting with Tatum, and sometimes fall down to the floor while chasing Sidney. This ability likely renders from the fact that their mask gives them minimal eyesight while in pursuit, thus making their viewpoint slump in the way of other surroundings below or around them.

Six of the Ghostface killers (Billy, Mickey, Roman, Jill, Amber and Ethan) have been able to survive potentially fatal wounds and spring back up for one last scare (although they were killed immediately after). The other six Ghostface killers and accomplices were killed beforehand and thus never committed their onlast scare moment (Stu, Nancy, Charlie, Richie, Quinn, and Wayne), with Charlie being the only killed by his accomplice.

Despite actually being different people, Ghostface has a habit of menacingly wiping the blood off his knife with one gloved hand and has a thorough knowledge of horror film genre, including conventions and trivia.

Behind the Scenes

• Wes Craven had the characters in Scream mention the Ghostface costume is called "Father Death" as a red herring, alluding to Neil, Sidney's father.
• In Scream, Stu was meant to mention having to pee before Sidney is attacked in the high school bathroom, but it was believed to be too strong a clue that he was the killer.
• In the original Scream 2 script, there are three killers: Mrs. Loomis, Derek Feldman , and Hallie McDaniel (the sixth film derived from said script with differences in each film, although similarly applying with there being an older killer guiding young ones, although in the sixth film they're a family trio; also in the sixth with there being 2 male killers and 1 female, as opposed to the original trio of killers in the original script from the second film being 1 male and 2 female killers).
• In the original Scream 3 script, Angelina Tyler is a second killer. She reveals herself to be a former classmate of Sidney's and now in a relationship with Roman.
• Eight men have been Ghostface (excluding Jason), while only four have been women: Mrs. Loomis, Jill Roberts, Amber Freeman, and Quinn Bailey.
• The only person to wear the Ghostface costume and use the voice changer who wasn't a murderer was Sidney. During a brief moment in Scream , she does this to turn the tables on Billy and Stu. It can be argued that she is a murderer since she kills several of the killers later in the franchise, though she was only doing it in self defense. She is succeeded by Samantha Carpenter, arguably, due to her father being Billy Loomis, and having the lust, psychologically, for murdering like her father, albeit in self defense. Sam during the sixth film, like Sidney in the first, dons her old father's costume and knife, ironically, to murder Wayne Bailey and calls him beforehand by also using the voice changer.
• Out of the six Ghostface killing sprees in the films, only two of them have occurred, in-universe , in real world locations and cities; the first being Hollywood/Los Angeles, California in Scream 3 on February 1-4, 2000, and New York City, New York in Scream VI on October 29-31, 2023.
• The only instances in the franchise of people wearing the Ghostface costume and not being killers is both two unnamed male students in the first Scream (which was hinting to the ultimate reveal of two male killers, subliminal) , and the movie audience during the opening of Scream 2, during a sneak peek of the first Stab (which in turn is a meta reference to Scream; and the 1996 Woodsboro Murders, whose source material was derived off the book Gale Weathers wrote about the events, making it a film within a film), as well as New Yorkers throughout the city (excluding Jason Carvey) wearing it as a Halloween costume during the New York Murders during Halloween week, 2023, in Scream VI .
• The 3 victims of the copycat murders from Scream 2 are:
• Phil Stevens (representing Steven Orth)
• Maureen Evans (representing Maureen Prescott)
• Casey 'Cici' Cooper (representing Casey Becker)
• The copycat murders of Scream 2 are a dangling plot point. Mickey and Mrs. Loomis begin murdering victims based on their names matching those of the original Woodsboro Murders, but stop at 3. While the investigators discover the pattern, nothing comes of this, or is mentioned in the final confrontation. This is fleshed out slightly more in earlier drafts of the script, but still not resolved. Whether the two killers planned this as a red herring or altered course as they went along remains to be seen. From a story perspective, this fits in with the two killers having very different motives.
• The murders in Scream 3 follow a similar path to Scream 2. Roman killed the cast in the order their characters died in the Stab 3 script, until veering off course and killing without a pattern, just as Mickey and Mrs. Loomis started as copycat killers until Randy's murder. In both cases, characters tried deducing who would be the next victim based on the pattern right when the killer stopped using the pattern.
• The Scream 3 characters may indeed have been killed in accordance with the Stab 3 script if you allow for the exceptions of non-cast members (Christine Hamilton, Steven Stone, and John Milton). Cotton Weary was set to cameo as himself in the opening death scene and he was the first actor to die. Sarah Darling's Candy was the second to die. It's known that Ricky was written to die and since the fictionalized Gale Weathers was set to be the killer, she would have died last. Tyson Fox dies between Sarah and Jennifer Jolie, who was the last killed. It's unknown if Sidney and Dewey's characters were set to be killed, but since Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer didn't return, it's likely the producers wanted to kill the characters off, making it possible that they died in the order Tom Prinze and Angelina Tyler were murdered.
• One of the killers "Came back to life for one last scare" in each film:
• Billy Loomis (shot in the head by Sidney) - Scream (1996)
• Mickey Altieri (shot in the chest by Sidney and Gale) - Scream 2
• Roman Bridger (shot in the head by Dewey) - Scream 3
• Jill Roberts (shot in the heart by Sidney) - Scream 4
• Amber Freeman (shot in the head by Tara) - Scream (2022)
• Ethan Landry (head crushed by television pushed by Kirby) - Scream VI

It would have been possible that Nancy could have returned for one last scare, but she was shot in the head by Sidney, after she and Gale killed Mickey.

• Ghostface killed a pair of victims in the opening of each film, except Scream (2022):
• Steven Orth & Casey Becker (Scream)
• Phil Stevens & Maureen Evans (Scream 2)
• Christine & Cotton Weary (Scream 3)
• Marnie Cooper & Jenny Randall (Scream 4)
• Jason Carvey & Greg Bruckner (Scream VI)
• With the exception of Scream 2, in every cycle of murders there is one victim who Ghostface doesn't stab or kill with his knife:
• Tatum Riley (garage door) - Scream (1996)
• Officer Richards (metal pole) - Scream 2
• Derek Feldman (shot) - Scream 2
• Tom Prinze (blown up) - Scream 3
• Trevor Sheldon (shot) - Scream 4
• Liv McKenzie (shot) - Scream (2022)
• Bodega Clerk (shot) - Scream VI
• Like Cici Cooper in Scream 2 and Tyson Fox in Scream 3 before her, Anika was stabbed prior to falling to her death by Ghostface.
• However, unlike the others, Anika wasn't thrown off or pushed, but rather due to escaping via a ladder and trying to crawl to another building while suspended on a high level and a horizontal makeshift ladder, was thwarted in her attempt to escape by Ghostface, due to the other side from where they escaped being not overseen.
• Roman, Ethan and Quinn are the only killers who die in their Father Death costumes.
• Roman Bridger was the only Ghostface who had no accomplice.
• Each of the Ghostface killers had the opportunity to kill off the 3 main characters:
• Billy nearly stabs Sidney (Gale shoots him before he does that). The scene before that, Stu and Billy were about to kill Sidney if it weren't for Gale distracting them. (Scream)
• Ghostface also stabbed Dewey in the back but he survived. (Scream)
• Ghostface brutally stabs Dewey, but he survives once again. (Scream 2)
• Mickey reflexively shoots Gale, but she survived. Before that, Mrs. Loomis had her at gunpoint and could have killed her instantly. (Scream 2)
• Sidney intensely escapes a police car through a knocked-out Ghostface at the driver's seat. Mrs. Loomis has Sidney on a knife-point (Cotton Weary ends up saving Sidney by shooting Mrs. Loomis) (Scream 2)
• Gale falls into a basement along with Ghostface who was knocked-out temporarily. (Scream 3)
• Ghostface throws his knife at Dewey into his head, but the handle hits him instead and knocks him out. (Scream 3)
• Ghostface ties Gale and Dewey together to hold them as hostage to lure Sidney when he could've just killed them. (Scream 3)
• Roman strangles Sidney to death but stops when Dewey turns down the electricity of the house, he also shot her with a gun (but she wore a bullet-proof vest) and could've shot her in the head. (Scream 3)
• Ghostface had the chance to stab Gale at a vital point but hesitated when Dewey fires his gun. Jill also held Gale at a gun-point and was going to shoot her. (Scream 4)
• Jill threatens to blow Dewey's head off with his gun. (Scream 4)
• Jill could've stabbed Sidney even more in Kirby's house, but she was probably in a hurry as she was aware that the police were coming. (Scream 4)
• Jill Roberts being the killer is ironic. Her character is based on Sidney Prescott and the fact that she is a Ghostface killer is a reference to the fact that some fans often speculate that Sidney Prescott would eventually become the Ghostface killer due to witnessing the deaths of the people close to her.
• It is revealed that Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker are the killers in Scream 4 , they planned this to "remake" the franchise:
• Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper represent Casey Becker and Steve Orth (killed first simultaneously after one receives a call from Ghostface. A deleted scene shows that they were hung and tied to a chair like Casey and Steve)
• Kate Roberts represents her sister, Maureen Prescott. Both are the mothers of the 'protagonist'
• Trevor Sheldon represents Neil Prescott. Both were kidnapped, bound and gagged, and would-be framed for the murder spree.
• Jill and Charlie's plan to make their innocence in the killing spree more solid by stabbing each other, is just like Billy and Stu's plan in the first movie.
• Jill stabbing Charlie to death on purpose, is a reference to Scream 2 when Mrs. Loomis betrays her accomplice Mickey.
• It is arguable that the Remake Jill and Charlie also tried to 'remake' the Windsor Collage Murders since a few of their victims deaths are parallel to the Windsor College victims:
• Ghostface slashes Jill's arm to make Sidney think that Ghostface is trying to kill her, this is similar to Ghostface slashing Derek's arm leading Sidney to doubt whether he is an accomplice of Ghostface.
• Rebecca was thrown from a several stories building, similar to Cici's death who was thrown off a two-story building from the balcony.
• Officer Hoss and Perkins' Deaths are parallel to Officer Richards and Andrews' deaths.
• Robbie's Death was reminiscent of Randy's brutal murder.
• Kirby's Attack was reminiscent of Hallie's murder, as both were attacked by surprise by Ghostface. (note that the Ghostface that attacked them were the men they were implied to have a relationship with.)
• Sidney killed both murderers by herself in Scream. In Scream 2, Cotton shot Mrs. Loomis to free Sidney. Mrs. Loomis was shot again by Sidney, making her the third killer killed by Sidney. Mickey was shot by both Sidney and Gale. In Scream 3, Sidney mortally wounded Roman, but in the end, Dewey is the one who killed him. Charlie was killed by Jill, and Sidney also killed the last of the "remake killers", her cousin, Jill.
• Both female killers, Jill Roberts and Mrs. Loomis, betrayed their accomplices in the end.
• The remake killers Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker have similarities to the previous 5 killers:
• They are a duo similar to Billy and Stu as well as Mrs. Loomis and Mickey.
• Charlie is betrayed by his accomplice just like Mickey.
• Both tried to attack and failed to kill Sidney.
• Both planned to frame someone else.
• Both attempted to stab each other to make it seem they were attacked by the Killer.
• Jill craves for fame of being the survivor of the new Ghostface killing spree just like Roman Bridger.
• Although Amber revealed herself as the killer after killing Liv she wears the costume later and unmasks herself after attacking Sidney .
• Wannabe Ghostface Jason Carvey unmasked himself after murdering Laura Crane .
• Billy Loomis , Stu Macher , Mrs. Loomis , Charlie Walker , Richie Kirsch and Wayne Bailey are the only ghostfaces who don't reveal themselves by unmasking.
• Each of the Ghostface killers, except Mickey, Richie, or Ethan gets themselves hit by a glass object:
• Billy Loomis: beer bottle thrown into the face. (whilst attacking Tatum Riley)
• Stu Macher: vase smashed into his head, Television screen smashes into his face. (getting killed by Sidney Prescott)
• Nancy Loomis: a prop jar is smashed to her head. (after Sidney distracted her)
• Roman Bridger: a beer bottle is smashed into his face. (whilst having a physical fight with Sidney)
• Charlie Walker: a glass picture frame is smashed into his shoulder. (whilst trying to attack Sidney)
• Jill Roberts: runs into a glass picture frame and jumps onto a glass coffee table. (Self Inflicted)
• Amber Freeman: thrown and smashed with glass hand sanitizer bottle on her head and face, causing her to become spread with the flammable substance before set on fire (whilst having a physical fight with Sidney and Gale, bottle thrown by Sidney).
• Quinn Bailey: thrown down onto a glass table. (whilst attacking Gale Weathers)
• Wayne Bailey: falls onto a glass display case. (after charging at Sam and falling over a ledge with her)
• In Scream 4 it is proven that Marnie Cooper is the Steven Orth in the film as she is first to die, while Jenny Randall as the Casey Becker as she has a vast knowledge of horror movies and is taunted before dying as the fourth installment is following the remake movies this century.

Notes and References

• ↑ Scream (2022)''
• ↑ Scream VI
• ↑ Scream VI''

Character Guide

• 1 Billy Loomis
• 2 Ghostface
• 3 Samantha Carpenter

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Ghostface is the main antagonist in the Scream series . An identity rather than an actual person, there have been seven people to assume the Ghostface mantle. A psychotic serial killer, he or she often dresses up as the variation of a ghost, or the Grim Reaper (The name given to his costume in the film is Father Death ). He also uses a electronic device to disguise his voice; when doing so, he is voiced by Roger L. Jackson.

Ghostface is named after the rubber mask under which he hides his face, a mask inspired by the Edvard Munch painting The Scream . He is also known as the Woodsboro Killer , after the town where he commits his murders. Ghostface often calls his victims on the phone, taunting or threatening them before stabbing them to death with an 8 inch bowie knife or killing them any other way. He is usually known for asking their victims horror film trivia while stalking them. All ghostface people always die.

• 1.1 Background
• 1.2 Woodsboro
• 1.3 Windsor College
• 1.4 Hollywood
• 1.5 Woodsboro (10 years later)
• 1.6 Woodsboro (12 years later)
• 1.7 New York
• 2.2 Scream 2
• 2.3 Scream 3
• 2.4 Scream 4
• 2.5 Scream (2022)
• 2.6 Scream VI
• 3 Skills And Abilities
• 4.1 Other equipment
• 5.2 Scream 2
• 5.3 Scream 3
• 5.4 Scream 4
• 5.5 Scream (2022)
• 5.6 Scream VI
• 6.1 Dead by Daylight

The Ghostface killings all stem from Maureen Prescott, the original victim.

While working as B-movie actress "Rina Reynolds" in Los Angeles, Maureen Prescott was gang raped at a Hollywood party hosted by film producer John Milton. Maureen became pregnant from the incident, but gave the baby up before moving back to her hometown of Woodsboro, California . She married Neil Prescott and had a daughter, Sidney Prescott , but had various affairs and earned a reputation around town for being a "slut". Years later, her illegitimate son, now called Roman Bridger , tracked her down and tried to make contact, but Maureen rejected him, wanting nothing to do with what she considered Rina's child.

Roman responded by stalking Maureen and filming her adulterous behavior with Cotton Weary and Hank Loomis. When Hank's wife found out about the affair and abandoned her family, Roman showed the footage of Maureen and Hank to Hank's traumatized teenage son, Billy . He manipulated the boy into taking revenge on Maureen, advising him to take a weak-willed partner to sell out in case he got caught. Billy, who was either dating Sidney at the time or started dating her after meeting Roman, responded by brutally murdering Maureen with the help of his friend Stu Macher . They then framed Cotton Weary for the crime; Cotton was put on death row following a testimony from Sidney, despite reporter Gale Weathers publishing a book claiming he was innocent.

A year after he killed Mauren, Billy decided to continue his revenge on the Prescott family by planning a full-scale killing spree in Woodsboro. Their murders would be inspired by those of slasher movies. One night, dressed in "Father Death" costumes, he and Stu tormented Stu's ex-girlfriend Casey Becker over the phone. They asked her movie trivia questions pertaining to Halloween and Friday the 13th ; when she answered incorrectly, they murdered her boyfriend Steve Orth in front of her. They then stabbed and killed Casey herself, and strung her corpse up on a tree for her parents to find. Sometime after, Billy and Stu kidnapped Neil Prescott, who was supposed to be out of town on business.

Stu Macher and Billy Loomis go on a killing spree in their hometown.

The brutal murder of Casey and Steve caused a sensation in the town, with police investigating the entire staff and student body of Woodsboro High. Gale Weathers also arrived in town to report on the murders. The next night, Stu attacked Sidney Prescott in her home and Billy was caught moments later in possession of a cellular phone. The police questioned him, but had no real evidence and had to release him the next day. Meanwhile, Neil Prescott became a suspect in the attack when police were unable to find him. When Billy or Stu attacked Sidney again at school, the students were sent home and the entire town put on a curfew. However, Stu decided to host a party at his remote house, which would be the setting for his and Billy's "final act". Beforehand, he or Billy murdered Principal Himbry in his office.

Stu's party was attended by dozens of teenagers, as well as Gale Weathers and local police deputy Dewey Riley . When Billy showed up, he and Sidney discussed their relationship and made love for the first time. Eventually, after hearing of Principal Himbry's death, most of the guys left to see his corpse. After killing Stu's girlfriend Tatum Riley , and injuring Randy Meeks and Dewey, Billy and Stu finally revealed their true intentions to Sidney; they planned to to murder her and frame Neil Prescott for the crime. Sidney eventually managed to turn the tables on her attackers, killing Stu with a television set while Gale shot Billy. Randy warned Sidney that Billy would return for "one last scare", prompting her to shoot her ex-boyfriend through the head.

Windsor College

Upon hearing of her son's death, Nancy Loomis takes revenge on Sidney Prescott with the help of...

The actions of Billy Loomis and Stu Macher would go on to become a media sensation. Gales Weathers cashed in on the murders with a book entitled The Woodsboro Murders , which was eventually adapted into a Hollywood movie called Stab . When Billy's mother, Mrs. Loomis, found out what had happened in Woodsboro, she decided to take revenge on Sidney Prescott for murdering her son. She recruited young serial killer Mickey Altieri over the internet to be her partner; the two met in the "classifieds" of a psycho website. Mickey was a film student at Windsor College, which Sidney and Randy also attended, who wished to be caught for his murders. In the resulting trial, he planned to blame his crimes on cinema violence.

...Mickey Altieri, a twisted film student obsessed with the media's effects on real-life violence.

Mrs. Loomis and Mickey carried out their first murder at a sneak preview of Stab , killing Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens in the theatre the film was playing.

The murders provoked discussion in the media as to whether the movie itself was directly responsible; Mrs. Loomis posed as local reporter Debbie Salt as a way of involving herself in the case without suspicion. Gale Weathers arrived at Windsor College with Cotton Weary in tow, hoping to report on the murders and conduct an interview between Sidney and Cotton. Dewey Riley also showed up hoping to support and protect Sidney. Soon after the killings in the movie theatre, film student Casey "Cici" Cooper was murdered in her sorority house and Sidney was attacked at a nearby party. Gale deduced that the victims all shared names with the victims at Woodboro and that the killer was copying Billy and Stu.

As Dewey, Gale, and Randy tried to figure out who the killer was, Mrs. Loomis phoned them up and taunted them. Randy was tasked with keeping her occupied while Gale and Dewey tried to find out where she was calling from. When Randy made the mistake of insulting Billy, Loomis attacked and killed him in public and broad daylight before disappearing. Later that night, Gale and Dewey were attacked in the college building and Dewey was stabbed almost to death. Meanwhile, Mickey hijacked the police car transporting Sidney to safety, killing her protectors and best friend, Hallie McDaniel. Sidney escaped to the campus theatre, where Mrs. Loomis and Mickey revealed to her their identities. Loomis betrayed Mickey, who let off one shot at Gale before being shot himself. A confused Cotton Weary showed up to find "Debbie Salt" holding Sidney hostage, and saved Sidney's life by shooting Loomis. After Mickey briefly sprung back up, Sidney and Gale finished off both killers with help from Cotton. (She shot Mrs. Loomis in the head, just in case she survived being shot in the neck by Cotton).

Sidney, after the dastardly murders by Mickey Altieri and Debbie Loomis, escaped into desolation and was soon to be tracked down by another psychopath involved with Maureen Prescott who dons the identity of Ghostface.

As the cast of the latest stab film begin to be brutally murdered and left with the calling card picture of Maureen Prescott during her time as B-Movie actress for Jonathan Milton at Sunshine Studios, Sidney is called out of hiding. She is soon brutally attacked on the Stab 3 Woodsboro set in her own replica of her original bedroom in Woodsboro. The final confrontation ends with the unmasking of the killer, revealing he is Roman Bridger, the son of a rapist male and Maureen Prescott. He confesses on behalf of putting the blame of the murders and John Milton on her hands as vengeance for being the only claimed child of Maureen Prescott.

Roman's film of Maureen's illicit affair with Billy Loomis' father, which broke up his family, was shown and his pointers created the first Ghostface with Stu Macher to follow in the footsteps. Roman was killed by Dewey Riley, leaving the final connection to Maureen's murder dead and buried.  

Woodsboro (10 years later)

Jealous of the fame that Sidney received for surviving every spree, her cousin Jill Roberts became one of the 2 Ghostfaces in the fourth Ghostface, along with Charlie Walker, with the intent of framing her ex-boyfriend, Trevor, and becoming famous as the "new Sidney". She enlisted the help of Charlie Walker, who agreed because he loved her. Their first victims were Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper, and they left evidence in Sidney's rental car just to haunt her.

Charlie then stages a threatening call to Jill and her friend Olivia, throwing off suspicion. Dewey Riley questioned them about the calls. Sidney went to live with her aunt, Jill's mother, temporarily. Olivia became a victim of Ghostface the next day while Jill and her friend Kirby watch. Sidney tries to save her, and Jill assists; Charlie (in costume) injures them and escapes. While they are in the hospital, Charlie and his friend suggest to Gale that the new killers are using the rules of horror movie remakes and will strike at a party that night.

Jill Roberts, Sidney's cousin, is jealous of her fame

Gale is injured while investigating the party. The policemen assigned to protect Jill's house are killed. Upon realizing that Jill has left the house, Sidney tries to tell Jill's mother Kate, who is killed by Ghostface. Sidney went to Kirby's house to protect Jill. She witnesses Ghostface killing Robbie, while Kirby is forced to answer movie trivia to defend a tied-up Charlie. Kirby "wins the game", and goes to untie Charlie. Charlie stabs her in the stomach and reveals that he is Ghostface. Jill arrives in the Ghostface mask and cloak before revealing herself and her motives. She pulled Trevor out of a closet at that moment and shot him in the head. Jill betrayed Charlie by stabbing him in the heart (to kill him), and then again in the stomach (to cause him more pain), and framed him as Trevor's accomplice. She then stabbed Sidney in the stomach and injured herself to make it appear that Trevor attacked her. Dewey and the police arrived and took both Sidney and Jill to the hospital again.

Dewey informed Jill that Sidney was still alive, not knowing that Jill was Ghostface and would try to kill Sidney. Jill entered Sidney's hospital room and attempted to finish her wounded cousin off; meanwhile, Dewey and his partner Judy found evidence that Jill had seen Charlie attack Gale and went to the room to save Sidney. They were right in time, as Jill had not caused Sidney any fatal injuries. As she attempted to kill her, they arrived and intervened. Jill knocked Dewey out with a bedpan and shot Judy, however Gale stalled until Sidney jumped up and electrocuted Jill with fully-charged paddles to the head. Jill got back up again while they weren't looking and grabbed a piece of glass to kill Sidney with, but Sidney had realized that Jill would do so and shot her in the chest. Outside of the hospital, news reporters ironically proclaimed Jill the "sole-surviving hero", which is exactly what she had been trying to accomplish. But her plan ultimately failed when Sidney, Dewey, Gale, and Judy told everyone the truth and she officially became the new Billy Loomis instead of the new Sidney Prescott. 

Woodsboro (12 years later)

Ghostface calls Tara Carpenter whilst she's home alone, claiming to be a man named "Charlie" who knows her mother from "group". Tara believes this man could be her mother's boyfriend and so she goes along with the conversation, keeping her friend Amber Freeman informed the whole time. Charlie quizzes Tara about her love for horror movies and asks if she wants to play a Stab trivia game, which Tara is forced to play when the caller reveals he'll kill Amber if she doesn't. Tara plays along and mixes up a question about the original Stab movie and when she tries to run and save Amber, Ghostface appears at her door and stabs her. Ghostface breaks into the house and stabs Tara seven times and breaks her leg before being interrupted by the police.

Amber Freeman masterminded the third Woodsboro murders.

The next day, Ghostface kills Vince Schneider outside a bar after he threatens Liv McKenzie, it is then revealed that Vince was related to Stu Macher. At the hospital, Ghostface calls Samantha Carpenter and reveals that he knows she is the daughter of Billy Loomis and will expose that secret. Ghostface then appears from behind the door and attacks Sam, who escapes. It is later predicted by Mindy Meeks-Martin that Ghostface is trying to create a requel to Stab 8 to appease the "toxic" fandom.

The next day, Ghostface attacks and kills Judy and Wes Hicks and then attacks Tara at the hospital where he kills Deputy Vinson and eventually Dewey Riley, who attempts to kill Ghostface by shooting him in the head. Sam, Tara and Richie Kirsch are lured to Amber's house at 261 Turner Lane to get Tara's spare inhaler and Ghostface attacks Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin leaving them both for dead. After an argument breaks out between Liv, Sam and Amber, Amber pulls a gun and kills Liv, revealing herself as a killer.

Richie Kirsch is Amber's accomplice and was intending to frame Sam Carpenter for the murders due to her being the daughter of Billy Loomis.

Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers arrive to the house and immediately know Amber is lying, so Amber shoots Gale and lures them inside. Sidney and Ghostface, who is Amber underneath, get into a fight and Richie appears to come to their rescue, only to reveal himself as the second killer. A fight breaks out between the group with Sidney, Gale and Tara killing Amber by setting her alight with hand sanitizer and then shooting her through the head, and Richie getting stabbed repeatedly by Sam before she slits his throat open, bringing the new killings to an end.

Jason Carvey planned to finish Richie's flim as a killing spree.

University professor, Laura Crane, matches with a man on Flirtr who asks her out on a date. Whilst waiting for him, she gets a call from him and he claims he is a lost but is coming down an alley near the restaurant. As she gets closer, he begins to get panicked and says someone with a knife is following him. Laura runs down the alley and the voice on the phone changes to the Killer's voice and he taunts Laura before jumping out of the alley and killing her. Ghostface takes off his mask to reveal Jason Carvey underneath. He returns to his apartment and puts the used mask in his Ghostface shrine.

He then gets a call from his roommate Greg and they discuss their plan to finish making Richie's film, however Jason realises the voice on the other end isn't Greg but is actually Ghostface who leads him to Greg's body in the refrigerator. The real Ghostface appears behind him, and stabs him to death, leaving behind Richie's old mask.

Wayne Baliey is the mastermind of the New York murders.

Later that night, Sam and Tara are called down to the police station by NYPD Detective Wayne Bailey and along the way, Sam is called from Richie's old phone number. Sam answers and the killer on the other end taunts the sisters before ambushing them from an alley. The sisters evade Ghostfac and run into a Bodega where Ghostface follows them in and kills two customers and then the Bodega owner using his own shotgun. He stalks the sisters through the bodega and they are able to run outside when the police arrive, but the killer escapes through the backdoor and leaves behind the mask belonging to Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker. The next morning, he kills Sam's ex-therapist Christopher Stone by breaking through his front door glass and stabbing him in the eye. He steals Sam's therapy file and leaves behind the mask belonging to Roman.

That night, he seemingly murders Quinn Bailey and her latest gentleman caller, and whilst Sam, Mindy and Anika Kayoko try to escape by climbing across a ladder between their apartment and Danny Brackett's, he flips the ladder, causing Anika to fall to her death. The next day, Wayne comes up with a plan to bait Ghostface by having Sam and Tara wander around in a park and hopefully trigger a phone call from him that they can trace. The plan is successful and they track the call down to Gale's Upper East Side penthouse. In the penthouse, Gale gets her first phone call from Ghostface who murders her new boyfriend, Brooks, whilst he is distracted. Ghostface then attacks Gale and she shoots him before getting another call from him.

As she searches the penthouse for him, she hangs up and re-dials his number, exposing his hiding spot. She fires multiple rounds through the door but Ghostface breaks through the door and stabs her multiple times and leaves her for dead when he's interrupted by Sam and Tara'a arrival. Presumably here he left behind (or wore) Mickey Altieri's mask.

That night, Tara comes up with a plan to trap and execute Ghostface and they decide to use the theatre to do this. Wayne agrees to the plan and tells them to travel in public. Along the way they get separated in the subway station, forcing Mindy and Ethan Landry to travel on a separate subway. On the subway, Mindy is backed into a secluded corner of the subway car and Ghostface emerges, disguised as a commuter and as the subway passes in and out of light, he covers her mouth and stabs her in the gut before disembarking at the next stop. Ethan notices Mindy's injuries and seeks medical attention for her.

Ethan Landry is Wayne's son and Richie's brother intending to avenge his death by killing Sam.

At the theatre, Kirby is wandering around (off-screen) and is ambushed by two Ghostface killers. One of those killers then attacks Tara, Sam and Chad and when Chad tries to hold the killer back to allow Sam and Tara to escape, the second Ghostface emerges and they take turns stabbing Chad over and leaving him for dead. The two killers wipe the blood off their knives in sync and follow the sisters into the theatre where they prepare to fight. At that same time, Kirby regains consciousness and returns to the theatre hall however Sam and Tara are distrusting of her as Wayne told them that she was expelled from the FBI for mental health reasons. At that same time, Wayne arrives and shoots Kirby, revealing himself as one of the killers.

Quinn Bailey is Wayne's daughter and Richie's sister intending to avenge his death by killing Sam.

The two masked Ghostface's emerge behind him, wearing Nancy Loomis' and Stu Macher's masks and unmask themselves to reveal Ethan and Quinn, respectively. They reveal that they are all the family of Richie, Wayne being his father and Quinn and Ethan being his brother, and they all want revenge for Sam killing him, which included them fueling a rumor that Sam was the real killer. The sisters evade the three killers and after fighting throughout the theatre are able to kill Quinn and Ethan. Sam falls over the railing with Wayne and Wayne is knocked out. When he comes to, Sam calls him using the Ghostface voice and then stabs him to death using Billy Loomis' mask, robe and knife. Ethan tries one last time to kill anyone but Kirby crushes his skull using the same TV that killed Stu, bringing an end to the New York Ghostface murders.

Identities and Motives

Billy Loomis: Maureen Prescott had an affair with his father Hank Loomis, which prompted Hank and Billy's mother to divorce. Billy killed her out of anger. A year later, Billy and Stu started a murder spree in their hometown of Woodsboro, planning on copying their favorite movies and becoming heroes when they survived. Their plan was to frame Maureen's husband, Neil Prescott, and culminate in killing Sidney. Billy was the first killer to come back to life for one last scare but Sidney finished him off with a bullet to the forehead. It was revealed two movies later, that Roman Bridger mentored Billy to kill Maureen and eventually kill Sidney since Roman made it sound like Maureen was the cause of Billy's parent's divorce.

Stu Macher: Stu was a horror movie fanatic who followed his best friend Billy Loomis around. Submitting to peer pressure from Billy Stu helped murder Maureen Prescott. A year later, they committed a murder spree in their home town of Woodsboro planning on recreating their beloved horror movies and becoming heroes for surviving the bloodbath. Their first targets were Stu's ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend (Casey Becker and Steve Orth). Billy also killed Stu's current girlfriend, Tatum Obviously likely without his knowledge They eventually went on to kill multiple people however, he came to his death when he chased Sidney and she bit his hand, which gave her time to drop a television over his head, electrocuting and killing him almost instantly.

Nancy Loomis: Billy's mother orchestrated the Windsor College murder spree out of vengeance for Billy's death. She also channeled her hatred for Maureen Prescott, who slept with her husband, onto Sidney. Mrs. Loomis found Mickey Altieri on-line and paid for his college tuition, giving him her motherly help and guidance. Secretly, she set Mickey up to take the fall for the entire copycat killing spree, planning on murdering him after she achieved her revenge. Even if anyone suspected there was a second killer, the persona she created of "Debbie Salt" couldn't be traced back to her. Sidney originally thought Gale was the killer, when Mickey told the second killer to reveal herself however, she used Gale as a hostage and Sidney noticed it was Billy's mother. Mrs Loomis is later killed when Cotton shoots her in the throat at point blank range. Sidney shoots her again in the forehead claiming it was "just in case".

Mickey Altieri: A psychopathic film geek, Mickey wanted to create a sequel and be the star of a trial-of-the-century type media circus. Mrs. Loomis found him on-line on a murdering kind of website and paid for his tuition at Windsor College, where he worked himself into Sidney's close circle of friends to make it look like he wasn't the Killer when the murders first started, however, Mickey actually planned on not getting away with the murder spree, wishing to be the center of the following media circus and debate on movie-making ethics. It's possible he wanted revenge for something, as that most of the Ghostface Killer's have another motive, however it was never revealed. In the end Mrs. Loomis betrays him and shoots him in the chest stating that his motive will never be believed. He later rises up for one last scare but Gale and Sidney shoot him several times which leads to his death.

Roman Bridger: A director, Roman tracked down his birth mother (Maureen Prescott), who shunned him and told him that she already had a family. Roman, the offspring of a vicious rape, was not wanted. Roman mentored Billy Loomis to kill Maureen, and was enraged by the fame gushed upon his half-sister, Sidney Prescott. He planned on framing Sidney for a murder spree and walking away as the new hero. However, he came face to face with his sister and exposed himself to her. Saying that Maureen didn't want him and she had a whole new life, with another child. He is mortally wounded when Sidney stabs him from behind with an ice pick. Then delivers the final blow to the heart. When Dewey warns Sidney about the killer being super human Roman rises up only to be shot in the head by Dewey.

Jill Roberts

Jill Roberts : Jill grew up in the shadow of her famous cousin Sidney Prescott and became jealous of Sidney's attention, and sought to take it all for herself. Not wanting to work hard or get a job, Jill planned a killing spree in Woodsboro to achieve this. She partnered with her friend, Charlie Walker, who was in love with her, but Jill betrayed Charlie, stabbing him to death, and setting up her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, to look like the second Ghostface killer. She then horribly injured herself to maximize sympathy for her as the new hero. However, Dewey and Gale, find out that Jill was the real killer and not Trevor. They go to Sidney's room and find Jill trying to finish her, but they got there in time to pull her off. In the final showdown Sidney electrocutes Jill with deliberator paddles to the head thanks to Gale distracting her. Jill recovers and picks up a shard of glass trying to stab Sidney with it, but she is shot in the chest by Sidney, who knows the killer always comes back for one last scare.

Charlie Walker: A film fanatic, he aspired to win the heart of Jill Roberts and saw them as a remake version of Randy Meeks and Sidney Prescott. Jill strung him along, and together they planned a new killing spree in Woodsboro. This would work to continue the stagnant Stab series, as well as propel Charlie and Jill into the limelight for surviving Ghostface's attacks. In the end, Jill betrayed him and stabbed him to death, stating that it would work best for her if she was the sole survivor.

Scream (2022)

Amber Freeman: Amber was a fan of the Stab movies ever since her parents bought Stu Macher's old house. After being appalled by the events of Stab 8, she connected with other fans on a Stab subreddit, one of those fans being Richie Kirsch. The pair devised a plan to create their own "requel" to Stab and Amber revealed information about her girlfriend's sister, Samantha Carpenter, that she is the daughter of Billy Loomis, that they could use as the basis for their movie, as well as framing her as the Killer. They went along with their plan, eventually unmasking themselves and Amber is killed after being set on fire and then shot in the head.

Richie Kirsch: Richie was a fellow Stab fan and another one who was appalled by Stab 8. After meeting Amber Freeman on a Stab subreddit, they devised a plan to create their own "requel" and they were going to use Samantha Carpenter as their Killer and Tara Carpenter and her friends as the basis for their movie. Richie tracked down and got close to Samantha, eventually gaining her trust and starting a relationship with her. When Tara gets attacked, he returns to Woodsboro with her and after a few more murders, Richie unmasks himself and is ultimately killed by Sam after underestimating her.

Jason Carvey: Jason planned to instigate a own killing spree with his friend Greg to finish off Richie's movie, a killer he idolised. Acting alone, Jason donned the mask to kill his professor, Laura Crane by luring her in through a dating app. He had a hidden Ghostface shrine in their dorm room. It is likely this wasn't the first time Jason killed as he made a comparison to having blue balls over killng, it is unknown if Greg had killed anyone before this. Jason is the first Ghostface killer to be killed by another Ghostface killer in a massacre.

Greg Bruckner: Greg planned with Jason start a own killing spree to finish off Richie's movie. The two enrolled at Blackmore University to follow Samantha Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin. He wasn't relevant as Ghostface since he was killed by Wayne to later stole his identity to kill Jason.

Wayne Bailey: Wayne was a police detective and the father of Richie Kirsch. He indulged Richie's love of the Stab movies and helped him build a shrine in an abandoned theatre in New York City. After discovering the truth behind Richie's murder in Gale's new book, Wayne sought revenge against Samantha Carpenter for killing him and joined forces with his son and daughter to carry out his olan. He was killed after being stabbed over forty times and once in the eye by Sam.

Ethan Landry: Ethan was the brother of Richie Kirsch and son of Wayne Bailey. After discovering the truth of Richie's murder, Ethan sought revenge against Samanatha Carpenter for killing him and agreed to his father's plan. Ethan enroled at Blackmore University and manipulated the housing arrangements to be roommates with Chad to get close to him and the rest of the Woodsboro survivors. He met his death after having his skull crushed by Kirby Reed with the same TV that killed Stu.

Quinn Bailey: Quinn was the sister of Richie Kirsch and daughter of Wayne Bailey. After discovering the truth of Richie's murder, Quinn sought revenge against Samanatha Carpenter for killing him and agreed to her father's plan. Quinn enroled at Blackmore University and answered a roommate listing by Sam and Tara in order to get close to them and the rest of the Woodsboro survivors. She met her death after being shot in the head by Sam.

Skills And Abilities

Unlike supernatural killers, such as Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger , Ghostface is a normal human, but he displays several skills of a deadly and efficient killer. He is very skilled in stealth, allowing him to hide in unexpected places. Also, he exhibits extreme durability against physical harm and has a high level of physical strength.

Ghostface often displays a heightened awareness. He seems to be able to know where his victims are located before a physical attack, where they are hiding, or to where they will attempt to escape.

Ghostface has an almost supernatural stealth ability, seemingly being able to quickly appear and disappear in almost impossible circumstances. He is also very skilled at stalking and hiding from his victims.

Ghostface is strong enough to physically lift and throw an adult sized person and to stun and knock his victims to the ground with punches. He also has enough strength to puncture through doors and other surfaces with his knife. He can endure several physical damages such as having bottles and vases smashed over his head.

Ghostface is highly skilled in knife wielding tactics and kills his victims by tactically stabbing them in vital body points or quickly slitting their throats. He is fast and agile on his feet and can almost always outrun and outmaneuver his victims.

Ghostface's Knife is an 8-inch Buck hunting knife that is used to kill multiple people in the Scream movie series. It is used by Ghostface , a persona adopted by serial killers in the Scream movies.  it's overall shape and design is very similar to that of a "bowie" knife, but is based on a typical "Buck knife"

The knife is inspired by and strongly resembles a knife called the Buck 120 which is most commonly used for hunting purposes, making it a hunting knife. It has a black metallic handle with a steel blade that is about eight inches long. The top of the knife blade curves at the end, making a dip, however the bottom, though curved as well, does not form a dip. The bottom blade is sharp, that is straight, until it curves to meet the top end, which forms a dip. The knife is apparently extremely common and easy to obtain in the Scream universe, as each killer in the series has a different one. In some cases where there is more than one Ghostface, each have their own personal knife.

Other equipment

• 9mm Pistol: Usually used after the killer reveals his or her identity.
• Father Death costume: Halloween costume used to hide Ghostface's true identity, the costume is a long, black hooded robe with a white ghost mask.
• Bullet Proof Vest: Used by Roman Bridger in Scream 3 to protect himself from gunshots.
• Voice Changer: A small electronic device used to disguise the Killer's real voice and change it to a deep, guttural voice.

Behind the Mask

There is much debate and speculation about which killer is Ghostface during the series. Some instances are obvious while others can be argued endlessly. It is believed Kevin Williamson revealed who he intended to wear the costume in comments made through the years concerning the first Scream. If any can be verified please link to source. [1] The Different Ghostface Masks used in all 4 Scream movies.

Maureen Prescott's murder:  Billy and Stu committed the murder, as referenced in their dialogue. But it is unknown whether or not they wore the Ghostface costume. In the Stab 3 flashback set, Maureen's body is seen with a phone, suggesting she was at least called by them first.

Casey and Steve's murders:  Billy and Stu were present because Ghostface is at both entrances. It is implied these two were killed because Casey dumped Stu for Steve, making the killings personal to Stu. It is the Ghostface at the back entrance who made the calls to Casey, because it was the Ghostface at the back of the house because when the caller reveals that he intends on killing her, he tells her to "turn the patio lights on... again", which are at the back of the house and the "again" implies that he is already aware that she has turned on the patio lights before since the first call. The Ghostface that gutted Steve was logically the Ghostface at the back entrance of the house who is Stu as that is where Steve's body has been placed. The Ghostface that is seen running around the house after a chair is thrown through the patio doors was the Ghostface in the back as Ghostface came from the back of the house. Casey was stabbed more than once and was strangled, which means that Billy is the one who killed her because that's his technique while Stu's was stabbing only once.

Sidney's house attack:  Billy most likely called Sidney while Stu attacked her. Billy is seen with a phone and appears at the bedroom window too soon after Sidney locks herself in her bedroom. For Billy to be Ghostface here he would have to have run downstairs, go outside to run around the perimeter of the house, ditched the Ghostface costume, and climbed into Sidney's second story window in a matter of seconds. This is further proven if one listens carefully as Ghostface chases, receives blows and is tripped by Sidney as he continuously grunts with his voice attributing to that of Stu.

Call at the Riley house:  Stu called to 'prove' Billy was innocent since he was locked up at the time.

Sidney's bathroom attack:  It would be Billy as the Ghosface had the same colored pants Billy wore. Also, Billy copied the same words the girls said about Sidney and her mother when Billy revealed himself as one of the killers. Billy wanted to hear Sidney's emotions and weaknesses.

Principal Himbry's murder:  This murder was most likely Billy as his whereabouts were unknown at the time. Stu was seen with Sidney and Tatum outside the school, but left somewhere unknown. Even though Stu left somewhere, Billy had the better chance of killing Mr. Himbry.

Stalking Sidney and Tatum:  Evidence lays more on Billy. Billy was the one that attacked both of them and possibly wanted to know more about them.

Tatum's murder:  Billy killed her while Stu was hosting the party. Billy arrives shortly after her death and share's a taletalle look with Stu that may be his signal to inform him that Tatum is dead. You can here Billy's voice and grunt when he receives blows by Tatum.

Billy's fake 'murder' and Sidney's attack:  Obviously Stu because Billy is seen.

Kenny's murder:  Stu. Stu claims that Gale died when she crashed into a tree with the news-van after finding Kenny's dead body. It is most likely that Stu stuck around the area in front of the house, even after Sidney got away.

Dewey's attack:  Billy, he hears Dewey yell, puts on the costume, goes downstairs, stabs him, chases Sidney, either goes threw a window in the house, or the garage and pretends that nothing happened. Stu was checking to see if Gale was dead and was around that area, not the house. That explains why Randy was blaming Stu for killing the people because he was stalking him since he was already outside when Gale hit him with a phone.

Neil Prescott's abduction:  Billy and Stu kidnapped him in order for them to frame him, because they both wanted people to believe that Neil Prescott was the killer.

Stu's murder:  Billy stabbed Stu so they can cover any trace of them being the killers. Then Stu stabbed Billy because Billy already stabbed Stu to cover any trace. Billy then stabs him again because Stu was blaming movies for creating psychos, but both are still alive. After, Sidney stabs Billy with an umbrella, Stu emerges from the Kitchen and attacks Sidney. Sidney manages to get the upper hand, and drops a tv on Stu's head, which kills him.

Billy's murder:  Billy stabbed Stu because they wanted to cover any trace of them killing everyone. Billy is stabbed once by Stu because they wanted to try and cover any trace of them being the killer. Billy then stabbed Stu for blaming movies for making psychos, but both are still alive. While Billy is trying to find and kill Sidney, he gets distracts and Sidney stabs him in the chest with an umbrella twice. Billy then hits Randy and chokes Sidney. Sidney then pokes Billy hard where he got stabbed with the umbrella. Billy is about to stab Sidney, but is shot by Gale. Still alive, Billy scares Randy and Gale, but not Sidney, and is shot by Sidney in the head, killing him.

Maureen and Phil's murders:  Ghostface kills Phil and wears his jacket to trick Maureen into thinking he's her boyfriend. She touches him and isn't suspicious, pointing at Mickey being Ghostface here. His body is similar enough to Phil's to fool her, while Mrs. Loomis would be obvious. Mrs. Loomis kills Phil as you can hear a women's voice can be heard in the other stall. Debbie left the body on the bathroom floor and Mickey put on Phil's jacket and killed Maureen.

Cici's murder:  We know there's two killers because when Cici's friend is talking to "Ted" on the phone there is a killer sneaking in behind Cici without a phone at the same time "Ted" is talking. Mickey didn't arrive at the party until the scene that followed the murder of Cici. However, Mrs. Loomis was in front of the house after Cici was murdered. Mickey films and calls Cici while Mrs. Loomis sneaks and kills her in the house. The caller needed to know somethings about Cici like who's her boyfriend and know if her house has an alarm, pointing the caller being Mickey as they are in the same class. When Ghostface jumps out of the closet, you can hear noises coming from him. However it couldn't be Mrs. Loomis or Mickey's voice as they do not sound like that. This could only mean that it was Ghostface making those noises. You can hear a women's grunt when Cici throws a bike at Ghosface making Mrs. Loomis being the killer.

Sidney's Greek house attack:  Mrs. Loomis, because she told Gale she had a deadline after the scene where Cici was murdered. Mrs. Loomis also wanted revenge on Sidney and Gale for killing her son, Billy. The killer was eager to attack Sidney during the attack, making the killer being Mrs. Loomis.

Sidney's theater scare:  This was Mickey because right after Ghostface came in front of Sidney, Ghostface immediately goes to the exit. Also Mrs. Loomis seems to have little knowledge of the stage during the end of the movie. Derek even told Sidney that he and Mickey swapped right after Ghostface scares Sidney giving Mickey a better chance of being Ghostface. The Ghostface seemed to know what to do in the play and how to scare Sidney, making the killer being Mickey as he goes to that school.

Randy's murder:  Mrs. Loomis takes credit for taunting Randy on the phone and killing him.

Sidney's IM:  Mickey, as he would have access to the college's computers and have a reason to be in the library, which Mrs. Loomis would not.

Gale and Dewey's attack:  Both were there. The one who pops up behind Gale and later attacks Dewey is Mrs. Loomis, as just after Dewey was stabbed, the killer constantly waves the knife around while trying to barricade into the room so that he could kill Gale, which is more like Mrs. Loomis. Mrs. Loomis also said that she wanted revenge of her son's death. the one recording the murders and filming Gale and Dewey was Mickey because their is already another killer behind Gale, which is Mrs. Loomis, because you can hear a woman's grunt when Ghostface failed to stab Gale. Ghostface seemed to have about the same height as Gale, but Mrs. Loomis is shorter than Mickey. Mrs. Loomis is about the same height as Gale but Mickey is taller than both of them. Meaning the killer to be Mrs. Loomis.

Andrews', Richards', and Hallie's murders:  Gale's locked in the room and Mickey and Mrs. Loomis can't get to her, and they know Sidney is leaving town, so Loomis sends Mickey like a good boy to go stop her. Mrs. Loomis wouldn't have any reason risking going up against two armed cops, let alone kill anyone besides Sidney and Gale since she was the killer who only wanted 'good old fashioned revenge.' Also, when Mickey reveals himself as one of the killers, you see a large cut on his forehead which indicates that he was the one driving the cop car and then crashing it, killing Officer Richards, and knocking himself unconscious.

Derek's murder:  During the movie, Ghostface/Mrs. Loomis attacks and slashed Derek's arm, damaging him severely. Mickey shoots him in the chest after revealing he is one of the killers

Mickey's murder:  Mrs. Loomis betrays and shoots Mickey in the chest a few times, gravely wounding him. Later, and still alive, Sidney and Gale shoot him in the chest several times which leads to his death.

Mrs. Loomis's murder:  Mrs. Loomis is about to kill Sidney, but Cotton comes up in front of them with a gun. Mrs. Loomis tries to convince Cotton to kill Sidney, but it failed and he shoots Mrs. Loomis in the throat. Sidney later shoots Mrs. Loomis in the head just in case if she was still alive.

Since Roman Bridger reveals himself to be the sole killer, he is Ghostface during the entire film.

Roman's Death:  While he is attacking Sidney, she grabs an icepick and stabs him in the back a few times, and once in the heart. Not dead, he runs up to Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, but Dewey shoots him in the chest several times. Since he is wearing a bullet proof vest, Sidney tells Dewey to shoot Roman in the head, which kills him.

Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper's Deaths:  Both Ghostfaces are present because footage later shows Marnie being stabbed by Ghostface while someone's holding the camera. Charlie killed Marnie while Jill video taped it with his phone (It is unknown why she didn't use her own). Her body was then thrown. Jill then chased Jenny and killed her by crushing her back with a garage door and then stabbing her while Charlie who went to the garage door from outside the house filmed Jenny's murder. The reason for Jill killing Jenny was because Jenny was the girl Trevor cheated on Jill with. Also the killer seemed to hesitate before killing Jenny, there wouldn't be a reason for Charlie to hesitate but Jill had a reason to hesitate making the killing personal to Jill. Jill also wanted everything to do with the first kills since they were meant as a signal to everyone that "Ghostface" is back.

Sidney's Car Boot:  Most evidence points towards Charlie. As Jill was with Kirby and Olivia since she left her house, the same day Sidney and Rebecca arrived at Woodsboro, while Charlie's whereabouts are not established until the beginning of school. It is more likely that Charlie planted the blood, Out of the Darkness novels and Ghostface merchandise in Sidney's car boot while no-one was around because Jill would probably still be with Kirby and Olivia at the time.

Jill and Olivia's Calls: Charlie   made the phone calls, Jill is with Olivia and Kirby when she receives the phone call, from Jenny's cell and Olivia says she recieved a threatening phone call from Marnie's cell phone earlier. Jill likely texted Charlie when Kirby honked her horn and told him to wait five minutes before he calls her.

Olivia's Death:  Logically, Charlie kills her while Jill is next door with Kirby. Charlie also states during the climax of the film that he has great footage of his Olivia kill. Kirby's caller from Trevor's phone is also obviously Charlie as Jill is with Kirby when she receives the phone call, and maybe also to distract Olivia from the sound of Charlie talking inside her closet. Jill's prank call to Olivia before Kirby's call was probably a signal to Charlie to begin his phone call to Kirby. However, an error occurs, in that the police were in the car when Olivia arrived home, but some time after went after a "suspicious figure." Charlie would have to have been in the closet before Olivia got home. The only solution here is that the "suspicious figure," was not Ghostface, but rather a random, unknown person or a figment of the officers imagination.

Sidney's Call and Attack:  Jill has Kirby's phone so while Charlie hides in the other room, she calls Sidney with her voice changing box to taunt her about the killings happening again. After Jill calls Sidney the "Angel of Death" Charlie comes out from behind and cuts Jill before being knocked down the stairs by Sidney. Also, the caller seems to be jealous as Ghostface stated to Sidney that she thinks it's all about her, making the caller being Jill.

Rebecca's Death:  Jill because Charlie is seen with Robbie at the press conference when Rebecca is thrown onto the news van from several stories above. Jill was probably also the one who made the calls to Rebecca as Charlie was probably with Robbie at that time. Jill is also the one who sabotaged Rebecca's car so she couldn't start it because Ghostface is seen with cords in his hand when she jumps onto the bonnett of Rebecca's car. In order for Jill to be the sole survivor, she had to kill Sidney and people close to her.

Gale's Attack:  Charlie attacks her while Jill watched on her computer from home. Jill had no way to get to the Stab-a-thon and back without being noticed by somebody. Gale sees a webcam in the haystack and it moves to focus on her. This is Jill operating it from home and that's how she knows she and Gale have the matching "shoulder wounds" she mentioned to Dewey at the end of the film. (Some fans believe that Jill is the one who actually attacked Gale but this has been disproven by multiple factors.)

Ross Hoss and Anthony Perkins's Deaths:  Both Ghostfaces were involved as Jill stabbed them to death after she left the house, (Hoss in the back and Perkins on his forehead) while Charlie drove the car two blocks away and then stabbed the corpses of Hoss and Perkins several more times just to make sure that they're dead. During the climax of the film, Charlie hands Jill a gun stating "the cops would've wanted you to have this, for your protection", which he probably gathered from the police car after driving the car two blocks away. During the climax, when Charlie is mentioning all of the footage he has of his kills, he does not mention Hoss or Perkins, which further implies that Jill was the Ghostface that attacked and stabbed Hoss and Perkins the first time.

Call at the Roberts house:  Jill is the one who made the call because the caller told Sidney to put on the TV so she could see the report about Gale's attack. Charlie was in the cop car driving Hoss and perkins's corpses two blocks away from Jill's house after attacking Gale at the Stab-a-thon and he had no idea that the attack was already on the news. Ghostface tells Sidney that he intends to kill the people close to her making the caller being Jill.

Kate's death:  Both Ghostfaces are present as one is at the backdoor and one is at the front door, but the Ghostface responsible for Kate's death was Jill, as she later stated that "my own mother had to die.... no great loss there so i could stay true to the original", You can hear a female groan coming from Ghostface when Sidney slams the door on the killer's arm. Also Charlie drove the cop car two blocks away as he states during the climax of the film that he scared Sidney and Kate from the backdoor of the house, and Kate was stabbed in the back at the front of the house. Jill wanted to be the sole survivor so she wanted to kill Sidney and the people close to her.

Trevor's Abduction:  Since Trevor went back upstairs to find Jill she ambushed beat and duct taped him angry and bitter at Trevor for dumping her for Jenny. Later Jill erased the text she sent to Trevor inviting him to the party before she went downstairs to tell Kirby she didn't seen him upstairs. It is unknown when he was brought downstairs to the closet as neither killer had time for that.

Robbie's Death:  Killed outside Kirby's house by Charlie. Charlie admits later that he has great footage of his Robbie kill.

Sidney and Jill's Attack:  Charlie is the killer here as Jill is seen.

Sidney's Roof Attack : Still Charlie because Sidney told Jill to hide under the bed while she was covering her escape out to the balcony.

Kirby's Attack:  Jill calls her while Charlie is tied up. After Charlie is freed by Kirby, he stabs her revealing he is one of the killers.

Sidney's Attack in Kirby's Foyer:  Charlie grabs her and holds a knife at her throat but she gets away only to be stabbed by "Ghostface" who then takes off the mask and it's revealed the killer is Jill! .

Trevor's Death:  Jill shoots him in the groin and forehead while he is tied up on the floor with duct tape.

Charlie's Death:  Jill betrays him and stabs him in the heart and stomach.

Jill's Death:  As Jill is about to shoot Gale, Sidney comes from behind her and electrocutes her head with deliberator paddles. Still alive, Jill tries stabbing Sidney with a glass shard but Sidney knows killer's always come back to life for "one last scare" and shoots Jill in the chest.

Tara's phone call and attack: This was both Amber Freeman and Richie Kirsch. Richie made the phone calls and recorded the video of Amber with a view of his knife to scare Tara. Amber was also in the costume when she attacked Tara with Richie on the phone. Amber also seemingly confirms this later in the hospital attacks when she says that she'll hit all the organs she missed last time.

Vince's murder: Richie possibly had a motive to kill Vince. There's an argument that it was Amber as she was at the bar with the rest of the teenagers while Richie may have been at the hospital with Samantha and Tara Carpenter. But Sam and Tara were also both shown to be sleeping at the time and Richie was just starting the first Stab movie when she woke up. The kill also matches Richie's single stab MO.

Sam's phone call: Amber did the phone call. If Richie called her, she would have heard him.

Sam's hospital attack: Richie attacked Sam as Amber was at the Sheriff's Department having been questioned by Sheriff Hicks around the time Sam was attacked.

Judy's phone call: Quote: ''Ever seen movie Psycho?'' reveals Amber, because in the later scene of the movie Amber imitates the noises from the shower stabbing sequence in Psycho.

Judy's murder: Both killers were there. Amber killed Judy, because Ghostface used Amber's M.O (stabbing multiple times). and then went to the hospital.

Wes' murder: After Amber went to the hospital, Richie stayed behind to finish off Wes because he was stronger than Amber and he had the better chance to overpower him.

Clay's murder: In the hospital, all the work was likely done by Amber, while Richie was playing victim.

Richie, Tara and Dewey's attack: It was Amber, because Richie was still playing victim.

Dewey's murder: Obviously Amber, because Richie was with Sam and Tara in the elevator.

Chad's attack: This was Amber as Richie was driving to 261 Turner Lane with Tara and Samantha and arrived just as Ghostface finished his attack on Chad.

Mindy's attack: This was Richie, as Amber was upstairs with Tara getting her inhaler and Richie had excused himself to the Basement where he likely changed into the Ghostface costume and then came back upstairs to attack her.

Liv's murder: Amber is doing it without her costume.

Gale's shooting: Amber is doing it without her costume.

Sidney's phone call: You can hear Richie's voice, when he says ''Wait!''.

Sidney's attack: Sidney is talking to Richie, when attack was occurred.

Sam's stabbing: Richie is doing it without his costume.

Amber's attack: Tara, we witness this.

Richie's murder: Samantha killed Richie by stabbing him countless times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head.

Amber's murder: Sidney, Gale and Tara all took part in Amber's murder. Sidney doused Amber in hand sanitizer as Gale shot Amber forcing her onto the stove and setting her alight due to the hand sanitizer they threw over her. Tara then shot Amber through the head as she came running out of the kitchen.

Laura's phone call: Ghostface, who calls Laura, is the same Ghostface who later kills her, for evidence see below.

Laura's murder: This was Jason Carvey, as he unmasks himself after killing her.

Greg's murder: It is not known exactly when Greg was killed. It's possible he was killed before Laura was killed. It is also unknown since when Ethan was at the Frat Party, and since Paul came to Quinn's apartment. Despite the fact that we do not know the exact time of Greg's death and the whereabouts of the Kirsch families at that time, it is most likely Wayne who killed Greg, because it is hard to imagine Ethan or Quinn dismembering Greg's body in such a brutal way. Wayne mentions to Sam in the final act: " We had to kill those two wannabe film students". Just as Wayne is Jason's killer (see evidence below), the fact that Wayne says "We had to kill" instead of "I had to kill" suggests either Quinn or Ethan may have been involved in Greg's death. However, as previously mentioned, it was Wayne who was most able to dismember Greg and had the best conditions to do so.

Jason's phone call: This call is falsely attributed to Wayne, and it was Quinn who most likely called Jason. Wayne waited in Jason's apartment until he found Greg's body in the refrigerator, and if he had called, Jason would have heard him. Ghostface calls Jason from Greg's phone, this would imply that it must have been the same Ghostface who actually killed him (we already know it's Wayne), however the fact that Wayne was hiding in Jason's apartment and if he was calling, he would have been heard by Jason, this fact excludes Wayne from being the caller in this scene. It is not known exactly how much time passed between Jason's murder and Sam's return to her apartment where Quinn was present, and it is also unknown when Paul came to Quinn. Ghostface in this scene is also watching Jason through the cameras, and Quinn would be in a better position to do that than Wayne. To see how Quinn might have gotten Greg's phone, check: Sam's stolen ID .

Jason's murder: The murder happened sometime after 9:00 p.m., and as Quinn was in her apartment (and also probably the caller in this scene) and Ethan Landry was at the frat party with Chad, Ghostface, who kills Jason is Wayne. With this murder, the Richie Kirsch's and Amber Freeman's masks were left.

Sam's stolen ID: Quinn was Sam's roommate. When Sam left for Dr. Stone, Quinn most likely stole Sam's ID and delivered it to Jason's apartment, where Wayne killed Greg. That's when Wayne was able to give Greg's phone to Quinn, who then went back to her apartment and called Jason while Wayne waited for Jason.

Sam's first phone call: First, we need to establish one fact: Ghostface who calls and then attacks is not the same Ghostface. Ghostface who attacks Tara from behind doesn't have a phone on him, and even if he had somewhere to hide it, it's a similar situation to Jason's call: Sam and Tara would hear Ghostface calling. This brings us two scenarios, that also immediately give us a clue as to who was responsible for the Bodega murders, see them below:

Sam and Tara's attack/Bodega Murders: Two people are mostly suspected of being Ghostface in the Bodega: Wayne and Ethan. However, he also can't exclude Quinn for being the Ghostface in the Bodega, below will explain why. The argument that tells us it's Wayne is that Ethan and Quinn were in the apartment at the time of the attack and had no way to sneak out. On top of that, Ghostface in the Bodega showed great shotgun skills, which would suit Wayne since he was a cop. Assuming Wayne was the Ghostface at the Bodega, the caller to Sam was probably Quinn. It is possible that after Sam and Tara left for the police station, Mindy, Anika, Chad and Ethan also left the apartment. This would leave Quinn alone in her apartment again, allowing her to call Sam without anyone else being suspicious. As absurd as it may seem at first glance, Wayne was most likely not the Ghostface at the Bodega, but just a Ghostface, who calls Sam, here's why: Wayne was at the crime scene in Jason and Greg's apartment. Wayne first calls Sam (at 9:57-9:58 p.m.) from there and lures her to come down the station, and after Sam and Tara escaped from the Bodega, Wayne was already present at the police station. For Wayne, it would be problematic to move from place to place so quickly, as well as to hide the costume. Later in the movie, when Kirby and Wayne are tracking the timeline of Ghostface, on the Ghostface's timeline board it is shown that the Bodega attack occured on 10:03 p.m., meaning that: Wayne would have to leave Jason and Greg's apartment in less than 5 minutes (in addition, put on the costume somewhere unnoticed) and later after the attack get faster to the police station before Sam and Tara, and in addition hide the costume somewhere. Wayne, however, wouldn't have much trouble being the caller in this scene. Ghostface in this conversation also takes credit for killing Greg and Jason, and we know it was Wayne, and also, what Ghostface says to Sam on the phone, is very similar to what Wayne says to her in the final act, about Sam "being punished" . That leaves us with either Ethan or Quinn as the prime suspects to be the Ghostface in Bodega. If we assume that Mindy, Anika, Chad and Ethan left the apartment along with Sam and Tara, then Quinn was left alone in her apartment again. This would allow her to sneak out undetected in a Ghostface costume and attack Sam and Tara, since Ethan would be with Chad then. However, if we assume that only Sam and Tara left the apartment, Ethan was the Ghostface in this scene. Somehow Quinn would have to distract the rest of the group to allow Ethan to slip away, or Ethan might just be lying to his friends about going back to his apartment. It also should be noticed, that when Ghostface is pushed onto the bikes by Sam and Tara, he grunts in a voice similar to Ethan's, and a moment later he says "Shit!", which also sounds like Ethan. What remains unclear is how Ethan (or possibly Quinn) would have learned to use a shotgun. However, it can be inferred that Wayne taught his kids using a shotgun. In summary, we have two possible scenarios: Quinn being the caller, and Wayne being the attacker, or Wayne being the caller, and Ethan or Quinn being the attacker. With this murder, Ghostface leaves behind Jill Roberts' and Charlie Walker's masks.

Dr. Christopher Stone's murder: This murder happened sometime around 8 am. Every Ghostface actually had the ability to kill Dr. Stone. Despite that, the most evidence points to Wayne, because it was him, who Sam told and gave details about Stone, such as where he lived. At the police station, where Wayne informs Kirby about Dr. Stone's death, Wayne strongly emphasized the cause of Stone's death as if he was proud of it. With this murder, Ghostface leaves behind Roman Bridger's mask.

The Apartment Attack: This attack includes Paul's death, Quinn's fake death, Mindy and Sam's attack, and finally Anika's murder. It obviously couldn't be Quinn because she was seen faking her death. Quinn is also seen talking to her father on the phone before the attack, which would also exclude Wayne from being Ghostface here. Wayne, after revealing himself, also tells Sam and Tara how he faked Quinn's death and that "he had to be sure he was first on the scene so he could switch Quinn's body out with a fresh one". This tells us that Wayne came to the apartment after the attack, and was unlikely to be responsible for it. It's possible that during the attack, Wayne killed an unknown teenage girl and dragged her corpse to the apartment so everyone would think it was Quinn. Thus, the only possible Ghostface in this scene is Ethan. This can be deduced from the way he slices Mindy's arm (just like he did twice with Sam during the revelations), and stabs, then rips open Anika's stomach. Wayne had a different way of stabbing his victims, like he did with Jason. Even though Ethan had an alibi that he was in Econ Class the whole time with hundred other people, it is probably false, as it is likely that he left class earlier than the other students, and since "he was in a study hall with a hundred other people", nobody really would notice him being absent.

Sam's second phone call: This was Quinn, who was hiding in Gale's penthouse to lure them there, as Wayne was in the park with Sam and Tara and Ethan was in the police van with Kirby, Chad and Mindy.

Gale's first phone call : This was probably Wayne. Since Quinn is responsible for Brooks' death happening at the same time as Gale's call, Gale would overhear Quinn attacking Brooks.

Brooks' murder, Gale's second phone call and attack: This was Quinn as she both admitted to being responsible and was already in the apartment making a phone call to lure them in. Wayne and Ethan were also both at the park with Sam, Tara and Kirby.

Mindy's attack: This was Quinn as she admitted to attacking Mindy, Ethan was also on the subway in plain sight and Wayne was at the police station.

Kirby's attack: This was both Quinn and Ethan as Kirby confirmed that "they" both attacked her and Quinn and Ethan were the two masked Ghostface's in the theatre.

Tara and Chad's Attack: Quinn stabbed Tara in the back and chased the group before being beaten up by Chad. When Chad was about to finish Quinn, Ethan stabbed him from behind, saving his sister, and then Quinn and Ethan attacked Chad together and stabbed him wearing Nancy Loomis and Stu Macher's masks.

Kirby's shooting: Wayne, in his reveal.

Quinn's murder: This was Sam who shot her through the head.

Wayne's murder: This was Sam who stabbed him to death using Billy's robe, mask and knife various times on his chest and arms, despite wearing a vest, with the fatal stab being to his eye.

Ethan's murder: This was both Tara, who stabbed Ethan on the inside of his mouth, and Kirby who crushed his skull with the same TV that killed Stu.

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Dead by daylight.

'The Ghostface' is a playable killer in the asymmetric horror game, Dead by Daylight. In this universe he is known as 'Danny Johnson' behind the mask and works in Roseville, Florida as a newspaper reporter, writing stories on his own murders. This version of the character holds no specific grudges and prides himself in carefully choosing the most ordinary everyday and unremarkable people as his victims. Danny is portrayed as much more patient and calculating Ghostface than most others, meticulously planning each of his murders. He is eventually taken by the eldritch Entity to be one of the game's killers.

• Wes Craven had the characters in Scream mention the Ghostface costume is called "Father Death" as a red herring, alluding to Neil, Sidney's father.
• In Scream , Stu was meant to mention having to pee before Sidney is attacked in the high school bathroom, but it was believed to be too strong a clue that he was the killer.
• In the original Scream 2 script, there are thee killers: Mrs. Loomis, Derek Feldman, and Hallie McDaniel.
• In the original Scream 3 script, Angelina Tyler is a second killer. She reveals herself to be a former classmate of Sidney's and now in a relationship with Roman.
• The only person to wear the Ghostface costume and use the voice changer who wasn't a murderer was Sidney. During a brief moment in Scream , she does this to turn the tables on Billy and Stu. It can be argued that she is a murderer since she kills several of the killers.
• The copycat murders of Scream 2 are a dangling plot point. Mickey and Mrs. Loomis begin murdering victims based on their names matching those of the original Woodsboro murders, but stop at 3. While the investigators discover the pattern, nothing comes of this, or is mentioned in the final confrontation. This is fleshed out slightly more in earlier drafts of the script, but still not resolved. Whether the two killers planned this as a red herring or altered course as they went along remains to be seen. From a story perspective, this fits in with the two killers having very different motives.
• Phil Stevens (representing Steven Orth)
• Maureen Evans (representing Maureen Prescott)
• Casey 'Cici' Cooper (representing Casey Becker)
• The murders in Scream 3 follow a similar path to Scream 2 . Roman killed the cast in the order their characters died in the Stab 3 script, until veering off course and killing without a pattern, just as Mickey and Mrs. Loomis started as copycat killers until Randy's murder. In both cases characters tried deducing who would be the next victim based on the pattern right when the killer stopped using the pattern.
• The Scream 3 characters may indeed have been killed in accordance with the Stab 3 script if you allow for the exceptions of non-cast members (Christine Hamilton, Steven Stone, and John Milton). Cotton Weary was set to cameo as himself in the opening death scene and he was the first actor to die. Sarah Darling's Candy was the second to die. It's known that Ricky was written to die and since the fictionalized Gale Weathers was set to be the killer, she would have died last. Tyson Fox dies between Sarah and Jennifer Jolie, who was the last killed. It's unknown if Sidney and Dewey's characters were set to be killed, but since Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer didn't return, it's likely the producers wanted to kill the characters off, making it possible that they died in the order Tom Prinze and Angelina Tyler were murdered.
• Billy Loomis (shot in the head by Sidney) - Scream
• Mickey Alteri (shot in the chest by Sidney and Gale) - Scream 2
• Roman Bridger (shot in the head by Dewey) - Scream 3
• Jill Roberts (shot through the heart by Sidney) - Scream 4
• Steven Orth & Casey Becker (Scream)
• Phil Stevens & Maureen Evans (Scream 2)
• Christine & Cotton Weary (Scream 3)
• Marnie Cooper & Jenny Randall (Scream 4)
• Roman is the only killer who dies in his Father Death costume.
• Roman was the only Ghostface who had no accomplice.
• Jill Roberts being the killer is ironic. Her character is based on Sidney Prescott and the fact that she is a Ghostface killer is a reference to the fact that some fans often speculate that Sidney Prescott would eventually become a Ghostface killer due to witnessing the deaths of the people close to her.
• Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper represent Casey Becker and Steve Orth (killed first simultaneously after one receives a call from Ghostface. A deleted scene shows that they were hung and tied to a chair like Casey and Steve)
• Kate Roberts represents her sister, Maureen Prescott. Both are the mothers of the 'protagonist'
• Trevor Sheldon represents Neil Prescott. Both were kidnapped, bound and gagged, and would-be framed for the murder spree.
• Jill and Charlie's plan to make their innocence in the killing spree more solid by stabbing each other, is just like Billy and Stu's plan in the first movie.
• Jill stabbing Charlie to death on purpose, is a reference to Scream 2 when Mrs. Loomis betrays her accomplice Mickey.
• Stu and Charlie are the only killers not be shot to death. Stu is electrocuted by a T.V and Charlie is stabbed to death by Jill.
• Both female killers, Jill Roberts and Mrs. Loomis, betrayed their accomplices in the end.
• Mickey Altieri, Roman Bridger and Jill Roberts are the only killers to reveal themselves while they are still in the Ghostface costume.
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• 2 Michael Myers (original timeline)
• 3 Rose Red (2002)

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Jason Carvey is a minor antagonist in the 2023 slasher film Scream VI .

He was a film student at Blackmore University who, alongside his roommate Greg Bruckner wanted to finish making Richie Kirsch 's film that was halted when Samantha Carpenter killed him. To satisfy his bloodlust, Jason killed his professor Laura Crane, but ended up killed by the true Ghostface of the film.

He was portrayed by Tony Revolori , who also voiced Chameleon Jr. in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes . While in-disguise, he was voiced by Roger L. Jackson . In-costume scenes as Ghostface were portrayed by Mathieu Coderre.

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Biography [ ]

Early life [ ].

Jason grew up in Atlanta with his best friend Greg Bruckner , with the two idolising horror movies. Jason and Greg idolised Ghostface and had a shrine dedicated to him hidden in a wardrobe in their dorm room. After the 2022 Woodsboro Murders, he and Greg wanted to finish making the movie that Richie Kirsch was making. The two enrolled at Blackmore University university to follow Samantha Carpenter , Tara Carpenter , Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin , unaware that Richie's family - Wayne , Quinn and Ethan - were already planning their own killing spree to get revenge against Sam for killing Richie.

Scream VI [ ]

Almost one year after the 2022 Woodsboro Murders, Jason described himself as having "blue balls" from killing, meaning that he may have killed before, and wanted to satisfy his bloodlust. He matched with his film professor, Australian-woman Laura Crane, on Flirtr, under a fake identity, and talked with her for a while before asking her out on a date.

Laura waited at the restaurant, whilst Jason was hiding in an alley and then texted her saying, he was lost and asking, if he could call her. Laura agreed and Jason called her and told her he was on his way after discovering he was on the wrong street. He asked Laura for a description of the building and Laura went outside to check.

Jason then told Laura, that he found the right street and was coming down an alleyway he believed led to the restaurant. He asked her to confirm and Laura approached the alleyway and he told her he was walking down despite the fact that she couldn't see him. He asked her to wave, however then pretended to get panicky and said someone was following him with a knife. Laura took the bait and ran down the alleyway only for Jason to activate a voice changer and speak to her as Ghostface. He jumped out of an alley wearing a Ghostface costume and murdered Laura.

Jason then removed the costume, put it into his backpack and changed into his Blackmore University hoodie and walked back to campus, crossing paths with Tara along the way, who was going to a frat party. Jason returned to his dorm room and put the bloody mask into a Ghostface shrine hidden in the dorm.

Jason sits on the sofa to watch Friday the 13th and gets a call from Greg, who is using the Ghostface voice, despite the fact that they agreed they wouldn't. They discuss their plan to finish Richie's movie and 'Greg' reveals he is watching Jason through their security cameras and plays a game of Hot and Cold, leading Jason to the refrigerator where Greg's mutilated and decapitated body is. Jason realises he is speaking to the real Ghostface killer and is then attacked by Wayne, wearing Richie Kirsch's old Ghostface mask. When Jason declares that he has to finish Richie's movie, Wayne asks him "who gives a f-ck about movies" and kills him, leaving Samantha's drivers license behind as bait.

After hearing of their murders, FBI Agent Kirby Reed comes to New York City, having followed Jason and Greg's online activity for months. Gale Weathers later discovers an old abandoned theatre in Jason and Greg's names and uncovers it as a shrine dedicated to Ghostface. It is later revealed that Wayne actually helped Richie build the shrine and then put in Jason and Greg's names to cover his tracks.

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• Jason is the only killer to be revealed in the opening/first act of the movie, thus the only opening victim who's also a killer.
• Jason is the first Latino killer in the franchise so far.
• Jason said, that he has "blue balls" with killing, which suggests that Jason may have killed more than one person.
• Although Jason’s storyline is separate from the main Ghostfaces, he still counts as one. He is obsessed and vengeful like the previous Ghostfaces and has probably murdered other people, (despite only showing his victim to be Laura Crane).

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Main Character Index Movies: Recurring Characters ( Sidney Prescott | Dewey Riley | Sam Carpenter ) | Ghostface ( Jill Roberts ) | Scream (1996) | Scream 2 | Scream 3 | Scream 4 | Scream (2022) | Scream VI TV Series: MTV Series | Resurrection

WARNING: Given that the identity of each one of the killers is a Walking Spoiler , this is a Spoilers Off page. Everything below the general character description will openly spoil The Reveal from each movie. You Have Been Warned . With that in mind, please keep tropes for each killer before each reveal on the respective character pages so as to not spoil the twist on those pages. Note that this page only covers the Ghostface killers from the films. The Ghostfaces from the MTV series , Resurrection and Dead by Daylight can be found here , here and here , respectively.

Voiced in English By: Roger L. Jackson Other Languages   Emmanuel Curtil (French), Kai Taschner (German), Jin Yamanoi (Japanese)

Played by: dane farwell ( scream , 2 , 4 ), lee waddell ( scream , 2 ), brian avery ( 3 ), john gilbert and paul burke ( 5 ), max leferriere ( vi ) note  stuntmen mostly play ghostface when the killer is wearing the costume. the actors playing the characters who don the ghostface identity are listed below in their respective folders..

"You're a survivor, aren't you, Sidney? Your one and only skill: you survive. I've got one question for you. What good is it to be a survivor in this little drama, if everyone close to you is dead?"

Wearing a white ghost mask and long black robes, the Ghostface killer sneaks and stabs his way through suburban neighborhoods, hacking teenagers and college kids to pieces — but not before calling them up with horror trivia games. A word of advice: don't get the wrong answer.

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• Nancy Loomis is a Ghostface metaphorically taking up Billy's knife. Randy acknowledges this trope when deducing that the killer is trying to break new ground.
• Hallie was one of the killers in the original draft for Scream 2 , which would have made her the first African-American Ghostface in the film series if not for the rewrites.
• Scream 3 : Roman had Angelina as a partner in an early script, but the final movie averts this by making Roman the sole killer.
• Scream 4 : Jill is a Ghostface.
• Scream 5 : Amber is paired with Richie. She also would've been the first definitive LGBTQ+ Ghostface if she was still Tara's lover in the final movie, as was intended in the original script.
• Scream VI : Quinn is one of the Ghostfaces. Additionally, Jason is the first non-white Ghostface.
• The Alibi : In most of the movies, Ghostface is an identity shared by two people, which means that accounting for every character's location whenever Ghostface attacks isn't a good way of eliminating suspects.
• Ambiguous Situation : Because there are usually multiple killers operating under the Ghostface persona in each film (except for Scream 3 ), it is often a point of contention among fans on which one of the killers claimed which victims in their respective killing sprees. That being said, it's usually easier to narrow it down if one of the killers is present out-of-costume in a scene where Ghostface is attacking another character.
• Ancestral Weapon : An odd and nonlinear example with the multiple copies of the Buck 120 knife. The weapon is first used by Billy Loomis, and then his mother. Sidney's half-brother Roman then wields it, and is succeeded by their cousin Jill. This occurs again with Richie being the first in his family to wield the knife, before it's passed on to his younger siblings Ethan and Quinn, as well as his father Wayne. Note that it's extremely rare for a Ghostface to use the exact same knife as a previous Ghostface, just another copy of the same model, because the actual knife from a previous killing spree would be in police evidence (or Richie's collection).
• Every incarnation of Ghostface is an enemy of Sidney and always targets her, though in the fifth movie, Richie and Amber don't seem to actively seek her out but rather relish that she's involved. Billy, Mrs. Loomis, Roman, and Jill are particularly personal enemies for her.
• As of the fifth movie, Ghostface is this for Sam Carpenter as well; the original Ghostface mastermind, Billy Loomis, is her biological father, and his shadow looms over her, while that film's two Ghostfaces are explicitly targeting her and her sister. This carries on in the sixth movie as well, with the vengeful Kirsch/Bailey family targeting Sam to avenge the death of Richie Kirsch, who was the Ghostface mastermind of the previous film.

• Ax-Crazy : All the people who donned the identity are messed-up in the head.
• Bad Boss : With the exception of the third, fifth and sixth films, any mastermind of a film's killings is this to their henchman following The Reveal , from Billy's nearly lethal bullying of Stu to Mrs. Loomis's and Jill's fatal disposals of their Dragons once they're finished serving them .
• Big Bad : Merges this with Legacy Character . While every film has a new killer, the holder of the Ghostface identity is always the main threat.
• Big Bad Duumvirate : With the exception of the third and sixth films, the identity is typically donned by two people. However, only the fifth film plays this straight, as all the other Ghostface pairs had one killer that was clearly dominant over the other.
• Big Bad Friend : Except Roman in 3 , there's almost always at least one Ghostface who poses as a non-romantic friend to the main group of teens: Stu in 1 , Mickey in 2 , both Jill and Charlie in 4 , Amber in 5 , and both Ethan and Quinn in VI .
• Two of them are related to Sidney, and two more are mother and son (who were still motivated by the actions of Sidney's deceased mother and her Ghostface son). The secondary Ghostface killers in those movies are just pawns in the schemes of these four.
• The sixth film introduces Detective Wayne Bailey and his children Quinn and Ethan, who themselves are the vengeful family of the previous lead Ghostface Richie Kirsch.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : In each film, the people behind the Ghostface mask are presented as friendly and harmless before their facades drop.
• Mrs Loomis in 2 : She reveals her plan to Sidney, and lampshades how stupid it was with the following dialogue:
• Jill in 4 lets Gale have some final words before killing her. This naturally leads to Gale getting the upper hand on her and Sidney killing her.
• The main Ghostface is the brains of the operation that creates most of the plans. Likewise, most of the attacks and murders are carried out by their partner, so the main Ghostface usually plays a more subtle role by distracting the victims with harassing phone calls or by pretending to be a victim to pull off a Wounded Gazelle Gambit .
• The secondary Ghostface is The Brute that does most of the muscle work and likewise is physically bigger than the lead Ghostface note  although Amber in Scream 5 is an exception as she's smaller than Richie . Because of this, they act as The Heavy since they spend more time under the Father Death costume as Ghostface and consequently have more kills than their respective leaders do.
• The Bully : Monstrous mass-murdering psychos or not, they're just bullies who torment their victims for their own sick amusement, especially since most of the killers are around high school/college age. Their killings and severe attitude problems make them come across as a Barbaric Bully , with their grisly killings being an allegory for Bully Brutality . Also, whenever they're a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing , they act like typical bullies, pretending to be friendly to a new classmate at school, before subjecting them to public humiliation in front of their peers (or in their case, just flat-out killing them after The Reveal ). To anyone who dons the mask, serial killing is just as enjoyable as the typical bully shoving their defenseless victims in a locker, giving them wedgies, dunking their victims' heads into a toilet to give them a swirly, and pulling humiliating pranks (schemes where they try to come across as survivors of their own killings out of fame and glory and their persecution of each film's heroes are both cruel, childish pranks with staggering body counts). Finally, one bad habit actually shown in the films that Ghostfaces and usual bullies share is to cruelly prank call their victims. Sidney eventually has enough of running and hiding from their terrorizing, and grows a pair to become a Bully Hunter .
• Bulletproof Vest : Some of the Ghostfaces take the precaution of wearing bulletproof vests under the costume, as Sidney and the other heroes tend to be packing heat as the franchise progresses. Examples include Roman, Amber and Quinn.
• Bullying a Dragon : Honestly, after the first movie, where Sidney took out the first Ghostface and his accomplice in brutal fashion, it should be well known that Sidney can be pretty dangerous herself. In fact, since her first three encounters with Ghostface killers (all of which she survived) have been adapted in the Stab films, the copycat Ghostfaces should definitely know better than to go after her, yet they still do . With each movie, this trope becomes more pronounced. Sidney : You're forgetting one thing about Billy Loomis. Mickey : What's that? Sidney : I fucking killed him!
• Cain and Abel : The third and one of the fourth Ghostfaces are Sidney's older half-brother and younger cousin respectively, both from her mother's side.
• Card-Carrying Villain : He enjoys killing people. Sometimes too much.
• Cast as a Mask : Roger L. Jackson provides the voice for Ghostface whenever people are using the voice-changer to disguise their identity. Stuntmen Dane Farwell, Brian Avery, John Gilbert, and Paul Burke portray Ghostface in the costume onscreen.
• "What's your favorite scary movie?"
• In the original film, the phrase was actually: "Do you like scary movies?"
• Upon being unmasked, they'll usually say "Surprise, Sidney!" or some variation.
• Cheap Costume : The iconic "Father Death" costume is nothing more than a rubber mask and nylon cloak sold "at every five-and-dime in the state."
• Character Tics : Ghostface has a habit of tripping, holding his knife out horizontally before wiping the blade off with his free hand, and tilting his head like some other classic slasher movie villains. Some Ghostfaces have their own unique traits that distinguish them from their partner or predecessors.
• Collective Identity : In five out of six movies, more than one person is acting as Ghostface at any given time. While this was a plot twist for the first film, it's the norm for most of the sequels.
• Con Man : When the unmasked killers reveal their plans at the climax, they're often plotting to make themselves the heroes and survivors of their mass murders. However, they are Ax-Crazy examples of this trope.
• Connected All Along : Played with. Certain Ghostfaces were obviously friends with each other before getting the idea to start killing while others had more secretive links.
• Cop Killer : Since Police Are Useless for the most part, most Ghostfaces can take them down with ease. Collectively, Ghostface has killed 7 cops so far including Judy Hicks and Dewey. Inverted with Detective Wayne Bailey.
• Copycat Killer : Every subsequent Ghostface after Billy and Stu mostly copies the original film's modus operandi. For example, all of them wear the "Father Death" costume as a disguise, wield knives as their main weapon, and utilize voice changers when harassing victims on the phone. They also tend to switch from knives to using guns after they reveal themselves. That said, all of the later killers have their own twists on the Ghostface formula.
• Corrupted Character Copy : As the Scream series is highly serialised, it's common for Ghostfaces (at least in 4 and 5 ) to be evil versions of earlier characters.
• Dark Is Evil : Combined with Light Is Not Good , as the usual ensemble for Ghostface is a Black Cloak (though closer to the body than most versions) and a White Mask of Doom .
• Deadpan Snarker : When they taunt their would-be victims; every Ghostface makes sure to throw in a few mean-spirited jibes, especially during their trademark menacing phone calls.
• Ghostface is a deconstruction of the Stock Slasher , who is typically a masked Implacable Man with (borderline) supernatural abilities such as Nigh-Invulnerability and Enhanced Healing . While Ghostface is a determined and athletic Stealth Expert , they are ultimately human, which means their victims have a better chance of holding them off or even killing them. Because of this, Ghostface usually avoids fair fights with characters wielding guns and is not above using guns themselves to gain an advantage. Like the slasher villains that inspired them, Ghostface also wears a mask but with the twist that the mask helps disguise their identity although this comes with the cost of good vision, resulting in Ghostface's occasional moment of clumsiness. Furthermore, while Michael , Leatherface , and Jason are outsiders to normal society and thus have no issues with becoming the target of law enforcement and going on the run, Ghostface is (mostly) a regular person and generally doesn't want their crimes tied to their person, which is why they have a Fall Guy to take the blame. Finally, Ghostface is also an "immortal" slasher villain that returns in every sequel but in the realistic sense that any psychopath can pick up the "Father Death" costume and become the next Ghostface copycat .
• They also deconstruct the sociopathic chessmaster type of villain. While the plans each Ghostface incarnation makes for their kills are genuinely impressive, often remaining under the radar for the whole film, their plans are full of flaws that would have exposed them eventually if investigated by competent investigators. Even aside from the Bond Villain Stupidity noted above, their attempts to stage themselves as victims who narrowly survived the experience would not hold up to forensic scrutiny note  for one thing, Billy had already used fake blood earlier that night to fake an attack, and was still coated in it by the time he and Stu intentionally injure one-another while the patsies they try to pin the blame on for the attacks and frame would similarly be easily cleared of guilt note  both Sidney's father and Trevor would show obvious signs of having been kidnapped and held against his will, from the marks left on them from being Bound and Gagged to how they were incapacitated in the first place leaving obvious injuries that wouldn't match defensive wounds, and Sam's injuries wouldn't line up with those Ghostface would have occurred nevermind the fact she wasn't even in the same state when Tara was attacked and has alibis for the other attacks . Aside from that, they make a number of small mistakes that contribute to their undoing that allow for Sidney and later Sam to get the upper hand in the final act, from failing to account for some of the other characters involved to not ensuring their victims are actually dead. This all matches up with the reality of most real life killers (spree killers in general rarely escape justice, and most serial killers generally get by on police incompetence or indifference rather than their own skill, and in reality, serial killers tend to be individuals of below average intelligence and are often exposed by family), but also shows that while they certainly think of themselves as brilliant masterminds, they're grossly overestimating themselves and underestimating everyone around them.
• Determinator : Any Ghostface will never stop pursuing their victims until they get the kill, even if they fall, trip, and/or get hit with everything the victims have at hand (including doors ).
• Didn't Think This Through : Their plans tend to have holes in them, which usually get called out by Sidney, or even each other.
• Disproportionate Retribution : The dominant Ghostface in the killer duos targets the heroes for reasons that are usually very petty and/or unjustifiable by any sane logic .
• Doesn't Like Guns : Each version of Ghostface prefers knives or improvised weapons for their attacks, most likely to play up the stereotypical slasher image like killers in in-universe horror films, who either don't or only rarely use guns as weapons, although several of them finally resort to using handguns in their final confrontation with the heroes of the film.
• Dramatic Unmask : Played with throughout the series. The only one to play it straight is Roman in the third film.
• Et Tu, Brute? : Given that most of the killers are in a friend group, and most of the victims are from said friend groups, this is inevitable. Examples include Billy betraying his girlfriend Sidney, Richie betraying his girlfriend Sam, and Amber betraying her best friend Tara.
• Evil All Along : They are all introduced as someone close to Sidney, or at least someone indifferent yet harmless to her, until The Reveal that they are anything but.
• Evil Gloating : Once the Ghostfaces reveal themselves, they always, always , proceed to gloat about their Evil Plan to the heroes, not being able to resist complimenting themselves about how clever they think they are, instead of just killing Sidney while they have a chance. Without fail, this leads to the heroes getting the upper hand and taking them down.
• Evil Is Bigger : Most Ghostfaces, minus the pair in the fourth film and one of the killers in the fifth, are taller than Sidney, with Matthew Lillard taking the cake at 6'3".
• Evil Is Hammy : Every single Ghostface has been depicted as having quite the Fun Personified flair for the dramatic. However, this only makes each of them obnoxious and despicable. Roman, Mickey and Jill take the cake in this regard.
• Evil Is Petty : A recurring trait with the Ghostfaces; while none of them can be described as stable or rational in any sense, their motives and actions tend to be anywhere from mildly to insanely petty.
• Evil Sounds Deep : Each has access to some voice-changing device that makes them sound similarly harsh and raspy, a voice usually portrayed by Roger L. Jackson.
• Fall Guy : In every film, Ghostface has at least one victim on which they plan to pin their crimes, and Ghostface usually murders said victim(s) in a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit .
• Scream (1996) and Scream 2 feature Billy Loomis, and his mother Nancy Loomis, as the lead Ghostfaces of their respective films.
• Scream 3 and Scream 4 introduce members of the maternal side of Sidney's family, the Roberts. Roman Bridger, Sidney's maternal half-brother, is the sole Ghostface of the third film, and Jill Roberts, Sidney's cousin, is the mastermind of the fourth film.
• After Richie Kirsch was the mastermind of Scream (2022), the Kirsch family plays this the straightest in Scream VI , with Richie's father, Detective Wayne Bailey, and his siblings, Ethan and Quinn, comprising the Ghostface trio in the sixth film.
• Faux Affably Evil : All Ghostfaces tend to address their victims in a polite, almost friendly way before brutally killing them.
• Flowery Insults : Usually whenever someone is about to hang up, Ghostface will make an exceptionally violent threat ("Cut you like a fish," "Gut you like a pig," "Cut through your neck until I feel bone," etc.) to shock them into staying on the line.
• For the Evulz : While some have sympathetic backstories, all kill largely because they enjoy it.
• Fragile Speedster : Compared to other slasher movie villains, Ghostfaces are often knocked down or otherwise briefly incapacitated by mundane hazards, which is justified since they are just ordinary people with no supernatural enhancements whatsoever. However, they make up for it with sheer determination , and by being much faster than your average lumbering slasher.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse : Most Ghostfaces have a troubled past that drove them to become killers, although the films never validate them or treat them as remotely sympathetic due to the crimes they commit and emotional trauma they inflict on others. Sidney herself gets sick of the excuses after a couple of rodeos. In Scream 3 , Sidney shouts Roman down with the facts that his crimes were his own choices and that he should have just taken responsibility for his life, and in Scream (2022) , Sidney hangs up on a taunting Ghostface and says she's bored during the climax while she sweeps the house, having suffered enough trauma and petty betrayals to feel that any excuse for the killings would be insufficient and tiresome and that learning the motive isn't worth it.
• Genre Blind : Up until Richie and Amber averted this in the fifth film, every single time there were two killers, one tried to kill or harm the other (the only successful case was Jill killing Charlie), and yet they never see it coming.
• Glass Cannon : Justified, as they are overly dependent on their victims cowering in fear, and are thus almost laughingly unprepared for when someone fights back, especially Sidney.
• The Grim Reaper : The costume is largely a Black Cloak similar to Death, but with the unique twist of the Ghostface (called "Father Death" initially) mask.
• Hair-Trigger Temper : The killer often starts off nice enough in conversations , if maybe a little weird, but when you stop falling in line, the facade breaks. The Big Bad , following The Reveal in the movies, tends to be prone to losing their temper, fuelling their ax-craziness and making them mean-spirited and emotionally abusive. Since the first film, they consistently lose their composure hard whenever the heroes turn their sick game onto them.
• Harassing Phone Call : A trademark of the Ghostface killers. Part of their modus operandi is to call their victims and terrorize them by asking them horror trivia questions, threatening to kill them and/or someone else if they don't comply or get the wrong answer.
• Humans Are Bastards : They don't have to have supernatural powers to commit monstrous and savage crimes and behave like common bullies with shockingly violent tendencies.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters : Though relying on a gimmick of being theme costumed while killing, anyone who dons the mask proves that mere mortals alone can be capable of destructive and monstrous sadism and slaughter without any need of the supernatural assistance that killers such as Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers have mostly relied on.
• Implacable Man : Subverted . The various Ghostface killers are ultimately perfectly ordinary people in spooky outfits, not supernatural beings like the '80s slashers they take inspiration from. Several times, the killer is successfully fended off using nothing but fists or various implements, or even knocked unconscious, and basic firearms will kill them. That said, every Ghostface is a Determinator , so you'd better make sure they're actually dead.
• It's All About Me : The killers are all insanely self-centered, and usually force their targets to play the roles that they choose for them in the "movie" that is their life.
• Jerkass : At best, they're Faux Affably Evil or get along with their accomplice . By and large, they're nasty, petty, vicious maniacs who enjoy taunting their victims almost as much as they enjoy killing them. The traditional Motive Rant in each film tends to feature a lot of Evil Gloating , mockery of their intended victims, and self-important excuses for their vile deeds.
• Joker Immunity : Zig-zagged . While Ghostface as a persona and threat always comes back, the person(s) under the mask is a new killer each time, with Ghostface being the guise of entirely mortal criminals who are killed at the end of each film.
• Karmic Death : One way or another, they all meet their well-deserved demise at the end of their respective killing sprees when the heroes turn the tables on them.
• Kick the Dog : They always make a point of taunting their victims as much as possible, often by bringing up past trauma. They are always unprepared for when The Dog Bites Back .
• Lack of Empathy : As is standard for any sadistic serial killer. They all show no mercy to their victims, and none of them ever express any remorse for their crimes when revealed.
• Lean and Mean : They all have a slender build and as you may have guessed, are not very nice. Mrs. Loomis even lost weight as part of the plan.
• Legacy Character : Since it's a generic Halloween costume in-universe, a grand total of thirteen note  technically fifteen, since Sidney and Sam themselves briefly donned it in the first and sixth films, respectively characters have donned the identity.
• Loony Fan : At least one or two of the killers are devoted horror fans. Richie and Amber are this especially, as it's their main motive for their killings. Billy and Stu started the trend, basing their killing spree on slasher movie tropes seemingly for their own sick amusement .
• Love-Interest Traitor : Several of them are in or previously had a relationship with one of their victims, to the point that Dewey states that "don't trust the love interest" is the first rule of surviving a Stab movie in Scream (2022) .
• Made of Iron : Every Ghostface is this to some extent, as at least one Ghostface in every movie pulls off a Not Quite Dead moment. Although in hindsight, whenever the costume is removed, the killer actually seems to be quite breakable. They also don't simply shrug off injuries and react accordingly to pain.
• Malevolent Masked Men : Though in some cases, the Ghostface killer can be a Malevolent Masked Woman.
• Mascot Villain : Easily the most recognizable "face" of the whole franchise, and they are the villain(s).
• Mask of Sanity : Prior to The Reveal , They Look Just Like Everyone Else! , but each one is actually a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing .
• Misplaced Retribution : Nearly all of the mastermind Ghostfaces target Sidney (and later Sam) for events that she was in no way responsible or guilty for, with most of the copycats in the sequels even going after Sidney as a consequence of her defending herself from the previous Ghostfaces that have attempted to kill her. Finally averted with Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman in the fifth movie, who have no personal connection to or vendetta against Sidney herself.
• Moral Myopia : Almost a pre-requisite for the job. Even when a Ghostface's motive doesn't involve revenge, they'll still throw a hissy fit about perceived slights against them and act like the victim even as they're literally trying to murder people.
• More Deadly Than the Male : When there's a female Ghostface, they're usually more deadly than their male cohorts. Mrs. Loomis and Jill are the Big Bads of their respective films while Amber commits most of the killings in the fifth, even claiming the honor of killing Dewey . Meanwhile, Quinn nearly kills Gale in the sixth.
• Motive Decay : Played with as Ghostface isn't a single entity but played by multiple people each with distinct personalities and reasons to kill. The masterminds of the original trilogy were Driven to Villainy from personal tragedies they blamed on Sidney's mother, Maureen, or even Sidney herself. Then came Sidney's cousin, Jill, who was just a fame-hungry narcissist that orchestrated her massacre in order to succeed Sidney as the next "heroic survivor" of Ghostface's rampage. Afterwards came Richie, whose excuse for his bloodbath was possibly the most ridiculous yet: so that the Stab movies could return to form being Based on a True Story . The accomplices, on the other hand, always had selfish or petty reasons to partake in the murders: Stu was merely in it For the Evulz , Mickey was an O. J. Simpson wannabe, Charlie wanted to be the "Randy" to Jill's "Sidney", and Amber was a a Loony Fan like Richie. The main killers of the sixth film, however, do make a downplayed invoked " Character Rerailment " as their motive is simple vengeance for their fallen relative, Richie.
• Motive Rant : A good number of the dominant Ghostfaces do this after they reveal themselves to the heroes. Sidney gets sick of them quickly.
• Mundane Horror : They Look Just Like Everyone Else! with their generally ordinary physical appearances while unmasked, and don't possess any remarkable physical capabilities, but this doesn't make them anything than the Ax-Crazy Serial Killers they really are.
• Narcissist : Most of the killers fancy themselves quite a bit, and commit murders in order to be the stars, directors, or writers of their own real-life horror movies. Because of this, they see their targets as supporting characters, fulfilling the roles they chose for them .
• Never My Fault : With the exception of Mickey, who freely admits to just being a psychopath trying to get famous, pretty much all Ghostfaces will place the blame for their actions onto other people and act like the wronged party.
• Not Quite Dead : It's customary for at least one of the killers in each movie to pull this in a last-ditch effort to kill the heroes before promptly being gunned down. As Sidney herself says: "they always come back."
• Most of the time, this is justified because there are usually two people in costume, allowing Ghostface to be in two places at once. In the first movie, Ghostface was able to move Steve into Casey's backyard and ring the doorbell at the front door without much issue since both Billy and Stu were at Casey's house.
• Scream 3 had one killer, so it had an alternate explanation for Roman's disappearing act: Roman had knowledge of the secret passages in Milton's house, allowing him to waylay or trap his unaware victims.
• On the other hand, it's sometimes played straight. For example, in Scream 2 , Mickey was able to disappear from the police car before ambushing Hallie even though Sidney was surveilling said car in the same sequence.
• In the fourth film, Jill was 17 and Charlie was around the same age, vs. 32-year-old Sidney, 47-year-old Gale, and 40-year-old Dewey.
• In the fifth film, Amber was 17 and Richie was in his late 20s, vs. 42-year-old Sidney, 57-year-old Gale, and 50-year-old Dewey.
• In the sixth film, 19-year-old Quinn and Ethan (who's probably 18) face off against 59-year-old Gale. In the scene where Ghostface attacks Gale, Quinn is behind the mask. Also, Kirby is now 30 and gets attacked by Quinn and Ethan as well. However, they are masterminded by their father Wayne, whose actor is 59, so it's not entirely this trope.
• Scream 2 : An early draft had Derek dating Hallie behind Sidney's and Mickey's backs. Hallie even compares Derek and herself to the protagonists of Natural Born Killers . However, later edits to the story scrapped this plan since Mickey replaced both Hallie and Derek as Ghostface.
• Scream 3 : Likewise, Roman and Angelina were romantically involved in a prior script; however, the final movie averted this by making Angelina one of the victims instead.
• It's implied that Richie and Amber, the killers of Scream 5 , were romantically involved. Amber calls him "hon" after the Reveal and in Scream VI , Sam says that Richie made "his girlfriend" do all the killing, clearly refering to Amber. This is still rather ambiguous, and many choose to ignore the implication due to the age gap (Richie being a twenty-something and Amber being 17).
• Playing the Victim Card : Almost every Ghostface tries to present themselves as the real victim and their targets as the ones in the wrong, and genuinely seem to believe it regardless of how petty their motivations often are. The only exception is Mickey, who freely admits to just being an evil Serial Killer . This is also often part of their final plan: frame someone else as the killer or killers and claim to be a victim who narrowly survived.
• Pop-Cultured Badass : With few exceptions, the Ghostface killers are major movie buffs, constantly referencing or quizzing their would-be victims on horror movies; Billy outs himself as a killer by quoting Psycho , Mickey was a film student who made a number of movie references (including Top Gun , Terminator 2: Judgment Day , and The Godfather Part II ), Roman was a film director, Jill and Charlie were both big horror fans, and Richie and Amber were both motivated by wanting to inspire a better film in their favorite slasher series.
• Psychopathic Manchild : Many Ghostfaces fit the criteria quite well when their identities and motives are revealed, very quickly devolving from cool headed Smug Snakes into rampant screaming Tantrum Thrower s the moment Sidney breaks their aura of control, or calls them out on their bullshit.
• Revenge Myopia : Most of the Ghostfaces with motives for their killings are attacking out of some loss or turmoil in their past, most often blaming Sidney for it in some indirect way. By the third instance, Sidney gets so sick of this bullshit that she delivers a furious "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the Ghostface in question, telling them it's their own fault they're a twisted psychopath, and they need to just learn to take some responsibility for their lives. Naturally, it falls on deaf ears, and the Ghostface in question throws a violent Never My Fault Villainous Breakdown .
• Sadist : Whatever sympathetic motives each may think they have, it's repeatedly shown that they take immense pleasure in their vicious crimes and try to drag out the experience for as long as possible.
• Samus Is a Girl : Mrs. Loomis in 2 , Jill in 4 , Amber in 5 , and Quinn in VI .
• "The Scream" Parody : Their masks are all a variant on the painting.
• Serial Killer : Specifically, a serial killer in costume who hunts down all the friends and family of Sidney Prescott, and eventually moves on to anyone even remotely related to the events of the first movie at all. As the sequels go on, it becomes increasingly clear that anyone who survives a Ghostface killing spree will find themselves having to continually face copycats looking to claim their lives where previous killers have failed. Though if you want to be pedantic, they're more of a spree killer, killing mulitple people in mulitple locations with little or no cooldown period. Serial killers tend to have long cooldowns between kills (sometimes months or years), while mass murderers kill lots of people in one location in a single incident. Interestingly, Billy and Stu fit all three, having a year-long cooldown after killing Maureen Prescot, then starting their spree with Casey and Steve at the start of the first film, then moving into mass murder at the climax where they kill, or attempt to kill, multiple people at roughly the same time in the same place.
• After Sidney challenges Ghostface to attack her, Ghostface responds with " my pleasure " before revealing that he is in the same room as Sidney.
• Just when Sidney is about to untie Derek, Ghostface shows up to announce his presence before unmasking himself as Mickey.
• In Scream 3 , they talk on screen for a few moments before revealing themself as Roman.
• In the fifth film, they activate their voice changer, now equipped to the costume, while in the hospital chasing Tara, and then pick up her phone so they can taunt Sam. They also make a very low growling noise after killing Judy Hicks.
• Smug Snake : All of them. They're twisted chessmasters when donning the guise of Ghostface, but almost always when the heroes pull the rug out from under them or call them out on their pathetic or hypocritical qualities, they essentially throw an Ax-Crazy tantrum. This tendency to lose composure very easily is almost always what leaves them open to their defeat.
• The Social Darwinist : Most of them believe themselves to be justified in their actions or behavior, but they really just have a sense of superiority over others, and believe Murder Is the Best Solution for anyone who disagrees with them.
• Stalker Without A Crush : He's not targeting his victims out of love at all.
• Stealth Expert : Apparently capable of showing up behind you whenever you aren't looking .
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome : As detailed above , the famous costume has some distinct disadvantages, and it's also repeatedly shown that the killers are not invulnerable and effortlessly efficient killers, but ordinary people who can be knocked down, hurt, make serious mistakes and be fought off by their victims for it (with Tara from the fifth film even surviving her attack while all of the other prologue victims have died), and react accordingly to pain and serious injuries. Their mask can also be taken off with little effort, as happens in the opening of the first film.
• Swipe Your Blade Off : One of their Character Tics is to use the hand not holding the knife to wipe off the blade. Stunt performer Dane Farwell originally came up with this to avoid continuity errors related to how much blood is on the knife.
• Teens Are Monsters : Several of them are high school students who remorselessly and sadistically slaughter innocents, including those within their own friend groups.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else! : All of the people who have taken up the Ghostface mantle don't scream "obvious serial killer!" at first glance. In-universe, the costume is easily obtainable, so anyone could be Ghostface.
• Third Act Stupidity : Every single Ghostface ends up falling prey to this in the third act. For the most part, this happens because they want their victims to know exactly what their plan is, as a way of prolonging their suffering and terror... while also giving them time to figure out how to get the upper hand.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl : All of the female Ghostfaces tend to be fairly small, and always skinny women. There is, nevertheless, no clear indication of who did the killing, so the female Ghostface is nearly always portrayed as equally brutal as her male counterparts, with no difficulty committing the same actions.
• Too Dumb to Live : All of them to a degree, but the killers in 4 , 5 , and VI seem not to realize that their preceding Ghostfaces have a survival rate of 0%, and yet they still don the costume and try to hunt down either the Legacy Trio and/or the Core Four, despite the body count both parties have against Ghostfaces.
• Two Dun It : In all movies except 3 and VI , the Ghostface moniker is donned by two people.
• Two Girls to a Team : Played with. Four women have officially note  Sidney herself briefly donned the costume in the first film, with Sam doing the same in the sixth donned the Ghostface identity, namely Nancy Loomis (in 2 ), Jill Roberts (in 4 ), Amber Freeman (in 5 ), and Quinn Bailey (in VI ).
• Very Punchable Man : It's very easy to root for the heroes to put an end to each killer in the films, as all of them are nasty, despicable individuals.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey : The Dragon for the Big Bad is usually Laughably Evil in the films, in contrast to their bosses being straight up sociopathic, except in the fifth film, where the two killers are equals. This is often even demonstrated in their portrayal of Ghostface, while the bosses are more vicious, angry and threatening-sounding in their performance, the lackeys are often more over the top and gleefully mock and cackle at their victims.
• Villain Decay : Ghostface has become less effective towards the survivors as the franchise has gone on. Sidney and Gale in particular are sick of their weak Freudian Excuses and predictability, approaching each murder spree with a "been there, done that" attitude and being ready to put down any new killer who crosses their path without a hint of fear.
• Villainous Breakdown : Not that any were exactly stable to start with, but almost all have moments after the reveal when they go completely mad, usually after Sidney calls bullshit on whatever sympathetic motive they think they have, or turns their own sick game back onto them.
• Villainous Valour : A thoroughly unsympathetic case. Psychotic killer or not, anyone behind the mask is not the kind to know when to give up when hunting down their victims (especially Final Girls Sidney and Sam), even if they have to endure a ridiculous amount of physical punishment. Rather than making them badasses, however, the intention is more to show them as snarling and bloodthirsty rabid dogs at heart, well beyond any possibility of redemption.
• Voice Changeling : Ghostface's trademark is a voice changer that masks their voice over the phone. Roman Bridger takes it a step further by mimicking others, including Maureen Prescott.
• Walking Spoiler : Naturally, every character who turns out to be a killer is this, as The Reveal puts all their past actions in a sinister new light, and they usually reveal a much more psychotic persona beneath their previously benign facade.
• White Mask of Doom : The white mask worn by Ghostface.
• With Friends Like These... : With very few exceptions, Ghostface turns out to be someone within the friend group. Sure, sometimes they are a case of False Friend , but half the time it's someone within the clique who just decides to kill all of their friends for 15 Minutes of Fame , as highly Disproportionate Retribution or simply For the Evulz . And to top it off, most of the time, there are two killers, and in most of those instances one betrays and kills the other.
• Would Hit a Girl : Most Ghostfaces are boys and men, and none of them have any problem brutally murdering girls and women.

Scream (1996)

The original woodsboro killers (1996).

Sidney: You'll never get away with this. Billy: Oh, no? Tell that to Cotton Weary. You wouldn't believe how easy he was to frame. Stu: Watch a few movies, take a few notes. It was fun!

• Ambiguously Bi : Sidney calls Billy "a pansy-assed mama's boy", and Randy refers to Billy as "homo-repressed" in the sequel. Kevin Williamson also based them on the real-life killers Leopold and Loeb, who actually were in a relationship.
• Brains and Brawn : Billy is the mastermind and Stu is the muscle. However, they're a downplayed version of this trope compared the other Ghostface pairings in the series, since both are fully willing to get their hands dirty and Stu contributes a number of ideas, namely trying to frame Neil Prescott and presumably going after Casey.
• Card-Carrying Villain : In Stu's words, they prefer the term "psychotic."
• Dramatic Unmask : Casey manages to unmask Stu in the opening scene, although the audience, unlike Casey doesn't get a good look at the killer's face . Later on, Billy and Stu both subvert this , as they reveal themselves in person without the Father Death costumes. Billy reveals himself after shooting Randy in cold blood, while Stu reveals himself by using Ghostface's voice changer in front of Sidney.
• Fall Guy : Billy and Stu planned to have Sidney's dad take the blame. As for the murder of Sidney's mother a year ago, they successfully framed Cotton with false evidence.
• Famed in Story : Their killings are documented in Gale's book "The Woodsboro Murders", which in turn leads to the creation of the Stab movie franchise. The first Stab has Billy played by Luke Wilson and Stu by Vince Vaughn .
• Inspirational Martyr : Their killing spree in Woodsboro ends up inspiring future copycat killers.
• Love-Interest Traitor : Billy and Stu are Sidney and Tatum's boyfriends respectively. Stu had also previously dated Casey.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning : Billy and Stu's deaths only martyred them, spawning many copycat killers in the sequels.
• Predecessor Villain : Billy and Stu are long dead by the time the second film starts, but both of them are mentioned in every movie of the series, making it clear that none of the sequels would have happened if Billy and Stu didn't start the original Ghostface murder-spree.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni : Billy is the suave, calculating Blue Oni to Stu's loud, boisterous Red Oni. Downplayed after Sidney turns the tables and Billy launches into a full-on screaming meltdown.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine : After escaping, Sidney taunts Billy and Stu through the phone with their own Ghostface voice changer. They don't take it very well. Sidney: "We're going to play a little game. It's called guess who just phoned the police and reported your sorry motherfucking ass!"
• Teens Are Monsters : A pair of high school students who commit a half-dozen murders and attempt to kill several others. Stu in particular is card-carryingly psychotic after The Reveal .
• Third Act Stupidity : Billy and Stu decide to stab themselves before Sidney or Neil. While Neil is tied up, Sidney is not and is able to use their severely weakened states against them.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey : Billy is a total bastard with a personal vendetta against Sidney. Stu is his Laughably Evil cohort just in for the kicks.
• Villainous Friendship : Billy and Stu are established to be best friends in their first scene together. Their friendship is ultimately revealed to be quite hollow as Stu cites peer pressure as his motive for helping Billy, and both of them have no issues with attacking each other out of spite. Nevertheless, neither of them actually try to kill each another unlike the Ghostface duos in Scream 2 and Scream 4 .
• Villainous Legacy : As the first set of Ghostface killers, Billy and Stu inspired every Ghostface who came after them, with even their inspiration, Roman, taking on the identity when he embarked on a killing spree in the third film. As of the end of the sixth film, there have been no fewer than twelve Ghostfaces or would-be Ghostfaces since Billy and Stu.

William "Billy" Loomis

Played By: Skeet Ulrich

"You hear that, Stu? I think she wants a motive. Well, I don't really believe in motives, Sid. I mean, did Norman Bates have a motive? Did they ever really decide why Hannibal Lecter liked to eat people? DON'T THINK SO. See, it's a lot scarier when there's no motive, Sid."

• The Alibi : After Billy gets arrested, Ghostface calls Sidney, saying she "fingered the wrong guy again", which means that Billy, who was thought to be Ghostface, wasn't the attacker. This is only half-true , since Billy is only one of two Ghostfaces; the Ghostface who called Sidney while Billy was in jail was in fact Stu.
• Ax-Crazy : After he's revealed to be Ghostface. Billy: We all go a little mad sometimes .
• Bad Boss : He's quite the bully to his partner Stu, stabbing him repeatedly in a rage after Stu stabs him too hard once and throwing the phone at him after Sidney reveals she reported him to the police.
• Barbaric Bully : His savagery in regards to his kills coupled with his Hair-Trigger Temper , him and Stu trying to stab each other to make themselves believably authentic survivors of a massacre, him being a Bad Boss to Stu, and his joy at picking on Sidney make him qualify.
• Beauty Is Bad : Portrayed as Sidney's handsome boyfriend, until he reveals himself as the first film's Big Bad .
• Berserk Button : Insulting his mother is a big one.
• Big Bad : Of the first film. He's the one calling the shots between him and Stu, and concocted most of their plan. His motive also makes him the more personal and climactic of the two killers for Sidney in the finale.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : Billy at first seems like a nice, friendly guy, if not a somewhat frustrated boyfriend to Sidney. The reveal that he is the killer completely shatters this image.
• Blatant Lies : Despite telling Sidney that he doesn't "believe in motives", Billy's subsequent ranting makes it clear that he was very much motivated by Maureen's affair with his father.
• Boom, Headshot! : How Sidney eventually kills him.
• The Bully : To Sidney and his own partner-in-crime, Stu .
• Bully Brutality : The way he pulls off his kills works as an analogy to this, and the way he treats Stu counts as this too.
• Card-Carrying Villain : He taunts Sidney for having sex with a psychopath, though he still places the blame for his monstrousness entirely on Maureen's affair with his father and his mother walking out on the family.
• Deadpan Snarker : As evidenced by his response to Casey asking "Who's there?" Billy: You might as well come out to investigate a strange noise or something.
• Disproportionate Retribution : Killing Maureen was already this, but at least you can kind of understand his logic (revenge for breaking up his family) if you squint really hard. Going on a murder spree to kill and frame her completely innocent family a year after he's already killed her and gotten away with it is a whole new level. Sidney had no idea of or any involvement in what her mother did, so this veers into Revenge by Proxy . Doubly hypocritical when the fifth movie reveals that Billy had actually knocked up a girl named Cristina some time in between Maureen's murder and the first movie, conceiving Sam and eventually causing Cristina's husband to leave their family once he found out about his wife's infidelity.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas : The reason why he kills Sidney's mother: he blames her mother for her affair with Billy's father. Making fun of his mother is also his Berserk Button .
• With the confirmation that he was responsible for Tatum's death, the fact that he flinched as she's crushed by the garage door shows even he thought it was a bit much.
• While he fully blames Maureen and Sidney for his mother leaving him, he doesn't stoop to blaming violent media for his psychopathy. Billy : Now, Sid, don't you blame the movies! Movies don't create psychos! Movies make psychos more creative !
• Makes as many jabs at having killing Sidney's mother as possible after The Reveal . Ironically, given his own agenda, all Sidney has to do is mock his mother in any way to send him into a fit.
• Billy had gotten away with murdering Maureen Prescott and framing Cotton Weary for the crime, but he insisted on carrying out a killing spree on the one-year anniversary of her death in order to frame her husband (who had nothing to do with Maureen's affair with Billy's father) and murder her daughter (likewise totally innocent), all as an extra bit of revenge on a woman he'd already murdered.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon : He's very good-looking, and a depraved killer.
• Faking the Dead : Presumably stabbed by Ghostface (Stu) in front of Sidney. He pops up toward the end, revealing himself to be Only Mostly Dead , and shoots Randy, setting up The Reveal .
• Faux Affably Evil : He's a serial killer who happens to have the charisma of a Fun Personified party animal, following The Reveal . He also makes the calls, except for when he was in jail.
• Greater-Scope Villain : While he was manipulated by Roman into killing Sidney's mother, the killing spree that he and Stu committed was his idea, and more importantly the idea of committing the killings in the Ghostface costume was likely his as well (or possibly Stu's), with even Roman adopting the costume when he embarks on his own rampage. Notably, Billy and Stu are the only Ghostfaces to be mentioned in all of the sequels past their own killing spree in 1996, cementing their status as the original Ghostface killers that started it all. Sidney even states as such in the fifth film and Amber refers to him as "the original mastermind." Sidney: Billy Loomis started this, and we're gonna end it. After tonight, no more books, no more movies, no more fucking Ghostface.
• Groin Attack : Tatum hits him with a beer bottle to the groin.
• Hair-Trigger Temper : Even before The Reveal , he's obviously a bit off.
• He-Man Woman Hater : Billy killed Maureen for the sin of sleeping with his father and "destroying his family", despite the fact that his father was just as complicit. He gaslit Sidney into sleeping with him again despite her grief, and he and Stu murdered Casey just because she dumped Stu for Steve. It's a given that he has a very limited view of women, at best.
• Hero Killer : Billy murders Principal Himbry and Tatum. He almost kills Dewey as well.
• Hypocrite : He hates the Prescotts and blames them for destroying his family because his father had an affair with Maureen Prescott, which led to his mother leaving. And yet, Randy spots him flirting with some girls in the video store when he is already going out with Sidney. Furthermore, in the fifth film, it's revealed that he knocked up Sam's mother Cristina. Given the very tight time frames implied by the dialogue, note  Sam's mention that she was 13 and her sister Tara was 8 when she found out who her biological father was implies an age gap of five to six years, and it's mentioned that the events of the fifth film take place almost exactly twenty-five years after the first. If Tara is young enough to be in high school (18), that would make Sam no older than 24, the time between the films minus the nine months it would've taken for her to gestate. Billy would've had to have had sex with Cristina and conceived Sam very shortly before the events of the first film. this means that Billy cheated on Sidney with Cristina. For bonus points, the revelation of Cristina's infidelity caused her husband to leave her and their children, the very same situation that drove Billy to kill.
• Irony : Billy murdered Maureen Prescott because her affair with his father led to his parents divorcing. Billy himself is posthumously responsible for a nearly identical situation, with Sam's parents splitting up after her father learned that Billy was Sam's biological father, the result of Cristina cheating on him with Billy.
• Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk : Despite initially acting obviously psychotic during the beginning of the first film, he later on seems to genuinely care for Sidney, but when he reveals himself to be one of the killers, it turns out to all have been just an act.
• Karma Houdini Warranty : He successfully frames Cotton Weary for his and Stu's murder of Maureen Prescott, but when he goes after her daughter a year later, Sidney ultimately avenges her mother's death by killing both of her murderers.
• Knight Templar : Subverted. He tries to present himself as avenging his family and clearly views himself as in the right, but he freely admits that he is a psychopath. He just blames Sidney and Maureen for it. Billy: Movies don't create psychos! Movies make psychos more creative!
• Known Only by Their Nickname : His real first name is William, but everyone calls him Billy.
• Lack of Empathy : Has a disturbing lack of regard for others, even Stu.
• Billy, his mother, and eventually his daughter all exhibit violent tendencies and one hell of a vindictive streak, as well as a collective disdain for people who attribute violent actions to scary movies.
• Like his father, Billy proved to be an unfaithful partner; while dating Sidney, he slept with and impregnated Cristina Carpenter, resulting in Sam.
• Like Parent, Unlike Child : Billy's daughter Sam, despite having her demons, has all the empathy and genuine sense of righteousness that Billy lacked; where Billy murdered Maureen Prescott out of disproportionate rage and subsequently planned a killing spree to further destroy Maureen's family, Sam, though brutal when pushed too far, only ever kills people who are out to murder her and her loved ones, whom she genuinely values, unlike Billy's mistreatment of Stu.
• Mama's Boy : Never really got over his mother leaving the family after it turned out Maureen Prescott slept with his father. Randy even refers to the trope by name in the sequel.
• Manipulative Bastard : He's the mastermind of the whole thing, and in Stu's own words, he peer-pressured him into the plan.

• His first name brings to mind the killer from Black Christmas . Like the Billy from Black Christmas , Loomis harasses the victims with threatening phone calls, before murdering them and is fairly adept at home invasion as well.
• His surname is an allusion to Sam Loomis, Michael's psychiatrist from Halloween , and the other Sam Loomis from Psycho . Billy is clearly a fan of the aforementioned movies, and quotes Norman Bates in one moment. That said, he is a villain, unlike the two heroic Sam Loomis characters, making this a rather Ironic Name .
• Taken together, Billy's full name is rather ambiguous about his true nature, which fits with how Sidney can't decide whether or not he is actually Ghostface before Billy's final reveal as one of the killers.
• Moral Myopia : Murdered Maureen for "destroying" his family by sleeping with his father, but Scream 5 reveals he apparently had no qualms sleeping with another woman despite already being in a relationship himself.
• Never My Fault : Double Subverted . He refuses to cast the blame for his murder spree on violent media, only to then try and place the blame on Sidney and Maureen for it.
• Billy and Stu had gotten away with murdering Maureen and framing Cotton; their plan to murder Sidney and her father to further spite Maureen ultimately only exposes the fact that they were guilty and gets them both killed.
• In the climax, Gale tries to shoot him, but forgets to take the safety off in her haste, which he lampshades and mocks her for before knocking her out. Later, just when he's on the verge of killing Sidney, Gale stops him via gunshot, mockingly thanking him for that reminder. Gale : Guess I remembered the safety that time, bastard.
• Not Quite Dead : Just as Billy is about to kill Sidney, Gale shoots him from the doorway and seemingly kills him. Sidney, Gale, and Randy all stand in front of the unconscious Billy. Randy lampshades that this is when the killer gets up for "one last scare." Moments later, Billy briefly awakens, before Sidney kills him for real with a headshot. Randy: Careful. This is the moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back to life for one last scare. [Billy wakes up and lunges at the group, with Gale and Randy screaming as Sidney calmly shoots Billy in the head] Sidney: Not in my movie.
• Obviously Evil : Even prior to The Reveal , Billy was the prime suspect among the cast as even his friend circle found him intense and creepy. Randy outright lampshades he's obviously the killer (though he's largely just saying it out of jealousy), but even after he's officially ruled out Sidney still never completely trusts his innocence.
• Playing the Victim Card : He tries to cast himself as the real victim, putting the blame for his murders entirely on Maureen and Sidney. Sidney calls him out on how moronic it is, but Billy ignores her entirely.
• Pragmatic Villainy : Chides Stu for his insensitive talk about gutting people. Given that he and Stu were the killers, it was probably to shut Stu up before he gave up too much information.
• Pretty Boy : Arguably the most attractive of all the male characters in the film, possibly even the franchise as a whole.
• Psychopathic Manchild : A whiny, crazed, immature mama's boy, to say the least.
• Red Herring : He's practically the living incarnation of this. He's obviously messed up, acts incredibly suspicious, and is suspected to be the killer. All of this immediately draws the audience into believing he is innocent because the movie wants you to believe all that. He's actually just as bad as he appears.
• Sadist : As Ghostface, he taunts Sidney on the phone, gleefully informing her that he killed her mother. He also toys with Casey on the phone to make her think she and Steve have a chance of surviving, helps Stu hang Casey's corpse for her parents to see, and looks into Principal Himbry's eyes as he dies just to torment him further.
• Say My Name : During his Faking the Dead ruse, he says "Sid" before crumpling to the floor.
• Slut-Shaming : Billy calls Sidney's mother a whore for having an affair with his father that consequently broke up his family even though his own father was equally at fault for having the affair, and as we later learn he himself had cheated on Sidney with another girl and gotten her pregnant.
• Smug Snake : He ain't exactly subtle about how proud he is of his plan, and once things stop going according to plan, he loses any semblance of composure.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist : Unlike the much more animated Stu , once Billy has been outed as a killer, he mostly keeps his voice down, even revealing his duplicity with an almost whispered " we all go a little mad sometimes ". Once things start falling out of his control, however, Billy starts shouting angrily .
• Surrounded by Idiots : Between him and Stu, he is clearly the brains in the Ghostface scheme, and many of his interactions with Stu clearly hints at the fact is quite irritated with him, because Stu is frequently inches from Saying Too Much and giving away the game, resulting in a frustraded Billy either telling him to shut up or punching him on the arm to get the same meaning across.
• Thin-Skinned Bully : Less in the sense of being cowardly, but more that Billy loses control hard when Sidney turns the tables on him, only able to make petty threats and throw a screaming fit when she bests him at even that . He also, ironically, puts up less of a fight than Stu.
• Tom the Dark Lord : "Billy" is not a particularly intimidating name for the homicidal monster that he is.
• Toxic Friend Influence : He was able to talk Stu into being his accomplice.
• Unwitting Pawn : Roman convinced him to kill Maureen instead of doing it himself so that nothing could trace back to him.
• Villainous Breakdown : He starts losing it once he loses track of the gun, then Sidney and her father, reducing him to the animalistic, no-holds-barred rage of a man who truly is a snarling monster no matter what guise he takes.
• Villains Never Lie : Very much averted, as he admits, "You get it right? You die.", meaning Casey was never going to live. However, his motive rant screams this trope, because while Sidney is visibly unimpressed with his "slut-bag whore" motive, she doesn't question his actual motive at all. In that she takes his word that his mother left because of his father's affair with Maureen.
• White Shirt of Death : During the final night, he's wearing a white shirt.
• Would Hit a Girl : Kills Maureen and Tatum and almost kills Sidney and Gale.

Stuart "Stu" Macher

Played By: Matthew Lillard note  Skeet Ulrich was wearing the costume in the scene where Ghostface menaces Randy before killing Kenny, which Word of God says was Stu.

"You see, Sid, everybody dies but us! Everybody dies but us! We get to carry on and plan the sequel, because let's face it, baby, these days, you gotta have a sequel!"

• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy : While his failures can be attributed to him not being very bright to begin with, it's not helped by the fact that he drinks a bit at his own party even though he has plans to orchestrate a series of murders, and frame a guy. This is something that is noticeably not repeated by his successors.
• The Alibi : Has one for the murders of Casey and Steve in the form of Tatum, who informs Randy that Stu was with her at the night of the murders. Randy counters that Stu could have killed Casey and Steve before or after visiting Tatum. It is implied that Randy was right, since Stu looks noticeably guilty afterwards, and Tatum resorts to interrogating Randy about his whereabouts on the night of the murders.
• Ax-Crazy : Eventually revealed to be one of the Ghostface killers. Overall, he's one of the biggest For the Evulz killers in the franchise.
• Barbaric Bully : His grotesque enthusiasm in engaging in the killings and him and Billy stabbing each other to makes themselves look like authentic victims qualify him as such.
• Beware the Silly Ones : He's probably the goofiest character in all the series. That said, he still efficiently carries out a number of murders, and does it all For the Evulz . Even Mickey isn't this goofy or dangerous.
• The Bully : Of the lackey variety, accompanying the main bully within their classic high school/college posse, even if he gets bullied himself amongst the two.
• Bully Brutality : Him taking part in most grisly kills, including the murder of his ex, is a reflection of this.
• Crazy Jealous Guy : His motive for murdering Casey and Steve is bitterness over Casey breaking up with him.
• Death by Irony : Stu, a Serial Killer who based his murders on horror movies, dies when Sidney crushes his head with a television playing the original Halloween .
• Dirty Coward : His pathetic Villainous Breakdown where he's reduced to bawling like a baby, in contrast to Billy's more aggressive one, confirms him to be this overall.
• Disproportionate Retribution : He brutally murders Casey and her boyfriend for her dumping him.
• The Dragon : Billy's accomplice, assisting him in multiple murders.
• Dumb Muscle : It's clear after The Reveal that Stu is just the brawns of the operation, following the more intelligent Billy's lead for the most part. He does come up with the idea to frame Neil Prescott as the culprit for their killing spree, though.
• Entitled to Have You : He kills Casey for the sin of dumping him, even though he was dating Tatum at the time of the murder.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas : And papas too, possibly. While he'll gladly kill, he doesn't want his parents to know because he's afraid of how angry they'll be at him. Although his reaction's mostly because he doesn't want to get caught, he might also be scared of breaking their hearts. Stu: Did you really call the police? Sidney: You bet your sorry ass I did. Stu: (begins to cry) My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me !
• Even Evil Has Standards : Heavily downplayed, considering he mostly killed For the Evulz , but even he was shocked to hear Billy's mother abandoned him after Sidney's mother had an affair with his father.
• Evil Is Bigger : Matthew Lillard is 6'3", the tallest of the main cast of the first film.
• Evil Is Hammy : He seemingly goes crazy following The Reveal in a twisted Fun Personified way, but even before that, the ham is barely constrained.
• Evil Is Petty : Besides helping Billy being for his sick amusement , he murders his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend out of jealousy.
• Evil Laugh : He lets out a real one when he reveals himself as the killer.
• Faux Affably Evil : He acts like a Fun Personified party animal of a Plucky Comic Relief , but he's really one of the villains.
• For the Evulz : No motive except getting his kicks. Subverted in the case of Casey and Steve, though, since Casey dumped him for Steve. Stu: Watch a few movies, take a few notes. It was fun!
• Foreshadowing : Randy's line "I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife." Bonus points for the reason why he said it: it was in reply to Stu saying "I'll be right back!" in a mocking voice when he went to the kitchen to grab a beer. Stu said that because, as the killer, he knew he had nothing to fear.
• Frame-Up : While Billy came up with most of the plans, it was Stu's idea to pin their crimes on Neil Prescott.
• High-Voltage Death : Electrocuted when Sidney drops a TV on his face.
• If I Can't Have You� : Implied to be his reason for killing Casey Becker and her boyfriend Steve Orth.
• Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk : For most of the movie, Stu acts obnoxious and immature, but ultimately seems to be harmless. Once he and Billy are revealed to be the killers, Stu quickly goes from humorous to frightening.
• Karma Houdini Warranty : Alongside Billy, Stu had gotten away with his participation as Billy's accomplice in Maureen's murder when they pinned it on Cotton Weary, but a year later, their killing spree in the first movie is brought to an end when Sidney kills them both in self-defense.
• Large Ham : Especially after The Reveal , Matthew Lillard devours scenery left and right.
• Laughably Evil : Thanks to Matthew Lillard's Large Ham performance.
• More Despicable Minion : While the murder spree was Billy's idea, Stu outdoes him in terms of evilness. It was his idea to murder Casey and Steve, which was probably their most horrific murder. Also, Billy at least has a somewhat tragic motive , while Stu is just in it For the Evulz .
• No Sense of Personal Space : He leans on Billy's neck to hang right over his shoulder when they're menacing Sidney in the kitchen. Given that he does the same to Randy in the video store and hangs all over Tatum after the principal lets school out early, it seems to serve as a both an intimidation tactic and possibly a gesture of affection.
• Not Quite Dead : Hinted at by Mindy in Scream VI when she and Kirby see the television he was electrocuted with. Kirby calls it the TV that killed him, Mindy quickly replies with "if you believe he's dead..."
• Scream 2 : When Mickey starts bragging about his plan , he compares himself to Billy.
• Scream 3 : Roman mostly talks about how he inspired Billy. In contrast, he regards Stu as the disposable accomplice Billy could blame if things went wrong.
• Scream 4 : Charlie was so focused on making Trevor the new Billy Loomis that he forgot that a true remake would need a new Stu Macher too, which is why he was unprepared for Jill's betrayal .
• When the new Ghostface quizzes Tara on the identity of the first Ghostface, Tara, who only saw Stab once many years ago, quickly recalls Billy but forgets that Stu was also Ghostface.
• It's implied that Richie and Amber see Billy as the more important Ghostface. Notably, they went out of their way to trick Billy's daughter Sam into returning to Woodsboro so that they could frame her as the requel Ghostface when it would have been easier to frame Stu's nephew Vince, a local Woodsboro resident, as the requel Ghostface.
• Finally averted in Scream VI where Quinn (who wears Stu's mask to commit her own murders) states that Stu was actually her favorite killer. Kirby also takes a moment to marvel at the TV that killed Stu, which she later uses to dispatch Ethan.
• Psycho Ex-Boyfriend : To Casey. They dated before the films started, and he murders her in the opening.
• Psychopathic Manchild : Really immature, and comes off as a crazy, sadistic kid. Notably, when he learns he's been exposed, his first thought is how angry his parents will be.
• Sadist : Billy at least had some kind of sympathetic motive for his crimes, however inexcusable they were. Stu seems to have killed for no other reason than sheer pleasure. At one point, he even salivates at the idea of getting to do a "sequel" to the Woodsboro murder spree.
• Saying Too Much : After Sidney rhetorically questions how someone can gut another person, Stu enthusiastically describes how to gut a human body. He probably would have given himself away as the killer if not for Billy's quick interference.
• Skewed Priorities : When Stu is bleeding out from his stab wounds and Sidney informs him that she's just called the police, the last thing that should've been on his mind would be how mad his parents were going to be when they found out.
• Slashed Throat : He slits Kenny's throat while trying to attack Sidney.
• Smug Snake : Like Billy, but he's the dumber and less efficient of the duo, so he comes across as even more smug.
• Tap on the Head : Slams Sidney's head against the floor to stun her during the attack in her house.
• Toxic Friend Influence : He tries to invoke this as an excuse when he blames his crimes on "peer pressure" from Billy.
• Villainous Breakdown : He bawls like a baby when Sidney reveals to them that she has called the police on him and Billy. Stu: My mom and dad are going to be so mad at me...
• Wrong Genre Savvy : Played with. Stu believes that he and Billy are the invincible slasher villains that can never die and therefore can return for the sequels. While Stu is correct in assuming that he is in a slasher movie, the slasher movie in question is a Deconstructive Parody , which means he and Billy definitely don't have the supernatural powers of, say, Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees to cheat death.

The Windsor College Killers (1997)

Sidney: So you two are in this together? Mickey: Yeah, well. Had to have financing. Tuition's expensive. Deb, there — my backer. We met on the Internet. Psycho website. Classifieds. Nancy: There's only an estimated 97 active serial killers in the country. So Mickey, here, was quite a find. Definitely one on the way up. All he needed was a little guidance and nurturing.

• Brains and Brawn : Mickey does most of the legwork in the movie, killing everybody except Randy as part of his crazed scheme to create a real-life Woodsboro sequel. By contrast, Mrs. Loomis had a much more well thought-out plan and only ever attacks the Woodsboro survivors.
• Connected All Along : It turns out that Mickey was in cahoots with Mrs. Loomis despite never interacting with her onscreen before their reveals. Mrs. Loomis mentions finding Mickey on a serial killer website.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : Billy and Stu were both high school students and a more or less solid team; Mrs. Loomis is a middle-aged adult and Mickey is a college student, and the latter was the former's Unwitting Pawn .
• Copycat Killer : Mickey plays it straight by murdering people who share names with the victims from the first Ghostface killing spree , and in a similar order as well. On the other hand, Mrs. Loomis seems relatively indifferent to the copycatting, and is mainly targeting Sidney and the other Woodsboro survivors. In fact, it is implied that Mrs. Loomis invoked this trope with Mickey so that she would have an easy fall guy after killing off Sidney.
• Dramatic Unmask : Mickey plays this straight by unmasking himself in front of Sidney and Derek. On the other hand, this is subverted in the case of Mrs. Loomis, who reveals herself by threatening Gale with a handgun.
• Fall Guy : Played with in that Mickey is willing to turn himself in to the police to take all the credit for the murders, but Mrs. Loomis shoots him to prevent him from potentially implicating her.
• Famed in Story : Their murder spree inspires Stab 2 .
• Superior Successor : They manage to top Billy and Stu in terms of body count, claiming eight victims. Nancy also succeeds in killing Woodsboro survivor Randy.
• Two Dun It : As with the first movie, two people don the Ghostface costume in Scream 2 .
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey : Mrs. Loomis is utterly ruthless while Mickey is her Laughably Evil minion.

Nancy Loomis (alias: Debbie Salt)

Played By: Laurie Metcalf

"No, I'm very sane. My motive isn't as 90s as Mickey's. Mine is just good, old-fashioned revenge. You killed my son, and now I kill you, and I can't think of anything more rational."

• All There in the Script : An early script for Scream 4 reveals that her full name is Nancy Loomis, likely a Shout-Out to actress Nancy Kyes (known professionally as "Nancy Loomis"), who played Annie in the original Halloween . The name is finally confirmed on-screen in Scream VI .
• Avenging the Villain : She is the mother of Billy, the Big Bad from the first film, seeking revenge.
• Bad Boss : She shoots her own underling Mickey, something that was completely unnecessary as Mickey was happy to take the fall as the killer as he wanted Fame Through Infamy .
• Batman Gambit : She claims to be a student at Gale's seminar, counting on Gale's arrogance to dismiss her as some wannabe reporter when she's actually the lead Ghostface.
• Big Bad : Of the second film. She's out for revenge against Sidney for the death of Billy in the previous film, and is the dominant Ghostface in the climax.
• Berserk Button : Insulting her son Billy (thus implying she was a bad mother). Randy does this to the killer over the phone, not knowing the killer he was talking to specifically was Billy's mother, and she as Ghostface lets loose on him. Sidney: You're as crazy as your son was. Mrs. Loomis: What did you just say? Was that a negative, disparaging remark about my son? About my Billy? Sidney: No, Billy was a good boy. Billy was perfect. You did a bang-up job, Mrs. Loomis. Mrs. Loomis: It's not wise to patronize me with a gun, Sidney. Randy spoke poorly of Billy and I got a little knife happy.
• Boom, Headshot! : While she appears dead after Cotton shoots her, when Mickey rises up and yells (and gets gunned down), Sidney decides to put a bullet in her head, " just in case ".
• Cast Herd : Nancy invokes this by avoiding the Woodsboro survivors, most of whom will recognize her upon first glance due to their familiarity with Billy and his parents. She only interacts with Gale because Nancy is pretending to be a news reporter, so avoiding Gale, an actual news reporter, will be incredibly difficult. Gale also wasn't as close to Billy as Dewey, Sidney, and Randy were, not to mention not actually from Woodsboro, so Nancy had a better chance of tricking her.
• Cheshire Cat Grin : Whenever she smiles, it's always scary. Exaggerated considering her giant blue eyes that glow in the dark and her ability to disappear completely, fooling everyone except for Sidney and Cotton.
• Crazy-Prepared : Currently, Mrs. Loomis is the one of the only two Ghostfaces to bring her own pistol as the other Ghostfaces acquire guns by stealing them from dead cops. The other is Detective Wayne Bailey, who has his own gun due to his profession as an NYPD officer.
• Crime of Self-Defense : She truly does not care at all that Sidney only killed Billy in self-defense and acts as if her son wasn't a mass murderer who needed to be stopped before he killed anymore people.
• Disproportionate Retribution : Mrs. Loomis attempts to kill Sidney for killing her son, Billy, which is somewhat understandable, but she ignores the fact that she abandoned her child , motivating Billy's rampage in the first place, and that Sid only killed Billy because the guy took part in and assisted in the murders of six people, then attempted to murder Sidney herself and frame her father for said murders . Mrs. Loomis also murders Randy for insulting her son.
• Double Tap : On the receiving end of this from Sidney. After the first Ghostface killing spree ended with Billy springing up back to life before getting shot dead, and Mickey following suit at the end of his and Mrs. Loomis's killings, Sidney does the Genre Savvy thing and shoots the presumably deceased Mrs. Loomis in the head to ensure her death.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : Give her this: she loves her son.
• Even Evil Has Standards : After shooting Mickey, she admits that even she finds his "Blame the Movies" idea to be too insane to work. Mrs. Loomis: Mickey was a good boy, but my God! That whole "blame the movies" motive? Did you buy that for one second? The poor boy was completely out of his mind.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good : She never considered for a moment that Cotton wouldn't want Sidney dead, and genuinely expected her suggestion of allowing Sidney's death to sway him.
• Expy : Can be considered one for Pamela Voorhees . Both are grieving mothers who seek revenge for their sons' deaths, and murder because of the insanity stemming from it. Many of the tropes seen here can even be found on Pamela's character page as well. However, Pamela's Freudian Excuse is stronger, and her character is ultimately more sympathetic and tragic, due to having suffered even before Jason was born, and having had to raise him during what should have been the best years of her life as a teenager, while Mrs. Loomis' abandonment of Billy makes it hard to sympathize with her, especially since it was a primary factor in how he went insane. There's also the fact that, at the time, Jason was an innocent boy, whereas Billy had already become a serial killer.
• Formerly Fat : The last time Sidney saw her, Mrs. Loomis was about sixty pounds heavier. Her appearance in the film has her look quite fit.
• Getaway Driver : Judging by the camera footage seen by Gale and Dewey in the auditorium, Mrs. Loomis waited outside the theater for Mickey, and once he left the theater, drove him away from the scene.
• Hair-Trigger Temper : Will not have her son be called out or belittled in any way. When Randy does this, she gets a little "knife-happy" on him.
• Hates Small Talk : Out of all the killers, Mrs. Loomis has the least patience for horror movie chitchat, and goes right to threats.
• Hero Killer : Mrs. Loomis happily takes the credit for murdering Randy. Furthermore, she is the Ghostface who stabs Dewey multiple times In the Back though he manages to survive.
• Hypocrite : She blames Sidney for killing Billy, even though her abandoning him is what led to him attacking Sidney's family in the first place. She's also sick to death of people blaming the parents for the faults of their children but lays the blame for the entire affair on Sidney's mother in the same monologue without a hint of irony. When Cotton Weary tries to intervene in her murder of Sidney, Debbie tries to get him on her side by pointing out Sidney's testimony put him in prison for a year, even though it was Billy (the person Debbie is trying to avenge) who framed Cotton for Maureen's murder in the first place.
• Irony : Mrs. Loomis despises the implication that she was in any way responsible for Billy becoming a serial killer. However, her own subsequent killing spree could be used as an argument that her son becoming a serial killer was inevitable.
• It's All About Me : Has absolutely zero sympathy for anyone that was harmed by Billy's crimes and wants to kill the girl who killed him in self-defense, believing that she and her son deserve all of the sympathy while Sidney and her friends deserve none. It is heavily implied she was neglectful of Billy in his life anyway, and only really flip-flopped to being a caring and mournful parent after all the blame she received for raising a serial killer .
• It's Personal : All her attacks are on survivors of the Woodsboro massacre, likely because she blames them for the death of her son. Besides Sidney, she kills Randy and gives chase to Dewey and Gale, at the end of which she non-fatally stabs Dewey. Her murder of Randy happens when she was hiding in the back of Gale's van talking on the phone with Dewey, Gale, and Randy, meaning she was fully hoping to off at least one of the trio.
• The Killer Was Left-Handed : Invoked and subverted . Mrs. Loomis is right-handed as she writes down information with her right hand when pretending to be a news reporter and holds her gun in her right hand when taking Gale hostage. However, Mickey is left-handed, so Mrs. Loomis switches to her left hand when attacking someone to make sure the evidence is traceable back to only Mickey.
• Like Parent, Like Child : After seeing her in action, one can note that Billy was merely a chip off the old block; just like her son, Mrs. Loomis is a self-righteous, vengeful psychopath who can't accept fault and who blames Maureen and Sidney for the end of Mrs. Loomis' marriage. On a lighter note, both she and Billy reject the notion of blaming movies for inspiring violent behavior, with Mrs. Loomis writing Mickey off as insane for thinking that such a defense would actually work.
• Mama Bear : A rather dark portrayal, considering that she's trying to kill Sidney for killing Billy.
• Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal : She acts like her son was an innocent victim, even though he murdered a woman, framed an innocent man for it, nearly resulting in his execution, and went on a killing spree, killing five people (six if you count Maureen Prescott), three of them by disembowelment.
• Meaningful Name : She's very salty about her son's death.
• Moral Myopia : Mrs. Loomis is out to avenge Billy's death at Sidney's hands, but not only does she not care in the least about the innocent people Billy murdered or that Sidney only killed him in self-defense, but she's willing to go through plenty of innocent lives herself as long as it means that Sidney dies in the end.
• Named After Somebody Famous : Her name is a Shout-Out to Nancy Loomis note  Now Nancy Kyes , known for her role as Annie Brackett in John Carpenter 's Halloween .
• Never Mess with Granny : Laurie Metcalf was in her early 40s, but the fifth film's revelation of Billy having fathered a daughter before his death makes her an example of this.
• Never My Fault : The defining element of her motive; she'll blame and kill anyone related to Billy's crime spree and death before she blames her own neglectful parenting. Mrs. Loomis: Ha! I was a good mother. You know what makes me sick? I am sick to death of people saying that it's all the parents' fault and that it all starts with the family. Wanna blame someone? Why don't you blame YOUR MOTHER? She was the one who stole my husband and broke up my family. And then you took my son!
• No Full Name Given : After The Reveal , she's only referred to as "Mrs. Loomis." Her real first name is never revealed, but many people just use her first name in her alias and call her "Debbie Loomis." An early script for Scream 4 gives her name as Nancy, which is later confirmed in Scream VI .
• No Sympathy : Does not give a damn about the fact that Sidney's mother was murdered by Billy, or that he tried to kill her and her father and frame her father for murder posthumously. In regards to Maureen, Nancy probably felt that she had it coming after having an affair with her husband.
• Not Helping Your Case : When she reminds Cotton that he spent a year in prison because of Sidney, she forgets to realize Cotton was framed by her son for the murder Billy committed.
• Not Quite Dead : After Mickey proves to be such, a Genre Savvy Sidney shoots her in the forehead "just in case". Given that she twitches afterwards, she was probably correct.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist : She puts up a show of being a Mama Bear trying to avenge her son, but it's obvious that she's just bitter about being blamed for Billy's killing spree and taking it out on Sidney rather than accept any culpability.
• Oh, Crap! : After Sidney caves in to an earlier bargain with Cotton, she quickly figures out she's screwed just before Cotton shoots her dead.
• Outliving One's Offspring : Her motivation is that her son was killed by Sidney at the previous film's climax.
• Parental Abandonment : Abandoned Billy before the first film after she learned that her husband had an affair with Sidney's mother.
• Pay Evil unto Evil : Backstabbing and shooting her own accomplice, who genuinely believed Mrs. Loomis was on his side, was pretty low, but given that Mickey was a psychopathic killer whose only motive was to get famous for his crimes (something even Mrs. Loomis wrote off as crazy), he's hardly a sympathetic victim.
• Playing the Victim Card : She clearly believes that she's the wronged party and that she and Billy are innocent victims. It's very clear that her entire killing spree is motivated by a massive victim complex and an absolute refusal to accept the slightest hint of culpability for her or her son's actions.
• Pragmatic Villainy : Nancy has a good opportunity to kill Derek at the sorority house but settles for injuring his arm since she has no real grudge against him. Earlier, she locked Derek out of the house to prevent him from helping Sidney, Nancy's real target.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner : Prior to turning on Mickey. It's subverted when he's revealed to have survived, however (albeit not very long). Mrs. Loomis: Oh, Mickey... there's not gonna be a trial.
• Revenge Myopia : Arguably the most hypocritical of the lot. She wants to murder Sidney for killing her son, even though it was in self-defense, and her son murdered Sidney's mother and best friend, tried to kill her and her father, and wanted to frame her father as a spree killer/mass murderer. Her own abandonment of Billy played heavily into his psychosis in the first place. But no, she's sick of people using that old Blame Game on her. She even attempts to get Cotton in on this, noting that Sidney falsely accused him...for the crimes her son committed and intentionally framed him for.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge : Her reason for the murders.
• The Reveal : She is Billy's mother from the first film, seeking revenge on Sidney.
• Mrs. Loomis is so adamant that she'll get away with her plan to the point where she continues to hold Sidney at gunpoint and deliver a Motive Rant rather than just shooting her dead. This leads to Sidney escaping Nancy's grasp by tricking her into thinking Mickey is alive before smashing a glass bottle against her neck.
• She betrays Mickey before trying to kill Sidney, even though he would have been useful backup in case Sidney tried to fight back.
• Unseen No More : Billy mentions her in the first film, although she doesn't appear until the second film.
• As vile as she is, she is right that she shouldn't be blamed for Billy's crimes or be held as solely responsible for his killing spree. However, both her refusal to accept that her neglectful parenting could have motivated him and the way she chooses to deal with it make it very hard to feel sympathy for her.
• Mrs. Loomis is hardly any more stable, but she's right that Mickey's whole "blame the movies" strategy was crazy and not at all likely to work.
• Woman Scorned : Not in the romantic sense, but in the sense of wanting to kill the person who killed her son.

Mickey Altieri

Played By: Timothy Olyphant

"I'm gonna blame the movies. It's pretty cool, huh? It hasn't been done before. You see, this is just the beginning, a prelude to the trial. That's where the real fun is, because these days, it's all about the trial. Could you see it? The effects of cinema violence on society. I'll get Dershowitz or Cochran to represent me, Bob Dole on the witness stand in my defense. Hell, the Christian Coalition will pay my legal fees!"

• 15 Minutes of Fame : Became Ghostface and did the killings intending to be caught and subsequently gain fame and a trial, where he planned to blame horror films for his rampage.
• Allegorical Character : Mickey fits the idea of a movie sequel. He not only wants to cash in on the success of the first outing but also wants to outdo it as well through Sequel Escalation . This results in him performing bigger, riskier stunts such as killing Maureen and Phil in public, taking on two trained cops at once, surpassing the body count of Billy and Stu with Nancy's help, and purposefully surrendering to the police (or at least that was the plan).
• Attention Whore : He killed simply so he could stand trial for it afterwards and bask in the limelight.
• Ax-Crazy : The only Ghostface who was already an active serial killer before ever getting involved in the Ghostface biz.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : He acts nice and caring towards Sidney before The Reveal .
• Blown Across the Room : The result of his Multiple Gunshot Death when Sidney and Gale shoot the hell out of him after he tries for one more jumpscare attack (also counts as Laser-Guided Karma after he nearly shoots Gale in his initial death throes).
• Card-Carrying Villain : Mickey is noteworthy for being the only Ghostface to openly acknowledge and relish in their villainy. He makes no attempt to excuse, downplay, or ignore his violent behavior and gleefully looks forward to the fame he believes his trial will spark. While there have been other killers who've displayed giddy behavior after the reveal, Stu has the weak excuse of "peer pressure" and Ethan is implied to be an incel who acts just as much out of frustration as he does violent urges. Mickey lacks even the weakest of excuses, having already been a serial killer before becoming Ghostface. Sidney: You're psychotic! Mickey: Yeah, well, sshh. That'll be our little secret.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : To Billy. While Billy was a bit abrasive and short-tempered even before he was revealed as the killer, Mickey makes a point of seeming perfectly charming and harmless. Billy had a motive for his actions, if admittedly a fairly flimsy one, while Mickey is only interested in achieving fame. While Billy planned to get away with it by making himself and Stu look like victims, Mickey wants to get caught so he can achieve notoriety. Whereas Billy explicitly shot down the idea that movies made him go on a killing spree, Mickey fully intends on using this as his legal defense.
• Cop Killer : Murders Officers Andrews and Richards.
• Copycat Killer : Like most Ghostfaces, Mickey is a copycat of Billy and Stu, but his objective of getting the trial of the century is inspired by the contemporary O.J. Simpson trial . Mickey states that he will hire Dershowitz and Cochran, members of Simpson's Dream Team, to defend him.
• Didn't Think This Through : It never occurred to Mickey that his grand plan of becoming famous by standing trial for his crimes might not be to the liking of his accomplice, who doesn't want to be implicated for her role in the killings. His planned defense is likewise ill-conceived; even Mrs. Loomis, who is only marginally saner than Mickey, never believed it would work.
• The Dragon : To Debbie Salt, also known as Nancy Loomis. She paid for his college tuition and essentially nurtured him into being her accomplice, and he more or less follows her directions throughout the film. He's also the scapegoat she intends to blame the murders on after killing Sidney.
• Dragon Their Feet : Survives Mrs. Loomis by scant seconds, popping up for one last scare.
• Dramatic Unmask : He unmasks himself to Sidney and Derek, first by turning off the voice changer and speaking in his normal voice, ensuring that they realize who it is they're dealing with seconds before he actually removes his mask.
• Drives Like Crazy : As Ghostface, he takes Sidney, Hallie, and Officer Richards on a wild car ride, Richards clinging onto the hood for dear life. The ride ends when Ghostface crashes the car into a construction site, sending a pipe through Richards' head.
• Evil Counterpart : Mickey is one to Cotton Weary in Scream 2 . Both of them are Attention Whores looking for their 15 Minutes of Fame and threaten Sidney to get those fifteen minutes. Mickey and Cotton are also suspects for Ghostface and end up killing at least one person: As Ghostface, Mickey murders plenty of innocent people while Cotton kills Nancy, the other Ghostface.
• Evil Is Petty : Mickey wants to get famous, and considers that worth any number of innocent lives.
• Fall Guy : Mrs. Loomis intends to have him take the fall for the murders. Granted, Mickey himself wants this, but Mrs. Loomis also plans to kill him to avoid him potentially implicating her.
• Fame Through Infamy : He wants to get caught so that he can have the trial of the century for his crimes, putting himself at the center of political debates about violence in the media.
• Faux Affably Evil : A very nice and charming student, until he unmasks himself as Ghostface to Sidney and Derek, yet acts like a thrill-seeking Fun Personified party animal in reaction to his kills. He originally was intended to be straight-up affable, not a killer at all.
• For the Evulz : Unlike every other Ghostface (apart from Jill), Mickey freely cops to the fact he's just murdering people because he likes it and the idea of being an infamous serial killer.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars : During the final confrontation, Mickey has a large cut on his forehead from crashing the police car.
• Heroic Build : Exploited . Mickey's muscular build is similar to that of his victim Phil, which allows the masked Mickey to disguise as him after stealing Phil's jacket.
• Hero Killer : Murders everyone in the film except Randy.
• Kick the Dog : Murdering Derek in front of Sidney, after claiming that Derek was his partner, all just to make her feel even worse about his death.
• The Killer Was Left-Handed : Unlike Mrs. Loomis, Mickey is a true left-hander and grips the knife with his left hand when stabbing his victims. In one deleted scene, Derek pointed out that both Mickey and Ghostface were left-handed.
• Large Ham : Much like Matthew Lillard in the previous movie, Timothy Olyphant wastes no time chewing the scenery after the big reveal.
• Laughably Evil : Like Stu above, he acts like The Joker as Ghostface.
• Love-Interest Traitor : Mickey has some playful flirtation with Hallie, who he later kills.
• Made of Iron : Somehow managed to survive Mrs. Loomis's gunshots and get up to his feet for one last scare . It takes a barrage of gunfire from Sidney and Gale to knock him down. He also survives crashing a car into a construction site.
• Manipulative Bastard : Mickey goes out of his way to plant doubts in Sidney's mind about Derek's trustworthiness, even flat-out claiming Derek to be his partner during the climax, all to psychologically torment Sidney and make her feel that much worse when Mickey kills Derek.
• More Despicable Minion : Self-centered as it is, Nancy Loomis at least has the motive of trying to avenge her son. Mickey killed simply because he enjoyed it and wanted to get famous.
• Multiple Gunshot Death : How he ultimately dies, courtesy of Sidney and Gale.
• Murder Simulators : Invoked with his plan, which was to get caught and, at the trial, blame violent horror movies for turning him into a psycho killer, earning him sympathetic media, legal attention, and quite possibly a light sentence.
• Not Quite Dead : After Cotton saves Sidney by shooting Nancy dead, Mickey suddenly springs up back to life. He suffers a Multiple Gunshot Death from Sidney and Gale for his trouble.
• Sadist : Just look at the way he murders Maureen and Derek. He's clearly enjoying every second of it.
• Serial Killer : Notable in that he was already an active one before becoming Ghostface, which means that his total body count is much higher than what is seen on screen. Nancy Loomis recruited him for this reason.
• Significant Name Overlap : As part of his "blaming violent movies" motive, he murders people who share the same names as the Woodsboro victims from the original Ghostface killing spree in a similar order. However, this is dropped after Nancy kills Randy, presumably because Nancy, the leader of the two, had a plan to target Sidney later that night, so there would be no time for Mickey to find other similarly-named victims.
• Sword and Gun : He arms himself with both a pistol and Ghostface's signature knife in his final confrontation with Sidney.
• Troll : A particularly nasty example; Mickey pretends that Derek, currently bound and helpless, was his partner in the killings just to further mess with Sidney's head and make her feel even worse for suspecting the innocent Derek after Mickey murders him.
• Unwitting Pawn : Mrs. Loomis easily duped Mickey into believing that their killings would lead to him winning fame through an inevitable trial for his crimes. As soon as she had Sidney in her crosshairs, however, Mrs. Loomis gunned Mickey down, having never believed his "blame the movies" defense would work and only using him as muscle and as a useful scapegoat.
• Villain Respect : He gives props to Sidney for putting up a good fight, saying that she has a " Linda Hamilton thing going."
• Wrong Genre Savvy : invoked Mickey is under the impression that his and Mrs. Loomis's killing spree is the Even Better Sequel to Billy and Stu's rampage. In reality, most Stab fans consider Stab 2 , the film based off he and Mrs. Loomis's killing spree, to be a Contested Sequel , a solid entry that is superior to every Stab movie made after Stab 3 but not necessarily superior to the original one. Mickey: Just wait until the trial. It is gonna rock ! Mrs. Loomis: Oh Mickey, there's not going to be a trial.
• You're Insane! : Both Sidney (who calls Mickey "psychotic" to his face) and Mrs. Loomis express a (justifiably) low opinion of Mickey's sanity.

Roman Bridger

Played By: Scott Foley

"I had no idea that they were going to make a film of their own. I mean, introducing: Sidney, the victim. Sidney, the survivor. Sidney, the star!"

• Actually Pretty Funny : He can't help but chuckle when he sees that Sidney pulled off the same bulletproof vest trick as him.
• Alas, Poor Villain : Subverted. He holds hands with Sidney after she stabs him in the chest in an apparent attempt to genuinely connect with her, but then rises back up and lunges at her with his knife.
• Arc Welding : Revealed to be the person who put Billy and Stu up to murdering Maureen in the first place.
• Author Avatar : For Wes Craven . He's a horror director who orchestrated the events of the series, and admits to being tired of horror movies.
• Ax-Crazy : Downplayed. He's an egotistical maniac who enjoys killing, but he has a certain intelligence and cunning, seeing how he orchestrated Billy and Stu's crimes from the first movie. However, he throws out his sanity at the climax when Sidney pulls her Shut Up, Hannibal! on him. In addition, out of all the Ghostfaces, he has the most kills, at nine.
• Bait the Dog : When he's apparently fatally wounded, he holds onto Sidney's hand, as if they are having a brother/sister moment. It turns out he's trying to throw her off her guard in a last-ditch attempt to kill her.
• Barbaric Bully : After losing his composure, he tries to viciously fight Sidney.
• Bastard Bastard : Roman is Maureen's Child by Rape whom she gave up for adoption. When he confronted her years later, she rejected him, saying that her only child was Sidney. He resents Sidney for being the only one of them who got their mother's love, not to mention her getting the fame that he wanted. While Roman was dealt a bad hand, he decided to cope with it by orchestrating Maureen's murder, then, years later, go on a killing spree to frame and murder Sidney so he can get the fame he thinks he deserves.
• Big Bad : Of the third film. He's the mastermind behind the Stab 3 murders, and is revealed to be the one who inspired Billy and Stu to their massacre in the first film. Unlike his predecessors and successors, Roman is the only Ghostface to lack an accomplice.
• Big Brother Bully : Exaggerated , because not only does he bully Sidney, he ruins her life, psychologically torments her, and attempts to murder her, all out of jealousy.
• Blown Across the Room : He goes flying when Dewey finally puts a bullet in his head.
• Boom, Headshot! : How Roman met his end. After getting stabbed by his half-sister, Sidney, he gets up for one last scare to kill her. While Dewey shot him repeatedly, it didn't keep him down, because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. It isn't until Sidney tells Dewey to shoot him in the head, which he does, that his madness finally ends.
• Borrowed Catchphrase : He borrows Sidney's. They both scream "FUCK YOU!" at each other before their No-Holds-Barred Beatdown .
• The Bully : He's psychologically torments Sidney, harangues her, and delivers a Precision F-Strike against her. Roman: Oh, it's rough being friends with you, Sid. [mocking] When you're friends with Sid, you die.
• Bullying the Dragon : What it ultimately comes down to. Especially telling because, by this point, Sidney has had well and truly enough of the Ghostface crap, so that when the final showdown comes, rather than Sidney being on the defense as usual, she charges at him in an equally murderous rage after deciding to go full Bully Hunter .
• Cain and Abel : He's Sid's half-brother, born from Maureen's rape when she was living in L.A.
• Child by Rape : He's John Milton's son, conceived when he raped Maureen Prescott.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : Unlike every Ghostface before (and since), Roman operates without a partner.
• Copycat Killer : An interesting case. Roman reveals that he inspired Billy and Stu to become killers, and thus is responsible for inspiring some of Ghostface's tactics, most notably their reliance on a partner to facilitate their murder sprees, and usage of a fall guy to escape the consequences. Despite this, Roman doesn't quite follow his own advice, as he is the only Ghostface to work alone.
• The Corrupter : Roman was the one who set Billy down the path of a serial killer by revealing his father's affair with Maureen Prescott to him. Granted, he may have only accelerated the inevitable and simply exploited a darkness that was already inside Billy.
• Create Your Own Hero : He orchestrated the death of Sidney's mother through Billy and Stu, which makes him indirectly responsible for not only Billy and Stu's later killing spree, but also Mickey and Nancy's copycat murders. By the time Roman takes up the knife and confronts her in person, Sidney, now a full-blown Action Survivor and utterly sick of being a scapegoat for the previous Ghostfaces, furiously dresses him down verbally, fights him toe to toe with vicious hatred to match his, and ultimately kills him.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check : He's a talented enough strategist to have successfully orchestrated a murder without anyone suspecting him. He's a talented enough director to have climbed up the Hollywood ladder in a few short years to get exactly where he wanted to, and probably could have obtained the fame he felt he was so entitled to if he had stayed on that path. He instead decides to apply his talents to murdering his cast and toying with Sidney in order to emulate her image as an Action Survivor .
• Deconstructed Character Archetype : He deconstructs the archetypal " Serial Killer with a Freudian Excuse " villain seen in numerous horror movies. At the climax, he launches into a Motive Rant detailing his Freudian Excuse for wanting to kill Sidney. He grew up hating her and their mother Maureen because he felt that Maureen loved Sidney more and essentially abandoned him, viewing him as an unwelcome reminder of her old life , and believes that the fame Sidney got after the massacre should've been his. An infuriated Sidney responds to this rant with a blistering Shut Up, Hannibal! speech, calling the killer a selfish brat who can't take any personal responsibility and is only killing people for pleasure and trying to rationalize it after the fact . Tellingly, Sidney's speech causes a Villainous Breakdown in him, as he yells at an unfazed Sidney to stop talking before flying off the handle and attacking her.
• Didn't See That Coming : Roman only provoked Billy into murdering Maureen; he didn't foresee Billy setting out on a killing spree, and certainly never predicted that Sidney would survive it and get famous. Sidney's unexpected rise to fame rankled Roman so deeply that he eventually set out on his own spree of Ghostface killings to both ruin Sidney and get some of that fame for himself.
• Died on Their Birthday : The climax of the third film takes place at Roman's birthday party at John Milton's mansion. Played With . Firstly, after everyone at the party splits up to look for secret passageways, Roman uses this moment to fake his own death (Gale finds him in a trunk with a large knife sticking out of his stomach) before later revealing himself to be the Ghostface killer and explaining his motives to Sidney. Then, he and Sidney fight it out, and in the end, Sidney stabs Roman in the back, twice, with an icepick. Roman ultimately dies from these injuries but not before sharing a sibling moment with his half-sister, Sidney, who takes some sympathy on him.
• Disc-One Final Boss : He's a retroactive one for the franchise as a whole. After scheming behind the scenes, indirectly causing the plots of the first two movies, and becoming the main antagonist of the last section of the original trilogy, he's replaced by new villains for the next movies and the show, which were released years after Scream 3 .
• Disproportionate Retribution : Roman is revealed to have manipulated Billy and Stu into killing Maureen for rejecting him as her child; the reason he goes after Sidney is because he's jealous of all the fame and attention Sid has received because of the killings, which she never even wanted in the first place .
• The Dog Was the Mastermind : Irate movie nerd Roman, who Sidney had never even met prior to the reveal and who had been seemingly killed off, is not only the killer but the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire franchise.
• Entitled Bastard : As far as Roman is concerned, he deserves to be famous, and he has every right to lay waste to Sidney's life, because he deserved everything she ever had as well.
• None of the Ghostface killers are above childish, petty taunting, but Roman goes the extra mile of using Maureen's voice and image to psychologically torture Sidney, throwing in sadistic taunts in Maureen's replicated voice.
• He's also the only Ghostface to try to frame Sidney for the killing spree, simply because he was so Driven by Envy that she got famous instead of him.
• Evil Mentor : Not only did he give Billy the idea to murder Maureen, he also gave him a few helpful pointers, including finding someone to frame and having a partner to throw under the bus in case he got caught.
• Expy : Possibly of Freddie Krueger (another horror icon by Wes Craven) as they're both Serial Killers who were children by rape.
• Faking the Dead : Does this to throw everyone's attention off him as a suspect.
• Fall Guy : He plans to pin his murders on Sidney.
• Faux Affably Evil : Immediately after the unmasking, he is initially smugly polite and charming towards Sidney, transitions to being hyperactive, especially when killing John Milton, before completely dropping the affable facade when his mean-spirited Hair-Trigger Temper gets the best of him.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul : Prior to the reveal, he wears glasses.
• Freudian Excuse : Maureen refuses to accept him as her son, which coupled with being a Child by Rape , didn't do wonders for his mental health. However...
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse : Sidney shuts him up by pointing out that he killed solely For the Evulz , and thus, any justification he might have had was blown out the window the second he called upon Billy to murder Maureen.
• Greater-Scope Villain : Of the first two films. The Scream franchise as we know it would never have existed if Roman hadn't revealed Maureen's infidelity to Billy Loomis. He also gave Billy pointers, like having an accomplice and potential fall guy in case things went south, giving birth to the first pair of Ghostface killers, and by extension, all of the copycats in the sequels. He steps down from this role to become the Big Bad for the third film. That being said, he may have only accelerated, especially as the second film implied Mickey, who had no prior connection to Sidney, was already a serial killer before being recruited by Nancy.
• Hair-Trigger Temper : He can barely contain his rage during his Motive Rant , but when Sidney shoots his claims down , he completely snaps, and the two begin to violently beat each other, before Roman tries to strangle her to death.
• Hero Killer : Roman murders everyone in the film including Jennifer (who helped Dewey and Gale with their investigation) and Cotton (who killed the previous movie's Big Bad , Nancy Loomis).
• Assuming that he was being serious, there is his claim that he wanted to direct something like a romantic comedy, instead of just another music video or horror film.
• While not a full-fledged Stage Magician , Roman is able to hide his pulse, which is a real-life magic trick.
• It is implied that Roman custom-built his own voice changer since he is able to imitate the voices of his victims, something future Ghostfaces never replicate. According to the DVD commentary, there originally was a scene that showed how he was able to build said device.
• Hypocrite : Roman claims credit for Billy taking on Stu as an accomplice and potential fall guy. When he sets out on his own killing spree, Roman ignores his own advice, acting alone for the entirety of Scream 3 .
• Immune to Bullets : Invokes this by wearing a bulletproof vest under his costume. A bullet in the head , on the other hand...
• Inferiority Superiority Complex : As he lays out his motives to Sidney, Roman is full of smug confidence, but the instant Sidney starts calling him on it, Roman falls apart and flies into a psychotic rage.
• It's All About Me : His motives for instigating the Ghostface killings? His mother rejected him because he was a reminder of her rape and dark past. His motives for wanting to kill Sidney? She, Dewey and Gale survived the previous killing sprees and became famous for it, so Roman wants Sidney's fame, claiming he should have had her life.
• I Work Alone : Unlike other Ghostface killers, Roman has no partners in crime.
• Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk : Despite being a sarcastic director, he does seem to be a friendly and harmless nerd, but after The Reveal , he's just The Bully . The one instance where he seems to bond with Sidney, he only did so to catch her off guard and make one last attempt on her life when she least expects it.
• Karma Houdini Warranty : Roman gets away with his role in spurring Billy and Stu to murder Maureen, but it's when he decides to enact his own killing spree in the third movie that justice catches up to him in the end, courtesy of Dewey shooting him in the head at Sidney's behest.
• Kick the Dog : His voice changer carries the voices of several different characters from the series, including Maureen's. He uses her voice when talking to Sidney a few times, often while covered with a bloody bedsheet. His murder of Cotton also qualifies as one of the "pointers" he gave Billy when planning Maureen's murder was to frame someone for the crime, thereby ultimately making Roman responsible for Cotton's wrongful imprisonment and near execution. Roman: (offscreen, speaking with Maureen's voice) I lied, Sidney, I can't protect you at all! You don't deserve to be protected! You didn't protect me!
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil : Roman manipulated Billy and Stu into murdering Maureen Prescott, his own mother. He even kills his father ( although he deserved it ), and tries to kill his half-sister Sidney for good measure.
• Laser-Guided Karma : A relatively minor example. Assuming his disdain about having to direct Stab 3 instead of a romantic comedy was genuine, this applies as his orchestration of Maureen's murder led to the birth of the Ghostface persona, making him the reason why the Stab movies exist in the first place.
• Love-Interest Traitor : Roman had sex with Jennifer at least once, and later kills her.
• Mad Artist : He approvingly compares Billy's scheme to making a film, and considers his planning out murders a way of fulfilling his role as a filmmaker. Roman : I'm a director, Sid. I direct .
• Made of Iron : After being stabbed in the chest with an ice pick and seemingly dying, Roman springs back up and tries to attack Sidney again, the ice pick still in his chest until Dewey puts him down with a gunshot to the head.
• The Man Behind the Man : He was the one who incited Billy to kill Maureen one year before the first movie. He also told Billy to have an accomplice: Stu.
• His first name is a reference to Roman Polański . Given his backstory and Polanski's real-life scandals, it's darkly appropriate, especially since both of them are film directors.
• His surname Bridger fits the fact that he's the original trilogy's Greater-Scope Villain , who set the entire film series' chain of events in motion .
• Mommy Issues : He has this even more so than Billy did. Roman blames his mother for all the misfortune in his life, and he is so fixated on Maureen's rejection of him that, even years after her death (which he orchestrated), Roman wants to murder and frame Maureen's favored child Sidney to spite their dead mother (as well as Sidney herself).
• Claims to be a tragic victim lashing out at the world. Sidney's shattering of his self-delusion results in a Villainous Breakdown .
• He claims he hates Sidney because she became famous for surviving the events of the original film, and thinks he deserves that kind of fame. At no point does it ever dawn on him that she only became famous because of events he orchestrated, so he is the reason why Sidney gained any notoriety.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain : Had he just stuck to directing and not taken up the Ghostface legacy, he probably would've attained the fame he wanted through legitimate means, and Sidney would have remained a scared shut-in. But instead he forced her out of hiding, forcing her to face her fears and Survivor's Guilt and overcome them. Not only does she thwart his plan and kill him, but she goes on to write a book and become even more famous. This ends up making Sidney a more badass and formidable opponent for future Ghostfaces, who runs into danger to save others and fights the killers with every intent to take them down.
• Not Good with Rejection : Boy howdy . The series only starts off because Maureen Prescott rejected him as her son.
• Not Quite Dead : Sidney walks away from Roman after stabbing him in the chest with an ice pick. Roman then proceeds to get back up in an attempt to kill Sidney, Dewey, and Gale. Dewey shoots Roman several times, though only through his bulletproof vest, before finally silencing him with a headshot when Sidney reminds him.
• One-Man Army : Unlike all of the other Ghostfaces, who work in pairs, he accomplishes his killing spree on his own, and consequently has the highest kill tally: 9. This is best shown when he manages to kill Angelina, Tyson, and Jennifer in the span of about five minutes. Kirby gives him props for his tenacity, 2 decades after his death, in VI . Kirby: Kudos to him for ambition.
• Out of Focus : Subsequent films don't really mention him much despite his role in Maureen's murder, opting instead to focus on Billy Loomis and the effects of his killing spree as one of the original Ghostfaces alongside Stu.
• Patricide : His own father is one of his many victims.
• Pay Evil unto Evil : Kills his own father, John Milton, who raped his mother.
• Playing the Victim Card : Roman has a genuinely traumatic background, but he continuously tries to cast himself as a tragic victim even as he kills innocent people due to his Mommy Issues and petty jealousy. Sidney epically calls him out on it and bluntly tells him that he's not a Tragic Villain ; he's just a pathetic Psychopathic Manchild who won't take responsibility for his own actions. Roman doesn't take it well.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner : When Milton offers him control of the final cut of his movie. "I already have it."
• Psychopathic Manchild : Shown by his childish tantrum after Sidney's "The Reason You Suck" Speech and his overall approach to life. He orchestrated the death of his own mother because she didn't love him, refuses to take any responsibility for his actions, and enjoys himself like a child in a toy store .
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses : As Ghostface, he doesn't wear the glasses he had in public.
• Rape and Revenge : Invoked as part of his plan. Roman intended to frame Sidney for the killings, with the motive being that she found out that Milton was responsible for Maureen's rape and wanted to "make him pay."
• The Resenter : He hates Sidney for getting their mother's acceptance, believing that everything Sidney has ever received, especially fame ( which Sidney has never wanted and tries to avoid ), should have been his. Because of this, he happily subjects Sidney to psychological torture and intends to frame her for his own crimes.
• Self-Made Orphan : Excluding Maureen's murder, John Milton was his father, and he ends up being Roman's last victim.
• The Sociopath : Has a complete Lack of Empathy toward Maureen for having been raped, masterminding her murder simply because she didn't welcome him with open arms when they met again. This carries over to his half-sister Sidney, who he grows jealous of because she survived two killing sprees and became famous for it. He wants all the fame for himself, so he uses her survivorhood against her. He has a pretty high sense of self-worth, pretending to be the victim and refusing to take responsibility for his choices. Everyone else is gore fodder for him. When he and Sidney seemingly connect before his death, it's just a distraction.
• Stranger Behind the Mask : Played with; the audience and other characters had met Roman prior to his unmasking as Ghostface, but Sidney had never set eyes on him before in her life. Roman even has to introduce himself to Sidney after he's removed the mask.
• Superior Successor : He kills more people than any other Ghostface who came before him (or after, for that matter).
• Third Act Stupidity : Similar to the original Ghostface duo, Roman opts to murder John Milton first, who is bound and unable to escape, while Sidney is free and can fight back. Once again, Sidney survives because the Ghostface killer couldn't resist bragging about their plan.
• Tragic Villain : Subverted; Roman is crazy enough to see himself as this, being a Child by Rape rejected by his mother for being a reminder of her trauma, but he thoroughly proves that he's ultimately just a selfish, entitled, spiteful brat who kills because he enjoys it and because he wants to be famous, using his past as a flimsy excuse for his actions and throwing a tantrum when he's called on it.
• Unknown Rival : Roman was the cause of some of the worst misfortunes of Sidney's life, and he always resented her for having their mother's love and the fame of surviving two Ghostface killing sprees. Sidney, by contrast, had no idea Roman even existed until he unmasked himself as Ghostface at the climax of the third film.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom : Downplayed. While he intentionally put Billy and Stu up to murdering Maureen, he had no idea that they would continue their killing spree a year later, which in turn led to the series of murder sprees in subsequent films.
• Villainous Breakdown : Sidney's "The Reason You Suck" Speech dismantling his selfish motives triggers one in him, causing him to essentially throw a violent, high-octane childish tantrum.
• Villainous Legacy : Less so than Billy and Stu, but being the Greater-Scope Villain for most of the original trilogy has allowed Roman to have the largest legacy in the franchise, as his actions birthed the Ghostface identity, which has survived long after Roman himself died.

The Woodsboro Massacre Reboot Killers (2011)

Charlie: Have you figured it out yet, Sidney? In keeping with our remake theme, Trevor's this generation's Billy Loomis, and we're the innocent victims: Sidney and Randy. Jill: See, with you, the world just heard about what happened, but with us, they're gonna see it. It's gonna be a worldwide sensation. I mean, people gotta see this shit. It's not like anyone reads anymore.

• Brains and Brawn : Jill is the mastermind while Charlie does most of the legwork and commits most of the murders in the film.
• Camera Fiend : Jill and Charlie use cameras to record their murders and upload the footage to the Internet for public viewing, ensuring that their notoriety reaches a larger audience .
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : Unlike Roman, who at least pretended to have a tragic motivation, Jill and Charlie (the former, especially) just want to get famous. Also, Jill and Charlie are high school students, whereas Roman was an adult with a career.
• Dramatic Unmask : Played straight with Jill and subverted with Charlie, who betrays his true nature by stabbing Kirby.
• Fall Guy : Played with. Charlie and Trevor are the two patsies, but while Trevor is innocent, Charlie is one of the two Ghostfaces , with Jill betraying Charlie shortly after The Reveal .
• Not His Sled : In-Universe example. Sidney initially sees Jill and Charlie as the next-generation Sidney and Randy respectively and thus believes Jill's ex Trevor is the new Billy Loomis (and the new Ghostface) because History Repeats . As a result, Sidney is somewhat surprised after Charlie reveals himself as Ghostface (especially since she last saw him tied up by Ghostface) and is visibly distraught when Jill reveals herself to be the second killer. Charlie: The unexpected is the new cliché.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain : Jill and Charlie are in their late teens in contrast to Sidney in her thirties and Dewey and Gale in their forties.
• Outlaw Couple : Charlie and Jill are a couple, but this is later subverted when Jill backstabs Charlie and reveals that he was one of the fall guys all along.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni : Jill is the hammy Prima Donna Red Oni to Charlie's mellow Soft-Spoken Sadist Blue Oni.
• Superior Successor : They kill more people than the original murder spree they wish to emulate, at nine. note  Ten, if you count Jill's betrayal of Charlie.
• Two Dun It : As with the first two movies, the Ghostface identity is donned by two people.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey : Jill is cold and ruthless and her henchman Charlie is a Laughably Evil nerd.

    Jill Roberts 

For tropes about Jill, see here .

Charlie Walker

Played By: Rory Culkin

"You know, you learn a lot when you watch movies over and over. All the plots are about trying to kill you!"

• Alas, Poor Villain : While he was a sadistic murderer, his death is almost pitiable. He is visibly devastated at Jill's betrayal and dies a slow, agonizing death as he bleeds out on the floor. Even Sidney seems horrified, calling Jill out afterwards on becoming so fame-hungry that even her only ally is disposable to her.
• All for Nothing : His desire to become one half of a power couple with Jill ends up being for naught as she ruthlessly kills him to take the spotlight for herself. He spends his final moments realizing he killed his friends and threw his life away for absolutely nothing.
• Asshole Victim : A particularly unique example of this trope, since he's one of the killers!
• Ax-Crazy : Revels in brutal killings including his disembowlment of Olivia.
• Beware the Nice Ones : He's really not nice. At all.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : He's not the nerdy timid guy he appears to be.
• Blaming the Victim : After stabbing Kirby ( immediately after she desperately tried to save his life ), he blames it on her for not reciprocating his crush sooner.
• Blank Stare : He gives one to Perkins when Perkins somehow survives a stab to the forehead and has enough strength to walk around for a bit .
• The Bully : He's not as mean-spirited as the other Ghostfaces, though. He even explains the rules of surviving this movie to his potential victims, though of course it doesn't help most of them in the end.
• Bully Brutality : He delivers some of the most vicious deaths in the series. He ends up crippling Jenny and stabbing Perkins deep in the forehead, and that's not even including his disembowelment of Olivia.
• Cop Killer : Charlie murders police officers Hoss and Perkins and takes one of their handguns. He then drives the police car two blocks away to hide their bodies.
• Corrupted Character Copy : As a huge movie buff who's also a little bit of a nerd and has sexual/romantic feelings for Sidney archetype Jill, he closely resembles Randy. But Randy wasn't actually the killer and could usually be counted on to help or save Sidney.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype : A movie fanboy Dogged Nice Guy like Randy... who, in fact, is not nice at all, and is every bit as self-absorbed and Entitled to Have You as you'd expect.
• Double Tap : Implied . On screen, Charlie seemingly kills Deputy Hoss and Deputy Perkins each with a single knife stab; however, when Judy and the other cops find the bodies, they report that both deputies were stabbed multiple times.
• The Dragon : He is Jill's accomplice.
• Entitled to Have You : His actual attitude towards Kirby, whom he feels should've noticed him in the four years they had classes together, instead of just as a killing spree committed by him had started. He tells her this as he is stabbing her.
• Et Tu, Brute? : He does seem to have loved Jill, judging by his visibly devastated reaction to her betrayal.
• Evil Counterpart : To Randy, the Meta Guy and horror film geek. Unlike Randy, who was just a harmless Plucky Comic Relief and a Dogged Nice Guy , Charlie is (to loosely quote Billy in the first film) a "movie freak whose mind lost its reality button" and who feels entitled to Kirby's affections.
• Evil Is Petty : As he stabs Kirby, Charlie takes a moment to criticise her for only taking an interest in him recently, as opposed to a few years earlier when he first developed a crush on her.
• Faux Affably Evil : Even more so than his accomplice Jill and the previous Ghostfaces. To the point where he can be considered the Only Sane Man amongst the killers, as he does seem to feel remorse for stabbing Kirby.
• Hero Killer : After the reveal, Charlie brags about murdering Jenny, Marnie, Olivia, and Robbie and takes credit for the murders of Officer Hoss and Officer Perkins by showing off the handgun he took from them. He also almost kills Gale and Kirby.
• Irony : Sidney notes that Charlie is similar to Stu in that both of them are the less intelligent lackeys following the plans of Jill and Billy respectively. However, as Jill stabs Charlie to death, she informs him that she intends to frame him as the "ideas man", which would make Charlie the next generation's Billy Loomis (and Trevor the new Stu) if Jill's frame job was successful.
• Karmic Death : He rejects Kirby's love for him and stabs her two times in the stomach before leaving her to die. Five minutes later, his actual girlfriend Jill kills him by stabbing him twice and reveals that she has always intended to betray him.
• Laughably Evil : While not as much of a Large Ham as his predecessors Stu and Mickey, and more mellow then the other Ghostfaces, he's still much a quirky nerd, especially when he preps himself to get stabbed to appear as a victim by slapping himself in the face, before Jill double-crosses and kills him to take the sole spotlight.
• Love-Interest Traitor : He betrays Kirby, who did return his feelings, but "too late" according to him.
• Meta Guy : Of the Ghostfaces so far, he is the only one to explain the new slasher rules to his victims.
• The Napoleon : At 5'6", he's one of the shortest guys in the film. He's also a psychopathic killer.
• Oh, Crap! : The look on his face when he realizes that Jill's plan wasn't for him to join her in fame and fortune, but for him to be the new Stu Macher, says it all.
• Out of Focus : The Ghostface with the least amount of screen time post-reveal.
• Pet the Dog : His apparent genuine remorse at having stabbed Kirby to please Jill.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves : Betrays and kills his friends at the behest of Jill, who then betrays and kills him.
• Saying Too Much : Since Charlie is one of the two Randy Expies explaining the rules, he pretty much gives away his plan of recording the murders and publishing them online. That said, Charlie is able to avoid the usual consequences because Robbie, the other Randy expy, is a livestreaming vlogger with an apparently sizable following, making him the more suspicious one of the two.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist : Even after The Reveal , he doesn't really raise his voice, unlike previous killers and his partner Jill . He's perhaps the only Ghostface to be one until Jason Carvey in the sixth film.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute : He states that he's going to be the next Randy to Jill's Sidney during The Reveal . As Sidney notes, however, he is much like Stu, which leads to his death by Jill. This also makes him a substitute to Mickey, based on his film knowledge and getting offed by the Big Bad , except he doesn't survive for the last scare.
• Sycophantic Servant : Charlie is definitely a follower, as he is willing to kill his friends to serve his master Jill.
• Teens Are Monsters : A willing accomplice in Jill's murderous scheme.
• Unholy Matrimony : With Jill, until she disposes of him.
• Unwitting Pawn : Jill used Charlie as a willing accomplice, but never intended on sharing the spotlight with him; when the moment comes to "fake" their injuries, Jill fatally stabs him in the heart .
• With Friends Like These... : One of the more notable cases, as he seems pretty much inseparable from Robbie due to their shared interests. Not only does Charlie murder Robbie, he also records a video of it and brags about it to Jill. Jill in turn kills him and pretty much does the same.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit : How he manages to trick Kirby into coming out of her house to "save" him. Then, he (non-fatally) stabs her.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness : As soon as they run out of targets and the final act arrives, Jill kills him so she can come out the other side as the sole survivor. He's the second Ghostface Dragon to get killed by the partner, after Mickey Altieri in Scream 2 , but he stays dead, unlike Mickey.

Scream (2022)

The woodsboro requel killers (2021).

Sam: This isn't a fucking movie! Richie: No. But it will be. That's the point, right, Amber? Amber: Right, hon! Third act bloodbath, check. Killers revealed, check. Time for the big finale!

• Affectionate Nickname : This is how it is established to the audience that they are in a relationship, with the two referring to each other as "hon" and "baby" while explaining their plan to Sidney and Sam.
• Big Bad Duumvirate : They are the first Ghostface duo to not turn on each other in any way and are united through their shared goal of making their own Stab requel.
• Birds of a Feather : They realized they had similar ideas about the Stab franchise and what they needed to do to "fix" it.
• Brains and Brawn : Richie is the one who calls the shots between the two. Amber is the muscle who commits the majority of the attacks and murders in the film, including Dewey.
• Connected All Along : Richie and Amber pretend to meet each other for the first time when Sam finally reunites with Tara at the hospital. After the unmaskings, they both disclose that they met up online just like Mrs. Loomis and Mickey did.
• Unlike nearly every Ghostface killer before them, Richie and Amber have nothing at all against Sidney or her family; their motive, while incredibly petty, is totally impersonal. While Mickey and Charlie had no prior connection to Sidney before donning the mask, they were the partners of Ghostfaces who did have personal connections to her.
• Billy and Stu seemed tight-knit, but were willing to hurt each other for the plan, and also had different reasons for doing what they did; while it was personal for Billy, Stu got roped in out of a mix of peer pressure and For the Evulz . Richie and Amber are less close, having a vaguely romantic relationship, but are more united by a shared motive, and don't hurt or betray each other.
• Like Mickey and Mrs. Loomis, Richie and Amber first met online. Unlike that pair of Ghostfaces, they don't have conflicting agendas and are completely loyal to one another.
• Like Jill and Charlie, they're in a secret relationship. Again, unlike those killers, their feelings for each other are apparently genuine.
• Copycat Killer : They target people with relations to the Woodsboro murder sprees, whether related to the victims or the original killers, and set up their murder scenarios similar to ones in the Stab films.
• Disproportionate Retribution : Their main motivation behind their spree was that they felt that the last Stab movie was so bad that it ruined the franchise forever, and thought that a new killing spree would provide ample "source material" for a new film. They planned to frame Sam (Billy's daughter) as the killer to give the franchise a mascot for new fans to root for. Unlike the previous killers, who had some connection to Sidney and irrationally blamed her for their problems, these two kill people essentially because of a film they didn't like .
• Dramatic Unmask : Subverted. Amber reveals her villainy by randomly shooting Liv through the head while Richie reveals he's the other killer by non-fatally stabbing Sam. Amber also exploits this trope by putting on the Father Death costume to trick Sidney and Sam into believing that she is the second killer before Richie actually reveals himself.
• Evil Is Petty : As Stab fans, they both hated Stab 8 , so they decided to create a new copycat murder spree in hopes that it will inspire a more faithful reboot to the Stab franchise.
• Fall Guy : This time, Sam is supposed to be Richie and Amber's fall guy, as she is the daughter of Billy Loomis, and the killers believe that a killing spree "committed" by the child of an infamous serial killer will revive their beloved Stab franchise.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl : Richie is One Head Taller than Amber (Jack Quaid is 5'11"/1.8m, and Mikey Madison is 5'3½"/1.61 m).
• Laser-Guided Karma : Scream VI reveals that Gale was unable to sell the movie rights to a movie based on their killings, meaning their goal of inspiring a new Stab sequel was all for naught.
• Laughably Evil : Richie and Amber are a riot due to their Large Ham tendencies after The Reveal . They're notably the first Ghostface duo to be this, as all others had followed the Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey dynamic instead.
• Loony Fan : Their entire motive for the killings. Their favorite movie franchise was ruined forever, so they decided to carry out a murder spree of their own to give the filmmakers some new source material to work with.
• Love-Interest Traitor : Richie had been dating Sam for six months. It turns out that he had only started their relationship as part of the plan. Amber and Tara were also ex-girlfriends in the original script.
• The Movie Buff : A dark version, in that anger over the movies is what drove them to kill.
• Nothing Personal : In a rarity for the franchise, Richie and Amber aren't acting out of hatred toward any of their victims (Sam being the only possible exception, but even then, they're more interested in who her father was than in Sam herself); they just want to inspire a decent Stab movie, which, although petty even by Ghostface standards, is a remarkably impersonal motive. They're also the first killers in the franchise to have no personal grudge against Sidney or her family. Richie is even a bit starstruck to be meeting her during the third act.
• Outlaw Couple : Richie and Amber are implied to be in a relationship, which is later confirmed in the sixth film when Sam refers to Amber as Richie's girlfriend.
• Sadist : They both accuse Liv of being the killer during a tense moment at Amber's house after Mindy gets attacked. Since they had planned their third act killer reveal at the party well in advance, this could only be just to enjoy Liv desperately pleading her innocence. Then, Amber shoots Liv dead only moments later.
• So Last Season : To the legacy survivors. Dewey pegs Richie as one of the killers immediately after meeting him, Sidney and Gale aren't fooled by Amber's attempts at playing a victim, and Sidney mocks their unoriginality to Richie over the phone, namely there being two killers again and even setting their final act in Stu's house like the original.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy : Richie is ostensibly the mastermind of the duo; Amber is the heavy-hitter who slugs it out with the legacy characters and proves to be more of a physical threat when she goes toe-to-toe with Sidney and Gale in the climax.
• Sucksessor : Zigzagged. While Richie and Amber do rack up quite a body count (at six, equal to the original killers), they are the first ones to fail at the Cold Open kill with Tara surviving to the end note  Although this is intentional on Richie and Amber's part since they needed to lure Sam back to Woodsboro , whereas all their predecessors killed two people in their cold opens. The film also has the highest number of survivors up to this point (Sam, Sidney, Gale, Tara, and the twins). And while they do succeed in killing Dewey where so many have failed , it's also downplayed by Dewey being well past his prime and Amber having caught him off-guard rather than beat him in a fair fight.
• Take That! : To entitled fans whose behavior towards the fandoms they apparently love so much ultimately does more harm than good.
• There's No Kill like Overkill : Their deaths are among the most brutal in the entire series. Also among the most well-deserved.
• Third Act Stupidity : Amber and Richie commit to setting up an entire Scream Call-Back , leaving Tara alive and unharmed, which allows her to fight them.
• Two Dun It : Much like the original movie they wish to emulate.
• Unholy Matrimony : They're all but outright stated to be in a relationship together. Sam brings it up in the sixth film, referring to Amber as Richie's girlfriend on two occassions.
• Villainous Friendship : Unlike the previous Ghostface duos, neither Richie nor Amber ever attack each other out of spite or ulterior motives.

Richie Kirsch

Played By: Jack Quaid

"Because nobody takes the true fans seriously, not really. They just laugh at us, and why? Because we love something? We're just a fucking joke to them! How can fandom be toxic? It's about love! You don't fucking understand, these movies are important to people."

• Abhorrent Admirer : Richie: Sidney Prescott! Y'know, I'm a really big fan! Sidney: Go fuck yourself.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg : He tries to plead with Sam when she is about to kill him. It doesn't work.
• At the hospital, he states he was watching Netflix in Tara's room while Ghostface attacked Sam. Since Amber was at the police station while Ghostface attacked Sam, Richie was indeed lying about his alibi.
• In addition, he takes a leaf from Stu's book by later claiming that he was with his girlfriend during Ghostface's first attack. It's implied that this alibi isn't exactly airtight because in the opening, the Ghostface that slipped inside Tara's home stands silently behind Tara while she receives another threatening phone call from "Charlie", suggesting that "Charlie" is outside and isn't the Ghostface inside the house.
• Allegorical Character : Richie is one for the requel. A common criticism of requels is that they are so dedicated to Revisiting the Roots that they come across as unimaginative repeats of the original movies. Likewise, Richie suffers from Creative Sterility and goes out of his way to rip off the plot beats of the first Ghostface rampage, such as dating Sam to repeat the traitorous boyfriend twist and recruiting Amber so that he can reuse Stu's house for the finale. For further unoriginality, Jill already did Richie's Woodsboro idea a decade earlier. Sidney: [To Richie on the phone] You might actually be the most derivative one of all. I mean, Christ, the same house?
• All There in the Script : The original script clarifies that Richie killed Wes, since it comments that he tries to kill Sam the same way he did to Wes.
• Ambiguous Situation : Unlike all the other Ghostfaces, it's unexplained why Richie enjoys killing people. But it's clear that he has some mental disorders and is fascinated with violence and murder, and his father encouraging his love of Stab movies probably didn't do favors for his mental stability either.
• Apologetic Attacker : As a big fan of Sidney, Richie apologetically explains to her that she has to die because her survival of yet another Ghostface rampage will break Suspension of Disbelief . Richie: I'm so sorry, Sid. We can't let you live, either. I mean, surviving this many times, it'll just be ridiculous.
• Arbitrarily Large Bank Account : Scream VI retroactively establishes that Richie had sufficient funds to acquire a truly staggering amount of memorabilia from both the Stab movies and the various Ghostface rampages, up to and including the actual murder weapons and costumes of his predecessors, which must�ve cost a pretty penny in bribes to get ahold of.
• Arch-Enemy : His betrayal of Sam makes him this to her. Unlike previous masterminds, he has Nothing Personal against Sidney; he just wants a better Stab movie. Even after Richie is dead, Sam isn't free of him; Richie's family target her for killing him, and they repeatedly use his image and memory to torment her.
• After Tara gets a trivia question wrong, he makes the threat to kill Amber, luring Tara to the front of the house where he is standing. After failing to break into the house, he knocks loudly on the front door to divert Tara's attention while Amber prepares to enter the house through an alternative entrance. Once Amber is inside, he calls Tara again, distracting her long enough for Amber to ambush her.
• He pulls the same trick again by telling Judy that he's about to kill Wes in the shower , but in reality, he's hiding on the front porch, preparing to waylay Judy as she tries to rush into the front door.
• On a larger scale, his murders of Judy and Wes are supposed to draw the police away from the hospital so that Amber can attack Tara without any interference.
• Beard of Evil : Half of the Big Bad Duumvirate , and sports a chinstrap beard.
• Benevolent Boss : The first in the film franchise to be this towards his cohort, never once mistreated nor disposed of her in the film.
• Big Bad : Of the fifth film. He's attempting to revive the Stab franchise by masterminding another killing spree that will inspire a "re-quel". Being the Billy Loomis Expy , Richie is behind most of the phone calls, manipulates things behind the scenes, and his personal relationship with Sam makes him the more climactic Ghostface in the final act.
• Boom, Headshot! : Though Richie is likely dead after the several stab wounds inflicted upon him by Sam, she still shoots him in the head to make sure.
• Bullying a Dragon : It's an integral part of his plan to attack the mentally unstable daughter (and granddaughter) of serial killers and her loved ones, while pinning the murders on her. He didn't consider that this might horribly backfire . He even taunts her. Sam lampshades this before she stabs him in a manner befitting a Ghostface, saying you should "never fuck with the daughter of a serial killer".
• The Cameo : He appears in some behind-the-scenes footage of his own Stab Fan Film that plays during the finale of Scream VI .
• Billy was already suspicious and arrogant before the final reveal, whereas Richie is much nicer, more supportive, and far more unassuming.
• Both manipulated their girlfriends, but Richie is far more direct about it. Billy planned to frame Sidney's father Neil as the cherry on top of his revenge scheme to destroy Sidney's family, the same way he blamed Sidney's mother Maureen for destroying his. Richie, meanwhile, planned to frame his girlfriend Sam directly, using her Dark and Troubled Past and familial connection to Billy to make her look like the real killer. Both also get killed by their girlfriends at the end of the film.
• Billy's motive was personal , predicated upon Sidney's mother cheating with his father and his mother leaving him, leading to Billy killing Maureen and starting the killing spree with Stu as an elaborate revenge ploy. Richie's motives are not nearly so personal, instead being because he hated the eighth Stab film and wanted to provide new real-life inspiration for the series.
• Billy reveals that he is Ghostface before Stu does. On the other hand, Richie takes Stu's place in the reveal order and uses the voice changer like Stu does to confirm that he is indeed Ghostface.
• After they're dead, both Billy and Richie had a parent try to avenge them, but in Billy's case, it was his mother, who was heavily implied to be more motivated by being blamed for Billy's murderous tendencies than genuine grief, and who brought in a stranger to both help her and serve as a fall guy, while in Richie's case, it was his father, who is genuinely motivated by grief and was aided by his two surviving children, to whom he was genuinely loyal and vice-versa.
• To Mickey from Scream 2 . Both make a point of seeming like very charming, perfectly nice guys, and their motives are revealed not to be born from any troubled past, but from petty personal gain. However, while Mickey committed murders for his own benefit, Richie did so (in his own mind, at least) for the good of other fans. And while Mickey was far younger than Mrs. Loomis, who led him on and turned on him as soon as she could, Richie is quite a bit older than Amber, is the leader in their dynamic, and the two never turn on one another. And while Mickey planned on getting caught to gain fame, Richie plans to frame Sam for the killings, and expresses no desire for fame.
• Cop Killer : He kills Sheriff Judy by stabbing her multiple times in the torso.
• Corrupted Character Copy : As the dark-haired, apparently kind-hearted boyfriend to the Final Girl protagonist who is new to Woodsboro and ignorant of the Stab movies, he bears a close resemblance to Derek from Scream 2 . Unlike Derek, though, Richie is actually the killer the whole time and is faking his attraction to Sam.
• Cruel and Unusual Death : Sam stabs him 22 times , including through both of his cheeks, then slits his throat open, causing him to slowly choke on his own blood. Then she pumps him full of lead to finish him off, just to make sure . His father Wayne claims in the sixth film that seeing a photo of his mutilated body is what convinced him that Sam needed to pay for what she did.
• Didn't See That Coming : His murders of Judy and Wes were supposed to draw the police away from the hospital, allowing Amber to kill Tara without much risk and giving him an easy alibi at the motel. However, Sam quickly realizes that the police aren't guarding Tara and calls on Richie to check on Tara, throwing a wrench into this plan and forcing him and Amber to improvise.
• Richie doesn't think of the potential consequences of driving his girlfriend Sam, who has mental illness and a history of murderers within her paternal family, over the edge at the end of the movie, especially after he threatens the life of her younger sister. Unsurprisingly, Sam gets the upper hand, and stabs and slashes him to death when given the opportunity.
• Richie's attempt at sowing seeds of distrust between Sam and Tara falls through, since he fails to realize that Sam's bond with her sister is far stronger than her bond with him. She has only known him for six months, but she has known Tara her whole life .
• Dirty Coward : He acts tough when he's in control of things and doesn't think twice about murdering scores of people, but once Sam has him at the business end of his own knife, he crumbles into a pathetic welp.
• Domestic Abuser : Revealed to be a murderer when he stabs his girlfriend Sam. Worse, he then reveals that their relationship was predicated on Sam being Billy Loomis's illegitimate daughter, which was central to his plan to make her the Fall Girl for his and Amber's crimes.
• Double Tap : Even after Sam stabs Richie to death 22 times and slits his throat with his own knife, she makes sure to finish the job by shooting his corpse three times, ending it with a headshot to top it off.
• Ephebophile : It's implied via dialogue that, in addition to his other crimes, he is in a romantic relationship with his partner Amber, as they refer to each other as "baby" during the climax of the movie. Amber is 17, and Richie is in his late 20s. Sam outright calls Amber Richie's girlfriend in Scream VI .
• Even Evil Can Be Loved : Amber is clearly affectionate towards Richie, and after he's dead, his father and younger siblings are hell-bent on utterly ruining Sam for killing him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : One of his legitimate admirable qualities is not only his Villainous Friendship with Amber is seemingly genuine, but there appears to be Unholy Matrimony Ship Tease between the two.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good : What eventually sinks his plans. He tries to manipulate Sam into turning against Tara by believing she could be the killer and was planning to go after her as well. This clues Tara on to the fact that he is really the killer. The idea that Sam would trust her sister over him, her boyfriend of only a few months, seemingly never occurred to him.
• Evil Gloating : Yes, and overly and excessively, since he has highly overestimated the talents he's gloating about.
• Evil Is Not a Toy : While he doesn't actively try to bring out Sam's darkness, he still messes with her, knowing she's mentally unstable, and also tries to set her up as the murderer by invoking nature over nurture for the narrative of his "movie". And when she finally does give in to her nature, she directs it exclusively at him.
• Evil Laugh : Belts one out when he thinks he has the upper hand against Sam.
• Evil Virtues : One of the few admirable things is that his Villainous Friendship with Amber is genuine and is a Benevolent Boss towards her.
• Faux Affably Evil : Even after he reveals himself as one of the killers, Richie retains his friendly and affable demeanor, gently apologizing to Sam, but assuring her it's the best for the "movie", and fanboying over Sidney. His Villainous Friendship with Amber also seems genuine.
• Foreshadowing : In the hospital, he's seen watching a YouTube commentary video bashing Stab 8 , indicating his interest in the Stab franchise (and personal dislike of Stab 8 ), despite professing not to be a horror fan. Additionally, he references Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) , despite his claims that he doesn't watch those types of films.
• It's revealed in Scream VI that his father, Wayne, is just as much of a psychopath as him, becoming the next Ghostface. He also used to actively encourage Richie in pursuing his obsession for Slasher Films . While his father clearly loved him, it's safe to say he may be to blame for what his son ended up doing.
• The fact that his father and both of his siblings end up donning the Ghostface mask lends some credence to the idea that becoming a Serial Killer is In the Blood for the Kirsch family.
• Subverted when it comes to horror films. Before The Reveal , he's presented as a total newbie to horror who's never seen any of the Stab films. He's actually a very die-hard fan.
• Played straight when dealing with Sidney and Gale , who have arguably been in worse positions than their situation with Richie and Amber, but always come out on top.
• Giggling Villain : He can barely contain his glee after outing himself as the second killer, and giggles into the voice changer while taunting Sam about how it "really was the best choice for the movie."
• Greater-Scope Villain : Of Scream VI , on account of the Kirsch family (consisting of his father Wayne, brother Ethan, and sister Quinn) targeting Sam in revenge for her killing Richie in self-defense.
• Hidden Depths : Scream VI reveals that he actually made his own films.
• Hypocritical Humor : Richie angrily exclaims that Hollywood is running out of ideas even though he and Amber are planning to inspire a requel, a new movie trend that is considered by many to be the very definition of "running out of ideas".
• Impromptu Tracheotomy : He kills Wes by shoving his knife into Wes's throat. Averted in the original script, in which Richie instead puts a bullet in Wes's head after winning a Gun Struggle .
• Inspirational Martyr : He's this to his family and the public who thought he was an innocent victim in the sixth film after his death.
• Karmic Death : Richie murders Judy by pinning her to the ground and stabbing her multiple times. Later, Sam returns the favor by killing Richie in a similar fashion. In both instances, there is a closeup shot of Richie's/Sam's knife hand before Richie/Sam delivers the final blow.
• Laughably Evil : He's pretty entertaining for a depraved killer.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight : In his very first scene in the fifth film, Sam implies via joke that Richie has erection problems. Although Richie is a physically healthy man in his late 20s, there's certainly a lot of reasons he could have erection problems (e.g. lifestyle factors, medications, anxiety, stress) — but the biggest one is that he might not actually be attracted to Sam at all, considering that he just wanted to brag about sleeping with a serial killer's daughter and he's revealed to be in a relationship with Amber. In Scream VI, Sam brings this back, taunting Wayne (Richie's dad) about Richie having a "limp dick" (after Wayne claims that Richie was "virile").
• Loony Fan : With heavy emphasis on "loony". He was such a fan of the Stab franchise, he collected various bits of memorabilia from both the films and the real-life killing sprees that inspired them, and directed some fan films of his own. While he already didn't like the direction the franchise took past the original trilogy, Stab 8 was such a betrayal to him, he embarked on a killing spree.
• Love-Interest Traitor : He openly admits he dated and had sex with Sam to break her emotionally later as Billy Loomis's daughter. "You know what the best part of fucking Billy Loomis's damaged daughter was? Making her feel loved, just so I could take it away from her. Pretty fucked up, huh?"
• Mad Artist : He happily describes the murders as the "movie" he and Amber are writing and treats the events of the movie like mere plot points instead of real, serious murders.
• Manipulative Bastard : He spent six months earning Sam's trust with the endgame of framing her for one of Ghostface's rampages. He also tries to turn her against her own sister to throw suspicion off himself.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning : His death only martyred him, spawning his family to become killers as well in the sixth film.
• Never My Fault : While this is a pretty standard attitude for a Ghostface to have, Richie takes it to pathetic levels. He blames his entire spree on the latest Stab film's negative reception and that people called the fandom's virulent reaction toxic.
• Nothing Personal : How he feels towards Sidney unlike the previous Big Bads , but still needs to kill her to make his Evil Plan work.
• Oblivious to Their Own Description : Richie, without a hint of irony, asks how a fandom can be toxic... while covered in blood after committing or being an accessory to a dozen murders or attempted murders, and while planning to kill the very person he's talking to, all because he didn't like the most recent Stab movie and wants to inspire one more to his liking.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain : He's in his late twenties, in contrast to Sidney in her forties and Dewey and Gale in their fifties.
• Playing the Victim Card : During his Motive Rant to Sidney, he tries to cast himself as a victim because he didn't like the latest Stab movie. He also goes off on a long tangent about how angry he is about his section of the fandom being dismissed as toxic for their virulent criticism of the film, blissfully ignorant that he is the epitome of a Loony Fan .
• Politically Incorrect Villain : Apart from being literal serial killers, he and his family are also misogynistic. He also refers to Tara as Sam's "gimpy little sister."
• Posthumous Character : Richie plays a small but significant role in VI , appearing in video footage that he made before his murder. As his family are also avenging his death, his shadow looms large in other ways.
• Psychopathic Manchild : To the point that he even makes Jill Roberts look positively mild by comparison . To put that into perspective, it takes a special level of immaturity to commit numerous brutal murders just because you really didn't like a horror film. Sam calls Richie "pathetic" and a "man-baby" to get a rise out of his vengeful family in VI .
• Ruined FOREVER : invoked His motivation in a nutshell. Richie was a huge Stab fan, and hated the direction the franchise took in its later installments, with Stab 8 being the straw that broke the camel's back and made him decide to take the franchise back to its roots by inspiring his own "re-quel".
• Sadist : The attack on Judy Hicks is particularly brutal and drawn out. It begins with Richie calling Judy and threatening the life of her son Wes to the point where Judy is tearfully pleading for his life. Then when Judy arrives home and tries to save Wes, Richie jumps out and stabs her multiple times until she dies. Richie next proceeds to kill Wes For the Evulz even though Sheriff Judy's death alone would have been a good enough distraction for the cops.
• Screams Like a Little Girl : His screams when Sam gets the upper hand and stabs him repeatedly are unusually high-pitched and effeminate.
• Skewed Priorities : Even after he gets stabbed multiple times and is facing certain death with a pissed-off Sam standing over him, he's still concerned about the narrative he's trying to create. "What about my ending?"
• Slashed Throat : This is how he dies at Sam's hands in the end.
• Slut-Shaming : Richie insults Sam for being a sexually active young woman during the Motive Rant . After having had sex with her himself.
• Smug Snake : Richie thinks himself a murderous mastermind whose foolproof plan will go off without a hitch, but he's not as tough or smart as he thinks he is. He believed Sam would side with him over is own sister, and is genuinely caught off guard when she opts to free Tara instead of suspect her as one of the killers.
• The Sociopath : Aside from being a Benevolent Boss towards Amber out of their Villainous Friendship , he definitely fits this trope, based on his sadistic nature, superficial charm and manipulativeness, his immaturity, his poor impulse control and how he gets off on killing and torturing others for his own amusement.
• Straw Fan : An extreme version of a dissatisfied and entitled fan.
• Stylistic Suck : Revealed in the sixth film to have written and directed fan films of the Stab movies, all of which are depicted as cheap-looking and poorly acted.
• Tempting Fate : "The villain dies at the end! Those are the rules!" Immediately after this, Sam manages to get the jump on him and stab him to death.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill : Out of all the Ghostfaces' deaths, Richie's deserves special mention for the sheer brutality that Sam inflicts on him; she stabs him a total of 22 times, kills him by slitting his throat, and shoots his corpse three times (the third being a shot to the head) to ensure his death.
• Too Clever by Half : While a lot of Richie's plan to capture the new and old characters and frame Sam for their murders goes fairly smoothly, the one part that ends up derailing his scheme is when he tried to convince Sam that Tara was the other Ghostface and had lured her back to Woodsboro to die. While she briefly hesitates when she sees Tara tied up in a closet, Sam ultimately trusts her sister more than Richie and cuts her bonds. This one mistake ends up derailing the villains' scheme, and ultimately leads to their deaths.
• Villainous Breakdown : While he isn't exactly sane once he is revealed to be one of the killers, Richie seems to be in control once he reveals his plan to kill off the remaining heroes and frame Sam for it. This changes once things go off the rails when it turns out that Sam freed Tara from her bonds and Sam starts fighting back, with him childishly whining that she is spoiling the ending of his "movie". Once he is on death's door, he pathetically whines and asks what will happen to his ending. Sam then gives him the ending he deserves. Richie: Stop. Fucking. Up. My. ENDING!
• Villainous Legacy : Like Billy Loomis before him, Richie's actions inspire others to carry on work. The sixth film's Ghostfaces are all fixated on him; Jason and Greg wanted to finish his work by killing the Carpenter sisters, while Bailey, Quinn, and Ethan are all out to avenge his death at Sam's hands.
• Villainous Valor : Not only he's a Determinator like his predecessors to see the success of his scheme go through, but still keeps his Villainous Friendship with Amber up even when their plan is getting foiled.
• Villain Respect : Despite being an accessory to his murder, Richie has to give it up to Dewey for being so Genre Savvy . Richie: You really should've listened to Dewey! He nailed it in one! (points to himself) Look at the love interest!
• Villains Never Lie : Richie correctly argues that going back to Amber's house for Tara's second inhaler is a bad idea; he just leaves out that he's part of the reason why.
• Villains Want Mercy : He screams "No!" just before Sam slices his throat open.
• Villain with Good Publicity : Posthumously; thanks to rumors started by his sister Quinn, in Scream VI Richie is seen by some as an innocent victim framed and manipulated by Sam, supposedly the real mastermind of the Woodsboro killings.

Amber Freeman

Played By: Mikey Madison

"See, we had to bring the legacy characters back to make it matter. Can't have a bonafide Halloween without Jamie Lee!"

• All There in the Script : An early script confirms she killed the security guard protecting Tara as Richie was still in the motel around this time and only went to the hospital because Sam told him to check on Tara.
• Ambiguously Bi : Amber is hinted to be in a relationship with Richie, with the two calling each other "hon" and "baby" multiple times, in a Unholy Matrimony -like situation. However, she is very touchy-feely and close with Tara beyond even being a "best friend", actually naming If I Can't Have You� as a potential reason to have attacked her. In an earlier draft of the film, Tara and Amber were even girlfriends; however, this was ultimately removed, leaving her romantic preferences for either a massive question mark.
• Arch-Enemy : Since she killed Dewey and backstabbed Tara, Amber ends up as one for both Gale and Tara. Sidney acknowledges this while handing Gale the pistol for the final blow. When Amber comes back for one last scare, Tara finishes her off.
• Attack the Injury : When Gale throttles her, Amber jams her fingers into her gunshot wound to get Gale off her.
• Ax-Crazy : Amber commits most of the murders in the film and still tries to kill Gale, Sidney, and Sam even after being burned alive .
• Amber lures Tara outside the front door, where Richie is standing, by texting Tara a deceptive video of Ghostface stalking Amber.
• Amber later leads Chad outside by hacking Liv's phone and sending him a message to have him come find "Liv."
• After revealing herself as one of the killers, Amber wears the Father Death costume to pretend that she is the second killer, which allows Richie to ambush Sam and take Sidney's gun.
• Big Bad Friend : She pretends to be Tara's supportive friend but is really one of the Ghostfaces.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : Amber appears to be Tara's closest friend, but in reality, she wounds Tara severely, and orchestrates (with Richie) the deaths of several people.
• Blood Knight : She's more openly excited by killing than Richie.
• Boom, Headshot! : Amber reveals that she is one of the Ghostface killers by shooting Liv in the head. Later, Amber is finally finished off with a gunshot through the head by Tara.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You : The only reason Tara survives both of Amber's attacks is because she and Richie need her alive but wounded and vulnerable to lure Sam to Woodsboro for their plan, by taking advantage of her Big Sister Instinct towards Tara.
• Stu has the outward veneer of a sociable, yet obnoxious, party animal with a serious lack of tact, while Amber presents herself as an empathetic and intelligent Deadpan Snarker who is sensitive to her friends' needs.
• Both are obsessed with slasher films, though only Amber's motive is directly tied to them (wanting to revive the Stab franchise with new "source material"), while Stu's motive is a combination of For the Evulz (as he claims) and to get back at his ex-girlfriend, while also taking some lesser inspiration from slasher flicks.
• Stu had an antagonistic relationship with Billy (with possible Homoerotic Subtext within their interactions), while Amber seems to get on well with her partner-in-crime Richie because of their similar motivations (and with confirmed romantic undertones ) - even if Amber acts more like the muscle of the operation than Richie does.
• Both are Ax-Crazy with extremely petty motives and lackluster justifications for their actions. Stu claims to have committed his deeds because of "peer pressure" by Billy, though he is also implied to have had an If I Can't Have You� motive when it came to killing Casey and Steve. Meanwhile, Amber's motives deal with her dissatisfaction with the direction her favorite film franchise was heading, and decided to give the franchise new "source material" to work with, though she later tries to cover her ass by saying that she was "radicalized" by toxic Internet message boards. Regardless, both prove merciless and sadistic towards their victims, whom they either know or are even friends of/lovers with.
• Whereas Stu reveals his true identity as Ghostface after Billy does, Amber takes Billy's place in the reveal order, even shooting someone just like Billy did.
• Both prove to be a Dirty Coward when they are confronted with their crimes, and yet both of them are Defiant to the End as they try to kill the remaining characters. However, Stu is still the first of the two between him and Billy to die, whereas Amber ever so briefly outlives her boss Richie.
• To Charlie Walker, the previous Ghostface accomplice. Both Amber and Charlie play the henchman role to Richie and Jill respectively and are obsessed Stab fans. However, while Charlie likes all of the Stab movies, Amber only likes the first Stab . In addition, it is hinted that Amber doesn't like the contemporary trend of elevated horror whereas Charlie enjoys classic horror movies like Suspiria (1977) and Don't Look Now , both of which would be considered elevated horror in modern times. And while Charlie is disposed of by Jill as a mere pawn, Amber is treated as an equal in her and Richie's scheme, with neither of them backstabbing each other.
• Cop Killer : She murders the lone cop guarding Tara in the hospital. A little later, she successfully kills ex-sheriff Dewey Riley after previous Ghostfaces failed to do so.
• Crazy Jealous Girl : She clearly dislikes Sam, who is dating Richie, but is much warmer around Richie, even though they supposedly hadn't met before. When she's revealed to be Richie's real girlfriend (probably — which is confirmed by Sam in Scream VI ) and partner-in-crime, her attitudes towards Sam and Richie suddenly make a lot more sense.
• Crazy-Prepared : She wears a Bulletproof Vest while infiltrating the hospital as insurance against the cops defending the hospital. It later comes in handy when Dewey unloads three bullets into her torso.
• Cruel and Unusual Death : One of the most prolonged, painful, and ignominious in the history of the series. Amber is beaten, shot, and burned alive on an oven stove, melting half of her face. She still survives long enough to try killing the heroes one more time in delirious agony before being killed via headshot. What seals it is that Amber goes down pathetically begging and sobbing for her life , mercy that the heroes empathetically don't grant: Amber : Wait, wait, wait, no! I-I'm sorry about Dewey! Gale : Fuck you. [guns her down]
• Dark Action Girl : Amber is the Ghostface that kills most of the victims in the fifth movie in brutal fashion, and is distinctly the muscle between her and Richie. She also puts up a fight against Sidney and Gale in the finale, though is eventually overpowered and taken down.
• Death by Disfigurement : By the time she's finally killed, half her face has been burnt off. Her flesh has visibly melted in the shot we get of her charging at Sam, Gale, and Sidney.
• Determinator : Despite being shot several times and being severely burned, Amber still attempts to kill Sam, Gale, and Sidney, only stopped when Tara lands a headshot on her.
• Dirty Coward : When backed into a corner, she attempts to bargain with the heroes, claiming that she's an innocent victim who was merely radicalized on the internet. They don't buy it for a second. Shortly after, when Gale has a gun trained on her, Amber desperately tries to apologize for Dewey's death... mere moments after gloating to Gale that he "died like a pussy" and happily hoping to kill Gale as well. Gale is understandably unmoved.
• Dragon-in-Chief : If an interview with Radio Silence is any indication, Amber was not only the one who did most of the legwork in the film, but is also the one who actually came up with the idea for a killing spree whereas Richie only believes it was his plan, with Amber being content to lead from behind. Given nothing in the film supports this, it's ambiguous how true it really is.
• Dragon Their Feet : Though she and Richie act more like partners than any Ghostface duo before them, Richie is still the central Ghostface given the bulk of the Motive Rant and the final confrontation with Sam in the climax, referring to their plan as "his" movie and giving Amber orders she follows with little complaint. She still survives him by a few seconds after getting half her face burnt off, attempting one last time to kill everyone before Tara anticlimactically shoots her brains out.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette : Much like her predecessor Jill, Amber is a pale-skinned, murderous brunette.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : One of her legitimate admirable qualities is not only her Villainous Friendship with Richie is seemingly genuine, but there appears to be Unholy Matrimony Ship Tease between the two.
• Evil Gloating : Amber does this to Gale, taking delight in killing Dewey. Gale responds by punching her out.
• Evil Virtues : One of the few admirable things is that her Villainous Friendship with Richie is genuine.
• False Friend : To Tara who believes Amber is her best friend. It's unknown if the friendship was ever genuine on Amber's part but she is undeniably this by the time of the film.
• Faux Affably Evil : Her Villainous Friendship with Richie is genuine and there is even hints of Unholy Matrimony Ship Tease between the two. She's also a completely ruthless killer who has no problems gleefully mocking Dewey's death to Gale's face.
• For the Evulz : She gloats about Dewey's death purely to spite Gale.
• Framing the Guilty Party : Similar to Roman Bridger, Amber throws suspicion off herself by texting Tara from a cloned phone with her name as the sender. Sheriff Hicks clears Amber as a suspect when she checks Amber's cell phone records and finds them free of any evidence of this.
• The Heavy : She's the one who commits most of the murders and attacks in the fifth film.
• Hero Killer : No other Ghostface in the series can say they killed Dewey Riley; Amber even declares that "it's an honor" after doing so. She also puts a bullet in Liv's head during her reveal. Amber almost kills Dewey's ex-wife Gale and Chad as well.
• High-Heel�Face Turn : Parodied. When cornered by the heroes, Amber cries and claims that she was radicalized on the Internet, expressing remorse for her actions. They don't believe her, and it's all an act.
• Hypocrite : Claims that Dewey "died like a pussy," and yet has the gall to plead with Sidney and Gale once they gain the upper hand on her.
• Impromptu Tracheotomy : She stabs Vince in the throat and watches him bleed out.
• Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk : Amber is aloof at times, but initially seems to be a good friend to Tara and very protective of her, which informs her dislike of Sam (because of her criminal history and her previous abandonment of Tara). Then she turns out to be one of the killers, and is specifically the one who wounded Tara inside her home in the first place.
• Karmic Death : After brutally murdering Dewey and sadistically gloating about it to Gale, she's beaten up, shot by Gale (with Dewey's gun), and catches fire from the stove behind her. When she gets back up shortly after Richie's death, Tara, the first victim she attacked and attempted to kill in the hospital (and the one whose life Dewey died saving), is the one who kills her by shooting her in the head.
• Amber mocks Sam and Tara's mother's alcoholism during the Motive Rant towards the end of the film.
• She also mocks Dewey's death (caused by her), saying that he "died like a pussy", and taunts Gale with the fact that she was the last thing Dewey saw before he died.
• Kick Them While They Are Down : She goes after Tara in the hospital, after she's been left wheelchair-bound and is still recovering from the injuries she sustained from her initial attack (which Amber herself was the perpetrator of) at the beginning of the film.
• Laughably Evil : Acts very obviously deranged following The Reveal , in contrast to her more reserved personality for the majority of the movie. She even jokingly hums "Psycho" Strings while pretending to aim her knife at Sidney.
• Loony Fan : Like Richie, her motive is her possessive fixation on Stab . In Amber's case, it was an obsession that started when her parents bought the house that the Macher family originally lived in.
• Made of Iron : Even after getting burned alive, she's still ready to try and murder the remaining survivors, and is only brought down by a headshot.
• Man on Fire : Sidney smashes a bottle of hand sanitizer on her head, and eventually gets her to accidentally set off the stove, lighting her ablaze. Remarkably, it's not enough to kill her.
• Manipulative Bitch : At the start of the film, Amber makes herself look like a potential victim of Ghostface by sending a video to Tara in order to get her out of the house. Additionally, Amber's suspicions of Sam because of her Dark and Troubled Past are meant to look like concern for Tara's well-being (and to make Sam look like a Red Herring ). Overall, Amber makes herself look like a good friend, all the while planting seeds of distrust against Sam to throw attention off herself and Richie and make the intended plan of a Frame-Up against Sam look plausible.
• Miles Gloriosus : Amber brags about killing Dewey, and taunts Gale by telling her she was the last thing he saw before he died, but she begs for mercy once she's cornered by Sidney and Gale, even "apologizing" for Dewey's death.
• Never My Fault : While crying for Gale and Sidney to spare her life, Amber claims to have been radicalized on the Internet, and is not to blame for her actions. Naturally, neither Sidney nor Gale are buying it, and Amber herself probably doesn't believe it and is just saying whatever comes to mind to try and save her own neck.
• Not Quite Dead : Sidney and Gale's confrontation with Amber ends with Gale shooting Amber and setting her on fire when she falls onto the lit stove behind her. After Sam dispatches Richie and shoots his corpse several times, Amber gets back up and rushes towards Sam, Sidney, and Gale with a knife, before quickly being dispatched by a headshot from Tara.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain : She's in her late teens and The Baby of the Bunch , in contrast to Sidney in her forties and Dewey and Gale in their fifties.
• Overshadowed by Awesome : Like Stu Macher before her, Amber is heavily overshadowed by Richie after her death; Richie is referenced heavily in the sixth film while Amber only gets a few token references. While it's understandable that Richie's family would focus on him over a girl they probably never met, and that Sam would focus on her duplicitous boyfriend whom she personally killed, even Amber's former friends don't really mention her. Even when Quinn as Ghostface is taunting Gale about Dewey's death, she says "Richie and Amber" killed him, when Amber did it by herself.
• Pay Evil unto Evil : Amber kills Vince, a creepy man who was stalking Liv and pulled a knife on Chad when he tried to stick up for Liv.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse : She puts up a solid fight against Dewey and holds her own with Sidney and Gale in the climax.
• Playing Possum : After Dewey shoots her three times, she pretends to be unconscious to get the drop on him when he returns to finish her off with a shot to the head.
• Rasputinian Death : Even by Ghostface standards, Amber takes a lot of punishment before she goes down for good, managing to live through gunshots (albeit blunted by a bulletproof vest), a beating from both Gale and Sidney, a bottle being smashed into her face, a gunshot, and being set on fire before a bullet to the head finally ends her life.
• Her attack on Tara in the opening of the film exemplifies her sadistic brutality, as she stabs her seven times, breaks her ankle, impales her palm, and throws her against the ground—all the while tormenting her via phone threats. And Tara was supposedly her best friend . Not to mention that Tara thought Amber herself was in danger, and was coming to rescue her.
• While choking Gale, she salivates at the idea of being the one to off both her and Dewey.
• Slashed Throat : This is how she takes out the cop guarding Tara.
• Smug Snake : Arguably the biggest example out of any of the Ghostfaces; when she has the upper hand, Amber has a smug grin on her face and gloats about her crimes, but the second she's at a disadvantage, she starts begging for mercy and coming up with hollow excuses for what she's done.
• Teens Are Monsters : She's about seventeen years old, and commits several murders. She might not be the deadliest of all the killers, but like Richie, she is arguably the pettiest and amongst the most sadistic.
• Two-Faced : Amber's not-quite-fatal immolation leaves half her face burnt to a crisp. Thanks to Tara, she didn't have to live with the disfigurement for long.
• Villain Respect : Subverted; as she's killing Dewey, Amber tells him "it's an honor", but once she has Gale at her mercy, Amber brags about how Dewey "died like a pussy".
• Villainous Valor : Not only is she a Determinator like her predecessors to see the success of her scheme go through and does one Last Stand of a berserker charge, but still keeps her Villainous Friendship with Richie up even when their plan is thwarted.
• Villains Want Mercy : She alternates between attempting to kill Sidney and Gale, and then begging them to have mercy on her when they overpower her during their confrontation. Her murder of Dewey makes this a cowardly, futile attempt to save herself from Gale's revenge, with Gale responding by shooting and immolating her.
• Waif-Fu : Amber is only 5'3" with a slender frame, easily making her one of the smallest people to don the Ghostface persona. Nevertheless, she kills at least four people including Dewey , and wounds several others in gruesome fashion. Notably, she's one of only two killers (the other being Jill) to actually stab Sidney.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? : Amber has Tara dead to rights two times at Tara's own house and at the hospital, yet she instead settles for torturing her. It's justified as Amber and Richie need Tara alive, albeit severely injured, to lure Sam back into Woodsboro long enough for their plan to work.
• With Friends Like These... : Richie and Amber's killing spree commences with Amber attacking Tara, her supposed best friend, putting her in the hospital by stabbing her multiple times and breaking her leg. Later on, Amber also menaces Tara in the hospital as well, when she's vulnerable in a wheelchair, but Dewey fends her off. Plus, her overall plan is basically to kill off her friends in order to "revive" her favorite film franchise with Amber herself killing Liv and seriously injuring Chad.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit : Tries to pull this on Sidney and Gale. When they see right through it, she pulls out her gun and starts shooting.

The Bailey Family

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"It wasn't until I saw that photograph of what you'd actually done to him that I knew. That I knew you had to fucking die! You had to be punished! Along with anyone else who stands in our way!" — Wayne Bailey

• Ambiguously Absent Parent : The matriarch of the Baileys is conspicuously absent, and none of the Baileys talk about her current whereabouts.
• Ax-Crazy : The trio are among the most brutal murderers in the franchise. For people claiming to be doing this for vengeance, they sure do go all out on anyone who is simply unfortunate enough to be in proximity of Sam or Tara.
• Berserk Button : They really don't take kindly to Sam talking smack about Richie.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family : A family of three serial killers (four, including Richie)? "Screwed-up" doesn't even begin to describe them. Lampshaded by Tara: Tara: [to Wayne] Real great parenting job, by the way.
• Breaking Old Trends : The first time there are three killers when there have never been more than two, and they forgo horror movie trivia in favor of straight-up revenge against Sam and anyone even peripherally involved in the death of Richie.
• Brother�Sister Team : Ethan and Quinn are brother and sister. At one point, they gang up on Chad and take turns stabbing him.
• Connected All Along : Quinn and Detective Bailey pretend to not be related to Ethan to avoid a Contrived Coincidence and hide their familial ties with one another. Additionally, the finale reveals they're Richie's family who wants vengeance against Sam for "murdering" Richie a year prior.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : Unlike Richie and Amber, an implied couple with an impersonal motive, the Baileys are a family out for a very personal revenge, even if (in true Ghostface fashion) it's a decidedly myopic one . They also have no interest in horror movies beyond respecting Richie's fondness for them, a major contrast with almost every previous Ghostface.
• Disproportionate Retribution : They target Sam because she killed Richie despite the fact she only murdered him in self-defense and after he and his cohort Amber killed several people. Additionally, they also go after the other Woodsboro survivors despite the fact that they weren't physically involved in Richie's death or, in the case of Mindy and Chad, were nearly dead by the time he and Amber were taken out.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : They genuinely love one another despite being psychopathic killers.
• Evil Is One Big, Happy Family : They are a family of killers and genuinely care deeply for one another.
• Fall Guy : Sam is yet again the fall guy for the Baileys by playing into the negative media attention that Sam has received since the Woodsboro requel murders, wanting to frame her for the murders in revenge for murdering Richie, the eldest son of the Bailey family. They also plan to blame Sam's death on an angry conspiracy theorist; whether Wayne has a specific conspiracy theorist in mind is unknown.
• Irony : Quinn, who wore Stu Macher's mask and considered him her favorite Ghostface, is killed by a gunshot, like Nancy Loomis, whereas Ethan, who wore Mrs. Loomis' mask, is killed by having a CRT TV dropped on his head, like Stu (the very same TV, no less).
• The Family That Slays Together : Wayne, Ethan, and Quinn are the first Ghostface team to be related to one another.
• They constantly deride Sam as a "killer" because she killed a single person to protect herself , despite all three of them being serial killers, as was Richie, who they want to avenge.
• Sam and Tara accurately badmouthing Richie is a collective Berserk Button for all three of them, yet they have no problem with posting lies about Sam on the Internet to ruin her reputation (Quinn even brags about it).
• Misplaced Retribution : The Bailey family targets Sam because she (in self-defense) killed Richie, the eldest son of their family. While this alone would already be Moral Myopia , it gets even worse even they start to target the other Woodsboro survivors as well despite the fact that all of them weren't physically involved in Richie's death (and, in the case of Chad and Mindy, were nearly dead as a result of Richie and Amber's machinations), not to mention the many other victims they accumulate that had either had no connection to Woodsboro whatsoever or tangential connections at best.
• Moral Myopia : They all think they have the moral high ground compared to Sam because she killed Richie, despite the fact that they're all serial killers themselves.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis : Subverted . These Ghostfaces stand out from the usual killers because they're not interested in playing to horror movie conventions or quizzing their targets about their knowledge of horror movies — even though it turns out that they are horror fans, after a fashion, their motive is simple revenge instead of elaborate theatrics. As such, they're among the most dangerous set of killers in the franchise. However, they also fail to kill any of the returning survivors because they neglect to Make Sure They're Dead .
• Revenge : All three share the same motive to avenge their deceased family member, Richie.
• Revenge Myopia : They want to avenge Richie's death at Sam's hands despite the fact that she killed him in self-defense after he orchestrated a murder rampage.
• Siblings in Crime : Ethan and Quinn work together to avenge their brother, Richie.
• Sibling Yin-Yang : Ethan is depicted as a dorky, soft-spoken Shrinking Violet who struggles with talking to girls and gets almost no respect from his peers. Quinn is easy-going, brutally honest, has no problem attracting multiple guys, and seems to be on good terms with the rest of their friend group.
• Sucksessor : Zigzagged. The Baileys rack up a body count of at least nine on top of being some of the most ruthless and brutal killers in the franchise. They also fail to kill any of the Core Four or returning legacy characters, and are the first not to kill anyone during the third act final battle. Even Richie and Amber, who also left behind an unusually large number of survivors, managed to at least kill Liv at the start of the third act and succeeded in killing Scream 4 returnee Judy and franchise mainstay Dewey earlier in the movie.
• Terrible Trio : Wayne is the Big Bad and Ethan and Quinn are his Co-Dragons .

Detective Wayne Bailey

Played By: Dermot Mulroney

"Have I been a perfect dad? No. Have I maybe overindulged Richie's love of these little movies? Yeah, maybe. For me, they're just a little dark."

• Affably Evil : Out of all the Ghostface masterminds, Wayne is the only one that genuinely believes in retribution, never allowing his emotions to get ahead of him. Even when it does, it comes across as being sincere, and when both of his children appear dead, he goes ballistic. During his attempt to kill the Carpenter sisters, he acts like a Fun Personified goofy dad having family fun time with his children, laughing it up with them. In his last moments, he even thanks Sam for sparing him with the fatal blow... until she doesn't .
• Ambiguous Situation : It's not explained if the dead body he uses to fake his daughter's death was yet another victim he murdered.
• Arbitrarily Large Bank Account : He acquires an abandoned movie theater and converts it into a shrine to house Richie's massive collection of memorabilia about the Stab franchise and the previous Ghostfaces. It is never established how a police detective is able to fork up the several million dollars such a large property would cost in Manhattan.
• Avenging the Villain : The 2023 Ghostface murders in New York City are carried out to avenge Richie's death at Sam's hands. Then he upgrades to avenging Ethan and Quinn after they are dispatched.
• The Bad Guys Are Cops : The head Ghostface of Scream VI is a cop, using his power to go around New York on a rampage.
• Be Careful What You Wish For : He wanted to portray Sam as a Ghostface, just like her father and grandmother. When Sam does don the costume, it's to kill Bailey just as savagely as he and his children murdered several other people. Sam even throws the trope name in Bailey's face while she taunts him over the phone .
• Benevolent Boss : Like Father, Like Son , he never mistreats nor disposes his own children who are his accomplices. After his children are killed, he tries to avenge them.
• Big Bad : Of the sixth film. He's behind the revenge plot against the Carpenters, Sam especially, for the murder of Richie in the previous film. He's also the first Ghostface to have more than one accomplice, as well as the first police officer to be one of the killers.
• Big "NO!" : Gives an almighty one just before Sam (in full Ghostface costume) turns him into a human pincushion.
• Bullying a Dragon : Bailey knows better than anyone what Sam is capable of when she's pushed too far, yet his plan is to keep pushing her . When things go awry, it costs Bailey his two remaining children and earns him a death even more brutal and bloody than Richie's.
• To Nancy Loomis from the second film. Whereas Nancy was an absentee mother for most of Billy's life, Wayne is more supportive of Richie to the point he enabled his obsession with the Stab movies by helping him create his shrine, despite not fully understanding them himself. Whereas Nancy groomed Mickey to be her accomplice and plotted to have him as the fall guy, Wayne enlists the help of his two remaining children and doesn't betray either of them. Lastly, when the self-righteous mother act is peeled away, Nancy's outrage over Billy's death is really over how Billy's killing spree reflected on her parenting and insists she was a good mother despite running out on him after an affair, while Wayne openly admits to not being a perfect father and his grief, by comparison, is depicted as genuine, if twisted, and motivated by love for his late son. Furthermore, Wayne is more aggressive in costume as he kills three bystanders in the bodega for standing between him and his intended victims, Sam and Tara; in contrast, Nancy is more cautious and immediately backs off from killing Sidney after Derek intervenes.
• To his own son, Richie. Richie was a horror movie fanatic who carried out a killing spree in the hopes of inspiring a new Stab movie after despising the most recent one, and his accomplice was Amber, with whom he was heavily implied to be in a relationship. Richie also targeted Sam because he thought that, since she was Billy Loomis' daughter, she would make the perfect "villain" for his planned movie. Bailey, by contrast, never really got horror movies and is out to avenge his dead son, a far less petty motive than Richie's, and he's assisted by his two college-age children. His campaign against Sam has nothing to do with Billy (although her parentage does make a convenient weapon to use against her), and instead, Bailey wants her ruined and dead for killing Richie. Both Richie and his father wanted to make Sam the villain of their story, but their motives were completely different.
• Corrupted Character Copy : Of Dewey, a fellow police officer who lost a member of his family in a Ghostface massacre. Unlike Dewey, Bailey's family was the Ghostface in question, and Bailey himself turns to the other side of the law to try and avenge him.
• Crime of Self-Defense : Just like Nancy Loomis before him, Wayne couldn't care less that Sam killed Richie in self-defense, nor does he care that Richie planned to frame Sam for his and Amber's own murders.
• Cruel and Unusual Death : Sam tops her efforts in the fifth film with Richie, Wayne's own son, by stabbing him as little as thirty-two times , before stabbing him through the eye for good measure.
• Didn't Think This Through : He wants to avenge his son by going after the justifiably ruthless Sam who killed him. He doesn't think twice about dragging his remaining children into a dangerous revenge plot which inevitably gets them all killed.
• Dirty Cop : "Dirty" is probably the kindest way to describe Bailey, a Serial Killer who is trying to frame Sam for the murders he and his kids committed. He even taunts Sam that his word will be believed over hers, since he's a police officer.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : Bailey is motivated by his eldest son's death at Sam's hands, and he works well with his two younger children as well, going ballistic when he sees Sam kill Quinn.
• Even Evil Has Standards : While killing Jason and Greg was for pragmatic reasons, not moral ones, Bailey still expresses disgust for Jason's sociopathic reveling in having murdered an innocent person, throwing Jason's own words in his face while eviscerating him.
• Evil Counterpart : To Kirby Reed. Both are cops who came close to a Ghostface killer and survived (though Kirby was attacked by Charlie, while Richie is Wayne's son). However, Kirby is a hero, while Bailey is the lead Ghostface of VI .
• Evil Old Folks : He's by far the oldest Ghostface yet, considering that all of his three kids are adults. He's also one of the most brutal, as shown with his murders of Jason and Greg, as well as the bodega massacre.
• Evil Virtues : Love and loyalty; Bailey is motivated by grief for his eldest son and is still a loving father to his other two children, and unlike other Ghostface teams (except, fittingly enough , Richie and Amber), they're all genuinely loyal to one another.
• Eviler than Thou : He's confirmed to be the one who disembowels Jason in the opening kill, and his Pre-Mortem One-Liner establishes he's not out to make a movie, nor does he care about doing so. Jason: But... We have... To finish... The movie! Ghostface: WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT MOVIES?!
• Eye Scream : After viciously stabbing him no less than thirty-two times, Sam finishes Bailey off by driving her knife through his eye.
• Firing One-Handed : He shoots and kills the bodega store owner with a shotgun with one hand.
• Frame-Up : Bailey's ultimate plan is to frame Sam for both his and Richie's killing sprees before killing her, intending to not only end Sam's life, but completely destroy her reputation.
• Hired to Hunt Yourself : He's the lead investigator of the latest Ghostface killing spree, and is actually the man behind the murders.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted : After being briefly knocked out while fighting Sam, Bailey comes to to find her gone, only to realize that Sam is now using a Ghostface costume and tactics to stalk and torment Bailey, just like he did to her.
• He taunts Sam over the phone for being "a liar and a killer", which is pretty rich coming from a Killer Cop who poses as Sam's ally and who viciously kills several innocent people.
• Despite seeming genuinely disgusted by Jason murdering Laura for a deeply petty reason, Bailey kills multiple innocent people himself just for getting in his way or being peripherally involved in Richie's death.
• Wayne's aforementioned disgust that Jason is murdering people because he's just a Loony Fan of the Stab franchise rings hollow when his son Richie (who Wayne is dead-set on avenging) was motivated by the exact same reason.
• He himself is not a fan of the Stab movies, considering them "a little dark". Among other things, he dismembered Greg and stuffed his body into a fridge. Granted, Greg did have it coming, but still.
• Bailey decided to kill Sam when he saw the state Sam left Richie in ; Bailey himself murders Jason and Greg with a comparable level of brutality.
• Improbable Aiming Skills : He is able to land three headshots in a row, one-handed, with an ankle-sized revolver against the mannequins in the Ghostface shrine in the final confrontation. Unfortunately for him, Sam as Ghostface is able to close into melee range from behind him before he can react, with gruesome results.
• Killer Cop : He's the one responsible for orchestrating the Ghostface killing spree that terrorizes the Big Apple.
• Laughably Evil : After The Reveal , he acts like a goofy dad despite being a killer.
• Manipulative Bastard : Initially convinces Sam that Kirby is the killer by saying that she's not an FBI agent anymore and she's been off the deep end for months.
• Misplaced Retribution : Sam acted alone in killing Richie, but Bailey also wants to kill Tara, Gale, Chad, and Mindy, who never laid a finger on Richie (the latter two spent Richie's death scene barely alive after Amber and Richie nearly killed them).
• Noble Demon : Downplayed, but Bailey is the only Ghostface to ever express any moral problems with one of the people he kills, and he's a genuinely loving, if rather uneven and, by his own admission, imperfect, father, making him the most comparatively noble Ghostface (admittedly a very low bar, but still).
• Outliving One's Offspring : Richie's death is what drove him to kill in the first place. Then, his daughter Quinn gets gunned down by Sam � the very same person who killed Richie (in self-defense) � in front of him. Narrowly subverted by his youngest son Ethan, who dies moments after his father.
• Papa Wolf : Much like Nancy Loomis before him, Wayne Bailey loved his eldest son and seeks to kill Sam in retribution for her killing of Richie in self-defense.
• Parental Favoritism : Bailey clearly favored Richie, saying there is no bond greater than one with the eldest son... right in front of Ethan, his other son. Additionally, for his cover, he treats Ethan like a stranger while not lying about his relationship with Quinn.
• Pet the Dog : Despite his hatred of Sam, he seems to sincerely thank her when she nearly avoids giving him the fatal blow.
• Pragmatic Villainy : The main reason he had Jason and Greg killed off, with a touch of genuine disgust for their motives. Despite sharing the same target, their agendas wouldn't have aligned by the end, and Bailey didn't want a pair of bratty film students killing Sam before him and his family could .
• Revenge Myopia : Bailey wants to avenge his son's death, which is fine by itself. However, along the way, he and his children murder several people who are totally innocent, and they conveniently ignore that Sam killed Richie in self-defense.
• Spear Counterpart : To Debbie Salt/Nancy Loomis. Both are parents in hiding seeking vengeance for their deceased murderous sons, specifically by hunting down and killing their ex-girlfriends and killers.
• Tempting Fate : Bailey repeatedly taunts Sam about her murderous lineage and her own capacity to kill. Once she's been pushed far enough, Sam ends up unleashing that darkness on Bailey and his two remaining children.
• Villain Ball : After he sees Sam kill Quinn, Bailey charges at her despite being armed with a gun that had at least one round in it.
• A teacher giving you a mediocre grade (not even a failing grade; it was a C-) is a ridiculously petty motive for murder, as Bailey rightfully points out to Jason.
• Bailey and his children insist on calling Sam a killer; given their and Richie's actions, the accusation is laughably hypocritical, but given how savagely Sam killed both Richie and eventually Bailey himself, it's hard to argue that there's not a grain of truth to it.
• During the standard Motive Rant , Bailey admits that he isn't a perfect father; it's a major understatement, but it's also clearly true.
• Villainous Breakdown : Both Sam's words of mockery towards his children and the fight she puts up against him very clearly get to Bailey's head. He has an offended reaction to Sam's put-down of Richie more closely befitting a child than a police officer, and screams over the phone at her when she calls him as Ghostface, ultimately smashing his phone on the ground for no good reason.
• Villainous Parental Instinct : Bailey admits to not being able to understand Richie, but he still loved him and hates Sam for killing him and became Ghostface for revenge. He also shows no interest in betraying either Ethan or Quinn, which is extremely rare among Ghostfaces. He also notes that it was Sam's extreme measures in killing Richie that convinced him to exact revenge.
• Villainous Valor : He gives it his all to make good on his word to avenge Richie, then immediately upgrades to avenging his other fallen children Quinn and Ethan after they are taken out against Sam.

Ethan Bailey (alias: Ethan Landry)

Played By : Jack Champion

"Mindy was right. It was easy to juke the roommate lottery. I mean, all I had to do to meet you is room with a conceited, condescending alpha literally named Chad."

• He at one point yells that he's wanted to "stick something in [her]" for a while. Tara pays him in kind .
• At another point, she yells "Fuck you!" at him, and he invites her to "go ahead."
• Affably Evil : Despite being The Unfavorite , he and his sister and father are more akin to a dysfunctional family than a gang of sociopathic killers. They also seem to genuinely care for each other, treating their murder attempt on Sam and Tara as having family fun time.
• The Alibi : Ethan keeps bringing up the alibi that he had economics class when the others point out his absence during the apartment murders. Given the confirmation that he is the one responsible for the apartment murders, it is suggested that either he didn't have an econ class that night, skipped said class, or went to class but still had enough time to act as Ghostface .
• Attack the Mouth : Tara stabs him through the mouth and twists the knife.
• The Baby of the Bunch : Ethan is the youngest of the three Bailey siblings.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : Although Mindy immediately pegs him as a suspect, Ethan keeps up a facade as a stuttering, soft-spoken nice guy, the complete opposite of his genuine, sadistic personality.
• Blood from the Mouth : When he comes back for one last scare, he's yelling with blood pouring from his mouth.
• The Brute : Between him and his sister, he's the most eager to indulge in violence following The Reveal . Even his own family seem to regard him as little more than extra muscle in their scheme. Fittingly enough, he is also the tallest of the trio.
• Call-Back : Ethan's characterization provide several nods to Stu Macher, a killer from the first film. He tells the heroic Tara that he's always wanted to stick something in her while trying to kill her, much like how Stu, in a similar struggle with the heroic Sidney, told her, "I've always had a thing for ya, Sid!" He also comes back briefly after the heroes have thought they killed him, and dies once and for all by getting a TV (the same TV used to kill Stu, even) smashed over his head.
• Co-Dragons : He, along with Quinn, are Bailey's accomplices in the sixth film's murder spree.
• Cruel and Unusual Death : Tara stabs him deep in the mouth and twists the knife. However, he still has some energy to try and attack Tara and Sam, only for Kirby to drop a television set (the very same set that fried Stu Macher, no less) on his head, crushing it and killing him for good.
• Dragon Their Feet : In franchise tradition, he comes back for one last scare after Bailey is killed.
• Dramatic Unmask : Between him and Quinn, he unmasks himself first, confirming that Mindy's suspicions were right.
• Evil Gloating : After stabbing Tara in the side, he yells out "Gotcha!" before she stabs him through the mouth.
• Evil Is Petty : While stabbing Kirby, he makes sure to aim for exactly the spot where Charlie had stabbed her twelve years prior, even using Charlie's old knife to do it.
• False Friend : He pretends to be Chad's friend, but, in addition to secretly being one of the killers, Ethan admits that he actually hates him, considering him a Jerk Jock (more out of incel-esque jealousy than anything else) and gleefully reveling in having " killed " him.
• Foil : Ethan doesn't have much luck with the ladies and even claims to be a virgin. This is in contrast to his "sex-positive" sister Quinn and brother Richie, who was able to attract the likes of Sam and Amber.
• The Friend Nobody Likes : Ethan is constantly undermined by his friends even before The Reveal , and everyone quickly believes he's the likeliest candidate to be Ghostface based on genre savviness . Even his father seems to view him as an afterthought.
• Green-Eyed Monster : The reason why Ethan stabbed Chad nearly to death is, among other things, because he's envious of his success with girls; Tara in particular. Though he eventually goes on to attempt the same thing on Tara .
• Karmic Butt-Monkey : Ethan was always considered the likeliest suspect to be the killer, even before The Reveal . He is antagonized and no one particularly respects him, even more so as the body count rises. After the reveal, it's implied that his father favored his late brother more than him.
• Laughably Evil : Acts very overtly deranged following The Reveal in a complete 180 from his "shy and dorky" (in Mindy's words) personality beforehand.
• Made of Iron : Sam hits him in the head with a brick and stabs him five times in the chest, neither of which does much to slow him down. Tara seemingly kills him by stabbing him through the mouth and twisting the blade... but even then he has enough energy for one last scare until Kirby drops a television on his head, finally killing him for good.
• Not Quite Dead : After Tara stabs Ethan through the mouth with the knife that Sam gave her, Ethan is down for the count while Sam shoots Quinn in the head and stabs Detective Bailey to death while wearing the Ghostface costume. After the deaths of both his father and sister, Ethan gets up and rushes at Sam and Tara before Kirby crushes Ethan to death by dropping a television on him - the very same television that Sidney used to kill Stu in the first movie.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist : It's implied that Ethan's motivated more by sadism and his own pent-up frustration than avenging Richie.
• Oblivious to Their Own Description : He scoffs that being a psychotic Serial Killer must really run in Sam's family, apparently without realizing the irony.
• Obviously Evil : Mindy immediately describes him as suspicious because he's new to the group, and they all respond negatively to him when he arrives at the crime scene after Anika's death. This time, they're right about him.
• Only One Name : He is one of the very few characters not to have his surname revealed explicitly in the movies. This turns out to be for a good reason - to hide that he's a Bailey, like his sister Quinn and his father Wayne.
• Pragmatic Villainy : Saving Mindy's life after Quinn attacked her was only done to throw suspicion off of him and sow distrust between the others, with he and his family stating their intent to finish her and Gale off at the hospital after killing the rest.
• Psychological Projection : Ethan describes Chad as "conceited [and] condescending", implicitly projecting his own frustration and jealousy onto him.
• Sadist : While he's with his family in a plot avenging Richie, he seems to relish in the killings and doesn't mention Richie like his sister or father. During the ladder scene, Ethan opts to put down his knife and toy with Anika as she tries to cross to the other side, which eventually causes her to fall to her death. While waiting for Tara to fall from a railing, Ethan slashes at her feet, laughing and cheering as he does.
• Screaming Warrior : When he comes back for one last scream, he charges at Sam & Tara, while yelling like a berserker (which is impressive, given how deeply Tara drove a knife into his mouth).
• Slasher Smile : He has several notable ones — when he unmasks himself as one of the killers, when he brandishes a knife to Kirby before stabbing her, when he says he always wanted to "stick something" in Tara, and when he stabs Tara, gloating "GOTCHA!" with the widest smile ever before the former stabs him in the mouth.
• Tempting Fate : At one point, he asks Sam, "What are you gonna do about it, bitch?" She responds by carving him up like she did his brother.
• The Unfavorite : Implied since Wayne gushes over his bond with Richie, while conveniently ignoring Ethan.
• Villainous Crush : He's implied to have a crush on Tara, never mind that he's trying to kill all her friends and her eventually.
• Villainous Valor : Not only is he a Determinator like his predecessors to see the success of his family's vengeance go through, but does one Last Stand of a berserker charge before getting a television set dropped on his head.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy : Implied in how Wayne treats him about the massacre, while praising Richie, to be at least part of his motive.
• You Need to Get Laid : Implied to be part of his motive; it's heavily implied that he tried to murder Chad out of jealousy for his comparative success with women.

Quinn Bailey

Played By : Liana Liberato

"Do you know how easy it was to turn Sam from the hero of Woodsboro into the villain? How easy it is to convince the world to believe the worst in people rather than the best?"

• Affably Evil : She and her brother and father are more akin to a dysfunctional family than a gang of sociopathic killers. They also seem to genuinely care for each other, treating their murder attempt on Sam and Tara as having family fun time.
• The Alibi : Invoked . Quinn attacks Gale and Mindy to give Ethan an alibi for both situations since the protagonists are still suspicious of her brother.
• Berserk Button : Insulting her family. She charges at Sam when she brings up Richie's pathetic last moments, and later tries to attack Sam again when Tara stabs Ethan and Sam gleefully tells her she's "down another brother."
• Big Brother Worship : Even before revealing herself as one of the killers, she mourns her brother and can't keep her emotions completely at bay while talking about him to Tara (even though she doesn't say it was Richie). Once she does reveal herself, speaking ill of Richie sends her into a rage.
• Boom, Headshot! : Sam takes Quinn down this way, calling it a very effective way to kill someone in front of Quinn's father.
• Co-Dragons : Along with Ethan for Bailey in the sixth film.
• Daddy's Little Villain : She loves her family and especially loves helping her father in his criminal schemes.
• Downplayed. Her only confirmed kill is Gale's boyfriend which was done with ambush tactics. Outside of that after The Reveal , she's the least threatening of the Ghostfaces and goes down with a single bullet to the brain without doing much to either of the Carpenter sisters.
• Having said that, Quinn is the one who puts Gale and Mindy out of commission for the grand finale along with nearly killing Chad with Ethan which makes her the Ghostface who does the most damage to the experienced characters.
• Defiant to the End : Even with Sam aiming a gun straight at her face, Quinn just glares at her in overwhelming rage before taking a bullet to the head.
• Determinator : Takes a brick to the face and gets back up because she's so determined to kill Sam and Tara for killing Richie.
• Dramatic Unmask : Quinn is the last of the three killers to reveal herself to Sam and Tara. Her unmasking also reveals that her death earlier in the movie was faked.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : She's arguably the most upset about Richie even early on. She gets pissed when Sam speaks ill of him and when Tara stabs Ethan, she gets even more pissed.
• Even Evil Has Standards : In her phone call to Gale, Quinn expresses disgust at how she was willing to use past Ghostface murders as a means to make a successful career and sees it as an ample reason why Gale should suffer a painful death.
• Evil Genius : It was her idea to spread the rumors that Sam was the Ghostface of the third Woodsboro killing spree instead of her brother and Amber. One has to admit that it's very smart tactics to ruin someone's reputation, leaving them even more vulnerable.
• Evil Redhead : Has fiery orange hair and is one of the Ghostfaces.
• Faking the Dead : She staged her murder and used her father's influence as a cop in order to throw off suspicion that she was actually a Ghostface.
• Fiery Redhead : Quinn has red hair and is the hot head of the trio.
• Hero Killer : After the reveal, Quinn takes credit for Gale's and Mindy's attacks; by extension, this means she was the one who killed Brooks, Gale's new boyfriend. Subverted in the case of Gale though as when it looks like that she's killed Gale, the paramedics on site confirm that Gale is still alive, albeit with a weak pulse. Still, it's the closest any Ghostface has gotten to killing Gale Weathers. She and her brother also come close to killing Chad.
• Hypocrite : Much like her brother Richie, whom she admires so much. She claims to be "sex-positive," but after she's revealed to be one of the Ghostfaces, she yells at Tara to shut her " whore fucking mouth."
• Karmic Death : Shot in the head by her former roommate after being revealed as the one responsible for most of Sam's psychological torture.
• Kick the Dog : While taunting Gale, Quinn takes a moment to throw Dewey's death in her face for an extra bit of cruelty.
• Love-Interest Traitor : Quinn allows Ethan to murder her boyfriend as part of a faked attack on her.
• Made of Iron : A brick to the face doesn't keep her down for long - Gale also hits her square in the face with a cast-iron pan and it only slows her down for a few seconds.
• Malicious Slander : Quinn is the one responsible for spreading the rumor that Sam framed Richie and Amber for the 2022 Woodsboro murders, to smear her name in revenge for Richie's demise.
• Mistaken Death Confirmation : She is apparently confirmed to have died in the apartment attack, but is actually still alive. Her father helped her to be inaccurately identified.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain : She's the Ghostface who attacks and almost kills Gale, who is in her late fifties.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse : She's the smallest member of the Ghostface trio in this movie, but it doesn't hinder her too much when she's killing someone far bigger and muscular like Gale's boyfriend Brooks.
• Playing Possum : While fighting Gale in her apartment, Quinn plays unconscious after Gale gets the upper hand, even letting Gale take the knife from her hand, only to suddenly spring to life and drive a shard of glass into Gale's stomach as soon as she's within reach.
• Really Gets Around : Apparently. Quinn's promiscuity is commented on by everyone in the movie, though it's unclear if she's really like that or if it's a facade so that no-one will come into her room when she's thought to be having sex/faking a Ghostface attack.
• Sadist : While approaching Sam, who is seemingly helpless trying to save Tara from falling into Ethan's murderous clutches, Quinn approaches her with a smile , strolling casually while tapping her knife on a railing to show how much she's enjoying Sam's helplessness.
• Shared Family Quirks : At one point, she flips her knife in the same way that Richie does.
• Slasher Smile : Gives Sam a blood-soaked one when she confronts her post-reveal. It goes away quickly, and pales to the one Sam gives right back to her.
• The Tooth Hurts : When Tara takes a brick to Quinn's face, she knocks out several of Quinn's teeth.
• Villainous Valor : Doesn't take a brick to face that knocked the teeth out of her mouth to impede her effort to avenge her fallen brother, but a bullet to the head to stop her dead on her tracks. To Quinn's credit, even that impending bullet doesn't get her to show fear.

The Wannabes

• Big Bad Wannabe : Jason and Greg want to finish "Richie's movie" by becoming the Ghostfaces to off Sam and Tara, but Wayne, the real Big Bad , has no trouble deducing their identities and outmatching them in combat. Moreover, they only kill one person, meaning they are the Ghostface team with the lowest body count.
• Decoy Antagonist : Jason and Greg are introduced as the new Ghostfaces, literally the Big Bad Duumvirate in any Scream movie. Neither of them live past the Cold Open .
• Heterosexual Life-Partners : They live together and have been best friends since junior high.

Jason Carvey

Played By: Tony Revolori

"It was even better than we ever could have imagined. I mean, when the knife went in her, it's like she wasn't human anymore. Just an animal. And every time it went in, she was less and less human. And then, she was just meat."

• Advertised Extra : Despite getting his own character poster, he's only in the prologue of the film and only briefly interacts with one of the protagonists.
• Affirmative-Action Legacy : He's the first non-white Ghostface.
• Asshole Victim : He and Greg are really only taken out by the Bailey family because they were a wrench in the latter's revenge plot against Sam. That said they were plotting their own Ghostface killing spree with Jason murdering his professor over a grade as "practice" and relishing in it so it's hard to feel sorry for them. For bonus points, Mindy even recognizes him as "that chode from our film studies class".
• Bait-and-Switch : You're led to believe he's the killer of VI when in reality, he's the first victim of the actual Ghostface.
• The B Grade : He murdered Laura just for giving him a C- on a paper.
• Breaking Old Trends : Jason is revealed to be the killer right at the beginning of the film, which in addition to being already a big trend-breaker means he lacks any Bitch in Sheep's Clothing facade. He also turns out to actually be the first victim of the movie's actual Ghostface, making him the first introductory Asshole Victim .
• Corrupted Character Copy : He has some similarities to Randy, such as watching a horror movie before being attacked. However, he's a killer.
• Dead Star Walking : The final victim of the opening prologue. Uniquely enough, considering he's one of the Ghostfaces.
• Deathly Unmasking : He unmasks himself for the dying Laura after stabbing her.
• Dirty Coward : He relishes Laura's fear and pain but when the table is turned and he ends up on the receiving end, he quickly panics and is reduced to whimpering with fear.
• Disproportionate Retribution : Jason kills Laura implicitly because she gave him a C- on a report. Even the actual Ghostface of the film seems to find this distasteful.
• Evil Is Petty : He killed his college professor in a drawn-out fashion just for giving him a C- on an essay.
• Expy : Of Mickey, the Scream 2 killer. Like Mickey, he's a film fan who's intentionally providing a "sequel" (though, in Jason's words, he's actually "finishing the movie") to Billy/Richie's actions.
• Faux Affably Evil : He has a laid back demeanor despite being a killer.
• Gutted Like a Fish : He's stabbed repeatedly by Ghostface, to the point where his intestines start to poke out of his wounds.
• Hate Sink : He's the most uncharismatic , wormy and pathetic of any Ghostface killer in the whole film series. Wanting to first test his killing skills out, he catfishes and tricks his film professor Laura Crane� who gave him a low grade �into going out on a date with him so that he can lure into a dark alley and taunting her for the dumb decision, proceeds to brutally stab her to death. Jason and his roommate Greg Brockner intend to start a new spree to not only finish Richie's work�having been part of his cult�and take revenge on Sam and her sister Tara while having already stalked and developed a rapport the latter, only for both Jason and Greg before him to be brutally and easily murdered by the actual Ghostfaces�Richie's family�before they can execute any further designs.
• Irony : Despite Jason's admiration for Richie, he's murdered by Richie's father for being a complication to his own plan to avenge Richie.
• Karmic Death : He's killed in a similar manner to his only victim — though it's taken a step further in that he gets disemboweled. Ghostface, disgusted by Jason's sociopathic bragging , even throws Jason's own words in his face while butchering him.
• Kick the Dog : He brutally and sadistically murders his film studies professor, a perfectly nice and innocent woman, just for giving him a mid-level grade on a paper and brags about it afterwards.
• Loony Fan : Jason's desire to kill Sam and Tara has nothing to do with believing the rumors about Sam being the true mastermind of the previous year's killings; he just wants to finish Richie's "movie" by including the ending he planned.
• His first name is a clear nod to another slasher villain , while his last name is befitting of someone who uses a knife as a weapon. Bonus points for watching Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan in his apartment mere moments before he's killed.
• In the Cold Open , he unmasks himself in defiance of the series' traditional whodunnit format just as Jason's debut movie Friday the 13th Part 2 strips out the whodunnit element of the first Friday .
• It also becomes an Ironic Name since he dies the same way Alice, Voorhees's first victim, does: getting assassinated after finding a corpse in the fridge.
• Psychopathic Manchild : Considering he murdered a teacher for giving him a mid-level grade, he's undoubtedly this.
• Skewed Priorities : At least one thing he shares in common with Richie. Disemboweled and at the mercy of Ghostface, his last words are about how he has to finish the Stab movie. His killer even calls him out on this before striking the killing blow. Jason: But... We have... To finish... The movie! Ghostface: WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT MOVIES?
• The Sociopath : He at one point talks up how cool it felt to kill Laura, noting how he specifically felt that it was neat that she felt less like a person and more like meat the more he stabbed her, showing a clear Lack of Empathy . He also shows low impulse control and an incredibly fragile ego, killing Laura for giving him a mid-level grade on a paper.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist : He remains laid-back and relaxed even when detailing his first kill, never once hamming it up unlike the majority of the other Ghostfaces.
• Sucksessor : He and Greg by virtue of being killed by the real Big Bad at the beginning of the movie are the Ghostface team with the least amount of kills at only 1. And they're the only Ghostfaces to get caught before their big unmasking — something that even Stu managed to avoid. Of course, the ones that found them out were also serial killers, but still.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else! : Used to creepy effect in when Jason murders his college professor, then removes the costume and blends seamlessly back into the New York city street. He even stops to talk to Tara on the way back to his apartment, with the suggestion that he and Greg planned on killing her and Sam later that evening.
• Unknown Rival : Jason wanted to murder Sam to finish what Richie started. Sam, even after Jason is dead, gives no indication that she even knew he existed.
• Villains Want Mercy : He begs for Ghostface to stop as he's getting stabbed.
• We Hardly Knew Ye : He's the first Ghostface to be killed in the prologue of the movie.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness : He was actually an unwitting pawn in the scheme of the Bailey/Kirsch family and is killed after fulfiling their need to get him out of the way for their plan to kill Sam and Tara.

Greg Brockner

Played By: Thom Newell

• Asshole Victim : He and Jason are really only taken out by the Bailey family because they were a wrench in the latter's revenge plot against Sam . That said they were plotting their own Ghostface killing spree so it's hard to feel sorry for them.
• Dismembering the Body : Jason finds Greg's body hacked to pieces and stuffed in the fridge by the real Ghostface.
• The Ghost : Greg is seen only as mangled body parts.
• Informed Ability : Greg never gets the chance to demonstrate his skills as Ghostface on screen unlike Jason, who at least manipulated and killed Laura Crane.
• Killed Offscreen : He's the only Ghostface to never actually appear onscreen alive — or to even be seen in the suit, for that matter — with the only visuals of him being his mutilated corpse or a photo of him used by the police.
• Off with His Head! : His head was cut off and placed alongside his body in the fridge though it's unknown if this was after he died or what killed him.
• Posthumous Character : Given that Greg is killed sometime before Jason, it's not made clear if he is ever alive for the events of the movie, but he is another wannabe Ghostface.
• Stuffed into the Fridge : Quite literally, although his death is less used to upset Jason and more to bait him before brutally killing him.
• We Hardly Knew Ye : As true as this is of Jason, it's doubly true of Greg, who never appears onscreen except as mangled body parts. We learn that he was in cahoots with Jason over what was going to be the next massacre, but nothing else.

Billy Loomis

Appearances: Scream (2022) | Scream VI

"Sam, Sam, Sam... There's a killer on the loose. He's threatening you and he's threatening your sister. Are you gonna run away from who you are, like you always do, or are you gonna use it?"

• Affably Evil : Unlike the real Billy, who was Faux Affably Evil and a massive jerk to boot, this version tries to be something of a dark father figure to his daughter Sam, encouraging her to stand up for herself with The Killer in Me and embrace her murderous impulses , retaining the real Billy's villainous charisma. When Sam is pinned down by Richie, he encourages her to grab a knife, providing a Heroic Second Wind in defeating Richie, and is then shown smiling at her victory.
• Ambiguously Evil : He relishes in pride with what his real self accomplished and goads Sam into darker behaviour, but much of this is rooted in encouraging her to survive and fight back against those tormenting her. He doesn't actually encourage her to act violently towards anyone innocent and his goading taunts of Sam are generally a form of Tough Love , but he's also clearly taking delight in her acting on her violent urges.
• While there's no doubt he's a product of Sam's mental illness, because her exact diagnosis isn't given in either 2022 or VI , it's not clear entirely what he is exactly. Is he an outright hallucination, intrusive thoughts that are visualised for the audience, a dissociative personality, or something else entirely? If he was just a hallucination, he probably wouldn't have the same level of consistency in behaviour nor be her only hallucination, but if he was an intrusive thought Sam reacting to the sight of him and other silent gestures he makes would be unlikely, but then he's yet to induce a Split-Personality Takeover like a dissociative personality alter would. There's certainly more messed up about Sam than merely seeing him (her admitting to enjoying killing, the sheer veracity she has when doing it, her admitted drug use, her issues with depression and latching onto her sister to an unhealthy degree, and history of antisocial behavior), but these don't really sway the possibility of what he is in either direction nor rule any out. On top of that, he's self-aware enough to recognise he is merely a product of her imagination and directly calls out his appearance being the result of her medication not being strong enough, which even for someone who's aware of her illness like Sam is unusual.
• To a lesser extent, why exactly she sees him looking how he does, namely in the same blood-stained white shirt he died in. Is this purely Sam's overactive imagination going off of photos of him in life and the depiction of him in Stab , or more grisly, has she seen crime scene photos of his dead body after his death, and thus the image of him in such a state is burnt into her mind? The former is a bit too uncannily accurate but if the latter, he should also have the gunshot wound Sidney put in his forehead to ensure he was truly dead. Tying in with the former point, it's entirely possible the physical manifestation of him is for the audience's benefit in which case the accurate mental image of him is just to ensure audiences recognise him, but Sam is clearly reacting to something visual whenever he appears.
• The Corrupter : Billy often tries to prod Sam into succumbing to her murderous impulses, although, playing to her conscience, he mostly suggests that she do so against people who have it coming.
• Enemy Within : Subverted—although he initially seems like a set-up for a Split-Personality Takeover or something to that effect, the murderous instincts in Sam that he represents actually end up saving her life and helping protect her sister.
• Historical Hero Upgrade : In-universe. In life, Billy was a scumbag: he murdered his girlfriend's mother for causing his parents' divorce, and then went on a killing spree nearly a year later to punish his own girlfriend for her mother's sins. Additionally, as revealed in this film, he cheated on Sidney around the events of the first movie, impregnating his mistress, which led to the destruction of his daughter's family after she found out the truth. In her hallucinations of him, Sam sees Billy as a manifestation of her mental illness, but he also gives her advice on how to live her life, and helps her to kill Richie.
• The Killer in Me : Actively tries to get Sam to embrace her killer instinct. Played with, in that he is goading her into confronting and killing the new Ghostface, rather than her friends or family.
• Knight Templar : Playing to Sam's violent tendencies and genuine conscience, he is quick to suggest that Sam solve her Ghostface problems with brutal murder; notably, despite Sam's fears to the contrary, Billy never so much as suggests that she harm an innocent person (at least, not as of the end of Scream VI ).
• Luke, I Am Your Father : Although Sam already knows the truth before the movie starts, his sudden appearance as a Mirror Monster figure directly leads into The Reveal that she's his biological daughter.
• Papa Wolf : Sort-of; he's the manifestation of Sam's father, but is by no means the real Billy Loomis who wasn't even aware Sam existed in life and was dead before she was born. Still, much of his behaviour is rooted in trying to protect Sam, or rather, encourage her to protect herself by any means necessary. As he's not real, this protective fatherly instinct is merely Sam projecting onto him these traits, but the result is still the image of Billy Loomis trying to protect his daughter the way he does best.
• Posthumous Character : Billy is still dead for real, appearing to Sam as a hallucination and manifestation of her own psychosis.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer : Billy was understandably not part of the marketing of the film, given that his presence gives away his unexpected connection to Sam Carpenter.
• Spirit Advisor : In the form of hallucinations produced by his daughter's unspecified mental illness.
• So Proud of You : He's seen smirking at his daughter after she absolutely butchers Richie in self-defense.
• White Shirt of Death : This Billy is shown wearing the same white t-shirt that the original Billy wore when he died, covered in dried-up blood.
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Scream 6 ending explained: your biggest questions answered

We break down the shocking ending of Scream 6

Scream 6 is just as full of twists and turns as its predecessors, with meta nods to the franchise and a fair few Ghostface fake outs and surprises. Naturally, then, you might be a bit confused by what exactly happened at the end of the film. Have no fear, though, because we've broken down all your biggest questions to reveal exactly what goes down at the end of Scream 6. 

The film sees Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), her younger sister Tara (Jenna Ortega), and their friends Chad (Mason Gooding) and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown) relocate to New York City after the events of Scream 5 . Hayden Panettiere returns as Scream 4 's Kirby Reed, and Courteney Cox is once again back as Gale Weathers. 

So, for all you need to know about the Scream 6 ending explained, look no further than the below. It goes without saying, but there are major spoilers for the movie below! Turn back now if you haven't seen the film yet! 

Scream 6 ending explained

The Scream 6 climax sees Kirby (now an FBI agent), Sam, Tara, and Chad go to the Ghostface shrine they discovered earlier in the movie, which belongs to the killer, to trap the murderer and take him out themselves. Unbeknownst to them, Mindy has already been stabbed by the killer when she was separated from the rest of the group on the way to the shrine. 

When they arrive, Detective Bailey (Dermot Mulroney) calls Sam, who is alone downstairs, and warns her that Kirby has been fired from the FBI and is mentally unstable. A video then starts playing in the Ghostface shrine. Meanwhile, upstairs, Tara and Chad share a kiss. It's a sweet moment swiftly ruined by Ghostface; two killers arrive and stab Chad repeatedly. 

Sam and Tara reunite downstairs, and the Ghostfaces finally reveal themselves. There are three of them this time: Detective Bailey, his daughter Quinn (Liana Liberato), and her brother Ethan (Jack Champion). Quinn is the biggest shock, as she was thought dead after being attacked by Ghostface in her bedroom. But, as Bailey explains, being a cop meant it was easy for him to switch out her fake dead body with a real one. 

Richie Kirsch, Scream 5's Ghostface, is revealed to be Bailey's son and Quinn and Ethan's brother. They want revenge on Sam after she killed Richie at the end of Scream 5, and Quinn was the one who started all the rumors that Sam was actually behind the previous killings all along. They plan to frame someone obsessed with Ghostface as the killer this time around, and pose Sam's body in the costume. 

Luckily, though, despite being wounded by the killers, Kirby is still alive, and she resurfaces in the nick of time. Sam attacks Ethan but doesn't kill him, and her and Tara attempt to escape to the shrine's exit by going up a ladder. They end up stuck over the balcony, though, with Ethan right below them, swiping at them with his knife. Sam and Tara quickly devise a plan, with Tara taking her sister's knife, letting go of her hand, and dropping down on Ethan. She stabs him in the mouth. 

Then, Sam shoots Quinn dead, repeating that famous franchise rule: "You've always got to shoot them in the head." 

Detective Bailey is then the last remaining killer to be dealt with. Sam dons Billy Loomis's Ghostface mask and costume – he is her father, after all – and uses the voice changer to stalk Bailey through the shrine. "What's your favorite scary movie?" she asks him over the phone. 

Sam, in full Ghostface regalia, then attacks Bailey in a frenzy of stabbings. She holds back from completely butchering him, though, when Tara arrives at her side. Sam has been fighting her inner darkness throughout the movie, and here makes a decision not to give in… until Tara gives her a significant look, that is. Sam stabs Bailey through the eye, finishing him off. 

Sam and Tara have a heart to heart, but, in true Scream fashion, the fight isn't over yet. Ethan is still alive, and runs at them – until Kirby drops a TV on his head. "I saw that in a scary movie once," she says: this is the way Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher was killed in the original Scream . 

Outside the shrine, it's revealed that Mindy, Gale, and Chad will all survive; Mindy reappears frantically telling everyone she's discovered who the killer is, but of course she's too late. 

Kirby tells Sam that "legacy doesn't always have to be a bad thing" before she leaves. Sam looks down at her father's Ghostface mask as if hypnotized, but Tara snaps her out of the brief spell and the duo walk away together, the Ghostface mask forgotten on the ground behind them. 

Who is Ghostface? What is their motive?

For the first time in the franchise's history, there are three Ghostfaces in Scream 6 – Detective Bailey, his daughter Quinn, and her brother Ethan. As it turns out, Richie Kirsch, one of the killers of Scream 5, is Bailey's son and Quinn and Ethan's brother. They want revenge on Sam after she killed Richie at the end of Scream 5. 

Quinn started the rumors that Sam was the real killer, and they plan on killing Sam and Tara, then framing someone obsessed with Ghostface as the murderer. 

As Bailey explains, they don't really care about films, but they're doing this since Richie loved movies. In fact, they even helped Richie build the Ghostface shrine. 

Where is Sidney?

A few quick lines in the movie from Gale Weathers explain where Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott is during the events of Scream 6. The franchise's original final girl is said to have taken her husband and kids to a safe place – as Gale says, "she deserves her happy ending." 

Of course, the real reason Sidney isn't present in Scream 6 is because Campbell chose not to come back over a pay dispute . Still, we have to agree with Gale's assessment that Sidney is due some peace after all she's been through.

Does Gale survive the Ghostface attack? 

Ghostface gets Gale pretty badly in their fight, at one point stabbing her with a huge shard of broken glass. It looks like it's all over for Courteney Cox's legacy character, but, as the paramedics rush in after Sam and Tara arrive, Gale asks the sisters to tell Sidney that Ghostface never got her. 

That line just seems like some bittersweet last words until, at the end of the film, it's revealed that Gale is going to pull through and survive her injuries. That means the fearsome reporter lives to fight another day. 

Do Chad and Mindy survive? 

Just like in Scream 5, Chad and Mindy both get attacked by Ghostface, but walk away with their lives. This time around, Mindy is stabbed on the subway when she gets separated from the rest of the group, but reappears at the end saying she knows who the killer is – but, by then, the three murderers are all dead. 

Chad, meanwhile, is stabbed multiple times at the shrine with Tara, but also escapes with his life. 

Was Kirby really working with Ghostface? 

When the group arrives at the shrine to set the trap for Ghostface, Detective Bailey calls and warns Sam that Kirby was fired from the FBI and is mentally unstable. All signs point to Kirby being Ghostface – but of course, Bailey, Ethan, and Quinn are the real killers, and Kirby has nothing to do with anything. Bailey's phone call was just a ploy to throw Sam off and turn her, Tara, and Chad against Kirby. 

Who is the reflection Sam sees?

During the film's climax, at the Ghostface shrine, Sam sees a man in the reflection of a glass case. It's none other than Billy Loomis, once again played by a de-aged Skeet Ulrich. Loomis is actually Sam's father, and she hallucinated him in Scream 5, too – though in Scream 6, it's been some time since she last saw him. 

Loomis is one of the franchise's original Ghostfaces, alongside Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher, and was Sidney's boyfriend. She ended his life with a bullet to the head. 

Who do the Ghostface masks belong to? 

At the site of each of the killings, the new Ghostfaces leave a mask behind deliberately. As it turns out, these are the masks belonging to the previous killers, dropped in reverse order. First up is Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman's, the killers of Scream 5. Then it's the masks belonging to Scream 4's Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker, then the mask of Scream 3 's Roman Bridger. After that comes Scream 2's Mickey Altieri, then Ethan wears Nancy Loomis's at the climax of the movie. Quinn wears Stu Macher's Bailey has Billy Loomis's. 

Who are the fake Ghostface killers at the start of Scream 6? 

Scream 6 appears to twist the formula in a huge way by revealing the identity of Ghostface right after the first kill. Samara Weaving's character Laura ventures into an alleyway in search of her date, but it turns out to be a ploy by Ghostface. She's brutally murdered, then the killer removes their mask – it's Tony Revolori's Jason. 

Jason then goes back to his apartment and is called by Greg, his accomplice in a scheme to finish Richie's plans and kill Sam and Tara. As it turns out, Laura was Jason and Greg's film professor. 

Greg is using a voice changer to sound like Ghostface… or so Jason thinks. It soon becomes apparent that a very real killer is stalking Jason. He finds Greg's dismembered body in the fridge, and is then promptly killed himself by the film's real Ghostface (one of them, anyway). 

Is there a Scream 6 post-credits scene?

There is a very brief Scream 6 post-credits scene. Right at the very end of the credits, Mindy complains "not every movie needs a post-credits scene!" It looks to be from the same scene in which she explains the rules of franchises – so how's that for meta? 

Will there be a Scream 7?

So far, nothing has been announced, but the events of Scream 6 certainly leave the door open for more movies in the franchise. The Core Four all survive, as do Gale and Kirby, which means there are plenty of characters who could return for another bout against a new Ghostface or two (or three). 

Scream 6 is in UK cinemas from March 8 and US theaters from March 10. For even more on the movie, check out our exclusive interview with the cast and directors of the slasher sequel .

You can see what else is on the way with our guide to all the other upcoming major movie release dates . 

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6 ghostface clues you might've missed in scream vi.

Scream 6 has a new Ghostface killer and a new city to murder in. With the big reveal of Ghostace's identities, we break down the more subtle clues.

WARNING: This post contains MAJOR spoilers for Scream 6

Scream 6 has multiple killers, but not every clue was obvious in revealing their identities. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, Scream 6 went for the jugular. After the events of 2022’s Scream , Sam Carpenter had a target on her back thanks to online conspiracists accusing her of being the real Ghostface killer who murdered Richie. The truth is far more gruesome and twisted than that.

Scream 6 included five different Ghostface killers, all of whom ultimately had the same goal. Jason and Greg wanted to kill Sam out of revenge, but their plans were thwarted by the Ghostface masterminds of Scream 6 — Detective Bailey, Quinn, and Ethan , Richie's remaining family, Sam’s deceased boyfriend and one of two Ghostface killers from Scream 2022. Some clues to the Ghostface trio’s identities were more obvious, while others were less so, including one involving Kirby. With so much going on, there were at least six clues one might’ve missed while watching.

Related: Scream VI Review: Ghostface Isn't Playing In Brutal, Bloody & Funny Sequel

6 Mindy’s Horror Film Rule: The Slutty Roommate Is A Victim

Women who are sexually active tend to be victims in horror films, but Quinn is instead a killer in Scream 6 , which is a twist on the horror trope. The Scream franchise likes to subvert certain expectations, especially when it mentions certain tropes. In Scream 6 , Mindy says one of the rules is “never trust the love interest” before killing Anika, Mindy’s girlfriend, and making Sam Carpenter’s boyfriend Danny a good guy she can trust. Quinn being having more than one lover outside of her boyfriend tricks the audience into thinking she will be a victim of Ghostface ; Scream 6 delivers on that expectation before turning the tables, revealing Quinn was never a victim, after all.

5 Bailey Finding Quinn's Body Offscreen

Detective Bailey put on a good show. He wept when Quinn “died,” making sure to look affected in front of Sam and Tara. Quinn’s staged death gave Bailey an excuse to stay close to the Carpenter sisters and made it seem like he had a personal vendetta against Ghostface. However, the fact that Bailey found Quinn’s dead body offscreen is a subtle clue that hints the detective is not who he says he is. It would have been more believable had Scream 6 shown Detective Bailey finding Quinn in the aftermath of Ghostface’s killing spree .

To be sure, Bailey was always suspicious, but ensuring he arrived first at the scene of the crime teased his further involvement. Only he would be able to “discover” Quinn’s body and make sure she was nowhere to be found when the rest of the police finally arrived. The fact that Quinn’s death scene was also not made out to be as big a deal as Anika’s was also a clue that something was not right. Of course, Scream 6 was focused on Bailey looking suspicious, but Quinn’s death did throw viewers off his scent for a while.

4 Scream 2 Callbacks Point To Vengeful Ghostface Parent

Scream 6 has a lot of callbacks to Scream 2 , including the college setting, and the hunt for Ghostface in broad daylight while others waited in a van (a reference to Randy’s Scream 2 death ). Scream 6 taking some of its cues from Scream 2 hinted that one of the killers would be a vengeful parent. To that end, Detective Bailey follows in the footsteps of Nancy Loomis, Billy Loomis’ mother. Nancy — who pretended to be fake journalist Debbie Salt — orchestrated her Ghostface murders in Scream 2 to seek revenge on Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers.

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Scream 6 alludes to that when Quinn reveals her brother, and Detective Bailey’s son, was dead, laying the groundwork for Bailey’s parental revenge. Unlike Nancy, however, Bailey encouraged Richie’s love of violent horror movies and his plans for Sam were a family affair. Hatred for Sam and a love for Billy Loomis ran deep. Scream 6 takes yet another cue from Scream 2 by having Detective Bailey attempting to frame Sam for the NYC murders, much like Nancy Loomis tried to pin the killings on her accomplice Mickey Altieri after shooting him.

3 Scream 6’s Ghostface Movie Theater Shrine

The movie theater shrine was filled with Scream memorabilia — the various Ghostface masks that were used throughout the Scream franchise and Randy’s bloodied t-shirt were just a couple of the artifacts there. When the question regarding how these things were collected, the reasoning was that cops like money, and evidence can disappear. Considering Detective Bailey is indeed a cop, he would be the only one with access to such evidence and sensitive information. Of course Bailey would go to such great lengths to make such a shrine to honor his son and stage his framing of Sam as the real Ghostface killer .

Scream 6’s Jason and Greg were just two college students; there was no way they would have been able to gather such a collection to create a Scream shrine. Bailey must have worked long and hard to get it done, too, which is probably why he, Quinn, and Ethan waited to go after Sam. What’s more, counting down to the final Ghostface mask hinted that the new Ghostface killers wanted to pin the blame on Sam. Who else would want to do that besides someone who hated her for personal reasons? They would also have had to be major fans of the real-life killings and Billy Loomis’ history.

2 Ethan Not Being Stabbed On The Train

Ethan Landry was one of Mindy’s prime suspects, namely because he was missing the night Ghostface attacked Sam and Tara’s apartment. When Mindy was targeted and subsequently stabbed by Ghostface on the train, she believed she was wrong about Ethan, after all. However, Ethan not being stabbed by Ghostface was a clue to his real identity as one of the Ghostface killers. It made no sense that Ghostface would only target Mindy when another one of Sam and Tara’s friends was also on the train. It was crowded, but it’s doubtful Ethan — had he truly been innocent — wouldn’t have noticed Ghostface moving toward Mindy when she had her eyes on him the whole time.

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1 Detective Bailey Is Too Suspicious Of Kirby

Kirby returned in Scream 6 , revealing that she now worked as a special agent with the FBI in Atlanta. From the start, Detective Bailey was far too suspicious of Kirby, likely because her presence threatened to ruin his plans to kill Sam and Tara. Instead of being grateful for the additional help, resources, and personal experience with Ghostface Kirby offered, Bailey was distrustful of her and did his best to push her away. Of course, that sense of distrust was meant to make Scream 6’s audience believe Kirby was the Ghostface killer , so that when Bailey called Sam about Kirby being unstable, she would turn against her. Bailey almost got away with it, too.

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Mortal Kombat 1 Developer Ed Boon Teases Fans With Ghostface and Jigsaw Image

Cut to the chase..

Mortal Kombat 1 development chief Ed Boon is up to his old tricks again, teasing fans about potential upcoming DLC characters.

Boon tweeted an image showing a number of famous horror villains, including Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Leatherface, all of whom have green ticks because they have appeared as a guest character in Mortal Kombat in the past.

It’s the villains who have a green question mark plonked on top who we’re most interested in, however. Michael Myers, Pinhead, Chucky, Jigsaw, and Ghostface are all teased here by Boon, and the Mortal Kombat community is responding as you’d expect.

🐉🤔 pic.twitter.com/nCtuSz4VSY — Ed Boon (@noobde) September 28, 2023

Earlier this month, dataminers dug into Mortal Kombat 1 and found evidence pointing to potential unannounced DLC characters. While NetherRealm has already announced the characters set to appear in Kombat Pack 1 (check out IGN's Mortal Kombat 1 character guide for more), based on unearthed voice lines Kombat Pack 2 may include Jade, Cassie Cage, Kung Jin, Noob Saibot, Cyrax, and Ghostface from the Scream films. There’s even a suggestion the T-1000 from Terminator and Conan the Barbarian will appear in Mortal Kombat 1 at some point. Boon’s image shows Ghostface with a question mark, which tallies with the datamine.

Who would most like to see as a Mortal Kombat 1 DLC character?

NetherRealm and publisher Warner Bros. Games did not respond to IGN's request for comment on the datamines. Boon is known for trolling fans on social media, so this latest effort may have everything to do with upcoming DLC characters or nothing at all.

This week, IGN reported on a ridiculous 89-Hit Mortal Kombat 1 combo that lasts almost a minute . NetherRealm is also working on a fix for a bug that gives Player 1 an advantage . Meanwhile, Boon has promised updates for Mortal Kombat 1’s awful Nintendo Switch version .

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].

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Scream's Ghostface hinted to be coming to Mortal Kombat 1

Mortal Kombat 1 might be getting Scream franchise antagonist – and serial stabber of teenagers – Ghostface as a downloadable character.

The franchise has featured multiple horror movie villains as guest fighters before, with series boss Ed Boon teasing the possibility of more.

In a post on X/Twitter, the series' co-creator posted a piece of artwork featuring The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface, A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Kreuger, Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees, Halloween 's Michael Myers, Hellraiser's Pinhead, Child's Play's Chucky, Ghostface, and the Saw franchise's Jigsaw.

🐉🤔 pic.twitter.com/nCtuSz4VSY — Ed Boon (@noobde) September 28, 2023

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Leatherface, Freddy and Jason have ticks above their heads, signifying their appearances in Mortal Kombat X and Mortal Kombat 2011. The rest of the characters have question marks above their heads.

What makes people think that Ghostface in particular is coming is actually evidence seemingly discovered by dataminers , who found voice lines hidden in the game's files that point at Ghostface's inclusion, alongside He-Man and Conan the Barbarian and various classic Mortal Kombat fighters.

While Mortal Kombat 1, a soft reboot of the long-running series, has been a success critically and commercially on Xbox, PlayStation and PC, the same can't be said for the Nintendo Switch version, which has been lambasted for poor performance and low fidelity graphics , despite costing the same as other versions.

Related: Neve Campbell addresses potential Scream return after "disrespectful" experience

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat , Boon said the Switch version will "absolutely be getting an update, and a number of the the concerns of the issues that had come up will absolutely be addressed.

"It would have been ideal for us to have released the version that we absolutely wanted. But anything that we're finding a problem with is on our list and is going to be fixed."

Mortal Kombat 1 is out now.

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Whatever Happened to the Halloween/Hellraiser Crossover Movie?

Michael Myers and Pinhead could have teamed up to raise hell together!

The Big Picture

• Halloween and Hellraiser nearly had a crossover film titled Helloween , pitting Michael Myers against Pinhead in a battle of evil forces.
• Filmmaker Dave Parker came up with the idea and even created a trailer for the crossover, but it was ultimately rejected by Dimension Studios.
• Loyal fans and Halloween producer Moustapha Akkad were against the crossover, and now the possibility is even slimmer due to expired deals and rights entanglements.

One of my favorite games to play with other horror friends is to ask them who would win in a deadly match-up. Would Ghostface be able to out-smart Leatherface, or would he stumble over themselves like always and lose to the saw? Is Annabelle able to be silent and deadly against the crass, knife-wielding Chucky, or will he use his humor and wit to overpower his fellow doll? We already saw Freddy vs. Jason and, regardless of some not-so-great critic reviews, that film has become a cult classic in the horror world. "Welcome to my world, bitch!" Come on -- that's iconic! But did you know that the horror-verse almost had another monster mash-up? It was one that could've rivaled Freddy and Jason's campy showdown, too. The Halloween franchise almost teamed up with the Hellraiser franchise to create an otherworldly evil combination that would have wreaked havoc on anyone in their path.

The idea was conceived by filmmaker Dave Parker after he had unsuccessfully pitched the idea of Freddy vs. Jason back in the mid-90s, according to the book The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy . Once he was rejected for the Freddy vs. Jason crossover, he began to try and think of other horror icons that could be meshed together. At the time, Dimension Studios owned the rights to both Halloween and Hellraiser , so Parker started there. He took clips from Halloween movies and Hellraiser movies, pieced them together, and created a voiceover for a trailer he could pitch. He called the crossover Helloween . Think of all the Halloween costumes we could've had!

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How Would Pinhead and Michael Myers' Worlds Converge?

Parker's biggest challenge was to somehow try to cohesively blend the sadistic cenobites with the unstoppable Michael Myers. In interviews with both Creature Corner and Fangoria (recounted by the Clive Barker Podcast) , Parker detailed his overall premise. Michael Myers seemingly can't die, so that little nugget of information is how Parker wanted to link him with Pinhead. The film was set to start with a trick-or-treating flashback of Michael Myers going to a house to get candy. At the house, he is given the box by Halloween's "Man in Black." This is "stranger danger," Michael! I guess the saying is "never accept candy from a stranger" and not "never accept a creepy golden cube full of demented despair from a stranger," so it's reasonable that he didn't think twice when he accepted. When Michael opens it, the Lord of the Dead, "Samhain," escapes and inhabits Michael's body. This is evidently what causes him to kill his sister on Halloween and why he becomes the serial killer that he is in the present day. Once the flashback is over, we find ourselves in the Myers' home, and there are people trying to destroy it on Halloween. Those people find the box hidden in a wall, which draws both Pinhead and Michael to the house. Once there, Pinhead and Michael end up in battle with each other. Of course, the final act of the film would have taken place in Hell because there are no rules in horror and there are certainly no rules in wild, crossover horror films.

Dimension thought Helloween was interesting but didn't think there would be enough of a sell to make it plausible. This idea was pitched eight years before Freddy vs. Jason was actually made and became a theatrical success ... much to Parker's dismay, I'm sure. Doug Bradley , who played Pinhead in the Hellraiser franchise, pondered what might have been in an interview with Your Move Magazine , where he discussed the potential crossover. Bradley told the magazine that two scripts for the Helloween crossover were rejected before Freddy vs. Jason was released because the studio thought it would bomb. Never doubt a zombie-fied mama's boy and his sarcastic, burn-scar-covered partner in crime! Because of FvJ 's success, Dimension was suddenly interested in reviving the idea of a Pinhead and Michael crossover. Bradley was getting excited to reprise his hellish villain role and had even spoken to Clive Barker , the writer and director of the original Hellraiser film, about it. Rumors circulated that Barker would write the script and Halloween creator John Carpenter would direct it. Taken by itself, a Myers/Pinhead mash-up is exciting, but a Barker and Carpenter collaboration would have absolutely rocked the horror world. In the documentary Halloween: 25 Years of Terror , Barker confirmed the plan was for both he and Carpenter to be involved with the film.

Loyal Fans Were Against a 'Halloween' and 'Hellraiser' Crossover

Unfortunately for everyone, Halloween producer Moustapha Akkad was against the idea of the crossover happening. Bradley noted that Akkad had retained the rights to all the sequels and wasn't keen on the two getting together. Fans were never fully onboard either, as confirmed by a poll that was put up at HalloweenMovies.com . According to the Clive Barker Podcast, 54% of the 84,427 votes received were against the crossover. And if you were still holding out hope for the team-up, we're sorrow to report that the possibility is even slimmer now. Universal Pictures released David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy in theaters as part of a deal with Miramax, but that deal has now expired. Miramax currently co-owns the film rights with Trancas International Films, which belongs to the Akkad family, and they're currently in the process of shopping those rights around . Hellraiser has had some rights entaglements, as well, with its latest installment -- a 2022 reboot -- released as a Hulu exclusive.

Maybe it's just me and my penchant for cheesy horror movies, but the Helloween movie sounds like it could've been a campy classic for all to enjoy. Horror crossovers have been far and few between since Freddy vs. Jason was released, but if the slasher genre can get a resurgence, perhaps some marquee match-ups might still come our way. I'm looking at you, David Gordon Green!

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