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Killer: “Do you like scary movies?”
Sidney: “What’s the point? They’re all the same. Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. It’s insulting.”
From the first Scream (1996), Sidney Prescott has been kicking ass as my favorite Final Girl.
Sidney is a badass brunette played by Neve Campbell, known for Party of Five (1994), The Craft (1996), and Scream. She’s the only Final Girl to have survived a Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm St) horror franchise. When we first meet Sidney, she’s a typical 17-year-old girl, who wears nightgowns like a 95-year-old grandma. Remember girls, if you want to survive a horror film, wear granny panties. Don’t forget, those slutty Victoria Secret models never make it out alive. The reason my bra and panties never match is because I’m worried I’ll get hacked to pieces in the woods.
Unlike those unfortunate skanks, Sidney is defined by her plain clothes and reserved attitude. In the Scream screenplay, Kevin Williamson describes Sidney as “sharp and clever with deep lonely eyes.” Her character comes to life when we meet her boyfriend, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). Styled after the Johnny Depp-played boyfriend in the OG A Nightmare on Elm St (1984), Billy is dreamy, greasy and a little dumb.
Billy is constantly trying to get Sidney to break her no sex rule, and her response speaks to her character. Remember back in Carrie when a girl blew her boyfriend to stop him from beating her? This is not that. Sidney explains to her boyfriend that she can only have a PG-13 relationship, as she’s still dealing with one small demon.
About a year before the start of the film, Sidney’s mother was brutally killed. And much like many horror flicks, Sidney gets her revenge on the attacker. But before Sidney becomes a true FG, she is just a clever girl with lonely eyes. Only she’s no Carrie White–as we later find out, she’s already hooked up with Billy. Sidney is not abstinent–she just struggles with sexual intimacy at the film’s genesis due to her mother’s brutal attack.
Being chaste is one of many traits making Sidney an official Final Girl. What is a Final Girl? In horror, the concept of the Final Girl is as widespread as fake tits and serial killers. So who is this Final Girl and why should you care? Final Girls characteristically rescue themselves, kill who they have to, and move on. Feminist as fuck. Horror critic, Carol Clover explains the term in her text, Men Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film:
The Final Girl (1) undergoes agonizing trials, and (2) destroys the antagonist and saves herself. She is not a heroine, but a hero, one that destroys its adversaries. In our world fear itself is gendered feminine, yet with The Final Girl, triumphant self-rescue is no longer strictly gendered masculine. Put simply, the Final Girl is the ultimate feminist symbol–a badass chick who can rescue herself. This is an archetype not specific to horror–but Final Girl theory is.
Sidney Prescott meets all Final Girl requirements, and adds one to the list: she can’t die. Unlike Final Girls: Carrie (Sissy Spacek Carrie,), Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween), and Amanda (Shawnee Smith, SAW), Sidney never died. Sidney can’t be killed. She’s fought off every killer from the first Scream (1996) to the final Scream 4 (2011). Sidney murdered the first Scream killer with a television and killed the second with a shot to the head. She’s broken out of cop cars, outsmarted killers, all while mocking them for being horror geeks. Despite the fact that she’s just too badass to kill, Wes Craven (Scream, Nightmare on Elm St) ensured her immortality, just before he died.
Wes Craven, the creator of Sidney Prescott, died of brain cancer August 30, 2015. Before his death, when Wes got really sick, he signed the rights to Scream over to MTV, ensuring there could never be a Scream 5. While that was heartbreaking to hear, Wes having brain cancer, and Scream morphing into a PG, watered-down TV version, it makes sense. I can’t imagine anyone other than Wes making Scream 5.
We’re all still trying to get over Scream 3, so a shitty Scream 5 would be unbearable. It’s hard to say if Wes had lived long enough for Scream 5 if Sidney would have survived. Eventually, Wes killed off Nancy, the Final Girl of A Nightmare on Elm St, so who knows? I’d like to think Wes wouldn’t have killed Sidney, as she was the pure embodiment of every feminist slasher Final Girl he’d made.
Watching Sidney again in all four Screams, I have mixed emotions. Most of me is in awe of every killer Sidney evades, every gender role she subverts, and the amazing courage she displays as her friends and family die around her. But part of me is heartbroken, watching Sidney deride a masked killer, too upset to laugh at her witty one-liners. Because no matter how many times I watch a Scream, I know that “Directed by Wes Craven” credit will pop up in the end, and I’ll be reminded of our loss.
As much as this is an ode to Sidney Prescott, it’s also another goodbye to Wes Craven. I’ve said goodbye many times, but I just can’t seem to move on. Part of growing up in the 80’s and 90’s just got lost when Wes died. I was raised by MTV and Dimension Films. MTV taught me how to be cool while Freddy Krueger taught me to never trust strangers. And Scream taught me to never, ever trust the boyfriend. And most importantly, life is a movie; pick your genre.
I think that’s something Wes taught horror fans that I will always take with me—how to survive. Something I always found incredibly moving about his films are the survivors. The very genesis of my Final Girl column is because of the powerful, badass Final Girls created by Wes Craven. With Sidney Prescott, generations of chicks were inspired to kick ass. Scream taught us that women can survive anything (and even get a book deal). Wes taught us how to laugh and love in the face of great heartbreak–life’s greatest tragedies. He taught us a lot and we will forever be grateful.
So here I am, two years after Wes’ death, writing my ode to one of his most famous Final Girls, Sidney Prescott. I still tear up at every Nightmare reference in Scream movies, but like Sidney Prescott, I have to move the fuck on. Sidney’s still alive because she never stopped to mourn a dead friend longer than 30 seconds. She never stopped to grieve—she just kept going. She outsmarted the killer, saved her friends, and got revenge. While Sidney survived every killer, no killer survived Sidney. She’s the embodiment of feminist power, intelligence, and courage—a powerful role model for any decade.
Although Sidney can’t die, she can’t come back either. With her immortality comes sacrifice. I’ll never see Sidney Prescott in a new Scream. She will forever be in the past—the Final Girl from Scream. And that is how I plan to pay homage to Sidney Prescott, by highlighting her evolution through every Scream (except Scream 3, because it fucking sucked).
When we first meet Sidney, it’s right after Scream’s (1996) opening death scene where Casey (Drew Barrymore) dies at the hands of the killer, Ghostface. Ghostface is really two serial killers who have taken their love of scary movies one step too far. After Casey makes major horror movie faux pas like asking “who’s there?” she is subjected to Ghostface’s life or death horror quiz. Dressed in virginal white, making Jiffy Pop and flirting with the killer, Casey is the type of girl who doesn’t survive the first scene. She dates a football player and is dumb enough to open the back door, letting the killer in. When Casey dies, gutted and strung from a tree branch, we don’t feel bad, we saw it coming.
Unlike Casey, Sidney Prescott (Never Campbell) is not suggestive or sexual in tone, donning a granny-style nightgown and ponytail. She’s emotionless, typing at her computer when she hears a noise. She goes over to her bedroom window and screams. “It’s just me” a greasy Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) warns, looking straight Johnny Depp (a nod to the original 1984 Nightmare of Elm St, made by Wes Craven).
Sidney is chaste, virginal, and keeps her guard up at all times. She kicks Billy out for trying some “on top of the clothes stuff.” Her father tries to come in but Billy hides in time. It’s at that point that we see Billy and Sidney’s father are both wearing a polo shirt, trying to get into her room through different doors. Sidney shuts out both men, turning away as her father leaves for a weekend business trip.
Billy pleads with Sidney, complaining about their nonsexual relationship. “Was home watching television, the uh, Exorcist was on,” he says, “got me thinking of you, edited for TV, all the good stuff was cut out.” Billy complains that Sidney used to put out but now she doesn’t. They start making out, Billy pushes further and Sidney resists. “Would you settle for a PG-13 relationship?” she snaps back at Billy, flashing him, with a devious look.
Back at school, Sidney and Billy discuss Casey and her boyfriend’s brutal deaths with besties Tatum (Rose McGowan) Randy (Jamie Kennedy), and Stu (Matthew Lillard). While Randy might be a suspect for being a complete horror geek—he’s no killer. Randy is a scrawny virgin who wears bowling shirts and cowers before women. He could never gather the strength to ask out Sidney, so it’s unlikely he’d kill someone. Likewise, Sidney’s BFF, Tatum is blonde, busty, and ditsy. Tatum’s more likely to get hacked up by a garage door than pull off a successful killing spree. And despite her low IQ, Tatum genuinely cares about Sidney and helps her maintain her badass persona, calling her “Sid, Super Bitch.”
That leaves us with Stu and Billy as the two possible killers. I missed the clues when I first saw the film in 1996, but I’ve noticed a few after watching Scream over 100 times. As the five friends sit at lunch, Sidney narrows her eyes, and asks, “how do you gut someone?” The question is rhetorical, showing how shocked Sidney is that one of her classmates could be gutted. Stu’s response shows an intimate knowledge of the murder. “You take a knife and you slit ‘em, groin to sternum,” Stu says, in a matter of fact tone. Billy becomes nervous, “Hey it’s called tact you fuckrag,” Billy derides Stu. When the blame falls on Stu, he seems genuine in his plea, “I didn’t kill anybody,” he says, looking innocent. “Nobody says you did” Billy retorts, giving Stu a death stare. It is at that moment that we realize, Billy’s the killer and Stu’s been making the calls.
Sidney’s head is swirling. To her, every man is a possible killer, because of her PTSD. Billy only looks like a killer because Sidney watched her mother get brutally murdered. Sidney’s mother is dead, her father is missing, and her best friend is about to die. Sidney’s always been the hero because of her will to survive. While other characters get lazy, drink at parties, trust the cops, and make other horror movie mistakes, Sidney never does. Sidney’s always scanning the crowd, eying her closest exists, and practicing her right hook.
Sidney doesn’t want to believe Billy’s a killer. If her boyfriend truly is a serial killer, what does that say about her? Even after Ghostface comes after Sidney, chases her through the house, and Billy shows up at the same time, Sidney can’t accept the truth. A cell phone even drops from Billy’s pants, and Sidney still trusts him. In 1996, having a cell phone meant you were a serial killer or a drug dealer, so that should’ve been a red flag. But Sidney’s one major flaw is hope. She tries to see the best in people, gives them the benefit of the doubt. And it’s that hope that almost gets her killed.
Even after the cops arrest Billy and bring him to the station, Sidney doesn’t believe he’s a killer. She represses all the warning signs, Billy’s cell phone, his mommy issues, and his horror movie obsession. Sidney’s boyfriend can’t be the killer—he just can’t. With all that repressed fear and PTSD, Sidney is a ticking time bomb. You may not see her cry, but repressed emotions have to go somewhere. So when Gale (Courtney Cox) tries to question Sidney for the evening news, Sidney loses her shit.
Gale and her camera man accost Sidney, moments after she was attacked by the killer, for a nightly news sound bite. Sidney pretends to comply, even asking Gale when her book comes out. “I’ll send you a copy,” Gale says, naively. Sidney punches her in the face. Because hey, her mother’s gone, her father’s missing, who the fuck cares? Besides, Gale always doubted Sidney’s accusation of Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) as the true killer. Gale keeps telling Sidney that the real killers are on the loose. Sidney doesn’t give a fuck. She literally beats down any information that would break the alternate reality she’s constructed for herself. We often see her eyes narrow, repressing any semblance of emotion. She may sniffle a bit but never shows fear.
In addition to fear, Sidney represses her sexuality, making her a great Final Girl. She dresses modestly and since her mother’s rape and murder doesn’t want sex. Sidney isn’t perfect so she begins to blame herself for Billy’s constant complaints. Sidney describes herself as “sexually anorexic” to Tatum. Tatum may be ditsy but she defends Sidney to the death. “Billy and his penis don’t deserve you,” Tatum says, as they shop for party supplies due to the Woodsboro town curfew.
One of the best Sidney Prescott lines is when Billy presses her yet again about sex. He compares Sidney’s mother’s death to his parents’ divorce. He stands there, greasy black hair, and puppy eyes, and we wonder if Sidney’s buying it. She glares at him in the school hallway, “I’m sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.” Damn.
Sidney gets another great one-liner at the end of Scream. With Tatum gone (death by garage), Sidney must face Billy and Stu on her own. Billy reveals the voice changer, the mask, the knife, and that Sidney’s father’s been held hostage. “Surprise Sidney!” he taunts. Two killers, armed with a Beretta and a knife are still no match for an unarmed Sidney. Sidney taunts Stu for his crush on her, emasculating him, and forcing him to tears. Then, taking a page out of Freddy Krueger’s book, she kills Stu with a TV, taunting, “in your dreams,” (where Freddy killed people).
One killer down, one to go. Billy may have watched a million horror movies, but he can’t fight for shit. He makes the mistake of trying to strangle Sidney, leaving his entire torso unguarded. Sidney sticks her finger in one of Billy’s wounds, stalling him long enough for Gale to bust in and should him in the chest. Normally, at this point in the slasher, the killer comes back for a few more kills. Luckily horror geek Randy returns to remind the Final Girls. “Careful. This is the moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back to life, for one last scare.”
Just when Billy’s greasy head pops up, Sidney shoots him in the head with a Beretta. “Not in my movie,” she says, standing over the killer’s corpse.
Damn.
In Scream 2 (1997), the gang returns (minus, Billy, Stu, and Tatum), to fight two new killers, copying themselves after the Woodsboro murders from the first Scream. While Neve Campbell was nervous starring in the first Scream, she felt more confident in the second one. “I remember feeling insecure on the first film, everybody around me was being goofy and funny and had all these great one-liners, and I seemed so stoic in some ways. But I came to realize that if the audience couldn’t see the movie through my eyes, then they wouldn’t see me at all. They weren’t going to feel it and weren’t going to care. So it was very important for me to remain reality-based within the film because there had to be some source of reality for it to be good. It was the same thing on the sequel.”
Here Neve’s experience portraying Sidney speaks to the great honor it was working with Wes Craven. One of Wes’ very last tweets before he died, was sharing a new role Neve landed. Wes Craven was often called Father Horror, serving as a warm and caring role model for all his actors. Neve suffered a great loss when Wes died, but at least she knew he was proud of her.
Many diehard Scream fans argue whether Scream 1 or Scream 2 was the best in the franchise. Which makes sense, considering Wes Craven saw them as two parts to the same movie. How on earth did Wes manage to make Scream 2 just as badass as the OG? He wrote Scream 2 as he was making Scream 1, stating that the story seemed unfinished. So while fans may argue on, to this day, the argument could be settled by looking at the first two films as one piece.
Scream 2 picks up with Sidney two years later at Windsor College. With a new look and a new boyfriend, Sidney is ready for a fresh start at college. Sidney, Randy, Gale, and Deputy Dewey (David Arquette), do not disappoint in this amazing sequel. It’s got blood, guts, gore, and witty one-liners. Randy pushes the meta-commentary, echoing our concerns about a Scream sequel. Mickey (Timothy Olyphant, Justified), the “freaky, Tarantino film student” with slick black hair (like Billy) rushes to defend Scream 2 in class.
Randy: “Stab 2? Who would wanna do that? Sequels suck! Oh please, please! By definition alone, sequels are inferior films!”
Mickey: “It’s bullshit generalization. Many sequels have surpassed their originals.”
While Final Girl, Sidney tries to move on from the first Scream, when her boyfriend murdered most of her friends, then tried to kill her, the past still remains. Stab, the movie-within-a-movie brings Ghostface back to life. Scream 2 is brilliant commentary on college, the 90’s, and the horror genre’s ability to give feminist badasses more agency. Unlike the gender role-conforming sorority girls, Sidney doesn’t exploit her sexuality. Instead, Sidney kicks ass by not conforming to the typical expectation of a girl in the 90’s. Unlike other coeds who flaunt their tits, Sidney dons her jeans and ass-kicking boots. Instead of flirting, she eyes the crowd like Robo Cop, assessing any possible threats.
After the opening kill scene with Maureen and Phil dead and gone, we pan out to Sidney’s new life at Windsor College. With The Eels softly playing “This Could be your Lucky Day in Hell,” we hear a phone ring.
Sidney answers.
“What’s your favorite scary movie?”
Nice try, prankster, it’s 1997 and Sidney has caller ID. After chastising the prank caller for his lack of imagination, she moves the fuck on. So what if she’s getting constant calls where men pretend to be her serial-killing exboyfriend? She’s got a new boyfriend, Derek (Jeremy O’Connell), but is he a killer too?
With Sidney’s PTSD, it’s hard to tell which reality we’re in, providing constant suspense. To Sidney, every boyfriend is Billy, the serial killer she once loved. Though Sidney can fend for herself, she is given two armed bodyguards, who follow her all around campus. As we know from the rules of horror, cops always end up dead, so they’re merely a formality. Deputy Dewey manages to subvert this rule again and again, by not really being a cop. Dewey seldom fires his gun, calls for backup or even drives his own car. He’s not that bright, and honestly, shouldn’t have made it this far. But he’s the only family Sidney really has in her new life.
Her new boyfriend Derek is suspect #1 for Sidney. Sidney’s last boyfriend Billy tried to kill her—so the fear of another attack has become a part of her. When khaki-clad, fraternity Derek sings to her in the college dining hall, she can’t help but swoon. But once the dead bodies pile up, Sidney has flashbacks to her ex-boyfriend killing her mother and friends. Sidney loves Derek, with his kind eyes and beautiful brown hair. But Sidney’s incapable of trusting anyone, even if he looks straight out of a J. Crew catalog (those guys are usually douchebags anyway). After all, Billy Loomis wore khakis. As a Final Girl, Sidney must be ready to fight. Derek isn’t the killer, but that doesn’t matter to Sidney. Derek is Billy.
Sidney finally learns to trust Derek, when he gets brutally murdered by the real killers, Mickey and Mrs. Loomis, Billy’s mother.
Finally solving the murder mystery, Sidney realizes that Mrs. Loomis has come to avenge the death of her son, Billy Loomis. Mrs. Loomis hired Mickey from a “psycho website” to help her carry out the plan. Mickey befriended Derek just to embed himself within Sidney’s life and gain access to intel for Mrs. Loomis’ revenge plot.
Mickey rants on in the spirit of Billy Loomis, stating he will blame the movies too. Timothy Olyphant does an amazing job as the horror geek killer, Mickey. It’s almost as though Mickey is a reinvented Billy Loomis, with better hair, and better one-liners. With a crazed look in his eyes, he spouts off his reasons for being the way he is.
“I’ll just blame the movies, Sid,” he raves, “the Christian coalition will pay my court fees.” Mickey brags, alluding to the thousands of dollars spent each year, by religious parents trying to ban horror films. But Mickey’s no match for Sidney fucking Prescott.
Staring at Mickey, Sidney warns, “You’re forgetting one thing about Billy Loomis … I fucking killed him.” She fights with Mickey, grabbing a nearby blade. Backstage, someone hits a switch, pulling Derek’s corpse towards the ceiling as if towards heaven.
Wrongfully accused killer, Cotton Weary shows up armed and shoots Mrs. Loomis. Sidney gets up, takes Cotton’s gun, and gives a nod of thanks. Gale reappears, wounded but alive. In the final jump scare, Mickey pops up (just as Randy warned) and is shot repeatedly by Gale and Sidney. In a moment of beautiful irony, the Tarantino-obsessed film student dies in a Tarantino-like death, riddled with bullet holes ala Pulp Fiction.” paying homage to the late Randy.
Damn.
Moving onto Scream 4 (2011), the final Scream, we see Sidney Prescott at her most badass. She’s a published writer, going on book tours, living alone with a golden retriever. Instead of repressing her past, she faces it, head on. Telling her traumatic story over and over again. Crowds of readers line up to hear how an unarmed Sidney Prescott fought off six serial killers.
Scream 4 (2011) has a warm, flannel-covered 90’s feel and takes place ten years after the Woodsboro murders, with the return of Sidney Prescott, and all bets are off. In addition to sick kills, Scream 4 has a killer cast including Kristen Bell, Alison Brie, Hayden Panettiere, Anna Paquin, Emma Roberts, Adam Brody, and Rory Culkin (Macaulay Culkin’s youngest brother). And since this is a Scream movie, all these pretty people get hacked to death in beautiful HD (or Blu-Ray). It’s only the survivalist badasses that can survive a teen slasher like Scream 4.
We meet Sidney Prescott, version 2.0. Sidney has reinvented herself, gotten a book published, and no longer remains in hiding. She even attends events for her book tour in a bright red dress, looking fierce as hell. At times, the Final Girl will emerge from hiding and even flaunt her freedom. Here Sidney does just that, as if to taunt the inevitable killer.
By this time, Sidney has survived three Screams, making it further than Final Girls, Carrie, Nancy, and any chick in Friday the 13th (because Jason kills everyone). But will Sidney survive all four Screams? Since Scream 4 is the final Scream, all bets are off. That means even Final Girl, Sidney, can die. After all, Laurie Strode died in the final Halloween.
In every Scream, Sidney has proven herself to be a badass Final Girl. To review, a Final Girl, (according to the term’s creator, Carol Glover):
1) Undergoes agonizing trials (like Halloween’s Laurie Strode)
2) Destroys the antagonist and saves herself, not a heroine, but a hero
3) Is highly intelligent, hypervigilant, and feels a closeness to the killer
4) Gives the audience a point of view—we see the killer through her eyes
5) Is not gendered masculine or feminine, just a survivor (she can have sex and not be punished much like a man. Think about Sidney Prescott who sleeps with Billy then kills him. And the fact that her name sounds androgynous).
Sidney has gone through several trials—she survived her mother’s death, being attacked by her boyfriend, watching her friends get killed, and multiple attempts on her life. As for destroying the antagonist, Sidney killed Scream’s original killer, Billy Loomis, and countless other attackers throughout the Screams. She has saved herself many times, never playing the helpless victim. Remember the Final Girl is a hero, not a heroine. She saves the fucking day.
Like many Final Girls, Sidney is a survivor. She knows to grab the gun, not the phone. But there is a loneliness to being the Final Girl. After watching her mother, friends, boyfriend, and brother die by her side, Sidney is a changed person. Sidney doesn’t see a beautiful sunset, she sees the diminishing of light, fearing what the darkness might bring. Though not a victim, Sidney is forever damaged.
What’s so great about Sidney Prescott, 2.0 is that she repeats, “I am not a victim” like her lines from previous Screams, “This is my movie,” Sidney is always in control. And like many Scream fans, Sidney knows that the killer behind the ghost mask always dies. The killers in Scream are popular pretty boys who are horror-obsessed but generally weak. Billy, Stu, Mickey, and Roman were all weak-ass film geeks. Sidney never had any trouble killing them.
Gale teams up with Sidney to find the real killers, who don’t stand a chance against these veteran Final Girls. Let’s not forget that Gale Weathers has had her fair share of kill shots. This is the rogue journalist who shot serial killer, Billy Loomis, and distracted killers all the way through Scream 4. She’s not Sidney Prescott, but Gale is still pretty damn boss.
Gale isn’t just a badass when it comes to tracking and murdering killers. When a perky blonde cop tries to steal Gale’s man, she doesn’t take any shit. This dumb blonde keeps trying to steal Deputy Dewey with her homemade lemon bars. “Your lemon bars taste like ass!” Gale yells at the blonde cop. Amazing.
But Gale doesn’t always know when to stop. Like many Final Girls, she looks for the killer alone. Gale gets herself into trouble trying to investigate the murders by attending Stab-a-thon solo. Luckily Deputy Dewey arrives in time, and Gale escapes with a stabbed shoulder.
By this time, killers Jill (Emma Roberts) and Charlie (Rory Culkin) have gone full psycho, following the lead of Billy and Stu from the OG Scream. They even tie up a polo shirt-clad Trevor (dressed like Sidney’s dad from the first Scream), and kill him in front of Sidney. Even worse, is exactly how her friend, Trevor (Nico Tortorella) dies.
“I’m not the girl you cheat on!” shouts Jill. Then she shoots his dick off. Yes, this is Scream 4, and Jill shoots a guy in the dick for cheating on her. I mean, she is a serial killer after all, so not that surprising.
Moving on, Jill gives her best Billy Loomis speech on motives for making her own slasher. “What am I supposed to do? Go to grad school?” the killer pleas. Poor Jill was so jealous of Sidney and her PTSD survivor status. Poor Jill killed everyone and staged an attack just to become a victim like Sidney. Just for attention.
So Jill Fight Club’s herself through some glass making it look like the (now dead) Trevor attacked her. As the cops arrive, she falls next to Sidney, finally in the coveted victim status. It’s not until Sidney and Jill are left alone in a hospital that the real shit goes down.
As Gale recovers in that very same hospital, she starts to realize who the killer is.
It’s Jill Roberts, Sidney’s cousin. Can she warn Sidney in time?
Of course, it’s Gale Weathers, live on scene! Gale finds Sidney and Jill in parallel hospital beds, Sidney in critical condition. When suddenly, the Final Girls of Scream have an amazing idea. Gale distracts Jill long enough for Sidney to shock Jill to death with some paddles (from a defibrillator machine).
“Clear!” Sidney yells, and shocking Jill to death, putting an end to the Woodsboro massacres. “Don’t fuck with the original,” Sidney continues. Hell yeah! The Final Girl always gets the last word, not the killer.