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#The Ending Of The Original Scream Still Kicks Ass Decades Later

#The Ending Of The Original Scream Still Kicks Ass Decades Later

“Scream” (1996) concerns one Sidney Prescott, a student at Woodsboro High School grieving the death of her mother who was brutally raped and stabbed to death a year prior. A series of killings in Woodsboro coincide with horrible, taunting phone calls Sidney receives from the killer, who wears a hooded cloak and a Ghostface mask, hiding their identity. Sidney no longer knows who to trust between the cops, represented by Dewey Riley (David Arquette), the salacious media represented by Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) that air everyone’s dirty laundry and casts doubt on Sidney’s memory, or Sidney’s brooding boyfriend, Billy (Skeet Ulrich). There are plenty of suspects, but they all seem to have convenient alibis when the slicing and dicing happens.

The secret finally comes out during the remains of an after-curfew house party, when Billy is attacked by Ghostface but survives, tumbling down a staircase and coaxing a gun from a terrified Sidney. Billy straightens up, channels Eric Binford in “Fade to Black,” and loses himself in the chasm between fiction and reality. He quotes the movie “Psycho” (arguably the first proper slasher), shoots Randy, and informs his girlfriend that he and his pal Stu (Matthew Lillard) have been working in cahoots to dispatch six victims — and they began with Sidney’s mother a year ago. 

The reason? A one-two punch. 

Billy cites Sidney’s mother as the reason he snapped, blaming her homewrecking affair with his father for the disintegration of his family. Stu’s given motive was a cheeky “peer pressure.” In fact, the pair created an entire narrative for themselves, one that condemns Sidney for her mother’s sins and brings them fame (they give each other flesh wounds so they can present themselves as survivors, framing Sidney’s father for the murders), punishing a town they hate in the process.

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