Thats been the best part about theScreamfranchise.
It ups the intensity, turning a fun and frightening horror film into a fascinating whodunit as well.
Because even though the franchise depends on its characters, the finale is everything.
If they dont knock it out of the park with the Ghostface reveal, then nothing before it matters.
Before the sixth film gets here, lets look at how the first five came to a close.
A dozen years later, he would create a film that perhaps even surpassed the terrors of Freddy Krueger.
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Written by Kevin Williamson, the firstScreamfollows a group of teenagers in the town of Woodsboro, California.
She is even attacked by someone in a Ghostface mask and black cloak.
Everybody is a suspect, her friend Randy (Jamie Kennedy) declares.
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At the top of the list is Sidneys shady boyfriend, Billy (Skeet Ulrich).
The finale takes place at a large house party.
Ghostface appears, killing Sidneys friend Tatum (Rose McGowan).
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Sidney flees outside, where Ghostface kills a cameraman for reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).
Billy pulls out a gun and shoots Randy in the shoulder, before revealing that his stabbing was faked.
He and Stu are the killers.
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Stu blindly follows him out of peer pressure.
They confess to killing Sidneys mom a year prior.
A new reporter named Debbie (Laurie Metcalf) also shows up on the scene.
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Randy,in one of the most heartbreaking moments, is stabbed to death in a news van.
Ghostface attacks later and kills a few cops and Hallie, but Sidney escapes.
She flees to a theater at the college and finds Derek strung up on a cross.
Then Debbie walks out on the stage, literally, with a gun to Gales back.
Debbie is Billys mom, one of the killers from the first films.
She is out for revenge.
Sidney then shoots Debbie in the head, making sure that she doesnt come back too.
The film underwent many rewrites, leading to the clunkiest entry of the franchise.
An LA detective named Mark Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) is put on the case.
Ghostface then kills one of the films actresses.
Sidney has no choice but to do as he says, and Ghostface, of course, is waiting.
Sidney, however, has a gun and unloads several bullets into his chest.
Sidney has never met him before in the films events, but Roman knows her.
He is her half-brother.
Sidneys mother, Maureen, had once been an actress and Roman was conceived after a sexual assault.
Maureen wanted nothing to do with him and abandoned her son.
He confesses that he was the mastermind who got Billy and Stu to kill her.
Now he wants to pin it all on Sidney.
A new Ghostface kills two teenage girls in the opening scene.
Sidney is in town as well, there to promote her memoir about the tragedies shes endured.
Dewey is now the sheriff and married to Gale.
They both begin to investigate the murders.
He then turns his sights to Sidneys publicist (Alison Brie), murdering her in a parking garage.
Gale hatches a plan to catch Ghostface.
One of the friends is killed and Sidney shows up at the house.
In the hospital, however, we learn that Sidney lived.
Jill goes to kill her, but the legacy characters are there to stop her.
In the end, Sidney shoots her cousin in the heart.
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Another eleven years later came the fifth film in the franchise.
Once back in Woodsboro, she begins to see hallucinations of her dead father.
They go to Dewey for help, whos now living alone in a trailer, divorced from Gale.
This brings Sidney back to Woodsboro.
Sam and Tara decide to get out of town with Sams boyfriend Richie (Jack Quaid).
Ghostface arrives and several teens are attacked and killed.
They want to pin it all on Sam, but everyone fights back against the killers.
When Amber comes back from her injuries for one last attack, Tara shoots and kills her.
