How Scream Managed To Make A Tired Movie Trend Feel New
Scream is in theaters now and if you haven't seen it, that means you're missing out on a slew of new and inventive Ghostface kills, plenty of meta jokes about movies, and the likes of Sidney (Neve Campbell), Dewey (David Arquette), and Gale (Courteney Cox) gracing the big screen once again. We've already talked about the biggest reveals in the film--including Ghostface's identity--and the story behind the movie's most shocking death. There's another important topic to broach, care of a shocking surprise cameo appearance.
Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Scream, the latest film in the franchise. If you haven't seen the movie, that's your cue to walk away now, or else everything you don't want to be ruined about the movie is going to be spelled out for you.
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While the death of Dewey might have been the movie's biggest shocker, there's no way anybody could have expected that, of all people, Skeet Ulrich would appear in the movie to reprise his role as Billy Loomis--otherwise known as one of the killers from the first Scream who is very dead. He appears sporadically throughout the film, though, as a figment of leading character Sam's (Melissa Barrera) imagination, when it's revealed that she's actually Billy's daughter. Now on anti-psychotic medication, she's seeing visions of her father--as he was in the first film-- telling her to embrace her murderous genetics.
As it turns out, getting Ulrich to return for the role of Billy was easy enough. «He was all in,» one of the movie's directors, Matt
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