{"id":322679,"date":"2026-03-05T06:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/322679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:17:13","slug":"every-kill-in-scream-7-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/322679\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Kill in Scream 7, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scream 7<\/a> is officially a hit<\/a>, which is good news for die-hard fans of the Ghostface saga, because we\u2019re now definitely getting at least one more. And, with that new movie will come a new game and, thusly, a new slew of kills. But, for now, we have exactly 10 new ones to attribute to the belts of either Ghostface (as an overarching slasher icon, as opposed to a single individual) or Sidney Prescott. And, while Scream 7 isn\u2019t quite as thoroughly written<\/a> or intelligent as the franchise when it was at its best, the one area where it definitely does not short the audience is in the violence department.<\/p>\n

In fact, there are a few kills in this one that rank with the most inventive<\/a> and jarring the franchise has ever thrown the audience\u2019s way. However, of the ten, some are very much better than others.<\/p>\n

Spoilers for Scream 7 follow.<\/p>\n

10) Marco Davis<\/p>\n

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The running trend of the Scream franchise when it comes to the Ghostface killers is that you have to shoot them in the head. That\u2019s how Marco Davis goes out in Scream 7.<\/p>\n

This kill ranks low because, for one, we barely get to know anything about Marco in the movie. He pops up in one scene midway through the movie and then in the reveal scene. In terms of Ghostfaces, he\u2019s the second fiddle to Jessica Bowden\u2019s top dog, the clear accomplice, and like the afterthought he is he\u2019s dispatched just as quickly, rushing toward Sidney and getting shot. Pretty boring stuff that could be seen in a John Wick movie.<\/p>\n

9) Karl Allan Gibbs<\/p>\n

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You know the thing in movies where a character stumbles into the street and you know exactly what\u2019s going to happen? That\u2019s what happens to Ghostface number three: Karl Allan Gibbs.<\/p>\n

After attacking Sidney, Tatum, and Mark Evans in their house, he\u2019s overrun, pushed from the house to the yard, and ends up in the street. Cue the van that sends him flying a few feet up the street. Nothing you haven\u2019t seen elsewhere.<\/p>\n

8) Aaron<\/p>\n

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Speaking of things you\u2019ve seen elsewhere, there\u2019s the off-screen throat slit that sends out Aaron. We hardly knew thee.<\/p>\n

Aaron exists to up the kill count and establish the much better kill that follows. He\u2019s the one operating the rig system keeping Hannah Thurman in an inescapable position. Once Aaron\u2019s gone, Ghostface has control of that rig. There are great off-screen throat slits (Ned in the original Friday the 13th is the gold standard), but for the most part they\u2019re slasher old hat.<\/p>\n

7) Ben Brown<\/p>\n

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Every Scream movie has at least one character it\u2019s trying to get the audience to believe is putting on a Ghostface mask. Detective Mark Kincaid in Scream 3, for instance, or Cotton Weary in Scream 2. They\u2019re fake-out suspects. Scream 7 has two fake-out suspects.<\/p>\n

One of them is Ben Brown, the boyfriend of Tatum Evans. But he\u2019s no Billy Loomis. He\u2019s an overall good guy and dies protecting his girlfriend. Even still, for the final non-Ghostface kill of the film, especially for a character so integral to the proceedings, getting a few knife marks on the sternum is pretty lame.<\/p>\n

6) Jessica Bowden<\/p>\n

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Now we come to the third of the three Ghostfaces, and the main one: Jessica Bowden. Sidney\u2019s neighbor and supposed friend, Jessica is actually an obsessed fan who got the wrong message out of Sid\u2019s book, wasn\u2019t happy with her sitting out New York, and wants to make her daughter the next final girl.<\/p>\n

Clunky motive aside, Jessica is definitely the best of the three killers, and gets the best death, even if it still isn\u2019t especially grand. After duking it out with Sidney for a bit, taking a wound here and there, Tatum steps in and she and Sidney take turns shooting Jessica in the face. It\u2019s fine, but it ranks as high as it does because they really do go to town on her, resulting in a remainder of basically just a sliver of forehead and half of her jaw.<\/p>\n

5) Chloe Parker<\/p>\n

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Scream 7 is something of a Ghostbusters reunion, considering both Mckenna Grace and Celeste O\u2019Connor are on the cast list. Unfortunately for their characters here, they\u2019re in far more danger.<\/p>\n

As far as O\u2019Connor\u2019s Chloe Parker goes, she feels as though she\u2019s survived Ghostface\u2019s attack on the bar where we spend about 10 minutes. She hides behind the literal bar itself, thinking Ghostface has exited. Then, she rises, and is immediately attacked, getting in a brawl that ends when she is thrown a few feet, bashing into some bottles, one of which lacerates her throat.<\/p>\n

4) Scott<\/p>\n

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Scott isn\u2019t the first one to get stabbed in the head by Ghostface. While it was offscreen, Cotton Weary was stabbed in the head in Scream 3. Furthermore, Officer Anthony Perkins was stabbed in the head and stumbled a few paces in Scream 4. <\/p>\n

But like Perkins, this kill goes out of its way to show the audience the effects of such a wound. We look at Scott in a close-up and see his right eye\u2019s iris and pupil just roll upwards. It\u2019s a nice touch. <\/p>\n

3) Madison<\/p>\n

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For our money, Scream VI is still the most humorless and self-serious of the franchise (which isn\u2019t as much of a bash as it sounds like), but Scream 7 establishes early on that it hasn\u2019t lost the more horror-focused vibe<\/a> of the Radio Silence era. This is seen front and center with the death of Madison, which caps off the opening scene with Ghostface burning down the Airbnb recreation of the Macher house.<\/p>\n

After killing Scott and chasing her around for a bit, Ghostface is knocked off the second floor and lands on the first with a thud. Then, as was seen in the trailer, he spins around and holds the knife up as Madison falls on it. That alone is a great series of shots, and would already secure Madison the third spot here, but then he douses the house, and her, in gasoline and lights a match. Horrific.<\/p>\n

2) Lucas Bowden<\/p>\n

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Lucas Bowden nearly got the number one spot here. And, like the kill that did get the number one spot, his death stands out for two reasons.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any character who is set up to be the killer, it\u2019s Lucas (even more than Ben). He\u2019s creepy, he asks Sidney too personal questions, and he kind of just lingers around. But he\u2019s not the killer, his mother is\u2026and she kills him without a shred of remorse or second thought. That detail is one of Scream 7\u2018s stronger narrative choices, all told. Then there\u2019s how brutal his death is. Jessica lifts him up, drags him through the puddle of blood next to Choe\u2019s body, lifts him up, lines him up with a spike-topped beer tap, and jams the back of his head down, allowing foamy, bloody beer to pour through his mouth like a toothy spigot. My Bloody Valentine\u2018s miner would be proud.<\/p>\n

1) Hannah Thurman<\/p>\n

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Guttings are nothing new to Scream. It\u2019s been a part of Ghostface\u2019s violent oeuvre from the very beginning. In fact, the first two on-screen kills of the franchise<\/a>, Steven Orth and Casey Becker, were gutted. Scream 7\u2018s Hannah Thurman (Mckenna Grace) goes the same way.<\/p>\n

However, Hannah gets the number one spot on our list for two reasons. One, Grace is such a likable Hollywood up-and-comer that it\u2019s really hard to watch her similarly likable character go, especially so early in the movie. Two, her death is dragged out. Ghostface tortures her as she\u2019s strung up in a stage play rigging system. She\u2019s helpless, swinging back and forth, and he more or less just holds his knife up so it can slice her in various places, ultimately ending on her cut, which drops her entrails to the stage.<\/p>\n

Do you think Scream 7 has some of the best kills of the franchise? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scream 7 is officially a hit, which is good news for die-hard fans of the Ghostface saga, because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,51891,397,19301],"class_list":["post-322679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-list-feature","tag-movies","tag-scream-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}