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Scream (1996) KILL COUNT: RECOUNT is the three hundred and sixty-second video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
High school student Casey Becker is home alone when she receives a phone call from an unknown person, during which they discuss horror films. The caller turns sadistic, refusing to leave Casey alone and threatening her life. He reveals that her boyfriend Steve is bound and gagged outside on her patio and demands she answer questions about horror films if she wants him to live. After Casey answers a question about Friday the 13th incorrectly, Steve is murdered in front of her. Refusing to answer more questions, Casey attempts to escape, but is cornered by someone wearing a "Ghostface" costume, who kills her before her parents arrive home to find her disemboweled corpse hanging from a tree.
News media descend on the town in the wake of the murders and a police investigation begins. Teenager Sidney Prescott struggles with the first anniversary of her mother Maureen's rape and murder, while a news reporter, Gale Weathers, whom Sidney despises, arrives among the media. Gale was responsible for spreading rumors and conspiracy theories about Maureen's death, insinuating that the imprisoned Cotton Weary, who was tried and convicted of Maureen's rape and murder, was not responsible for the crime. That night, while waiting at home for her best friend Tatum Riley to arrive, Sidney gets a taunting phone call and is attacked by Ghostface. Sidney's boyfriend Billy Loomis arrives immediately after. When he drops his cell phone, Sidney suspects him of making the call and flees. Billy is arrested and questioned, but later, at Tatum's house, Sidney receives another ominous call.
The next day, Billy is released and suspicion shifts to Sidney's father Neil Prescott, due to the ominous phone calls having been traced to his phone. After school is suspended in wake of the murders, Ghostface ambushes Principal Arthur Himbry and stabs him to death. Tatum's boyfriend and Billy's best friend, Stu Macher, throws a party to celebrate the school's closure. Gale attends uninvited, as she expects the killer to strike again. Tatum's older brother, Deputy Sheriff Dewey Riley, also looks out for the murderer at the party. Tatum goes out to the garage and is cornered by Ghostface, who crushes her neck with the garage door when she attempts to escape through the pet door. Many party attendees are drawn away after hearing of Himbry's death, leaving only Sidney, Billy, their friend Randy Meeks, Stu, and Gale's cameraman Kenny.
After having sex, Sidney and Billy are confronted by Ghostface, who stabs Billy. Sidney escapes from the house and seeks help from Kenny, but he is killed by Ghostface. Gale crashes her van while escaping and Dewey is stabbed in the back while investigating in the house, with Sidney taking his gun for protection. Randy and Stu show up and accuse each other of being the killer, but Sidney retreats back into the house where she finds a wounded Billy. After they let Randy inside, Sidney gives Billy the gun, who in turn shoots Randy, revealing himself to be the killer; Stu is revealed to be his accomplice by talking into a voice changer.
Billy and Stu corner Sidney in the kitchen and discuss their plan to kill her and pin the murder spree on her father, whom they have taken hostage. They also reveal that they murdered her mother and framed Cotton for it, as she was having an affair with Billy's father, which drove his mother away. Gale intervenes, enabling Sidney to escape and turn the tables on the killers, taunting them with a phone call and donning the Ghostface costume, before knocking Billy out and killing Stu by dropping a television set on his head. An enraged Billy awakens and attacks Sidney, but Gale shoots him. Randy, wounded but alive, remarks that the killer always resurfaces for one last scare. As Billy rises, Sidney shoots Billy in the head, finally killing him. As police arrive, Dewey, badly injured, is taken away by ambulance as Gale makes an impromptu news report about the night's events.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths:[]
- Steve Orth - Lasagna-noised to death (Disemboweled in lawn chair) - 8 mins in
- Casey Becker - Stabbed, choked, disemboweled, & hanged - 12 mins in
- Principal Himbry - Fl-ayyyy-ed (Stabbed repeatedly in stomach) - 53 mins in
- Tatum Riley - Crushed by garage door - 1 hr 7 mins in
- Kenny Brown - Live feed cut (Throat slashed) - 1 hr 23 mins in
- Stu Macher - Sat too close to TV (Electrocuted w/ Crt TV) - 1 hr 40 mins in
- Billy Loomis - Skeet shot (Shot in head) - 1 hr 42 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths:[]
- Maureen Prescott - Stabbed multiple times by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher (Mentioned)
Trivia[]
- This is the first Kill Count of 2023.
- The Recounts was supposed to be covered after the Chucky Recounts but was postponed due to the number of times Universal copyright claimed the Chucky Recounts.
- The recounts were postponed again to February due to James' departure to Michigan to visit his ill father.
- This was #3 on trending.
- A few hours later, this got #2 on trending, being the second Kill Count to be second place on trending, the other one was Jaws.
- this is the only Scream Recount where the Golden chainsaw and Dull machine is the same as the original