10 Horror Movie Scenes Filmmakers Regret

10. Randy's Death - Scream 2

Perhaps the single most divisive moment in the entire Scream franchise is the death of fan favourite film nerd Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) in the second movie.

It's a majorly surprising moment given both Randy's genre-savviness and the fact that it occurs in broad daylight, with Ghostface dragging him into Joel's (Duane Martin) news van and gutting him from end to end.

Much as the scene continues to be a bummer for fans, it's also a sore point for writer Kevin Williamson, who in retrospect believes that he may have offed Randy a little prematurely. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter last year, he said:

"The very second that Dewey lived in Scream one, it was R.I.P. for Randy in Scream 2, because we had to kill a legacy. We had to kill someone that was involved with Scream one, and that was done halfway through so that we could up the stakes. I also wanted to upset the audience and make them mad at the killer.

But had I known now that these movies were going to live forever and that they were going to go on… I do think that there was a lot more life left in the character. So I'd love to have seen him as an adult. I'd love to see what he became. I'd love to see how he turned his love of horror films into a career. I'd love to see what his trauma was like after surviving, but unfortunately, I killed him."