10 Horror Movie Survivors Who Vanished From Sequels

10. Joel Jones - Scream 2

Duane Martin's Joel Jones is a smart, smart man.

Unlike 99% of horror movie characters, Joel sees what's going down in Scream 2 and simply opts to get as far away as possible from the piling bodies of this sequel.

When we're reintroduced to Gale Weathers in this Scream follow-up, Joel is shown to be her new cameraman, having taken over that gig from namesake Kenny Jones; a character who was brutally offed in Wes Craven's iconic 1996 picture.

For Joel, reading Gale's The Woodsboro Murders book - and realising the fate of Weathers' last cameraman - has him already weighing up his options, and it's the murder of Randy Meeks that fully pushes Joel towards the exit door.

Telling Gale how she needs her head examined, Duane Martin's character makes the wise call to leave Scream 2's central protagonists to it, for he has zero intentions of becoming one of Ghostface's victims.

Having been absent for the majority of the second half of the movie, Joel would rock up during the final minutes to pick up his spot as Gale's cameraman once more. But still, the character wasn't seen or heard from in either of Scream 3 or Scream 4.