10 Smartest Decisions Made By Scream Characters

10. Sidney Shoots Mrs. Loomis In The Head - Scream 2

The original Scream famously concluded with killer Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) coming back from the "dead" for one last scare, prompting Sidney (Neve Campbell) to shoot him in the head. The idea of the killer getting a last-minute revival was then played with in Scream 2's finale.

After Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) shoots killer Debbie Salt (Laurie Metcalfe) to the ground, her accomplice Mickey (Timothy Olyphant) returns from apparent death, prompting Sidney and Gale (Courteney Cox) to riddle him with bullets.

Sensing there's a lesson to be learned in all this, Sid then turns to Debbie's body and pops a round in her head before she can even think about staging one desperate last stand.

Sadly far too many of Scream's characters don't appreciate the virtue of aiming for the head, as was made so devastatingly clear in the latest Scream film (if you know, you know).

Sidney, at least, learned from the past and made sure Debbie wouldn't be making a final comeback.