8 Horror Movie Survivors Who Were Quickly Killed Off In The Sequel

8. Cotton Weary - Scream 3

The image here is of Cotton Weary swooping in to save the day at the conclusion of Scream 2. But while Liev Schrieber's Cotton was the timely hero, he was quickly killed off during the opening scene of 2000's Scream 3.

When Scream 3 begins, Cotton is now at a point where he's put his wrongful imprisonment behind him and has finally managed to achieve his mission of becoming famous - with him now the host of his own talk show, 100% Cotton.

After receiving a flirtatious phone call on his way home, that opening to Scream 3 soon reveals that Cotton is really talking to Ghostface. And not just Ghostface, but a Ghostface who is lurking in the shadows waiting to attack Weary's partner.

By the time Cotton gets to the scene, his girlfriend Christine is already dead, and only a matter of minutes later we find Cotton Weary sharing the same fate as his beau.

This whole sequence was certainly a hard-hitting and impactful way to start Scream 3 with a bang, and it served as a wake-up call for Sidney, Gale, Dewey, and the watching audience that anything could happen in this threequel.