10 Awesome Horror Movie Deleted Scenes You Won't Believe Were Cut
2. Scream 4: Alternate Opening
Scream 4 largely failed in its attempts to recapture the self-referential magic of the original, but it would have had a better chance had it kept its original opening.
The beginning Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson selected revisited the movie-within-a-movie Stab, which wasn't a great idea since it evoked memories of the mediocre Scream 3, but the one which was deleted was a back-to-basic setup.
A pair of friends played by Britt Robertson and Aimee Teegarden are home alone watching scary movies and pranking one another with dodgy-sounding phone calls before old Ghostface shows up and knifes them.
Sure, we'd seen all of this before, but by 2011 it could have officially been classed as retro, a nice call-back to the original Scream which delivered a couple of actual kills, rather than meta ones.