10 Best Horror Movie Characters Who Appear In Only One Scene

Name a more iconic first victim in horror movie history. You can't do it, can you? That's because Casey Becker is, hands down, the queen of biting the bullet first. She appeared in no more than one scene yet managed to become synonymous with the Scream franchise.

Casey opens up the first flick in this iconic slasher series, answering a phone call from the demented Ghostface and eventually being hunted down and stabbed to death. Modern-day viewers might think of her as simple canon fodder, but upon the movie's release, she was anything but.

The advertisements for 1996's Scream banked on Drew Barrymore's Casey Becker, putting her front and centre of their campaign. It seemed obvious that she would be the leading girl, but after she concluded her first scene with a knife in her chest, everything you thought you knew was flung out of the window.

This incredibly subversive moment instantly told you that Wes Craven's Scream was about to be a horror movie like no other. Besides that, the character herself was also memorable, especially thanks to the incredibly believable performance from Barrymore.