10 Best Movie Characters Who Appear In Only One Scene
6. Casey Becker - Scream
When it comes to setting the tone for a movie - nay, a franchise! - characters don't get much better than Casey Becker.
Played by Drew Barrymore, Casey was brutally killed off in the opening moments of Wes Craven's Scream.
That death may have meant that Casey was only on-screen for barely 15 minutes, yet it set out the terms and conditions of that first Scream movie and the subsequent three (soon to be four) films that followed it.
With the initial marketing material having Barrymore front-and-centre and with her name as the headline act, seeing her character killed off after a prolonged opening scene was unthinkable. But that was such a key part of what made Scream stand out from the pack and change the horror game in 1996 - that the movie flipped the usual overplayed horror tropes on their head.
The character of Casey Becker let the audience know that all bets were off, that even the biggest of names could be killed off, and also obviously served to introduce Ghostface in a massively impactful, gloriously gory way.
Scream was off to the races in a major way, and so much of that was down to Casey Becker and, unfortunately for her, that character's grizzly demise.