10 Best Slasher Horror Movie Fakeout Endings

Yes, the end of Scream saw the believed-dead Billy Loomis lurk up for when last attempted attack, and Scream 2 likewise had Mickey Altieri do the same, but there was something brilliant in just quite how ridiculous that trope was used in the final moments of Scream 3.

With Sidney Prescott's long-lost half-brother Roman revealed to be the solo killer of this threequel, Gale and Dewey find a sombre Sid who's just fatally stabbed her sibling to death. Even Dewey in aware enough to call out the classic trope of the 'dead' villain resurrecting for one final kill, and he asks Neve Campbell's character whether her brother will rise up in some sort of superhuman way.

While Sidney asserts that Roman is far from superhuman, it's at that moment the rogue does indeed spring to his feet.

What makes this fakeout particularly great is the sheer erraticism of Scott Foley as his character is revealed to be not quite as dead as Sid had believed. Sure, the majority of the audience expected a fakeout here, but that's not always a bad thing, especially at what was supposed to be the closing part of a trilogy.

Foley jumps up and down on the spot, screams at our three protagonists, and gets shot a bunch of times by a hapless Dewey, before finally ol' Dewdrop got the message that he needed to shoot Roman in the head.