10 Horror Movie Scenes Filmmakers Regret

No movie is perfect, because making even a very bad movie is a ton of hard work, let alone something that the masses actually enjoy.

There's probably not a filmmaker alive who doesn't regret at least something about every single one of their movies, even if they might not publicly state as such.

But every so often a filmmaker actually speaks vocally about their perceived failings during production, expressing outright regret for at least a single scene in one of their movies.

And the horror genre seems to invite an especially outspoken rabble of creatives, who have freely discussed what they hate about their own films, to the extent that they wished things were totally different in one scene in particular.

From writers who regret killing off beloved characters to directors who wish they didn't get so edgy, and a filmmaker who vividly laments the technical execution of a major set-piece, these artistes all opened up and got real about the shortcomings of their own movies.

They shouldn't be too hard on themselves, though, given that most of the movies on this list are card-carrying genre bangers...

Perhaps the single most divisive moment in the entire Scream franchise is the death of fan favourite film nerd Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) in the second movie.

It's a majorly surprising moment given both Randy's genre-savviness and the fact that it occurs in broad daylight, with Ghostface dragging him into Joel's (Duane Martin) news van and gutting him from end to end.

Much as the scene continues to be a bummer for fans, it's also a sore point for writer Kevin Williamson, who in retrospect believes that he may have offed Randy a little prematurely. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter last year, he said:

"The very second that Dewey lived in Scream one, it was R.I.P. for Randy in Scream 2, because we had to kill a legacy. We had to kill someone that was involved with Scream one, and that was done halfway through so that we could up the stakes. I also wanted to upset the audience and make them mad at the killer.

But had I known now that these movies were going to live forever and that they were going to go on… I do think that there was a lot more life left in the character. So I'd love to have seen him as an adult. I'd love to see what he became. I'd love to see how he turned his love of horror films into a career. I'd love to see what his trauma was like after surviving, but unfortunately, I killed him."