10 Most Badass Horror Movie Survivors
3. Sidney Prescott - The Scream Franchise
Not once. Not twice. Not thrice. No, it's four times that Sidney Prescott has had to battle some variation of the chilling Ghostface character. Added to that, Neve Campbell is currently in talks to return as Sidney for Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures' in-development Scream 5.
Like so many other ass-kicking horror survivors, Sidney started off as a relatively meek and mild sort who was like a deer in the headlights upon first being confronted by the terrors of being harassed and hounded as an expanding body count of her BFFs piled up around her.
Part of the charm of Sid though, is in how the audience has seen her transition from that emotional, scared figure of the first Scream film, to the more driven, resourceful survivor and warrior of Scream 2 onward. By the end of that second picture, Sidney is a battle-scarred badass who is all about turning the tables and taking the fight to her would-be attackers - and that's a character trait that's only accentuated through Scream 3 and Scream 4.
Billy Loomis and Stu Macher may have rattled Sid's cage in the 1996 original movie, but Mrs. Loomis, Mickey Altieri, Roman Bridger, Charlie Walker, and Jill Roberts didn't stand a chance in the subsequent films that followed that first Scream.