10 Most Satisfying Movie Deaths From The Last 20 Years

8. Billy Loomis- Scream

In a horror satire chockfull of good-to-great actors and interesting characters, Skeet Ulrich always seemed out of place as the wooden, standard hunk, Billy Loomis. While everyone else was ripping through the usual archetypes featured in slasher movies, Billy was busy being painfully generic, to the point where one had to question whether or not Wes Craven bothered telling Ulrich that this movie was supposed to be a sendup.

Partly because of his awful acting and partly because his character is an irredeemable psychopath, it's wonderfulto see him "die" three different times over the course of the movie.The first time, when he gets fake stabbed to death by Ghostface immediately after sexing up Neve Campbell, the audience reaction probably isn't supposed to be a hearty "good, f--k that guy!"

Thesecond time,after revealing the stab wounds to be fake and presenting himself as one of the two masked murderers, it'sobviously evenmoresatisfying to watch him get shot by the resurrected Gale Weathers as he's about to plunge a knife into Sidney Prescott.

But just for good measure, Craven opts to have Billy startle back to life after perpetual soothsayer Randy tells them "this is the moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back to life for one last scare," only to have Sidney immediately put a bullet in his brain. It's as if the director was aware of just how unlikable the character was throughout, and had to find a way to make his stilted acting pay off. And he found it.