10 Smartest Decisions Made By Final Girls In Horror Movies

Sidney Prescott is one of the genre's most recognizable final girls. Having survived multiple movies, she is horror royalty. But in the original Scream, she was just a teenager haunted by the death of her mother. Things took a turn for the worst as the Ghostface killer arrived to eliminate her schoolmates, one by one.

During the climax of the film, Sidney finds out there are two killers. The first is Stu Macher and the second is Billy Loomis, her boyfriend. But despite the surprise of the situation, Sid manages to turn the tables on them through craftiness and cunning. She finds the right moment to kill Stu, while she stabs Billy with an umbrella. Fellow survivor and horror movie buff Randy then tells Sidney that this is usually the time when the killer comes back to life for one last scare. With that knowledge in hand, Neve Campbell's character shoots Billy in the head to make sure he's dead.

This decision showed that Sidney was smart and capable. She also uses this same trick to kill Mrs. Loomis, the sequel's killer.