10 Things You Didn't Know About Ghostface

9. Ghostface Is Based Off A Real Life Murderer

In 1990, the Gainesville Ripper (identified as Danny Rolling upon his arrest) murdered one university student in Santa Fe and four in the university of Florida - much in the same way Ghostface targets high school students. Coincidence? I think not.

Screenplay writer Kevin Williamson was watching a documentary on the murders and told CNN in 1998 about the experience. He said:

“I was watching this Barbara Walters special on the Gainesville murders and I was getting so spooked. I was being scared out of my mind. During the commercial break, I heard a noise. And I had to go and search the house. And I went into the living room and a window was open. And I’d been in this house for two days. I’d never noticed the window open. So I got really scared. So I went to the kitchen, got a butcher knife, got the mobile phone. I went to bed that night so spooked I was having nightmares, and I woke up at like three or four in the morning and I started writing the opening scene.”

This went on to become one of the most defining moments of the whole Scream franchise.