11 Surprise Movie Villain Reveals Everyone Loved

8. Billy And Stu - Scream

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Wes Craven's Scream is one of the most important movies in the history of horror.

After the genre had spent a good decade or more spewing out formulaic dross - with the odd exception, obviously - Craven's 1996 effort gave horror the shot in the arm that it so desperately needed.

To do that, Wes gave audiences Scream. Poking fun at the overplayed tropes that had bogged down the genre, Craven managed to somehow mock those tropes, while delivering those same tropes, and while giving audiences some genuine scares along the way - and in doing so, Wes Craven gave horror hounds a whole new horror icon in Ghostface, and a whole new horror franchise to become fascinated by.

In a movie filled with so many moments that audiences lapped up, arguably the biggest shocker of Scream - along with the film's iconic opening brutalisation of poor Drew Barrymore - was the final act reveal that there was not one, but two killers.

The two punks behind Ghostface were revealed to be Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher and Skeet Ulrich's Billy Loomis, and the sheer shock of that twist ticked off so many of the rights boxes for horror fans.

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