8 EXACT Moments Classic Horror Franchises Should Have Come To An End

The whole point of the first Scream movie was to poke fun at the overplayed horror genre tropes whilst simultaneously being a thrill ride of a feature. And while the following three films in the franchise largely stuck to that mantra, the honest opinion would be to say that the Scream series should have come to an end a few minutes before the close of Scream 2.

If the Scream franchise halted at the moment where Cotton Weary shoots and kills 'Debbie Salt', aka Billy Loomis' mother, then that would have been the perfect send-off.

There was no need for Mickey to rise from the dead just moments after Mrs. Loomis' death, there was no need for Sidney to put a bullet in the corpse of Mrs. Loomis. Likewise, ending the franchise at this moment would've left a nice sense of ambiguity over the fate of Gale Weathers after she was shot by Mickey. Also, this would've been a great way to close the Scream property at two movies, with Cotton being positioned as the hero alongside Neve Campbell's Sidney.

Of course, Cotton would ultimately get the praise and props in the actual ending of Scream 2, but that could've been handled just as well by closing the movie ten minutes earlier. After that, of course, there was the so-so Scream 3 and then the largely disappointing Scream 4.