3. Tom Prinze (Scream 3)
Most horror movie serial killers, especially in slasher films, like to do their killing up close in personal, get their hands dirty (or bloody). Rarely do they get their killing done from a distance or concoct elaborate schemes that rely mostly on chance. That is what makes this particular Ghostface kill so unorthodox and impressive, despite taking place in the middle of the largely unspectacular
Scream 3. The bulk of the
Scream 3s characters are gathered at Jennifer Jolies (which by the way, is a weak attempt by screenwriter Ehren Kruger at creating a fictional celebrity name) Hollywood hills mansion for an impromptu wrap party after production on their film-within-a-film Stab 3 is shut down. So of course, the killer is there too and he is taunting his potential victims by rewriting Stab script pages as real time events and sending them via fax (an instantly dated method). After the killer says he will save only one, the egotistical (and clearly dumb) Tom Prinze the actor who replaced David Schwimmer (as revealed in
Scream 2) in the role of Stab-version Dewey runs back into the house to read the final, newly sent script page. With the lights cut out, Tom pulls out a lighter and flicks it on just long enough to read that the killer leaked gas into the house, and in doing so, blows up the house in a massive explosion killing Tom and scattering everyone else outside.
Trivia: Throughout the film, the actors of Stab 3 complain about rewrites and three different scripts. These complaints actually originated with the actual cast of
Scream 3 because of frequent rewrites and three different finales an attempt to keep the ending a secret.