What if the next Scream begins with a Ghostface attack on Sidney ?
Viewers know the opening scene is suppose to be a killer, in more ways than one.That this person is in danger.And with Part 5, we know a legacy character can fall.Sure ,Neve Campbell has said she doesn't want Sidney to die.But what if that was to throw us all off of anticipating the worst.
Picture it: In her home at sunset when she returns from work
Black screen.A scream is heard.A phone rings
Sidney comes in the front door,mail in hand.Turns off the alarm.Phone continues to ring.
"Honey, I'm home" Calling out for her husband and kids....no one answers.Phone stops ringing.
She goes to the kitchen. Starts dinner.Turns on oven,Gets pans out.
On the fridge we see children's drawings.The child's name written in big crayon in the lower right corner
Sidney flips through the mail.Bills.A Red Valentine addressed to "My Cassandra"
No return address.
She opens the envelope.
Inside is a Valentine , on the front it says "I just called...to say.."
She goes to open the card and a piece of folded paper drops out.
Sidney picks it up and unfolds it.
On the paper is a childs drawing image of a stick figure family.Holding hands
Someone has drawn over the faces so they are each wearing the Ghostface mask image.
Children and Father with knives in their bodies.
"My Family" written along the bottom in red with a little Ghostface drawn in the lower corner
Over the name of the child who drew the original.The same name as the pictures on the fridge.
The inside of the card has a poem "Blood is Red,Corpses are Blue..One is dead....and so are YOU!!"
She gets out her phone.Texts husband.
"Where are you?"
After a pause....."Right behind you" the text reads
Sydney turns...no one is there
Phone says "Someone is typing"
But before she can see the response..the landline rings.
Sidney answers.
An old familiar Voice says "Hello Sidney"
Sid "Not today" and hangs up.
Then presses a button on phone base.
Sid grabs a knife from a kitchen drawer and goes to a cupboard
Opens it to reveal a series of security screens of her house,inside and out
Everything looks quiet.Except something is off with the kids room image
Shes prepared.Sidney Fuckin' Prescott
Sidney opens an app on her phone(ignoring the text from her husband),
She can now see the same camera angles as the security cams
She then gets on houses intercom.
"The police are on their way.You can fuck off.Now. Or they can claim whats left of your piece of shit body."
Pause.Silence.No movement on screens.
Then the voice says over the same intercom:
"Sidney,Sidney,Sidney..such a mouth on you...Did you learn to talk like that from your Mother?...
...Do you talk to your kids like that?
Oh...by the way...Have you checked the children?"
Sid instinctively looks at the screen of the kids room.Nothing.
Then the image of the kids room changes as a gloved hand pulls a taped photo away.
Revealing a room with blood everywhere.On the wall scrawled in child like lettering:
"Where were you Mommy?"
On the camera a Ghostface walks over to one of the beds.There is a body shaped lump
The Ghost violenty stabs the shape repeatedly.Blood flies.
Sidney runs to room.
To find it empty.And clean.No blood anywhere.
The VOICE on intercom:"What's wrong,Sid?
"Is the great Sidney Prescott going crazy after all these years?
"You're not...Seeing things?Are you?"
Her phone gives off some beeps.Sidney glances at her phone quickly,back up to her surroundings
Back to her phone.On every security screen in her house there is a Ghostface standing in each of the rooms.
Waving their knife hand at the camera.
THE VOICE on intercom ,childlike "Come and Play with US"
Sid ..not sure where to turn or run....goes to the middle of the stairs.Glances up and down
Puts the phone in her jacket pocket.Knife extended out at the ready.
Over the intercom " kill kill kill....ma,ma,ma"
Then " Kill her Mommy....Kill her"
Sidney goes for her back pocket, but before she can do anything we hear ,coming from downstairs:
"MOMMIE HELP ME"
Sid knows its a trap.But still takes a few steps down towards the voice.
Sid Yells "Come out and show yourself, you Bastard"
THE VOICE "With Pleasure" and Ghostface emerges from an upstairs doorway.Knife swinging
Running towards Sidney
Who doesnt turn and run.But makes her stand,knife at the ready.
Ghostface pulls to a stop.Shes not running?
Theres a moment of standoff...
Sids angry eyes glaring at the Ghostfaces black eye holes.It turns its head quizically
Then Sid says" Ok, asshole.Let's Dance" and she goes for her back pocket.Dropping her knife.
As she pulls out a small gun and fires,the Ghostface throws his knife at her,hard.
Causing her to move to avoid and making her aim go off.Shooting at the feet of the Ghostface.
The Ghostface turns and runs into a nearby room.Slams the door shut.We hear it lock.
Sid picks up the knife
But instead of running up the stairs she goes for the front door.
Being careful at the bottom of the stairs, in case someone is waiting around the corner.
No one there in the adjacent room.
Sid makes a break for the front door.Opens it
And sees a Ghostface running fast towards her.With a bit of a limp
She slams the door shut just as the Ghostface hits the door in a hard run.
Shoving the door open.
Sid turns and runs,the Ghostface slashes at her.The knife running across the back of her hair.
Sid rounds the corner, knocking over a tall floor lamp behind her.
Ghostface follows closely,not seeing the lamp post,and trips.
As it gets to it's feet....all the lights in the house go out.
We follow Ghostface as it moves slowly through dark rooms.Mask glowing green in the dark.Randomly swinging the blade at air.
Opening doors and stabbing into the darkness.Noticeably frightened.
It rounds the corner,and notices a closet door.
Thinking it has her...Ghostface raises the knife and slowly turns the door knob.
Swinging the door open.
Empty
"HEY" Sid yells
Ghostface turns
Sid shoots Ghostface right in the head with a bigger gun than before.Sending the body back and to the floor.Blood filling the white mask
As Sid approaches the fallen body, she shoots both its knees.One in the crotch for good measure
Sidney stands above the body,gun still smoking when she hears
"Sidney"
She looks up. Her husband and kids are in the front doorway. Ice cream in hand.
Behind them we see police lights approaching.
The Ghostface body makes a gurgling noise and twitchs.
Sidney casually shoots it again without even glancing
The little girl screams
Cut to black screen
"SCREAM" title card.
We would learn the real killers set this Ghostface up to fail.
Picked an over eager fanboy(whose real use would be revealed later)
They knew Sidney would stop this person.Easily.
Even tampered with his costume/shoes/knife.
I briefly pictured Sidney putting on Night Vision Goggles to watch the Ghostface in the dark.(A reverse of the basement moment in the end of Silence of the Lambs). Tossing items across the darken room to distract the Ghostface and make it move where Sidney needed it to stand to spring a trap.Or get a good shot
Maybe Sidney gets the upper-hand by putting on her own Ghostface costume
and approaches this person
Pretending to be a partner in the kill.
We don't see her put on the costume and are given no hint she is under the mask...until she shoots the original Ghostface and does a dramatic mask reveal (like in part 1) .
Sidney would step out of the darkness in the costume and silently ,maybe with the knife in her hand, direct the other Ghostface by pointing up the stairs to indicate that is where Sidney has run off. When the first Ghost turns its back she pulls out her gun and shoots.
After the Ghost is dead, Sidney removes the mask off the body (gruesome visual of the former white mask completely bloody and brain splattered from bullet hole in forehead). Does not recognize this person at all.Searches body,doesn't find a phone
Now why would she have THAT costume?
Maybe She has a mask for therapy reasons.Face her Abuser
Or She uses it in fight practice exercises.
After all shes been through,maybe she has a kink she shares with her husband
