Sid's first encounter with Ghostface was the best one I've seen with a survivor character to a killer in a sequel hands down. And not all survivors of horror movie killers need to be killed to not continue the franchise. Tommy Jarvis and Alice Johnson were never killed by Jason or Freddy and their movies continued(not gonna say that the quality was the same for them). Same goes for Laurie Strode pre-Resurrection.
Kirby, Robbie and Judy Hicks were by far my favorite new characters.
Judy honestly reminded me a bit of Maureen McCormick's character from "Return to Horror High"; a kinda bubbly weird, awkward, but still likable cop; very Scream1 Dewey-like. And I may be crazy, but for some reason I remember her name being mentioned in Scream 1 at some point, maybe as someone Tatum or another one of the friends referred to or in a role call or something, but her name just sounded so familiar to me in the Scream series.
Robbie was definitely a fave of mine, because he was a likable character, was gay(we need more gays like this in horror movies), and if anyone is still holding out their impossible hope for Kirby, I still have my hope for Robbie to be the Scream 1 Randy.
Honestly, I thought Kirby was gonna be the new Sid based on the film club scene in the high school, where while it was a small act, she showed Sid through I-Phone what Charlie and Robbie were talking about. And then you add in the Charlie at the window scene, and it just shows more. I'm kinda finding it funny that so many here hated that she was part of this movie, yet now she is clearly one of the fan favorite characters of the new blood. I loved the mixture of Kirby's death scene between Scream 1 and Kristen Bell's kill in the opening. Referencing the first movie while still keeping it in tune with this 4th one.
I would have honestly liked to have seen more of Trevor and Kate.
I honestly thought at first Kate may have been a killer with her daughter Jill, but once she was killed, she was obviously out of the running. With Trevor, I kinda got that he seemed kind of like the dumb jock, but he looked to have a bit more to him and I honestly didn't understand what he did to Jill before she took care of him with a gun.
Olivia was an alright character, clearly the first of the friends to die as no one knew who the hell the actress was. Rebecca was a funny character as well, but she was clearly no Gale.
Jill was a great Ghostface and sadly all too true motivation for today's generation. All these complaints about height and such are ridiculous and don't deserve any attention. I tried to avoid spoilers as to who the killers were, but luckily I heard spoilers from other places as well with different killers, so it wasn't too spoilerific for me, I did figure Jill out early though. I wasn't sure about Charlie only because it was too obvious.
For the negatives;
Anthony Anderson's Bruce Willis line dying just didn't belong, at all. Wasn't funny in anyway; what would have been an honestly gruesome death, became stupid because of that line. I know a lot have complained it was dragged out after a stabbing to the head, to that I say, horror movie wounds tend to be not-realistic so this one wasn't any different, it's not like he just casually left the car with a level headed mind, I was fine with him trying to hit Ghostface and failing, only to fall to his death.
Adam Brody was awesome as victim fodder, I was happy he wasn't used much.
Dewey was just about useless and unnecessarily *****ey to Gale for no reason once the murders started. I also felt Gale was a bit underused honestly.
Aimee Teegarden was horrible as usual, so it was awesome seeing her die.
Considering how many killings have happened in Woodsboro, their hospital has the worst staff ever. I mean so did the original Halloween 2, but you at least saw Michael kill all of them.
Unlike a good amount of people, I didn't find the self-mutilation or the hospital finale to be cartoonish silly or dragged out.
