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Fridge Brillance
- Why is Roman one of the most effective Ghostfaces? Most likely because he wasn't just the antagonist, he was the "director." In fact, he is the "director" of the first murders — directing Stu and Billy into killing Maureen without leaving any physical evidence to tie him to the murder if they ever got caught.
- Despite Randy's insistence that the killer would be supernatural in some way, the Scream series remains grounded in realism (as much as any slasher film can be, at any rate.) Despite that, they do manage to "have their cake and eat it too," introducing and subverting seemingly supernatural elements:
- Sidney's dreams and "visions" about her mother: totally understandable given the amount of post-traumatic stress she's dealing with, as well as Roman deliberately guiding her to things that will be triggers for her, like the "Maureen Murder Flashback" set for Stab 3.
- Roman wears a bulletproof vest under his Ghostface costume, making him impervious to bullets. Bonus points for the movie treating bulletproof vests relatively realistically (both Sidney and Roman react to being shot, and the vest doesn't do so well against stabbing attacks — see below.)
- Sidney "gets" Roman by stabbing him with a very ornate ice pick, recalling any number of magic/silver daggers. While the first two blows are in the back, she "finishes" him with a stab to the heart. The handle of the ice pick sticking out of his chest is reminiscent of the wooden stakes in many a vampire movie.
- Finally, Dewey puts Roman down for good by shooting him in the head.
- Not to mention, Randy stating that Anyone Can Die, including Sidney, comes half-true with her Disney Death towards the end.
- Intentional or not, Scream 3 turned out to be "just another sequel" and thus followed Randy's rules of a horror sequel as well.
- Roman killed nine people, edging out Mickey and Mrs. Loomis's body count of eight people.
- Scream 3 used 10 gallons of fake blood, which is admittingly less than the 30 gallons of fake blood in Scream 2. However, the first Scream used 50 gallons of fake blood, so Scream 3 was just following the trend set by the previous sequel.
- As pointed out by The Kill Count, it seems a bit weird that Sidney would want a job that has her talking on the phone all day, given her bad experiences with phone calls. However, it's possible that this is the point; while she'd no doubt have anxiety around them, she can't very well avoid phones for the rest of her life, even if she does intend to be alone in her house for most of that time. Taking the job may well have been a form of exposure therapy for her, helping her feel okay about making and taking phone calls by having her do so multiple times a day and tying it to something positive (i.e., getting a steady paycheck, the satisfaction of helping others, etc.).
- Another possible reason also comes into play with her doing her job over the phone: it cuts down on her risk of people seeing her. There's a good chance that she has her groceries delivered to her house, cutting down on the risk of a killer spotting her at a store and then following her to her home.
Fridge Horror
- Had Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer remained on the cast of Stab 3, they would have suffered the same fate as the rest of their fellow actors, who all ended up dead. It's an even more harrowing thought if you put them in the shoes of their replacements during their death scenes: the actress who won the part of Sidney was stabbed multiple times, and the actor who played Dewey was blown up along with the rest of Jennifer Jolie's house.
- With the movie set scene where Sidney finds the room set up for the flashback to Maureen's murder, we know that Sidney came home after her death the night she was actually murdered, spotting who she thought was Cotton as they were leaving. If one follows this to its logical conclusion, that means that it was Sidney who found her own mother dead in her bedroom before the events of the first film.
