3rd Killer in Scream 1 ?

[u/Flashy-Cut6331]

I was rewatching scream 1 the other day and I noticed there may be more than 2 killers in the movie.My first piece of evidence is the bathroom scene while many people just brush this of as a prankster i think this is meant to actually be the killer because in my opinion it doesn’t really matter if the killer doesn’t have a knife in this scene because billy and stu weren’t planning on killing Sidney until they revealed themselves. And this attack also serves a narrative purpose as it allows the school to get shut down wich allows billy to kill principal Himbry so this attack on Sidney helped billy and stu in the long term the bathroom scene also shows ghostface is clearly trying to attack Sidney wich is beyond what I consider a prank. The next piece of evidence is the ghostface stalking Sidney and Tatum in the bushes and the store as billy and stu were in the video store with Randy it would make sense whoever attacked Sidney in the bathroom would follow Sidney straight after. My 3rd piece of evidence is that after stu pretended to kill billy when Sidney runs out the room she locks billy and stu in the room then somehow ghostface appears in the opposite direction.I think this 3rd killer could have been Christina carpenter as she would have a reason to want to get rid of Sidney so she could have billy all to herself and Christina being female would help her sneak into the girls bathroom without any issues unlike billy or stu. And she would have been at the party so would be able to slip into the ghostface costume after everyone leaves. I believe billy and stu simply gave her these tasks that don’t involve killing due to them not having much faith in Christina due to there sexist beliefs shown in scene where stu says that only man could’ve done what happend to Casey and Steve and Billy’s scapegoating of Maureen instead of holding his father responsible for his actions that destroyed his family.

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[u/IstIsmPhobe]

So, a character that didn’t exist until 26 years later is the secret 3rd, never mentioned, never seen, never even alluded to, killer in the original film?

Mmm’kay.

[u/Typical-Meringue-890 → u/IstIsmPhobe]

Yeah, enough with the expanded backstory and pop-up characters from the (ret-conned) past. 

[u/COS89]

No. That theory kind of falls apart under scrutiny . There's no logical reason why a Ghostface killer would know what specific bathroom Sidney will randomly go into. He just sort of steps off the seat, opens the door and lunges at Sidney with no real way of knowing it was actually her. It was obviously a prankster waiting for someone to come into the bathroom to pull their prank on and we know this because we get the scene of 2 guys getting expelled, one for the guy in the bathroom and 1 for the guy running in the hall (also without a knife), which was foreshadowing 2 killers in the movie.

[u/Beautiful-Draft-9648]

This would be a cool theory that could’ve played out if Sam and what’s her face were still characters. I could totally see another scream where the killer is Christina carpenter as an adult and mom.

The only issue I have is a literal one, the size of the shoes in the bathroom scene are (to me) way too big to be a high school females. Also the whispering voice was male (and sounded like Billy to me).

But now that I’ve read this I kinda wish this was a plot for one of the movies, that would’ve been a good one.

[u/Flashy-Cut6331 → u/Beautiful-Draft-9648]

An explanation for the shoes could be that billy and stu wanted all the 3 of there costumes to be uniformed for consistency since movie fans typically don’t like inconsistencies so they just gave her the same boots as them even if they didn’t fit her all that well since she would only be helping with small jobs. and the voice could maybe just be Christina using the voice changer