A Ghostface Refresher Ahead of 'Scream 7' and Everyone Coming Back From the Dead

Who's your favorite Ghostface?

To help you gear up for Scream 7, out Feb. 27, here's a comprehensive rundown of the dozen who have wielded the storied mask, cloak, and blade — as well as the original icons returning, from the one and only Sidney Prescott to the supposedly dead Stu "My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me" Macher.

(Sorry to any fellow fans of the MTV/VH1 series — which proved far more watchable than oh so many small-screen remakes of their mammoth cinematic predecessors — but this list will only refer to the Ghostfaces who've slain on the big screen.)

Scream (1996)

Sidney's (Neve Campbell) boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and his irreverent bestie, Stu (Matthew Lillard) were the menaces who started it all — by killing Sid's mom for the affair she had with Billy's dad, breaking up his folks' marriage. Just ahead of the first anniversary of that brutal killing, Billy and Stu started slicing and dicing (Randy's words, not mine) their Woodsboro High peers, faculty, and some others (RIP Kenny the cameraman).

Scream 2 (1997)

The murderous legacy followed Sidney and Randy (Jamie Kennedy) to college — and brought back tabloid journalist-turned-bestseller Gale (Courteney Cox) and Woodsboro cop Dewey (David Arquette). Round two doubled down on thrills, kills, and the timeless MO, vengeance: courtesy of Billy's mom, Mrs. Loomis (Laurie Metcalf). The grieving mother, who flies under the radar using the Debbie Salt alter ego, executed her plan — and victims — with the help of Sid's cinephile friend, Mickey (Timothy Olyphant).

Scream 3 (2000)

Third time was definitely not the charm for escaping the wrath of Ghostface, nor wannabes. Scott Foley's Roman is not just revealed as the rare singular killer but Sidney's jilted half-brother in the meta-on-meta-on-meta installment, which victimized, more than anything or anyone, Gale's hair.

Scream 4 (2011)

Once again, it's all in the family — a generation and a few relatives removed. Sid's teen cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) aims to be Sidney 2.0, but with a bigger chip on her shoulder. So she teams up with film junkie Charlie (Rory Culkin) in an attempt to kill and outshine her more famous cuz as "victims," leveraging the social media spotlight.

Scream (2022) aka Scream 5

The requel (part-reboot, part-sequel) reunites the original gang (save for Randy, killed off in Scream 2) and retcons some of them too, introducing audiences to Melissa Barrera's Sam — who we're told is the daughter of the late Billy. Despite the many hints that Sam isn't all there, it's her boyfriend Richie (Jack Quaid) and Amber (played by a pre-Oscar-touting Mikey Madison) who killed Dewey and lured everyone back to Stu's house for their own take on the original's bloody finale.

Scream VI (2023)

Sam has followed little sis Tara (Jenna Ortega) — along with twins Chad (Mason Gooding) and Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) — to college in NYC, where Gale also conveniently resides. All are aiming for some semblance of normalcy on the East Coast until more people start dropping dead, culminating in a showdown at a literal Ghostface shrine. There, newcomers Detective Bailey (Dermot Mulroney) and the group's supposedly deceased friend Quinn (Liana Liberato), as well as shy pal Ethan (Jack Champion) reveal themselves to be the family of Richie, whose Scream 5 death they're avenging.

Who's back for Round 7?

After sitting out Scream VI, thanks to a compensation dispute, Campbell's Sid returns for Scream 7, along with Gale, Chad, and Mindy.

But it's the seemingly deceased characters whose pulses are now coming into question. Arquette is credited with a return as Dewey, Foley as Roman, and, as has excited and delighted fans most of all... Lillard as Stu.

Whether their deaths were fake-outs or they return in flashbacks or dream sequences, who's to say?

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