5. Cotton Weary (‘Scream 3’)
A bold move by the film-makers, ‘Scream 3’ saw integral character Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) killed off in the opening sequence along with his girlfriend Christine (Kelly Rutherford). Cotton was barely in the first film but he was believed to have been the man that murdered and raped Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Campbell) mother. He played a much bigger role in ‘Scream 2’ and by ‘Scream 3’ he was a celebrity with his own talk-show. While the death didn’t pack quite the same punch as the openers of the previous films, it was still a shock for fans.
