Scream (1996 film)/Headscratchers

Scream (1996)

 * Why does Ghostface say that Casey got the second question on the phone wrong? He asked who the killer of Friday the Thirteenth was, she said Jason.
 * I think they meant the killer from the first movie not the entire series. The killer from that movie was
 * It was a trick question. Ghostface never specified which Friday the 13th, which was the whole point. In the 1st one then there's Jason.
 * Yeah, it was definitely a trick question. Casey was screwed no matter what she said. I'm paraphrasing here, but at the end
 * Does Ghostface ever ask quizzes about horror movies in any of the other movies?
 * Also, logically speaking, none of the other killers could actually know about the trivia.
 * Was there ever any reason for Ghostface to kill Casey? The other characters he killed were linked to his motive or were in his way. It just seems to be a random kill.
 * Why did the police not do some tests on the mask, once they go it? There could have been some fingerprints on it or there might have been some DNA on the inside where it touched the killer's face.
 * The traces would have been very faint, and a lot of small-town police departments don't have very big forensics budgets, especially back then.
 * At the end, why didn't after polishing off Sidney and her father? It would have been a lot easier and less risky.
 * They wanted Sidney to watch?, maybe he wanted to make her suffer by drawing out the process and show her exactly how he was going to get away with it before he killed her.
 * How, exactly, could the killers expect to get away with their plan? Billy would have a lot of explaining to do - like why was his shirt covered in red tinted corn syrup and why was the corn syrup also all over the master bedroom in a way that would make it obvious that somebody faked a killing. With semen and other samples on the bed, it goes without saying that the police would very quickly figure out that Sydney had sex with him that night in that bed and that shortly after, he pretended to be killed. To top it off, he also had gunshot residue on his hands, and Sydney's father - the man supposed to be framed for the murders - would show obvious signs of being tied up for a couple days not the least of which would be the unmistakable marring of his face and wrists from the duct tape.
 * How, exactly, could the killers expect to get away with their plan? Billy would have a lot of explaining to do - like why was his shirt covered in red tinted corn syrup and why was the corn syrup also all over the master bedroom in a way that would make it obvious that somebody faked a killing. With semen and other samples on the bed, it goes without saying that the police would very quickly figure out that Sydney had sex with him that night in that bed and that shortly after, he pretended to be killed. To top it off, he also had gunshot residue on his hands, and Sydney's father - the man supposed to be framed for the murders - would show obvious signs of being tied up for a couple days not the least of which would be the unmistakable marring of his face and wrists from the duct tape.

General
""You're forgetting one thing about ... I fucking killed him.""
 * The shooting the killer in the head thing bugs me. I have no problem with a character killing in self-defence. The intent there isn't to kill but to protect their own life with their attacker's death being a consequence of that. However, if the killer is unarmed and weak enough that they can be restrained, then, the response should be to wait until medical help and the police show up. Shooting an unarmed individual who has recently been unconscious, has lost a significant amount of blood, and who may or may not have internal injuries doesn't fall under the category of self-defense due to the fact less extreme options are available. 'This person killed my loved ones and tried to kill me,' are not acceptable moral nor legal justifications for taking an at-the-moment defenceless person's life. Sidney, Dewey, and whoever else shot the still alive killers are murders themselves.
 * The only kill you could possibly be referring to is .   were all shot in the head when they were attacking Sidney, Dewey and Gail. Sidney was confident that   would return for a "final scare", just as Billy and Mickey did. Yes, the right thing to do would be to wait for the police to get there and deal with it. But the woman a psychotic murderer who'd killed , but was also responsible for planning the deaths of   and had planned to kill her and frame her for the murders. The bitch may have been defenseless, but getting shot in the head when she was probably dead anyway does not put her in the category of "sympathetic mass-murderer".
 * And as for "Sidney's a murderer" thing, that's the point.