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The Horror Was the Police Work!

posted 10 years ago by movieperson113
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Wow those detective were amazingly bad at their jobs! There was no real hint the guy they "thought" killed Robin was EVER at that building.
It seems they barely questioned her brother, sister and the 4 kids playing the "killer" game. You think a good office could tell if a little kid was lying?

Then later they think there's a crazy killer running around and they don't ever patrol "The Bluffs" where Jude and Slick were killed? "The Bluffs" were kids are probably known to go to, ESPECIALLY ON PROM NIGHT?

We see in the film Kim's boyfriend Nick is obviously haunted by the accidental death of little Robin. But his dad (THE BIG DETECTIVE) for the past 6 Years did not see any change in his son's behavior?

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[–] iheartnormi 10 years ago

Yeah they always bring up a creepy janitor but from the beginning I was pretty sure it was Jamie Lee Curtis or the brother. I went with the brother at the end due to the poster of her holding an axe, would have been to obvious.

[–] SlickySlixta 9 years ago

After having seen Scream a couple of hundred times I kind of gathered that there were going to be red herrings galore. But after it was mentioned that Leslie Nielsen's character hasn't been seen for a while at the prom I thought there's no way it could be him, the brother maybe but not him. Turned out I was correct about the brother.

Don't put the devil in the picture, cause' the religious groups won't wanna see it.

[–] iheartnormi 9 years ago

Speaking of Scream, I hear that MTV is going to air a Scream series. :/

[–] SilverGameDog 8 years ago

You say they barely questioned the 4 kids playing the killer game.
But why would they? They didn't even know those kids were there.
The only person who knew was the brother. And he obviously had revenge on his mind for a later time so he wasn't going to tell.