Helen’s chase scene begins off together with her trapped inside a police cruiser because the killer stalks towards her. Though it positive looks like she’s trapped, she manages to kick her means by way of one of many home windows and crawl out simply in time. Within the unique model of the script, nonetheless, issues bought much more difficult. 

“At the back of the automobile, within the very starting of the sequence when the automobile stops, Kevin had written a scene wherein the fisherman will get into the automobile and he drives off they usually have a struggle within the automobile and a automobile crash,” revealed director Jim Gillespie in a 2022 interview. “However you by no means see the fisherman’s face all through the entire sequence. I simply stated, ‘Dude, that is not possible to do.’ As a result of the confines of the police automobile, for us to stage the motion with the fisherman’s hat and never see him, I stated, ‘It is simply gonna limit the sequence a lot.’ I stated, ‘I am not gonna do this. We’ll do one thing else.'”

However Williamson wasn’t content material to chop the scene eternally. As a substitute, nearly this precise sequence of occasions occurs with Sidney (Neve Campbell) and Hallie (Elise Neal) in “Scream 2.” As a result of Ghostface all the time wears a masks, there was no problem this time round with avoiding displaying the killer’s face. The true spotlight of the scene is what occurs after the automobile crashes; Sidney and Hallie are compelled to climb over an unconscious Ghostface and escape out the motive force’s facet door, understanding full nicely he may get up at second, or that he could possibly be pretending to be asleep. 

“It was a very good scene,” stated Gillespie. “It simply wasn’t proper for our circumstances.”