The True Identities of the ‘Scream’ Killers, Ranked

MICKEY ALTIERI (Timothy Olyphant), Scream 2

“Bullshit generalization. Many sequels have surpassed their original.”

Friend to Sidney and accomplice to Mrs. Loomis, Mickey is one of the most interesting Ghostfaces in the franchise. He’s the perfect foil to Billy; as he says himself, “Billy was a sick fuck who tried to get away from it. Mickey is a sick fuck who wants to get caught.” Besides a desire for infamy, Mickey has no motive. He’s just a casual psychopath who plans on blaming the movies, going in direct opposition to Billy’s claim in the first film that “Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative!” Mickey insists that sequels can be better than their original—a fact he’s trying to make true to life as Ghostface.