Part of the magic of the original "scream" is that there was no way to know who the killer was. As good as the film as a weaker mystery-thriller, the answer was unpredictable, which makes the eventual discovery that There was no one, but Two Killers so well. Billy Lomis on Skete Ulrich is an excellent villain on her own, seeing him not only killing a woman when he was a child, but also continued to meet that woman's daughter. What Really However, he makes the film's killer, however, is Stud Maher (Matthew Lillard).

Billy to be a killer makes sense. But Stud? Lillard not only shows the cold as fun and charismatic, but it also seems to be too much of a class clown to have something of this planned. That the girl at Stud, Tatum (Rose McGowan) is among the dead, reveals this even more shocking, because we do not know if Stud has agreed to allow Billy to kill or, even worse, has done so. He is equal parts over the upper funny and scary as hell, a man with a seemingly no logical motive.

The fact that we are technically not seeing the last breath of the cold, leaves its body in "scream", giving life to countless theories over the years that Stud could be alive. Given how the recent restart/heritage of the "Scream" films relied on the return of old characters, Many were expecting Stut to appear in "Hide VI". Even if that doesn't happen, it seems that fans may not have to wait so long to find out if Stud is alive for real, that with The deadline noting that Lillard will return to the upcoming "Hide 7"

Stud Maher is one of the best characters in the whole franchise "Crick" and Of course one of the best killers of ghostsSo his return is very welcome. This is said, how, exactly, should this happen? Well, there are two possibilities - either Stup is very alive or he is properly dead and his appearance is not very real.

Let's look at the former first. If Stud survived to have a TV on his head, he would surely go to jail, right? It is difficult to imagine a "screaming" heroine Sidney Prescott (Neo Campbell) for her life after that terribly difficult temptation if she knew that one of the two killers was still alive And running free in the world. Maybe "Crick 7" will make him escape from prison, either independently or with the help of a new spirit. Alternatively, the sinus This franchise is everything to comment on the trends of pop culture, a new documentary on the genuine crime of Ghostface's original murders may have been produced and it somehow leads to the release of cold Side of fans. It would be tragic, for sure, but it would also feel okay to get rid of something as absurd as it.

This leaves us with the second option - Stud is dead. It has not stopped returning the characters "scream" in the past, of course. Most significant, Billy's daughter, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barera), has visions of being alive in Vrik (2022) and "Skrip VI" and recently announced that Scott Folly was returning to "Hide 7" to repeat the role like Roman Bridge. Roman died after trying to kill Sidney in "Creek 3", which means his return is likely to include either retrospective or visions like those who had Sam from Billy. The question is, who will have visions? Will it be Sidney? And if not, who else would have a strong enough connection to a novel to have a vision for him?

All will be discovered when Scream 7 hit theaters on February 27, 2026.