Anna Hobbs was a recurring and brief character featured on the special episodes of the second season of Scream. She was portrayed by Stevie Lynn Jones.
Background[]
Legend of Halloween, 1930s[]
According to official island legends, Anna Hobbs was completely insane, and murdered her family during a storm night at the caretaker house where they lived, before crossing out into the storm to kill the patriarch and owner of the island, Reginald, in his and his wife's and supposed children's home, the Whitten Mansion, where the family lived together.
She overheard her mother and Reginald Whitten discussing sending her to a mental institution (due to the time frame being the Great Depression, from 1929-1939). This caused her to snap, supposedly, and she stripped naked on one Halloween night in the 1930s (unspecified year). and wore a burlap bag over her face with two holes in it so she could see, also armed with garden shears. She supposedly started off her murders by killing her mother, stabbing her four times in the chest with the garden shears. After, she killed her brother by slicing his head open with the garden shears. She went to the Whitten house, and murdered Reginald Whitten the same way she did her mother. Mrs. Whitten watched on in horror, and who spared her.
Overwhelmed by the horrific thing she had done, she went to the lake removed the mask and decapitated herself with the garden shears she used to murder her family. Her headless corpse and severed head fell into the lake.
Noah's Theory, 77-86 Years Later[]
Near the end of the Halloween special, and during Halloween 2016 at Shallow Grove Island at the now empty Whitten mansion, during a rainstorm and escaping the new-Shallow Grove Slasher (revealed to be Emma's stalker, Tom Martin), Noah and the Lakewood Five excluding Emma, found a secret passage from the Whitten house to the Hobbs's house (which according to Audrey, was built during Prohibition). Noah theorized upon learning the location the passage goes that Whitten was having an affair with Anna's mother. But when Whitten turned his eyes on Anna, her mother attempted to protect her daughter. But Whitten, accustomed to getting what he wants, murders the mother out anger. Then he killed Anna's little brother by slashing his chest for witnessing the murder. Whitten stabbed Anna in the stomach with the garden shears, but Anna was able to stab him back slicing his chest open. Anna went to the dock in order to get help, but succumbed to her injuries. According to Noah, Whitten's wife found his body and moved it to their bed to make it appear that Anna had killed her family then killed her husband.
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Season 2 Special Episodes (2/14)[]
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Trivia[]
- Anna Hobbs is, after Cassie and Adam James, (excluding Anna's family and the Whitten family, Reginald and his wife), one of the earliest known characters in the entire franchise.
- However, at the time of her death Anna was roughly around the same age as many of th victims of the franchise.
- The fact that Anna was killed and who people believed the urban legend of her being the Shallow Grove Slasher, is a parallel for the first two seasons and the currently on-hiatus storyline for Brandon James being the supposed killer and who was also killed and was the first killer and Lakewood Slasher of the 1994 Lakewood Murders, due to his mask and name attached to it and people believing due to nature of each. (due to a burlap bag as the mask, despite it not being shown to be there, and Anna being naked and found with shears at death, used by Mrs. Whitten to cover her husband's infidelity to her).
- Anna, due to her youth and beauty, was labelled as psychotic by Mrs. Whitten, due to latter knowing of her husband's infidelity to her and who knew was the true killer of Anna's family and that Anna killed him in defense, due to knowing of the tunnel.
- While on the contrary, the unknown actual first killer of 1994 or just the public in general, linked Brandon's deformity with being psychotic and snapping, due to it making sense, so to speak, each similar.
- However, Anna being framed for a murder spree, which would become infamous would be a plot theme similarly used for Cotton Weary in the original Scream (trilogy) and its infamous Woodsboro Murders, and reversed in each's scenario (due to Anna, unlike Cotton, wasn't in an affair with Reginald, rather Anna's mother**Unlike Anna, who was a minor at her death, Cotton was a young adult who was in an affair with the film franchise heroine, Sidney's late mom, Maureen Prescott, who was murdered; inverse to Maureen and Reginald and unlike Maureen's murderer, of which Cotton wasn't present nor the perpetrator, Anna wasn't a true killer and didn't kill with the intend to frame anyone, reverse to Cotton who didn't know he would be by Billy and Stu.
- Anna died before she could be apprehended, due to being wounded, while Cotton wasn't, but was subsequently framed for the events due to having supposedly been caught leaving and testified by Sidney; similar to Mrs. Whitten, although unlike Sidney, knew the truth and implicated Anna instead of testifying.
- If the legend is true Anna would Chronologically be the first known killer in the Scream Franchise, but Noah Theorized that Reginald Whitten could have been the true killer and Anna was framed. It is unknown who really committed the murders. (Unstated if the tv series and movies are connected)
- Anna would be the first female Killer in the franchise predating Nancy Loomis in Scream 2.
- She would be the first and only killer in the franchise to date to commit suicide rather than be killed by one of their targets, be killed by another killer (Like Kieran Wilcox or Jason Carvey.) or be prosecuted (Like Kieran).
- She would be the first character to be killed by decapitation (Albeit suicide) .
- If Reginald Whitten was the true killer, Anna would be the first and only character in the franchise to successfully kill the killer and succumb to their wounds. Before and after Anna, everybody else who has fought one the killers during the climax has killed the killers while still living with only injuries.
- However, Anna isn't one of the main characters and is only seen in flashbacks.
- Anna would be the 3rd character in the franchise that's framed for Murders after Cotton Weary and Brandon James
- Unlike Cotton and Brandon (The showrunners confirmed he was innocent and never killed anybody), Anna was never found innocent, and legend states she was the killer, only Noah Theorized her possible innocence. This would make her the first and only victim in the franchise to successfully be framed for murders they didn't commit and never found innocent.