–Jenny to Ghostface after calling her "Dumb Blonde".
Jenny Randall is a minor character who appears in Scream 4 (2011 film). She is the primary target of the Scream franchise's traditional opening kill sequence.
As the second victim of the Woodsboro Massacre Remake, after two back-to-back Stab film fake-outs, she was targeted for an implicated personal reason, meanwhile her best friend, Marnie Cooper served as collateral damage.
As a senior at Woodsboro High School, she was targeted by the remake mastermind, Jill Roberts and her accomplice, Charlie Walker. Jenny was the overall second character to fall victim to the fourth Ghostface's killing spree. Her aura, confidence and original role was to be the "new" Steven Orth, but in the final cut, she is shown as the "remake" Casey Becker. Also, her death is an homage to Tatum Riley's demise in the original film.
A deleted scene suggests she was targeted due to causing Jill's heartbreak over Trevor Sheldon's infidelity and Jenny being "the other woman", though this story is absent in the official release version, likely due to the fact that Jill would have been a prime suspect had this personal connection been known.
However, Jenny is at least in Trevor's social sphere, as she suspects he is the one portraying Ghostface. It is possible Jenny is not the girl Trevor cheated on, but rather someone he was with later on.
Jenny appears at the beginning of the movie while watching Stab 7 (2010) on DVD with her friend, Marnie Cooper. Jenny begins to explain why the movie starts with the opening scene of Stab 6 (2009) when Marnie gets confused by it. She tells her that it's a movie-within-a-movie.
However, Marnie already knows this. She says that the Stab movies aren't even based on true events. Jenny tells her that the first three films are based on actual events from Sidney Prescott's story, but she threatened to sue them if they continued to use her real life story, so they made up everything after this. Jenny says that the fifth Stab movie is the worst because it has time travel in it.
Jenny "looking for the strange noise" from her room.
Jenny suddenly blurts out that she heard a noise upstairs. Marnie doesn't believe her, but Jenny goes upstairs and sees that her window is open. From there, she prank calls Marnie. After revealing herself to not really be Ghostface, Jenny hears a commotion downstairs as Marnie is murdered while on the phone with her.
Jenny, thinking that Marnie was pranking her to get even, heads back downstairs seeing Marnie's phone on the ground. Taunting, she says, "Lights out, phone on the floor. You know, you really could direct horror films."
She answers the phone when it rings thinking it's Marnie trying to continue the prank. Ghostface (Jill) begins to taunt her. Now a bit worried it's not Marnie, she inquires, "Is this Trevor?" Ghostface replies, "Do I sound like a Trevor to you?" Ghostface deems that she is in his movie now. The same movie Marnie was in, but her part had to be cut short deeming she was too boring. When Jenny asks how, he insults her by saying she is the dumb blonde with the big tits and will be more fun before she is killed. Jenny, very
Jenny's chase.
insulted, yells on the phone, "I have a 4.0 GPA and 135 IQ, asshole! What did you do with Marnie?!" He tells her and she deems it's not funny. He warns her in response to her statement of "that's not funny" by saying, "this isn't a comedy, it's a horror film. People live, people die, and you better start running!".
As Ghostface finishes saying this, Marnie's dead body is then thrown through a double glass door, causing Jenny to scream. After looking at Marnie's corpse, Ghostface (Charlie) pops out and chases Jenny. Jenny reaches the front door, but looks back. She screams as Ghostface stabs the door with his knife.
Panicking, Jenny runs upstairs and hides. Ghostface soon comes up the stairs. Jenny turns on a light and leans her head against the door. Suddenly, the door flings open as Jenny screams. Ghostface continues chasing her as Jenny screams. She opens another door, but Ghostface reaches her.
Jenny is stabbed in the back, causing her to scream in pain. Ghostface removes the bloody knife as Jenny falls down some stairs into the garage that is currently under renovation. Jenny presses the button to activate the garage door and drags herself across the floor as the garage door rises. Ghostface deactivates the door and it comes
Jenny before her death.
back down, crushing Jenny's back with her groaning in pain. Jenny tries to go further, but her back injury holds her in place. Ghostface then reactivates the door and drags Jenny back into the garage by her feet with her screaming. Then, Ghostface holds the bloody knife for the second stab. Jenny screams with horror as the knife comes down for the stab, her scream echoes.
The next day, Sheriff Dewey Riley and Deputy Judy Hicks meet while the officers are taking down the Ghostface masks from the light poles throughout the town. They are called to the Randall house for a serious situation with Anthony Perkins saying, "It's bad, Sheriff, real bad."
In the shrine created by Richie Kirsch, Jenny is referenced with portraits of her seen in a glass case, though they are obscure when viewing.
Deleted scenes[]
Original opening (non-canon)[]
In the original filmed opening, Jenny heard a noise upstairs and went up to investigate. After pranking Marnie, she comes back downstairs and sees Marnie lying next to the couch, appearing dead before she smiles. She was playing a prank on Jenny to get even. They stayed on the couch and talked, agreeing to stop trying to scare each other.
Jenny is attacked by Ghostface.
Marnie got up from the couch and went to the kitchen to get some snacks for them to eat. Jenny tells Marnie "You're not fooling anyone. I think you secretly like horror movies." Marnie just vaguely says, "Maybe." As soon as Marnie closes the refrigerator door, she sees Ghostface standing behind Jenny and assumes it's another prank saying, "Okay, assholes, real original." Jenny just asked Marnie, "What?" as she did
Jenny's alternate death.
not know Ghostface had entered the house and is standing right behind her.
Ghostface then stabs her in the back. Jenny cries out and falls into the sofa, then he starts stabbing Jenny in the stomach. Marnie thinks it is a prank, but soon after sees Jenny is really screaming in pain and realizes it's for real. After being stabbed in the stomach six times, Jenny is really dead and Ghostface turns his attention towards Marnie and, after a small chase, he mortally injures Marnie by stabbing her in the stomach, then stabs her several more times. Marnie mutters "You're not real" before Ghostface finally kills her.
Jenny in a deleted scene after her corpse is found by the police (non-canon).
Jenny's corpse is then found bound to a chair by Dewey, Deputy Hicks and other Woodsboro police where they take various camera shots of the death scene. Once the pictures are taken, Dewey immediately requests to cut Marnie's corpse down from the ceiling fan and cover them up saying, "they're just kids."
Judy explains how their cellphones haven't been found, and she will trace them, while also explaining Marnie and Jenny's reason for being home alone.
"This is the last person you're ever gonna see alive." Fake Ghostface call (to Marnie).
"I have a 4.0 GPA and a 135 IQ, asshole." (to Ghostface)
"Somebody falls for it every year!" (to Marnie after tricking her)
"Good one, Marnie! Lights out, phone on the floor. You know, you really should direct horror films... wherever you are. Let me guess, you want me to walk by an open door frame so you can pop out, huh?"
"Okay, timing! Timing is perfect! But you don't have an app on your phone, so you can't talk like Ghostface, can you?"
Trivia[]
Her casting call states: "A bouncy teenage girl with a fountainhead of pop culture that is impressive. Like all teenagers who live in Woodsboro, she is obsessed with the Woodsboro murders and with the STAB films."
In a script draft states: "JENNY, 16, cute and bouncy."
Olivia Morris disliked her, as she said in the original script.
In the original draft, Olivia says, "I don’t like Jenny Randall. She threw up on me at Tony Marshall’s luau."
Possibly the "remake" belonging to this character can be debatable, due to the following points.
Initially in both the alternate cut and the character's origin, Jenny Randall was intended to be the female version Steven Orth as can be seen in the deleted scene of Jenny's living room crime scene and in the alternate opening and her best friend, Marnie Copper as the remake of Casey Becker.
But when the opening scene was reshot, many fans see Jenny as the new Casey Becker and Marnie as collateral damage (or even the new Steven Orth) due to now being the main focus and other things. For example, Jenny has blonde hair and straight bangs like her, she is a fan of horror movies and was the second to die. Like Casey, Jenny was likely killed for a personal reason related to a former partner of the killer. In this case, Jenny is probably the girl that Trevor Sheldon cheated on Jill Roberts before the senior year. However, many fans believe that Casey's character is reflected in both characters, both Jenny and Marnie, Jenny shows the "non-innocent" side, while Marnie the "innocent" side.
It is possible, however unlikely, that Jenny's family name is a reference to popular Scream character Randy Meeks, as the name "Randy" is an abbreviation of the name "Randall".
Jenny is the twelfth out of nineteen female victims in the Scream film franchise, as well as the seventh blonde to be killed by Ghostface.
Jenny and Marnie become the first same-sex (female) duo of victims in the opening of any of the Scream films, thus far, reversing the tradition of a male-female duo being killed in the previous three installments.
They're succeeded and reversed by the same-sex duo of wannabe Ghostface killers, Jason Carvey and Greg Bruckner, as male victims in Scream VI, who then homage the same-sex duo of Ghostface killers, Billy Loomis and Stu Macher, from the original film.
Both Jason and Jenny also make calls to their friends, despite the difference being Jason called Greg, despite being dead and who's killer answered as Ghostface, as he tried to look for him via a game of Hot N Cold, unaware; whereas Jenny prank called as Ghostface to Marnie before she was killed by Ghostface, who then afterwards called Jenny to taunt her and then attack, who was aware it wasn't her friend trying to scare her.
Both Jason and Greg are technically the second and third victims following Jason's murder of Laura Crane, but would be the first and second victims of the New York Murders, due to being killed by Wayne Bailey as the actual mastermind Ghostface.
It has been speculated that Jenny was the girl that Trevor cheated on Jill with. It was hinted that this may be true when she asks if the person on the other end of the phone is Trevor. Another hint is from an alternate viewing of the movie where Charlie uses Jenny's phone to call Jill and Olivia calls her the other woman.
Given Jill would have been a suspect, it is likely this element was removed and Jenny was among the few girls Trevor dated after Jill broke up with him.
There is a deleted scene where the police investigate the crime scene. It shows Marnie hung from the ceiling fan and Jenny bound to a chair, much like Casey Becker and Steven Orth from Scream (1996).
In the original filmed version of the film, Jenny is the first victim killed while Marnie dies after her as the second victim. The final cut reverses this.
