Slitting is a common way that Ghostface kills people, usually involves using the knife to slit a victim, mainly either fatally by the throat or an arm, or Slashing by slitting viciously.
Slitting or slashing can be used to incapacitate and injure the victim being attacked before being killed another way if slit or slashed in the arm at first, or the main and only modus operandi if done at the throat, quickly and effective.
For the variety of various other Ghostface victims killed via this method and others, see Ghostface's Methods.
Appearances[]
Kills[]
Scream (1996 Film)[]
- Tatum Riley - Arm slit. (by Billy Loomis)
- Kenny Brown - Throat slit. (by Stu Macher)
Scream 2[]
- Randy Meeks - Throat slit. (by Nancy Loomis)
- Officer Andrews - Throat slashed. (by Mickey Altieri)
Scream 3[]
- Cotton Weary - Arm slashed. (by Roman Bridger)
- John Milton - Throat slit. (by Roman Bridger)
Scream 4[]
- Sherrie (Stab 6) - Throat slashed. (by unknown Ghostface from Stab 6)
- Marnie Cooper - Arm slashed. (by Charlie Walker)
- In the original opening only, thus non-canon.
Scream: Resurrection[]
- Tommy Jenkins - Throat slashed.(by Jamal Elliot)
- Latavious -Throat slit. (by Jamal Elliot)
Scream (2022 Film)[]
- Deputy Clay - Throat slit. (by Amber Freeman)
- Richie Kirsch - Throat slit. (by Samantha Carpenter)
Scream VI[]
- Paul 2.0 - Throat slit. (by Ethan Landry)
- Brooks - Throat slashed. (by Quinn Bailey)
Attacks[]
Scream 2[]
- Derek Feldman - Arm slashed. (by Nancy Loomis)
Scream 3[]
- Dewey Riley - Arm slashed. (by Roman Bridger)
Scream 4[]
- Jill Roberts - Arm slashed. (by Charlie Walker)
Scream: Resurrection[]
- Kym- Arm slashed. (by Jamal Elliot)
- Marcus Elliot - Arm slashed twice. (by Jamal Elliot)
Scream (2022 film)[]
- Tara Carpenter - Stomach slashed. (by Amber Freeman)
- Richie Kirsch - Arm slashed. (by Amber Freeman)
Scream VI[]
- Mindy Meeks-Martin - Arm slashed. (by Ethan Landry)
- Samantha Carpenter - Arm slashed twice. (by Ethan Landry)
Trivia[]
- Kenny Brown would be the first male victim in the Scream franchise to die via slit throat, and the first overall of this method.
- Despite her death being ultimately due to being crushed by the garage door, Tatum Riley is technically the first female victim and only victim in the franchise to have her arm slit, not slashed like the others.
- So far, 10 male victims have died to Ghostface via throat slitting or slashed (8 in film, 2 in TV) during each's Ghostface massacre, with no female kills via this method.
- Despite Sherrie from Stab 6 not counting, due to her death being from the fictional Stab film franchise in-universe within the Scream films.
- Both Marcus Elliot and Samantha Carpenter are the only survivors to have had their arms slashed twice by Ghostface.
- Jill Roberts and Richie Kirsch are the only Ghostface killers, thus far, to have had their arms slashed as a ploy to seem like innocent victims.
- Despite her later revealed fake-out decoy death in Scream VI, Quinn Bailey is shown as supposedly having her throat slit during her "murder" by Ghostface at the apartment attacks.
- So far, 5 female characters have been slashed by Ghostface, the majority having been on their arms, the most targeted via this way, due to only being attacked by Ghostface, of which to date only four of them have survived: Kym from Season 3, Tara Carpenter in Scream (2022), as well as both Mindy Meeks-Martin and Samantha Carpenter in Scream VI, the latter Tara's older half-sister.
- Jill Roberts would technically not count, due to her later reveal as Ghostface #7.
- For their individual attacks in reference, see Attacks/Appearances (the films including the Carpenter sisters of the Core Four and Mindy, and TV series including Kym) .
- Tara is the only female victim to have had her stomach slashed instead of her arm, and the second of the franchise to have been slashed by their killer somewhere else.
- First being Nina Patterson having her back slashed by Piper Shaw as the Lakewood Slasher from "Pilot" from Season 1 of the TV series.
- Nina technically dies via throat slitting, and would be the first actual female victim of the franchise to be shown as being killed via this method (despite being preceded by Dara Alden from the 1994 murders as the first overall), but are unaccounted for, as they're not killed by Ghostface (See: Methods of the Lakewood Slasher).