Scream

Horror movies usually start with a kill of some kind, and the ones in 'Scream' and 'Halloween' are a cut above the rest.

[Saw](https://collider.com/tag/saw/)series, and that franchise's influence is felt as new traps pop out of each new area to whittle down the survivors. Discovering that a creature disguised as a clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) is murdering the children of their town, a group of young friends known as The Losers Club band together to stop the shape-shifting monster. The killer soon reveals themselves in the back of Michelle's car, decapitating the young woman with an axe. The cast of university students, including the likes of Jared Leto and Michael Rosenbaum, provide plenty of entertainment before they are picked off. Cue a nightclub massacre, where an assortment of traps appears from the roof and walls, creating crimson carnage as the clubbers are bisected, crushed, and reduced to mush. The highlight of Ghost Ship is its opening. [Jaws](https://collider.com/tag/jaws/) is enough to keep anyone out of the ocean forever. This supernatural movie from the early 2000s is mostly overlooked these days, and for good reason, as the film is unremarkable. When a reality television series decides to film in the backwoods from the first movie, the cast and crew soon fall victim to the inbred cannibals that live there. Opening with cast member Kimberly Caldwell driving to the shoot, the former American Idol contestant accidentally runs over a local. The film begins on Halloween night in 1963, from the killer's POV, peeping on a woman and her boyfriend making out on the couch. Some opening kills are the most iconic in horror movie history: they often prove to be the most popular part of their respective movies.