Rejoice! Skeet Ulrich finally has an answer for the one burning question all Scream fans have had since 1996.
Who killed Tatum? That’s the one question throughout the franchise that was never answered clearly, and Ulrich was asked about this during the Midsummer Scream panel. While he has an answer, it may not be the one that we all wanted to hear.
Nobody Knows the Answer to the ‘Scream’ Question
It turns out that Ulrich couldn’t give a definitive answer during the 30th anniversary panel. In fact, nobody can. When asked about who killed Rose McGowan’s character in the movie, Ulrich admitted that not only did he not know, but even the screenwriter probably doesn’t. He responded saying, “To be honest, not even [screenwriter] Kevin Williamson knows who killed [Tatum]. And he wrote the damn thing.”
That’s not quite the answer anybody wanted to hear. After all, both Ulrich’s and Matthew Lillard’s Ghostfacer personas could have taken on that duty. Everyone has wanted to know if Stu was willing to kill his own girlfriend in the way that Billy was, and he was certainly out of the room of people at the time of her death.
Ulrich did go on to say that “We never discussed it. So, it’s really fan theory, which I think is great. But, I don’t know. No one knows.”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 25: Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich attend the "Scream 7" Global Premiere at Paramount Pictures Studios on February 25, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)Tatum Was Honored in ‘Scream 7’
During the most recent movie in the franchise, Tatum did get an honorary mention. Sidney Prescott had named her daughter after her best friend, which makes sense when you consider Sidney’s character progression over the years.
Sidney and Tatum were inseparable during the first movie, but tragedy struck when Billy and Stu started killing everyone. Tatum was alone at the time of her death, despite being in a room full of people, when she went to grab beers from the fridge in the garage. As she tried to escape Ghostface through the cat flap in the garage door, she ended up stuck, and Ghostface decided to use the door to kill her.
Sidney only found out when she jumped out of a bedroom window to get away from the Ghostface attacking her, who we know had to be Stu at that point as Billy was also in the scene. She didn’t have much time to focus on the death of her best friend, but she did remain close with the Riley family via her brother, Dewey. So, naming her daughter for her best friend was one of the best ways to honor the family.
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