Friday, October 31, 2025

HORROR INTERLUDE Drew Berrymore as Casey Becker


This is a request by @hlavacek for Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker of the Scream franchise being bound and gagged to a pole. If this the worse thing that happens to Casey, it is a good outcome.

Casey Becker is a minor character who appears in the Scream franchise. In the original Scream (1996 film), she is depicted as a naïve, seemingly innocent 17-year-old girl making popcorn and waiting on her boyfriend to show up and watch a VHS tape of a horror film.

As a Woodsboro High School senior in the fall of 1996, she had a relationship with Stu Macher. Before her demise, she dates high school football player, Steven Orth, who she waits for on a late night after 10 p.m. to watch the film. She is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Becker, as well as a faraway neighbor to the McKenzies.

She is the third person to fall victim to the first Ghostface killing spree, later known as the infamous Woodsboro Murders, which occurs during the events of Scream (1996 film). Her death is commonly mistaken to be the first death of the franchise, though she is preceded by her boyfriend, Steven Orth, and the original, off-screen Ghostface murder victim, Maureen Prescott.

Drew Barrymore is an American actress, voice artist, producer, director, talk show host, screenwriter, model, and entrepreneur who comes from the Barrymore family of actors and has won various awards including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Since melting filmgoers' hearts at the tender age of six in Steven Spielberg's beloved sci-fi blockbuster, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Drew Barrymore has emerged as one of the most iconic and singularly gifted talents of her generation. Born in Culver City, California to John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore, the clutches of fame were virtually inescapable for young Drew, her father being a member of the esteemed showbiz dynasty fronted by stage star Maurice Barrymore, his thespian wife Georgiana, and their three children: Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and John Barrymore.

In the wake of a challenging era fuelled by addiction and media vitriol, an industrious Barrymore threw herself into her work during the early-mid nineties, first with an assortment of "bad girl" parts in cultish B-pics like Poison Ivy (1992), Guncrazy (1992), Doppelganger (1993), and - befittingly - Bad Girls (1994); then, warmly received supporting roles in mainstream fare such as Boys on the Side (1995), Batman Forever (1995), Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You (1996), and Wes Craven's game-changing horror megahit, Scream (1996). Equal portions of goofball - The Wedding Singer (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000) - and gravitas - Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Donnie Darko (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) - came next, with a Golden Globe-grabbing pièce de résistance - her divine incarnation of Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens (2009) - confirming that her skill set was every bit as broad and robust as imagined.

Having already birthed an array of projects through Flower Films, the production house she co-formed with Nancy Juvonen in '95, Barrymore fastened an additional string to her bow when she spearheaded the sports dramedy Whip It (2009), her richly appraised directorial debut. Following a steady run of star vehicles at the front end of the 2010s, her tour de force turn as walking-dead suburban realtor Sheila Hammond - on Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet (2017) - saw her step with trademark resolve into newer territory still: the flourishing world of small screen entertainment, a metamorphosis she continues to espouse with her role as compère of spirited daytime staple, The Drew Barrymore Show (2020).

 

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