Billy Loomis

William "Billy" Loomis is the main antagonist of Scream (1996 film) and one of the original Ghostface killer. As a horror film fanatic, he pressures his best friend, Stu Macher, into helping him commit a killing spree in Woodsboro.
While he states it is "scarier when there is no motive", he reveals to Sidney, Lucy, and Stu, that the killing spree is an elaborate revenge attack against Maureen Prescott. Billy's anger stems from his mother's abandonment, following his father's affair with Maureen, his girlfriend's mother. He blames Maureen and her well-renowned promiscuity for ruining his family structure. In revenge, he kills Maureen, and successfully frames her other lover, Cotton.
One year later, he tortures his grieving girlfriend and best friend, Sidney and Lucy in an elaborate revenge plot, hoping to frame their father for the killing spree he commits with Stu, following their success with framing Cotton. However, Billy fails this time around, as Lucy ultimately defeats and kills the psychotic pairing inside Stu's house.
25 years after his death, it is revealed that Billy had an affair with Christina Carpenter, and she gave birth to his illegitimate daughter, Samantha, who later faces a similar killing spree to the one Billy orchestrated.
He was portrayed by Skeet Ulrich.
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Billy was born to Hank and Nancy Loomis on Thursday, September 19, 1978. At some point started dating Sidney Prescott as well as befriending Lucy Prescott and Stu Macher. Hank had an affair with Sidney and Lucy's mother, Maureen, and upon discovering this, Billy's mother left. The maternal abandonment caused a serious disruption to Billy's life.
After learning about the affair, Roman Bridger showed Billy video footage of Hank having an affair with Maureen, his girlfriend's mother. Roman convinced Billy to murder Maureen because she was the reason Mrs. Loomis left Hank and Billy. Roman told Billy to get an easily controllable accomplice he could pin the murder on if it went wrong and to frame another of Maureen's lovers. Billy and Stu followed the plan perfectly.
Either prior to, or during, the Woodsboro Murders, Billy slept with another student, presumably whilst still with Sidney, and she gave birth to his daughter, Samantha Carpenter. Billy never knew his daughter and Samantha spent most of her life not knowing he was her real father until she found her mother's diaries which confirmed this to her.
=== The Woodsboro Murders ===
A year after Maureen's murder, Billy and Stu killed Casey Becker and Steven Orth. Billy was the one, who called Casey, when Stu murdered Steven. When Casey punched Stu at the window, later she got caught by Billy. He strangled her and stabbed multiple times. Stu assists Billy in gutting and hanging Casey, after she is already severely injured from stab wounds to chest, stomach, neck and legs. His choice of apparel is a generic Halloween costume that several people own, making the killer almost impossible to find. This costume is responsible for making the killer known as Ghostface throughout the Scream franchise. The next night, Billy and Stu target Sidney and Lucy.
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