Betsy (Betsy)

**Betsy** (Kelci C. Magel) is the titular main protagonist villainess from the 2018 horror film, *Betsy*.

## Introduction

The film's opening sees Betsy attacked by an unknown man, who was revealed as a werewolf, and three weeks later, Betsy moved in with her best friend, Kayte, who learned about the attack. She had been in group therapy in the weeks following her attack, though she was unaware of her attacker's lycanthropic nature.

Betsy's first sign of her newfound werewolf nature came when she shouted at a driver who was attempting to pick her up and hit on her, as she displayed animalistic yellow eyes while doing so. As the film progressed, Betsy became the object of affection from Sam, one of the town's police officers.

## Heel Turn

    Betsy later had a vivid dreams where she starts transforming while making love, after which she unleashed her claws in her sleep, only to realize that she scratched Kayte. The following evening saw Betsy walking by herself before she was attacked by Walt, a serial rapist, only for Betsy to unleash her fangs and suddenly maul him to death. She woke up the following morning with her lips covered in blood, as well as no apparent memory of her attack; though she later went on a date with Sam that evening, which led to the pair having sex. Betsy turned heel afterwards by hunting down and killing Dusty (Sam's friend and police colleague) in her werewolf form.

Sam had been investigating Walt's death and was later looking into the attack on Dusty, coming to the conclusion that a wolf was behind the attacks. On the following evening, with the full moon in the sky, Betsy underwent a painful and complete transformation into a werewolf, and later went into the woods--where Sam was searching for the wolf with Colin and James. The villainess attacked and killed James, and by that time, Sam realized that Betsy was a werewolf and behind the killings, having informed Colin of his deduction. Betsy pounced on Colin, but Sam's call to her distracted the villainess long enough to for Colin to fire three shots at Betsy, who ran off.

## Aftermath

    The film's final scenes saw Sam find Betsy on the following morning, with Betsy asking Sam to hold her. Though she appeared to utter her final words (an apology to Sam) and die in Sam's arms, a brief glimpse during the credits saw Betsy's yellow eyes open, revealing that she had survived. A later mid-credits scene saw Colin approach a hooded person scratching his car, and was shocked to see that the person was Betsy, who displayed her claws and yellow eyes, as well as a sinister smirk on her face.

The scene showed that Betsy had fully embraced her heel persona, and at that moment, the evil Betsy responded to Colln's statement that she was dead by informing him that *he*was the one who was dead--after which Colin was mauled to death by Betsy and Kayte; the latter having become a werewolf due to Betsy scratching her. After killing Colin, Betsy responded to Kayte's heel turn by welcoming her "to the club" at the end of the scene.

## Personality

* The film introduced Betsy as a vulnerable young woman following her attack, with the demeanor continuing even as her lycanthropic nature slowly emerged. However, the film's mid-credits scene showed Betsy embracing her villainous persona, while also suggesting that she was fully aware the entire time and relished over killing her victims.