Billy Loomis

* Unmasked
* Masked
* Ghost

**Billy Loomis** is the main antagonist in Scream (1996).

## Biography

He admits to Sidney and Stu that the killing spree is an intricate form of retaliation against Maureen Prescott, despite saying that it is "scareier when there is no motivation." Billy is upset because his mother left him after learning about his father's infidelity with Maureen, the mother of his girlfriend. He holds Maureen and her well-known promiscuity responsible for destroying his family unit. He kills Maureen as retaliation and successfully implicates Cotton, her other boyfriend.

### Scream (1996)

Casey Becker, a high school student, is home alone when she gets a call from an ominous individual, and they talk about horror movies. Indulging in sadistic behavior, the caller threatens Casey's life and won't let her be alone. In order to keep her boyfriend Steve alive, he confesses that he is restrained and gagging outside on her patio and makes her provide answers to questions concerning horror movies. Steve is killed in front of Casey when she gives a wrong response to a Friday the 13th question. Casey tries to run away after refusing to answer any more questions, but she is stopped by a person dressed as "Ghostface," who kills her before her parents get home and discover her dismembered body hanging from a tree.

Following the murders, news organizations swarm the town, and the police launch an inquiry. Sidney Prescott, a teenager, battles with the first anniversary of her mother Maureen's rape and murder while Gale Weathers, a news reporter Sidney despises, enters the media. Gale was in charge of disseminating tales and conspiracies about Maureen's passing, implying that the jailed Cotton Weary, who was tried and found guilty of raping and killing Maureen, was not the one who committed the crime. That evening, Sidney receives a mocking phone call and is attacked by Ghostface while she waits at home for her closest friend Tatum Riley to come. **Billy Loomis**, Sidney's boyfriend, shows up right after. When he loses his phone, Sidney assumes he made the call and runs away. Billy is detained and interrogated, but after that, Sidney gets another unsettling call from Tatum's home.

The following day, Billy is freed, and because the ominous phone calls had been linked to Neil Prescott, Sidney's father, suspicion now falls on him. After the killings cause the suspension of classes, Ghostface ambushes and stabs Principal Arthur Himbry to death. Billy's best friend and Tatum's boyfriend, Stu Macher, organizes a party to mark the end of the school. Gale shows up uninvited because she believes the murderer will attack again. Dewey Riley, a deputy sheriff who is Tatum's older brother, keeps an eye out for the murderer at the gathering. Ghostface corners Tatum as she enters the garage and smashes her neck with the garage door when she tries to flee via the pet door. After learning of Himbry's passing, many partygoers leave, leaving only Sidney, Billy, their buddy Randy Meeks, Stu, and cameraman Kenny for Gale.

After engaging in sexual activity, Ghostface confronts Sidney and Billy, who he then stabs. After escaping the house, Sidney asks Kenny for assistance, but Kenny is killed by Ghostface. Dewey gets stabbed in the back while doing an investigation in the house, and Gale smashes her van while trying to flee. Sidney takes his revolver for protection. When Randy and Stu arrive, they each accuse the other of being the murderer, but Sidney runs back inside the home and discovers Billy wounded. Sidney hands Billy the revolver after they let Randy inside, and Billy shoots Randy, exposing himself as the murderer. By speaking into a voice changer, Stu is exposed to be the killer's accomplice.

Sidney is cornered in the kitchen as Billy and Stu intend to murder her and then blame her father, who they have kidnapped, for the murderous rampage. They also admit that Cotton was set up for the murder of Cotton's mother because she had an affair with Billy's father and drove Billy's mother away. As a result of Gale's intervention, Sidney is able to flee and turn the tables on the murderers. She calls them out and dons the Ghostface mask before knocking Billy out and killing Stu by dropping a television on his head.

#### Death

Billy wakes up furious and rushes at Sidney, but Gale shoots him. Randy, who is hurt but still alive, observes that the murderer always reappears for one final scare. Sidney shoots Billy in the head, killing him in the process as Billy stands up. Dewey, who is seriously hurt, is taken away by ambulance as police show up, and Gale delivers an impromptu news report about what happened that night.

### Scream (2022)

Billy appears in the requel as a ghost (hallucination) to help Sam.

## Victims

* Maureen Prescott - Stabbed to death before the events of the film (with Stu)
* Casey Becker - Stabbed, choked, disemboweled, & hanged
* Principal Himbry - Fl-ayyyy-ed (Stabbed repeatedly in stomach)
* Tatum Riley - Crushed by garage door