BILLY LOOMIS (Skeet Ulrich), Scream
“Now Sid, don’t you blame the movies. Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative!”
Ah, Billy. The mysterious, brooding bad boy of many 90s girls’ dreams. In order to get revenge on Sidney’s mother for breaking up his parents’ marriage, Billy decides to create his own horror movie—starting with her rape and murder, then carrying on with a bloodbath that was supposed to end with Sidney’s death a year later. He is so obsessed with following the horror movie rules that he only attempts to kill Sidney once she loses her virginity to him, convinced that only then is she truly vulnerable to an attack. One of the aspects that made Billy and the first Scream so great was how obvious it was that he was the killer—he says a ton of questionable statements, obsessed with Sidney’s sexuality while she’s dealing with grief and PTSD from her mother’s murder; he’s arrested by the police after Sidney is attacked by Ghostface the first time; and he and Stu full-on threaten Randy in the video store. He’s just as much of a horror movie fanatic as Randy, only his obsession is about blurring the lines between reality and the movies.
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