‘Scream’ Shocker: [Spoiler] Returns In First Appearance Since Original Movie (2024)

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How did Billy Loomis come back in Scream 5? ›

How Could Stu Return In A Future Scream Movie? In Scream VI, it was confirmed that Stu died in 1996; a photo of him appeared in the movie with his death year listed underneath. However, a hallucinatory version of Billy appears in 2022's Scream and Scream VI, seen by his daughter, Samantha.

While the heroes attempt to parse out who the killer is, the original Scream's ending reveals that there isn't just one killer, but two: Sidney's boyfriend, Billy Loomis, and his friend Stu Macher.

Scream (1996)

Casey Becker - Stabbed to death by Billy/Ghostface and Stu/Ghostface. Principal Arthur Himbry - Stabbed to death by Billy/Ghostface. Tatum Riley - Crushed by a garage door when Billy/Ghostface raised it.

25 years after his death, it is revealed that Billy had an affair with another student and she gave birth to his illegitimate daughter, Samantha Carpenter, who later faces a similar killing spree to the one Billy orchestrated.

Billy Loomis Not Returning In Scream 7 Kills Hopes For Another Legacy Character's Return.

Put simply, an older or younger version of a familiar character may look nothing like viewers expect them to look. This was the problem facing Scream 6's Billy Loomis cameo, which saw Scream actor Skeet Ulrich reprise his role as the original movie's villain for the second time in 2 movies.

Cotton was arrested and convicted of her murder. In Scream, a killer taunts Sidney on the phone about her mother's murder; this killer is later identified as Sidney's boyfriend Billy Loomis and his friend Stu Macher. Billy reveals that it was he and Stu who raped and murdered Maureen and framed Cotton for it.

8 Stu Macher - Scream (2 Kills)

M.O. Ghostface debuted in Scream (1996) as a disguise used by teenagers Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard), during their killing spree in the fictional town of Woodsboro.

However, after much struggle, she dies by getting trapped in a garage door. This makes her the first Scream character to not be murdered by a knife. Tatum's constant presence in Sidney's life threatens Billy's plans. Hence, she has to be eliminated for his plan to succeed.

Who died in the bathtub in Scream 6? ›

They flee upstairs and barricade themselves in Quinn's room. Mindy goes into Quinn's bathroom only to walk in on a literal bloodbath. The dead body of Paul, Quinn's hookup, lay contorted in the bathtub, giving Mindy a scare.

Billy Loomis - Billy single-handedly killed 2 people, and with Stu's help, he killed two more for a total of 4 kills. Along with Stu, he killed Maureen Prescott (Sidney's mother) and also Casey Becker (Stu's ex-girlfriend).

Billy and Stu begin to stab each other to make themselves look like the victims of their scapegoat. Stu claims that after watching several horror films, they know how to frame and get away with murder.

This brings her sister Sam (Melissa Barrera) back to Woodsboro, where she reveals a devastating secret: When she was 13, Sam discovered that she was the daughter of her mother's affair. Her father is actually Billy Loomis, Sidney Prescott's ex and the Ghostface from the original film.

In Scream 2, Billy's mother became Ghostface as she sought revenge on Sidney for killing Billy. Later on, Scream (2022) revealed that Billy apparently cheated on Sidney shortly before the original kill spree and unknowingly had a daughter, Sam Carpenter.

He is still very much dead though. There's no way he's coming back from a bullet to the head, not in this movie. Instead, he is a hallucination, a vision that sees a de-aged Skeet Ulrich brought back, still covered in the bloody white shirt from the night he died.

Billy Loomis died in Scream but reappeared in Scream 2022 as a vision his daughter, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), that helps her against the new Ghostface attacks.

Although Stu did not return for Scream 5, that sequel, written by Guy Busick and James Vanderbilt and directed by Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, did bring back Billy.