Billy (Black Christmas)
Billy is a male film character who features in Black Christmas.
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Biography
Original
Billy
All that was known is that a person climbs into a sorority house, and starts making obscene and sexual phone calls to the girls downstairs. From the phone calls, the audience discovers that the man's name is Billy, and he obviously is mentally unstable. Billy routinely repeats phrases over the phone that give hints to his identity. It is assumed that he sexually abused his younger sister Agnes. Billy goes on a killing spree killing the girls in a delusional rampage. He attempts to kill a girl named Jessica, but she manages to lock herself in the cellar. Her boyfriend Peter gains access to the cellar and believing he is the killer making the phone calls, ends up bludgeoning him to death in "self-defense" and she is later discovered by the police, making them believe Peter must have been the killer all along. The police leave Jess to sleep and leave, while one cop waits outside for forensics to arrive. However, the camera pans into the attic where the two bodies of Billy's victims are still there, and he can be heard saying "Agnes, it's me Billy"; the telephone then rings. The ultimate fate of Jess is left ambiguous to the audience.
Remake
Overview
Personality and attributes
What is known, however, is that he is a sick and cruel individual who likes to stalk women and harrass them on the phone with misogynistic messages. He also posesses some level of intelligence, as he made everyone think he was calling from somewhere in the town, when in reality, his calls were coming from inside the sorority house. He is cunning, manipulative and dangerous, capable of finding methods to continue doing what he likes the most and avoid justice for a very long time.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Billy was created by Roy Moore, Bob Clark and Timothy Bond where he featured in the setting of the Black Christmas universe.
- A major source of inspiration was the urban legend of "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs", which itself is based on the unsolved murder of Janett Christman, who had been babysitting for the Womack family in Columbia, Missouri.
In other media
Novels
Appearances
- Black Christmas: (1974)
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