Later on, Sam is taking a break at the hospital and when she looks in the mirror, she hallucinates a vision of Billy who taunts her for being his daughter. Sam's phone rings and when she answers, it's the killer who claims to know her secret.
The hallucination of William "Billy" Loomis seen by Samantha Carpenter is a minor character in Scream (2022) and Scream 6. He is a hallucination of the famous serial killer created by Samantha Carpenter after finding out that Billy Loomis was her real father.
Billy is portrayed by Skeet Ulrich in Scream (1996). Ulrich reappears as a reimagining of Billy through the hallucinations of his daughter in Scream (2022).
Sam is the illegitimate daughter of Billy Loomis. Sam's mother, Christina, was said to be dating Sam and Tara's father during high school. Sam's mother got pregnant with her before the two graduated. Christina lied and said Sam was the daughter of her then-father.
Samantha Carpenter Samantha Carpenter: is the illegitimate daughter of Billy Loomis and Christina Carpenter, the granddaughter of Hank and Nancy Loomis, the elder sister of Tara Carpenter and ex-girlfriend of Richie Kirsch. Sam always believed her legal father Mr. Carpenter was her biological father.
In Scream (2022), it is revealed that Billy cheated on Sidney during the events of the first film, fathered a daughter named Sam Carpenter (whom he wasn't aware of) and appears in her visions throughout the film and Scream VI, encouraging her to fight back against the killers trying to murder her, and thus the ...
After the guests leave, Stu and Billy reveal their plan to Sidney, including how they are going to frame her father, Neil Prescott. Billy and Stu begin to stab each other to make themselves look like the victims of their scapegoat.
The absence of Sam and Tara's story in Scream 7 makes it unclear how the series will continue. The departure of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega leaves numerous mysteries surrounding Sam and Tara unresolved.
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.
At age 13, she discovered the secret of her birth origin — she is the biological daughter of original Ghostface serial killer, Billy Loomis who derives from the original Scream (1996).
Not only did the audience learn that Sam was the daughter of Billy, but they see her begin to envision her father talking to her. These visions said a lot about how being related to Billy has affected Sam's own self-image. In these visions, Billy resembled what he looked like the day he died.
Billy was once a caring and sweet person until his family was broken up due to his father having an affair with Maureen Prescott, the mother of his girlfriend Sidney Prescott. He suffered a psychotic breakdown, turning him into a sociopathic monster.
The shocking reveal at the end of Scream shows that the killers are Tara's best friend, Amber, and Sam's boyfriend, Richie. They were both motivated to kill to continue the Stab franchise (the horror franchise within Scream replicating the film).
Throughout Scream 5 and Scream 6, Sam grapples with her identity, wondering if she too has a dark side and is capable of murder. However, neither film features Sam's mother, Christina Carpenter, who would have been present at Woodsboro High School at the time when the first Scream took place.
Sam sees visions of Billy because he's her biological father — crucially, she's scared of becoming a serial killer like him. These fears drive much of her past actions and distance from her sister. Seeing Billy is essentially Sam's subconscious fear manifesting itself visually.
Even before the movie begins, Billy had hacked up Sidney's mom Maureen, who he blamed for the breakup of his own parents. The fact that before killing her, Billy made sure to manipulate Sidney into having sex with him really says it all about the kind of man he was.
In Scream 3, Roman seeks revenge for what he sees as his mother's rejection and abandonment by engineering Maureen's death and trying to kill Sidney, seeing her as having the family-life he was denied.
After she feels she falsely accused him in the struggle of her attack, she feels she has gained a sentimental trust with Billy and consents to have intercourse with him for the first time only later to find out he is the cause of her repressed ways. He turned out to be the killer of her mother.
The actor was fired from the latest installment of the film because of pro-Palestinian statements she had made on social media that the studio, Spyglass Media, viewed as antisemitic during the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
In the end, Sam proves to embody the rules of a real-life horror movie legacy "requel" (reboot and sequel); she is both the descendant of a legacy character, and the new Ghostface entity is her own boyfriend, Richie whom she is able to kill (staying true to the original Sidney-Billy dynamic), as well as his accomplice ...
In the “requel” 2022 “Scream,” two psychopaths on a murderous spree wearing the Ghostface masks were revealed as Sam's boyfriend Richie (Jack Quaid) and his partner Amber (Mikey Madison), crazed fans of the movie-within-the-movie “Stab” series who wanted to be the inspiration for a new reboot.
She was killed in the Machers' residence garage by Billy and her body was later discovered by Sidney wedged in a petdoor. Her death heavily affected both Dewey and Sidney. She was the fourth victim of the first Ghostface killing spree. The fifth film, Scream (2022) reveals Tatum was cremated.
In the third act of Scream, when Billy Loomis and Stu Macher revealed themselves as the Ghostface killers, Billy told Sidney he killed Maureen as she was having an affair with his dad, which led to his mother abandoning him.
Right before the release of Scream 2022, Kevin Williamson took to Pride Source to validate the rumors that Billy and Stu are queer-coded. The fictional killers share physically intimate moments onscreen and show dependency on each other.
