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| Billy | |
| Born: | 1970 |
| Died: | 2006 (in the Black Christmas film) |
| Classification: | Serial killer |
| Race: | Caucasian |
| Creators: | Bob Clark Roy Moore |
| Portrayed by: | Bob Clark[1] Nick Mancuso [1] Cainan Wiebe (child) [2] Robert Mann[2] |
Billy is a fictional character and antagonist from the 1974 horror film Black Christmas and the 2006 remake of the same name. His full name is given as Billy Lenz in the remake.
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In the original film, Billy is a rather mysterious character. He is usually either off-screen or in the shadows. The only parts of his body that are seen in the light are his jean covered legs as he's carrying Clare's body out of her bedroom, hands and his eye. He makes obscene phone calls and can change his voice with obvious ease. Although his back story isn't revealed, based on the phone calls and his dialogue before he kills his victims ("Agnes, it's me, Billy. Don't tell what we did.") it is implied that he killed his baby sister Agnes, possibly out of jealousy, when he was left alone with her and was then confronted by his hysterical parents.
In the film, Billy sneaks into a sorority house and makes his home in the attic, only going downstairs to use the phone to call the girls in the house (using its second phone line) or to murder them. He first kills a girl by wrapping a plastic bag around her head, asphyxiating her. He proceeds to kill three more girls and a police officer. After his phone calls are traced, he is confronted by a surviving girl – Jess Bradford – whom he chases around the house. Jess manages to escape and hides in the basement. She then sees her boyfriend Peter Smythe who went through the basement window. Jess mistakenly believes that Peter is the killer and impales him with a fireplace poker she armed herself with. The police arrive and conclude that Peter was the killer, not knowing that Billy is lurking in the attic.[1]
In the remake Billy is given both a back story and a full name. William "Billy" Edward Lenz was abused by his mother as a child because he had a birth defect that left his skin slightly yellow. His mother killed his father one Christmas with a claw hammer right before Billy's eyes and kept Billy in the attic, while she started a "new" family with her lover. For years Billy's mother tried to conceive an ideal child with her lover, but could not because he was impotent. After realizing she could not have a child with him, Billy's mother goes into the attic and rapes Billy as a last resort, being the only other male in her life. Despite only being 12 years old, Billy gets his mother pregnant, who gives birth to his inbred sister/daughter nine months later. After 15 years, Billy escaped the attic and brutally murdered his mother and her lover while his sister/daughter, Agnes, looked on, using a cookie cutter to cut pieces of flesh from her corpse and baking it.
Years later a group of nine sorority girls and their house mother, who now live in Billy's childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening mystery phone calls during Christmas break. The girls are brutally murdered one by one until the surviving girl, Kelli, finds the killer, revealed to be Billy's sister/daughter Agnes, making a Christmas tree out of Kelli's friends' heads. Meanwhile, Billy returns and in the ensuing fight, Billy and Agnes are apparently killed while Kelli is rushed to the hospital with another survivor, Leigh, who suffered minor injuries.
In the hospital, Billy and Agnes are revealed to be alive, kill the morgue attendant and escape. Agnes kills Leigh by snapping her neck, but when Agnes attacks Kelli, Kelli kills her by electrocuting her with a defibrillator paddle and she pushes Billy over a balcony and impales him on a Christmas tree.[2]
In the version released in the United Kingdom, Billy does not awaken in the morgue, with it being stated he died from his injuries. Additionally, two alternate endings on the DVD release of the film imply that Billy is still alive.
NOTE: This short timeline is based on the 2006 version
| Years | Event |
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| 1970 | Billy is born William Edward Lenz to Mr. and Mrs. Lenz |
| 1975 | Billy's father is murdered by his wife and her lover |
| 1982 | Billy is raped by his mother, who becomes pregnant with his child |
| 1991 | Billy brutally murders his mother and his stepfather. He pulls his sister/daughter's (Agnes Lenz) eye out |
| 1992–2005 | Billy makes thirteen unsuccessful escape attempts from the mental penitentiary |
| 2006 | Billy successfully escapes from Clark Sanatarium leaving a security guard and a man dressed as Santa Claus dead. He murders all of the new residents living at his home except one. Billy is killed by Kelli, who pushes him over a balcony. He is impaled by a Christmas tree and dies at the age of 36 |
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