Buck 120 Hunting Knife

The Buck 120 Hunting Knife is the most common/signature weapon used by Ghostface to either harm or kill his/her victims.

Description
Ghostface uses a modified Buck 120, which is a common eight-inch hunting knife that is used as the main weapon by Ghostface, a persona adopted by the primary antagonists of the Scream film series. It also features a fuller beveled into the top of the blade to help lighten the blade. The knife features a clip-point blade, typical of Bowie-style knives, along with a small guard.

The knives used in the film series are made of aluminum with solid wood handles or metallic painted rubber blades with rubber handles, although there are prop knives that use retractable blades. In Scream 4, however, they used CGI to make the knife appear as if it was going into flesh.

The handle is made of black ebony wood with finger grooves and a curved chrome tip in the first three films. In Scream 4, however, the knife looks different. The Scream 4 version features a longer handle. The stunt knives are wrapped in duct tape and the blade has a less pronounced shape and is wider to boot, with the blood sight and blade looking more faint than usual, since they don't go as deep into the knife. The Scream 4 fuller looks much larger than the older models and the hero knives feature a smooth wood handle.

In the TV series, it appears that the Lakewood Slasher/s and the show’s version of Ghostface in the third season uses the Buck 119 instead of the 120, as evidenced by the shorter blade and fuller groove.

History
The Buck 120 was developed by Buck in the 1960s, but was discontinued around 1992 due to complaints by hunters that the blade length was excessive.

It was replaced by the much-smaller Buck 119, with a blade length of closer to five inches, rather than eight. Today, the Buck 119 lives on due to great popularity. Many fans of the series do not have the money for a Buck 120 or are unable to locate it. So they instead get a Buck 119. The Buck 119 is quite popular with fans today.

The Buck 120 has been recently been brought back to the Buck catalog, renamed the “Buck 120 General”, and is still sold alongside the Buck 119.

Characters who used the knife

 * Scream (1996) - Billy Loomis and Stu Macher (Buck 120)
 * Scream 2 (1997) - Nancy Loomis and Mickey Altieri (Buck 120)
 * Scream 3 (2000) - Roman Bridger (Buck 120)
 * Scream 4 (2011) - Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker (Buck 120)
 * Scream (2022) - Richie Kirsch, Amber Freeman and Samantha Carpenter (Buck 120)
 * Scream (TV Series) (2015-2019) - Piper Shaw, Kieran Wilcox and Third Killer (Buck 119)

Trivia

 * Brandon James and Will Belmont both carried hunting knives. However, neither used a Buck 120 to kill someone.
 * Throughout the entire canon franchise, the Buck 120 is only referred to by name once in—by the Lakewood Slasher (later revealed to be Kieran Wilcox) in Psycho. Although, in a Scream 4 deleted scene, Dewey mentions it as a "hunting knife" when Perkins refers to the size of the knife used to kill Marnie Cooper and Jenny Randall.
 * The Buck 120 was seen on the film posters for Friday the 13th Part 4, 7 and 8. The knife's appearance on these iconic horror film posters may be why it was chosen as Ghostface's primary weapon.
 * The Buck 120 General we have today is different to the Original Buck 120 with a dip at the bottom of the blade, Arched Handle, and smaller blade.
 * Until the 25 year anniversary "Ghost Face Knife", There was never a accurate official Buck 120 knife.