The Becker House, also known as the Becker Residence, is a fictional residence located in Woodsboro, California. It was the former home of the Becker family, bought and owned by spouses Mr. and Mrs. Becker (first names unknown), that appears solely in the opening scene of Scream (1996).
Their daughter, Casey Becker, who'd lived at the home from her birth in 1979 until her death on Wednesday night, September 25th, 1996, where her murder and that of her boyfriend, Steven Orth, occurred as the re-initiation of the town's soon to be known infamous Woodsboro Murders (1995-1996), with both of Casey's parents being absent, due to having gone out, and returning to witness their daughter's murdered body hung in their house's tree in the backyard.
History[]
1996[]
The house was featured as the home where a 17-year old Casey was in, home alone at night, making Jiffy Pop popcorn on stovetop, as she prepared to get ready to watch horror films on videotape, waiting for her boyfriend and Woodsboro High School senior/football player, 17-year old Steven Orth, to arrive and keep her company. Casey is shown walking from her home's living room and kitchen, when she answers her home's landline, beginning her conversation with Ghostface (Billy Loomis), unbeknownst to her. The calling soon turns sinister and becomes a life or death situation, upon Casey becoming stalked and taunted while on the phone and home alone.
The killer, while on the phone, would force Casey to play a trivia game, due to her boyfriend Steven being tied up in a chair and gagged with tape on his mouth, in order to save him. Traumatizing Casey and killing Steven after she got a trivia answer wrong, a horrified Casey would be given chase, as she hid after arming herself with a kitchen knife, as Ghostface threw a chair from her backyard patio into her living room, as her popcorn caught fire and caused a kitchen fire. Ghostface arrives inside to look for her. Casey crawls down by the windows, before finding her outside as Casey stood up, due to seeing her parents driving home, who would break the window from the inside to disarm Casey, before Casey begins to be chased as she hits the killer with her brick phone.
She manages to run and breathes a sigh of relief, upon seeing her parents getting close in their car on the driveway, before a new Ghostface pops out from her home's backyard shed roof, as Casey is chased before ultimately being stabbed and strangled, who managed to briefly get away by kicking the killer in the groin. Casey tried to call for her parents as they were entering the front porch from the side of the house, distracted by looking at their home's front garden, but failed, due to Ghostface's strangulation which crushed her voice box, thus her calling out being hoarse. Ghostface proceeds to kill her outside just as her parents arrived home and entered to find their home broken into and the kitchen fire, which Mrs. Becker puts out, before she would fearfully call out for her daughter. The parents convene, as Mr. Becker instructs his wife to call the police, which she proceeds to do, until the phone is connected with the one Casey is carrying. Both parents are shocked as they hear their daughter groaning, unaware that she's being pulled away just outside, as Mr. Becker takes the phone from his wife, before Ghostface then stabs and guts her, Casey letting out her last breath and groan, as the phone's disconnected. He instructs his wife to go drive down to the McKenzies, as Casey's frightened mother worries about her. As she opens the backyard door, she would scream as Mr. Becker arrives and both are distraught and horrified as Casey's body is hung and gutted in their home's backyard tree.
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- The first location shown in the entire Scream franchise, which is never reexplored following the first film.
- The real world location address of the house was 7420 Sonoma Mountain Road in Glen Ellen, California.
- The home is the first out of eight known residences in Woodsboro, California, and technically the second where a murder occurred:
- The first being 34 Elm Street, where Maureen Prescott's murder had taken place, a year prior to to Casey and Steve's murders at the former's home.
- The first home to feature two murders in Woodsboro, succeeded by:
- 261 Turner Lane (Scream; technically only Billy Loomis and Stu Macher died inside as the killers, killed by Sidney Prescott, with the killers victims Tatum Riley being killed by the garage door, her head stuck out and feet inside, while Kenny Brown was killed outside;
- During the Third Woodsboro Murders in 2022, similarly both killers, Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman are also killed inside, after victim Liv McKenzie, who is part of the McKenzies, which Casey's father mentioned to her mother to go drive down to during her murder.
- Jenny Randall's home (Scream 4)
- 329 Whispering Lane (Scream 4)
- Hicks House (Scream (2022))
- 261 Turner Lane (Scream; technically only Billy Loomis and Stu Macher died inside as the killers, killed by Sidney Prescott, with the killers victims Tatum Riley being killed by the garage door, her head stuck out and feet inside, while Kenny Brown was killed outside;
- A different house is shown as the Becker home in Stab (1997) as a film within a film, in Scream 2 (with Casey being portrayed by Heather Graham).
- It's unknown whether Mr. or Mrs. Becker stayed or sold the home following their daughter and her boyfriend's murder.