Henry "Hank" Loomis is a minor character in Scream (1996 film) who is the father and ex-husband of deceased Ghostface serial killers, Billy Loomis and Nancy Loomis respectively, as well as the biological grandfather of Samantha Carpenter.
He was a powerful Woodsboro lawyer who had an affair with Maureen Prescott, causing his wife to abandon their family. This sparked Billy's rage to commit the Woodsboro Murders. His whereabouts and status since the original Scream are unknown.
He was portrayed by actor C.W. Morgan. Morgan returned for a brief cameo in Scream 3 (2000 film) depicting his affair with Maureen.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
A younger Hank Loomis was the lead lawyer for Sunrise Studios in Los Angeles. At some point, he moved to Woodsboro and had an affair with Maureen Prescott, even though he was married. When his wife, Nancy, learned he was cheating on her, she left him to raise Billy on his own. Hank kept his affair with Maureen secret from Billy. It wouldn't be until when Billy met Roman Bridger (Maureen's son, whom she had recently rejected) that he knew the truth of his mother's abandonment.
Roman showed recorded footage of the affair to incite Billy to murder Maureen. Following his lover's gruesome death, Hank, along with the entire town of Woodsboro, believed the murderer to be Cotton Weary, one of Maureen Prescott's other lovers, until it was revealed a year later that the true killers were his son and Stu Macher and Cotton was framed by them. He and everybody else in Woodsboro realized that he was innocent.
The Woodsboro Murders (1996)[]
Hank arrived at the Woodsboro Police Department after Billy was picked up and interrogated as a person of interest in the attack of Sidney Prescott at her home. He vouched to the police chief, Sheriff Burke, that Billy used his mobile phone and told them to check the phone records.
When Billy gives questionable answers to the chief questions, Hank begins to look at his son implying that he has concerns building. He was surprised to learn that Billy had gone out the night before when Casey Becker and Steven Orth were murdered. When officers take Billy to jail, he cries for his father and Sidney as he sees her with her back turned facing away. Hank replies that he is waiting for the lawyer.
Hank and Billy.
His reaction to the role Billy Loomis played in the murders and the reason behind it is unknown, but it wouldn't come as a surprise that he left Woodsboro out of shame and pain for unintentionally turning his son into a psychotic serial killer. It's also possible that his reputation was destroyed when it became known that he had an affair with Maureen Prescott and that affair was what caused his son to go on a murder spree throughout the town out of anger and rage that the affair caused his mother to abandon him.
The Windsor College Murders (1997)[]
Nancy Loomis mentions him to Sidney that Maureen stole her husband and broke up her family.
The Hollywood Murders (2000)[]
Roman showed Sidney footage he had recorded years previously of Maureen leaving a motel with Hank. He can be seen smoking a cigarette here. Some of the footage shows the two of them smiling at each other and embracing close to the hotel room door, implying intimacy.
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Trivia[]
- He is credited as "Mr. Loomis" in the credits.
- He was described as "an older version of Billy" in the script.
- When asked where Hank Loomis was during Scream (2022), Radio Silence jokingly said in their January 27 Reddit Q&A, "Probably at home watching The Babadook (which is a genuinely incredible movie)".
- His affair with Maureen Prescott is one of the things that set the killing sprees in motion in the Scream quadrilogy.
- Despite having a minor role in Scream and not appearing in the subsequent films, he is indirectly one of the main reasons the original killing spree occurred.
- According to the original Scream 3 website, Mr. Loomis used to work for Sunrise Studios.
- He and his biological granddaughter both go by nicknames over their legal names: "Sam" for Samantha and "Hank" for Henry.
- His name was used as an Easter egg reference for an online (male) username' shown (as Hank L.) in the app "Chripster" (parody of Twitter) in Season 1 of the TV Series in "Pilot".
Gallery[]
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Hank Loomis has a Photo Gallery. |
Appearances[]
Character Guide[]
| Scream Characters | ||
| Principal Characters | Sidney Prescott • Gale Weathers • Dewey Riley • Ghostface | |
| Recurring Supporting Characters | Randy Meeks • Cotton Weary | |
| Supporting Characters | Billy Loomis • Tatum Riley • Stu Macher • Kenny Brown • Sheriff Burke • Arthur Himbry • Casey Becker • Steven Orth | |
| Recurring Minor Characters | Neil Prescott • Maureen Prescott • Hank Loomis | |
| Ghostface(s) | Billy Loomis • Stu Macher | |
| Scream 3 Characters | ||
| Principal Characters | Sidney Prescott • Gale Weathers • Dewey Riley • Ghostface | |
| Recurring Supporting Characters | Randy Meeks • Cotton Weary | |
| Supporting Characters | Angelina Tyler • Christine Hamilton • Jennifer Jolie • John Milton • Mark Kincaid • Martha Meeks • Roman Bridger • Sarah Darling • Steven Stone • Tom Prinze • Tyson Fox | |
| Recurring Minor Characters | Neil Prescott • Maureen Prescott • Hank Loomis | |
| Ghostface | Roman Bridger | |