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Did Billy live in the attic previous to events of the movie?


was he returning to the attic at the beginning or was he entering the attic for the first time?

just wondering where he could have been living prior to the events of the movie. do you think he had a home in the area and a job? perhaps a family?

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that makes sense. even scarier when put that way. kind of what Michael Myers did to his sister

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I've always speculated that Billy has been away. In jail or an institution.

The meaning of Billy's phone calls is open to debate, but I've always been under the assumption that Billy killed his sister Agnes, and their parents found out about it. It would make sense that he was put away for a while.

I always took it that on being released or escaping he hid out in the attic of the sorority house. Why there is up for debate, but maybe he lived in that house as a child and it has since been sold and turned into a Sorority House. Another theory is that part of his insanity is a hatred for women, which is why he picked a sorority house. (And why presumably he killed the girl in the park.) Is the fact that Jess is pregnant a coincidence? It seems to me that Billy killed Agnes when she was a baby, as the phone calls refer to things that Billy did with a baby.

Just my theories on the matter. Billy's characters and actions are open to interpretation.

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