Billy Nolan

This article is about the character from the 1974 film. You may be looking for Billy Nolan (2002) or Billy Nolan (Remake).

Billy Nolan is a major antagonist in Carrie (1976).

Biography[]

Billy was a student at Bates High School, and was also the boyfriend of popular mean girl Chris Hargensen, despite him displaying perverted behaviour and anger issues towards her.

Chris provides fellatio to him in order to convince him to go along with her plan to get revenge on Carrie White. That night, she, Billy, and some other friends break into a pig farm, where Billy proceeds to slaughter one of the pigs with a sledgehammer. They then take the pig's blood in a bucket and take it into the high school gym, where they use it to fill up a bucket set in the rafters above the stage.

At the prom, Chris and Billy hide underneath the stage as they prepare to set up their prank. After Norma collects the voting ballots for prom king and queen, she secretly has then swapped out for faked ones, before handing them to the vote counters. The forged ballots lead to Carrie and Tommy Ross being announced prom king and queen, and after they go on stage, Chris pulls on a rope attached to the bucket, tipping it over and sending the blood pouring all over Carrie. Chris and Billy quickly escape the gym through a back door.

Whilst almost everyone in the gym is left shocked into silence by the prank, Carrie hallucinates that everyone at the prom is laughing at her, and thus goes into a silent-psychotic breakdown which causes her to unleash telekinetic fury upon the crowd, killing several people after a fire breaks out and burns down the whole school.

Death[]

I001283 — Chris And Billy Before There Death

Having witnessed the whole massacre, Chris and Billy try to run down Carrie with their car. However, Carrie simply uses her telekinesis to send their car flipping over, before exploding it and incinerating both Chris and Billy.

Trivia[]

Billy is played by a 22-year-old John Travolta in one of his first ever film roles.