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I'm not Katie... I'm Dickie! Dickie Cavanaugh... I'm Dickie! And they're all bad! That's why I had to kill them!
~ Katie/Dickie in the final confrontation.

Katie Cavanaugh, also known as Barney, is the main antagonist of the 1982 horror film Girls Nite Out. She is the twin sister of Richard "Dickie" Cavanaugh, a college boy who was committed to a mental asylum after killing his girlfriend.

She was portrayed by Rutanya Alda, and likely an uncredited stuntperson while in the bear suit.

Biography[]

Katie was the twin sister of Richard Cavanaugh. She and Richard lived in Ohio and attended college there. While in college, Richard was dating a girl who cheated on and dumped him. Angry and already somewhat mentally ill, Dickie killed her and was committed to a mental hospital. Years later, her brother commits suicide, and Katie develops an alternate personality based off of him, which also adopted Dickie's hatred of cheating girls.

Girls Nite Out[]

Upon hearing about his suicide, Katie intercepted the burial of Dickie and killed the two gravediggers with a shovel. While working as a waitress, Katie overheard various conversations from the college kids that came to her diner. Overhearing the various girls talking about cheating on their boyfriends, likely awoken Katie's alternate personality. Labeling them as bad, Katie planned to kill them during the campus scavenger hunt. The night before, Katie murdered the school mascot, Michael Benson and took his bear suit, fitting the right paw with a homemade bear claw as a weapon.

The night of the scavenger hunt, Katie, dressed in the bear suit, and slashed the cheating girls with her bear claws. She first attacked Jane in the college gymnasium, killing her and setting and bounding her corpse up in the showers. Afterwards, she made a call to the campus DJ who was giving out clues for the scavenger hunt, identifying herself as Dickie. Jane's friend, Kathy came looking for her and found her body, but before she could run away, she was attacked and clawed to death by Katie. Once again, Katie called the DJ, saying that "Kathy was number two, who will be number three?"

The radio DJ phones the campus's security guard, Mac, who comes to the conclusion that the calls are just a college prank. Katie, dressed in the bear suit follows a girl named Sheila Robinson, who was cheating on her boyfriend with Benson, into a shed. Mistaking Katie to be Benson, Sheila tells Katie to meet her in the shed to have sex, but Katie surprises her through the shed's window, breaking through and clawing her. Afterwards, she phones Mac and claims that his daughter wasn't a nice girl and that's why she had to die. (Mac is the father of the girl Dickie killed.)

Victims[]

  • 1-2: Two hospital interns - Beaten and stabbed with a shovel, buried.
  • 3: Michael Benson - Stabbed with a knife.
  • 4: Jane - Slashed with homemade bear claw.
  • 5: Kathy - Slashed with homemade bear claw.
  • 6: Sheila Robinson - Slashed with homemade bear claw.
  • 7: Leslie Peterson - Slashed with homemade bear claw.

Possible[]

  • Dawn Sorenson - Slashed with homemade bear claws, possibly saved.
  • Teddy Ratliff - Stabbed in the back, possibly saved.

Gallery[]

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