 
A
group of sorority sisters are celebrating
Christmas at their fraternity house for
the holidays run by a woman named Ms. Mac
(Andrea Martin) as she tries to bring
cheer for everyone but some of them are
having personal issues.
A psychopath named Billy (Robert Mann)
whom once lived in that house has
experienced his father being killed by
his mother as a child because he was not
the child she wanted and then had an
inbred sister/daughter named Agnes. Billy
kills his mother and eats some of her
flesh. Then he plucks Agnes' eye out
which all happened in that house. Agnes
was sent to an orphanage and there was no
news of her presence.
Billy was sent to a psych ward all those
years but he manages to escape by killing
one of the guards there.
Meanwhile, when the sisters are all
getting together they experience
harrassing phone calls from the supposed
killer Billy threatening them to leave or
they will be the next to die.
They call his bluff but then they end up
being slaughtered as the killer has made
passageways in the house that were built
during Billy's childhood days. This
killer is watching them and knows how to
trap them while a snowstorm is happening
finding no escape for the sisters to get
help from the police.
At first this
remake to the 1974 cult hit seemed like a
typical slasher with a confused and
pointless plot making the film very
average but keep watching as it gets much
better and more mysterious as things
aren't what they seem at all and the
story is so different from the original
movie too.
It is definetely twisted and psychotic
but in a fantastic1 way. I just couldn't
keep my eyes off of it when I went to the
theatre to see it.
By all means check this movie out if you
love mysterious slasher films involving
sorority chicks.
The acting is well
performed but not over the top excellent
but hey, they did their best in it.
It's great to see SCTV Network TV
star Andrea Martin back in
action again as one of the sorority
teachers. I always found her very witty
and talented. She does very well
performing a serious role this time. She
was also in the original movie but
portraying a sorority sister.
Katie Cassidy is also good in her
role and was surprised to find out that
she's the daughter of former teen idol David
Cassidy.
The most intimidating performance of them
all was supporting actress Karin
Konova as the psychotic mother of
Billy's. She shows great nasty
expressions and an icy messed up tone in
her speech. I give her a two thumbs up as
she knows how to be disturbing in her
part.
A bit of
Konoval's breast is briefly shown
while her character is fornicating with
her lover on a staircase.
A sorority sister is taking a shower and
her butt and a side of her breast is
partially shown.
Ooh yeah we have
plenty of intense horror violence.
Eyeballs are stabbed out and some are
eaten
Face is sliced off
Heads are stabbed
Decapitations
Cannibalism
Body parts are hung on a tree
The killer is stabbed with a sharp object
on a tree and his guts are revealed
Lots of blood and lots more gore too.
Glen Morgan certainly
has good timing with his work in this
film.
At first he seems to rush the direction
but then he gives it an even pace.
He shows excellent flashback scenes on
the disturbing look on both Konoval and
Cainan Wiebe's characters as
evil mother and child on Christmas Eve.
You just know something terrible is going
to happen. Konoval was perfect
with her evil attitude telling her son
what happened to Santa Claus.
He shows great shots of the murderous
events and the passageways around the
house.
Morgan also gives the movie that
Scream and When a
Stranger Calls feel to his work
with the phone threats and the sority
girls reactions to it.
I will tell you that Morgan will
go places if he hasn't already with his
chilling timing on the flick as he can
easily be the next Wes Craven.
The late Shirley Walker
composed music for this film and
passed away shortly before the films
release.
She did a wonderful job for it giving it
the right horror chemistry in a Christmas
film and using perfect Christmas music
during the intense and disturbing scenes
in the film showing that happy music can
be deadly too.
Hospital
Santa: [Noticing a padlock on
Billy's cell door] A Padlock?
Security Guard J.Bailey: His mine
used one when she kept him in the
attic... it helps him feel at home,
especially at Christmas, every year
around this time he tries to escape
Kelli
Presely: [phone rings] Alpha
Kappa... hello? Hello, hello? Very funny,
Kyle.
Kelli Presely: I think someone's
in trouble.
[turns receiver onto speaker phone]
Billy Lenz: [on the telephone,
in a muffled, maniacal voice] Where
is Agnes? Billy! What your mother and I
must know is where is Agnes? Merry
Christmas, Agnes. You are in my house, I
can see you. Everyone should be home for
Christmas! Santa Claus is dead.
Lauren Hanon: Hey, shouldn't you
get goin', don't you have lots of toys to
deliver to good little boys and girls?
Billy Lenz: I'm gonna kill you.
Mrs.
Lenz: Santa Claus... Is dead!
Mrs.
Lenz: [hands her gift] Merry
Christmas, Agnes.
Agnes - Age 8: [loud noises
come from upstairs] Is that Santa's
reindeer?
Mrs. Lenz: There's nothing up
there. Now, do you want a Christmas
cookie? You're my cookie, and I could
gobble you up!
Billy
Lenz: [Over the phone] Agnes
is MY FAMILY NOW
Kelli
Presely: They're not your family...
and your brother's not here
Agnes Lenz: No... MY DADDY IS
[Her brother and father bursts through
the floorboards behind them]
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