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Black Christmas (2006)

   
Produced, Written & Directed by: Glen Morgan

Starring:

Katie Cassidy
.... Kelli
Michelle Trachtenberg .... Melissa
Mary Elizabeth Winstead .... Heather
Lacey Chabert .... Dana
Kristen Cloke .... Leigh
Andrea Martin .... Ms. Mac
Crystal Lowe .... Lauren
Oliver Hudson .... Kyle
Karin Konoval .... Billy's Mother
Dean Friss .... Agnes
Robert Mann .... Billy

Release Date: Quick Theatrical: December 25, 2006

*Images courtesy at: www.worstpreviews.com

Rating:

 

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]