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Rating: 5.2/10 by 537 users

Black Christmas (2006)

As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions...

Directing:
  • Glen Morgan
  • Jack Hardy
  • Roger Scott Russell
Writing:
  • Roy Moore
  • Glen Morgan
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2006

Rating: 5.2/10 by 537 users

Alternative Title:
Black Christmas - Schwarze Weihnachten - DE
Black X-Mas - US
Black Xmas - US
Negra Navidad - SV
Noël noir - CA
Natal Negro - BR

Country:
Canada
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 32 minutes
Budget: $9,000,000
Revenue: $21,510,851

Plot Keyword: holiday, psychopath, difficult childhood, female friendship, childhood trauma, remake, revenge, serial killer, slasher, murderer, incest, eye gouging, escaped mental patient, voyeurism, christmas horror, christmas, christmas eve, sorority girls, holiday horror
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Katie Cassidy
Kelli Presley
Kristen Cloke
Leigh Colvin
Andrea Martin
Barbara 'Ms. Mac' MacHenry
Robert Mann
Billy Lenz - 20 & 35 Years
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Heather Fitzgerald
Lacey Chabert
Dana Mathis
Dean Friss
Agnes - 16 & 22 Years
Karin Konoval
Billy's Mother
Cainan Wiebe
Billy Lenz - 5 & 12 Years
Leela Savasta
Clair Crosby
Christina Crivici
Agnes - 8 Years
Howard Siegel
Lover / Stepfather
Peter Wilds
Frank Lenz
Ron Selmour
Security Guard
Peter New
Sanitarium Orderly
Christian Sloan
Richard Steinmetz
Alycia Purrott
Candy Striper
Juan Riedinger
Morgue Attendant
Jill Teed
News Reporter
Jerry Wasserman
Medical Examiner
Anne Marie DeLuise
Kelli's Mother
Greg Kean
Kelli's Father
Wendy Buss
Security (uncredited)

John Chard

Eye eye, what we got ere then? There's a running eyeball motif throughout this revamp/reimaging of Bob Clark's much revered culter of the same name (1974), after sitting through it you may, like me, feel like extracting your own eyeballs and playing ping-pong with them! Bunch of pretty sorority girls get menaced and mangled by a deranged killer who has come home for Christmas... This lacks everything that made Bob Clark's film so effective. The less is more approach has gone, thus there is very little suspense, and in place is a gigantic back story for the killer. The characterisation of the girls, some acted by some very capable actresses, is practically non existent, so very little emotional heft to draw you into a state of caring for them. There's some good gore on show, but since tonally the pic is all over the place, it's never once scary or ironically funny. A poor show all round. 3/10

Gimly

Obviously doesn't hold a candle to the original, and some of the acting is pretty genuinely bad, but it knows what it wants and it goes for it. What it wants, here being: To be hamstrung to keeping in step with its predecessor but also being wildly different enough to piss anyone off who was expecting an actual "remake". _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Wuchak

_**More entertaining than the original, but marred by a ridiculous tacked-on ending**_ During Christmas Eve at a sorority house in New Hampshire, the students & housemother are harassed by a killer who likes to gouge out eyes. For some strange reason the mad slasher knows all the inner rooms and crawlspaces of the house (attic, basement, etc.). “Black Christmas” (2006) is the first of two remakes of the original film from 1974 (the other being released in 2019 and is a remake-in-name-only). This version is more colorful and entertaining than the original, but also more twisted, highlighted by a superior cast of women, including Michelle Trachtenberg (Melissa), Lacey Chabert (Dana), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Heather), Jessica Harmon (Megan), Leela Savasta (Clair) and Katie Cassidy (Kelli). Written & directed by Glen Morgan, the film is inventive with its backstory and the way the killer haunts the innards of the house, spying & preying on the girls. This is genuinely compelling stuff. Unfortunately, the film's tone and ending were marred by the interference of studio exec Bob Weinstein, who wanted a more over-the-top horror flick with cartoonish embellishments. The preposterous ending in particular seems tacked-on and (almost) ruins the movie. Thankfully some versions of the film are closer to Morgan’s original vision, at least as far as the climax goes. The movie runs about 1 hour, 30 minutes, with a couple other versions longer or shorter by 4-5 minutes (depending on which ending was used). The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the hospital scenes done at Riverview Hospital in nearby Coquitlam. GRADE: B


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