Black Christmas
Tags: dark, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist

Plot synopsis:
On a snowy winter night on Christmas Eve, in the Alpha Kappa Gamma sorority house, Lauren (Crystal Lowe) is getting changed into her pajamas. In the next room Clair Crosby (Leela Savasta) is writing a Christmas card to her half-sister, Leigh (Kristen Cloke). Suddenly she hears something from her closet. She goes over to the closet door and looks inside. Nothing but clothes. She goes back to her card and sees that her fountain pen is missing. Suddenly a figure wraps a bag around her head. In the struggle, the figure stabs the pen into her eye.At a mental institution not far away, Billy Lenz (Robert Mann) is being served his Christmas dinner. He is locked away, rocking back and fourth in his rocking chair, safely in his cell that is decorated with Christmas lights. The orderly serving the food gets a scare from a volunteer dressed as Santa who is looking for the children's ward. Security guard J. Bailey (Ron Selmour) makes jokes to the orderly about Billy trying to escape every year. The orderly and Santa walk away, leaving the security guard alone in the hall. Billy opens the small window on his cell and places a present wrapped in newspaper on the ledge for the security guard. The security guard opens it to find nothing that interesting, except on the newspaper is written "I'll be home for Christmas." The security guard looks into the cell to find it empty and Billy's chair rocking back and fourth. He quickly opens the cell and goes inside, to find a hole in the wall. He takes his flashlight and looks into the hole, as Billy comes from under the bed and stabs him in the neck with a candy cane. Billy leaves the cell and kills the man dressed as Santa. He steals his outfit, stuffs his body in a bag, and leaves the institution, dumping the bag in the dumpster with the man's hand sticking out from the bag.Outside of the sorority house, Kelli Presley (Katie Cassidy) and her boyfriend Kyle Autry (Oliver Hudson) are talking in his car. She tells him that she is going to spend Christmas with her roommates but that she will make it up to him. He is disappointed because this is their first Christmas together. She kisses him goodbye and goes inside the house. As she does her fellow sorority sister Megan Helms (Jessica Harmon) calls Kyle on his cell phone. Meanwhile, Megan is in her room, watching an old home made porn movie that features her and Kyle. Kyle hangs up the phone. Kelli goes inside and greets everyone, including Melissa Kitt (Michelle Trachtenberg), her best friend. Heather Fitzgerald (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Dana Mathis (Lacey Chabert), Lauren Hannon and Ms. MacHenry (Andrea Martin), the house mother who loves all of the girls and accepts their flaws.They have a "secret santa" gift giving thing going and Ms. Mac wants to know who got Billy. According to her, Billy (Cainan Wiebe) killed his family here. When Billy was born, he has a liver disorder that makes his skin yellow. His father loves him regardless but his mother is disappointed and wants nothing to do with him. They live in the house that is now the sorority house. As Billy gets a bit older he is treated even worse by his mother, who has become an alcoholic. On Christmas his mother tells him Santa was shot down by the Russians. His father, however, tells him he has a present for him hidden in a stow-away space in Billy's closet. Billy goes into his room, which will become Eve's in the present day, and finds a telescope, maing him very happy. A few years later his mother and father are not getting along very well, and his mom is having an affair. Billy hears them arguing and looks under their door to witness his father with a bag over his head and his head being bashed in with a hammer. Billy runs back to his room as his mother and her lover take the body outside and begin to bury it in the crawl space under the house. Billy is watching this and is discovered. His mother chases him into the attic and locks him in there.All of the girls are horrified by this story but Ms. Mac assures them it is all true. Heather says she was the one who drew Billy's name for secret Santa but she thought it was wrong to buy him a gift because he was a murderer and it was offensive to the birth of Jesus to make a mockery of gift giving. Heather starts to go upstairs to her room but runs into Eve Agnew (Kathleen Kole). Eve has been upstairs the whole time and is leaving to go visit her family. She gives Heather her secret santa gift, a crystal statue of a unicorn. Heather is less than impressed and bids Eve farewell. Eve goes towards the door but Ms. Mac tells her she has a present for her. Before she can find it, Eve leaves, obviously disappointed by Heather's reaction.Kelli and Lauren go upstairs to tell Clair and Megan they are going to open the presents. Clair obviously doesn't answer. Lauren pounds on the door and says she is going to steal her presents if she doesn't get down here. Laughing, Kelli does this on Megan's door. Megan tells them to go away and she doesn't want to open presents. They leave and Megan hears a snow globe tune playing in the attic. She goes into the attic and asks if someone is playing a joke. She gets more then she bargained for when she finds Clair's body by the window in a rocking chair. Someone comes from behind and smashes the snow globe into her head. She falls onto the ground as a bag is put over her head. She fights back, but the figure rips out one of her eyes with their bare hand!The home phone rings, Melissa answers it and puts it on loud-speaker. The caller is making all sorts of weird noises. Lauren teases him, and the caller threatens to kill Lauren before hanging up. Heather says someone is obviously sick in the head and doesn't need to be provoked by Lauren. Melissa checks the caller ID and is surprised to see it's coming from Megan's cell. They assure themselves it's just a joke.They open their presents, with Ms. Mac getting some lingerie as a gag gift. Everyone laughs and Kelli goes back upstairs to check on the girls. Kyle suddenly pops out of Megan's room. Kelli screams and the other girls rush upstairs. Kyle apologizes and says he wanted to surprise her. Ms. Mac asks if Megan is in her room and Kyle says he doesn't know. Lauren asks him how he could have just been in her room and not know if she is in there. He explains that it's really dark in there. He makes a joke about Billy getting her. He then tells everyone another story about Billy's past.Billy was kept in the attic for many years. His mother and stepfather lived happily without him. Everything was wonderful except his mom couldn't get pregnant by his step-father...so she crept into the attic and had sex with Billy, her own son! Nine months later she gave birth to a baby girl named Agnes (Dean Friss). As Agnes grew older, Billy became jealous. One Christmas, Agnes got a doll for a present. A jealous Billy releases a tantrum and breaks the attic door open and rushes to the living room, attacking Agnes and pulling out one of her eyes, stabbing his stepfather in the face and beating his mom to death with a dough roller. When the police arrive on the scene, they find him eating a cookie made from his mother's flesh. Agnes was put into an orphanage and no one knows where she is today.The girls are freaked out by the story. Kelli goes inside Megan's room and finds the porn video on the computer. She breaks down and Kyle tells her it was from a long time ago. Kelli screams for him to leave the house and he becomes enraged, calling the women "spoilt bitches." Ms. Mac goes off on him about treating Kelli like that, pushing him towards the stairs. As Kyle leaves, a figure is standing by the tree looking at the presents. Ms. Mac asks who the person is. Clair's half-sister, Leigh tells the girls that Claire never called her, telling her she was ready to be picked up and she is worried. Dana says she even had no idea Clair had a sister. Leigh explains they are only half-sisters and are trying to get to know each other.Suddenly the power goes out in the house. Dana says the circuit breaker is under the house and she will go turn it on. She goes outside and smokes, dropping her cigarette into a hole on the porch. She hears someone underneath it. Taking her flashlight she opens the door to the crawl space and looks inside. Suddenly someone grabs her, pulling her in. The two struggle as the figure grabs a gardening tool and stabs Dana in the head. Lauren is beyond drunk now, having been drinking booze the whole night. Melissa tells her she smells and needs to shower. As she showers, someone watches from a broken tile in the floor. After the shower, Lauren goes to bed.Everyone starts asking where the other girls are, since Clair, Megan and Dana have disappeared. Kelli questions what is taking Dana so long, and is even more startled when someone calls from Dana's cell number and hangs up. The rest of the girls go outside to look for Dana. Heather and Leigh find Eve's car still parked outside. They open the car door and scream as Eve's severed head rolls out. The girls scream and run back into the house, locking the door behind them. Kelli calls the police but because of the snow it may take over two hours for them to arrive. Ms. Mac tells everyone that they can pile into her car and try to find help. Kelli says that they won't get far and that they need to stick together. Heather says she wants to leave, and Ms. Mac tells the girls that they can stay and she will go with Heather to find help. The two go outside and get in the car. Ms. Mac gets out of the car to scrape the ice off of the windshield. As she begins to scrape Billy's yellow eye comes into view inside the car. Ms. Mac gasps as he kills Heather, her blood spraying all over the windshield. Ms. Mac falls against the garage door, causing an icicle to fall from above which impales her head.Leigh notices that Ms. Mac hasn't left yet. She decides to go see what's going on. Kelli decides to go out with her, leaving Melissa and a sleeping Lauren behind. As they leave the house a figure grabs Heather's unicorn statue and walks down the hall. In the garage, Leigh slips on Ms. Mac's blood and screams. Upon hearing this Melissa rushes towards the stairs. A figure grabs wraps a bag over her head, slamming her into a wall. She rips the bag off and rushes through the house and into her room. She grabs a stick and hits the figure with it. Melissa opens a window and is going to climb out but the figure throws an ice-skate at her, cutting off the back of her head.Kelli and Leigh rush inside and call for Melissa. There is no answer and they go to Lauren's room, closing the door behind them. But someone is on the other side of the door and kicks it open. It's Kyle. Leigh attacks him and he throws her against Lauren's bed, causing the covers fall off of Lauren, who is very much dead with her eyes gouged out! Everyone screams and Kyle insists he isn't the killer. Kelli calls Lauren's cell phone and hears it ringing in the attic. She explains that the killer might be in the attic with her phone. Kyle opens the attic door and is pulled inside. Kelli and Leigh try to get into the attic but the door is slams shut. Kyle fights back as a bag is put over his head. Kelli breaks the door open and witnesses Kyle being stabbed with the unicorn statue, then one of his eyes being ripped out and eaten! Leigh attacks the figure and is thrown across the attic, discovering her half-sisters body still in the rocking chair. The figure attacks Kelli and Leigh tries to help but is knocked into a hole in the floor. A bag is put over Kelli's head but she grabs a fork and stabs the figure in the eye. She gets up and sees the figure has a glass eye. It's Agnes. Kelli tells Agnes everything is okay and she doesn't have to do this. She tells him her brother isn't here, he is still locked away. Agnes tells her that she doesn't have a brother, only a father. Billy comes from behind and lights a candle.Agnes attacks Kelli but is knocked into another hole in the floor that pins her between the walls! Billy pushes Kelli into the same hole, accidentally knocking over the candle. Kelli has grabbed onto a string of Christmas light attached to a small tree, trying to keep from falling completely in. She screams for help as Agnes starts to crawl up the hole. Leigh comes to her rescue, smashing open the wall. Agnes grabs Leigh's head but she manages to fight her off. Leigh runs through the house and smashes out another wall, finally reaching the spot where Kelli is trapped. Billy is climbing into the hole and Agnes is crawling up it! Leigh grabs Kelli and pulls her to safety as the Christmas tree catches fire (along with the rest of the attic) and falls into the hole, burning Agnes and Billy. The two survivors rush outside.At the hospital Kelli is going to have some tests done to make sure she is okay. Leigh has a present in her hand from Clair. She tells Kelli she wants to open it now because she won't be able to open it in front of her family. She says that she is glad she got to know Clair before all of this happened. She opens the present and finds a watch engraved with "Family Forever." She starts to cry as a nurse comes in and tells Kelli they need her for some x-rays.Some time later Leigh goes back to Kelli room to see if she is back from the x-rays. A body with blonde hair lays in the bed, but as she approaches the person turns over to reveal Agnes. Leigh screams as Agnes grabs her by the throat and snaps her neck.Kelli comes back into the room and feels something is wrong. She finds Leigh's new watch. She sees blood on the ceiling above her and starts to leave the room, but Agnes grabs her from behind the curtain and starts to strangle her. Kelli grabs a defibrillator paddle and shocks Agnes in the head with it, killing her. This is the ending for the UK version. The US version continues from here when Billy comes down from the ceiling, as Kelli rushes from the room. She grabs some crutches that are in the hall and starts to beat him with it. She turns to run, thinking he is unconscious but he grabs her foot, causing her to fall over a medical cart. Billy grabs a scalpel from the pile of medical supplies now on the floor and takes chase. Kelli rushes to the stairs as Billy comes from behind, slashing her with the scalpel. She grabs him and throws him over the stairway, causing him to fall on top of the Christmas tree below, impaling him. His intestines spew out, he is very much dead, and Kelli is left to look on in shock as the credits start...

Review: And, for a slasher film coming in the wake of "Scream" and its kindred, "Black Christmas" just shows a general lack of common sense when an obvious threat is lurking (can you really feel sorry for a security guard who lingers in a maniac's room long enough to get knocked off?).
But in an odd way, "Black Christmas" avoids the oblivion of crappy horror remakes due to Morgan's impassioned, assured sense of visual stylethat being said, it's nowhere near as good as its predecessor.4.5 out of 10.
Earlier this year, I tore the re-make of When A Stranger Calls apart, and said at the time, that if Hollywood won't bother making new horror movies, but instead simply re-make old or foreign ones, then just stop.
If I have a problem with them is that the film is maybe a little over-edited so at times, you aren't sure if certain characters have been killed or not.This movie has been getting a critical mauling in certain areas.
If Kyle isn't a red herring, and his only purpose is to bring up some sex tape which was not important to the story (despite being shown again and again), then what the hell was he doing in the movie at all?Other great elements from the original were toned down: the police station scenes, the drunk girl (who now passes out right away).
And, of course, you simply cannot beat the original "Black Christmas", one of the best horror films ever made..
You'll be better served for your DVD dollar.A final editorial comment: I have yet to see a 200X horror film remake that came close to the original in spite of all the FX technology.....e.g. The Haunting.
It isn't scary but the over the top kills and gore make this film enjoyable to watch with friends.The acting is pretty good and the film tries it's best to establish each character before the main bloodshed begins.
Sorority girls are terrorized on Christmas Eve by the psychotic murderer that once lived in their house.Black Christmas 2006 isn't anything like the classic 1974 original.
There's little surprise in this slasher outing, you've got all the clichés on display – a group of girls with attitudes, some background on a killer with a bad home life, lots of false scares, and plenty of gory over-the-top killings.
Things started off with a bang in January with Eli Roth's Hostel and then came to a perfect close with the great fun of Black Christmas, a remake of the 1974 original.
While many think that John Carpenter's 1978 flick Halloween was the movie that kick-started the slasher genre, Black Christmas was made four years earlier and used nearly the same premise.
This remake is directed by horror veteran Glen Morgan (of the Final Destination trilogy), and features several up-and-coming actresses; Michelle Trachtenberg, returning to the horror genre after her three-year run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Lacey Chabert of 2003's Mean Girls; Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Crystal Lowe, both from this year's amazing Final Destination 3; and Katie Cassidy of this year's horrible When a Stranger Calls remake.
It fits perfectly with the mold of a great horror film: interesting premise, good characters, realistic gore and deaths, scary killers, a hint of black humor, a likable heroine, and a decent ending.
A boy who isn't wanted by his mother, turns into a sadistic killer, after witnessing his mother at a very young age kill his step-father, the mother proceeds to lock him in the attic for a very long time, now billy 21 or older now , starts to get revenge on the mother, and the sorority girls who now live in his house.
I saw this last month with my family, we have this semi-morbid tradition of watching the original 1974 movie every year during the holidays, so naturally I wanted to see this remake - and I was surprised!
The original film is better in terms of a classic, quality horror movie, but this remake is just as good, but in a different way.
I wanna start by saying that this remake of Black Christmas is Excellent!First- The story was brill, the gore had it's great moments and it was a scary movie with enough deaths to keep all those death lovers out there amused.Second- I thought that some of the acting in this film was absolutely outstanding, but there was a few who were not as good.
If you are a fan of the original like I am--I believe it to be the best horror film EVER made--you may want to stay clear of this remake unless you can have an open mind.
It definitely has some good humor and a lot of character.The movie may not be perfect like the original, but for a remake, it definitely has more pros than cons!
Before watching the remake of BLACK Christmas I told myself that I would view it as if it is an original film so I can give an opinion that isn't based on a ton of comparisons, because if you look at an original film and a remake you're still watching two completely different films despite any possible similarities.While watching this remake and seeing what they have done here, I couldn't help myself by saying this is going to slap fans of the original 1974 classic in the face, its like Glen Morgan took the original, tore it apart and put it back to together as a hack and slash fest that would've been better if it were another SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT sequel, this remake is basically a slasher through and through, it even contains all the trademarks of a slasher such as despicable stuck up characters that you wish would die just so the film would end, it has a main villain whose gone psycho from growing up in messed up household, it even as an 80's slasher type of score that lets you think about the good old days of horror.My recommendation for watching this film would be not to take it seriously and try not to compare it the original 1974 classic, otherwise you might find yourself speechless..
Boo these constant remakes filling modern horror features well actually to tell the truth, for most part I actually didn't mind this recent remake (although some like to call these a re-imaginative) of the 1974 Canadian seasonal slasher 'Black Christmas', which was directed by Bob Clark.
If there's one thing to be learned from failed remakes of movies like "Psycho" and "Halloween" (among others), it's that remaking a slasher classic (a.k.a. a film that still holds up today) is usually a terrible idea to begin with and almost always ends up a bust.
While Bob Clark's original film might not be fit for the hip, younger audience that this remake was built for, it certainly holds its own in the league of classic slasher fare, making the choice to modernize it a sketchy one from the get-go.
If "Black X-Mas" aims to be a slightly average slasher flick that numbs the mind for 90 minutes, then mission accomplished.The story is about a deranged killer, abused by his mother and recently escaped from a mental institution, who makes his way to a sorority house on Christmas Eve to pick off its residents in rather gruesome manners.
this sequel to the 1974 original,is quite different than its predecessor.for one thing.it's much gorier and there are a couple pretty tasteless scenes,even for this genre.the kills are nothing spectacular,and even pedestrian(read:boring)at times there is lots of blood,if nothing else.one of the women in the sorority house(which most of the movie takes place)gets naked for a shower scene,but it's pretty lame.you won't get any long lingering shots,but you can tell this chick has one hot body(which is why she had the shower scene,of course)there is another huge difference between this film and the 1974 version.in the 1974 version,there is almost no back story.in this one there is,but too much.they give too much history of the nut job and what led to his psychotic behaviour.the movie tend to spend more time in the past than in the present.that didn't work for me.also,there gaps in logic,even for the genre.you will roll your eyes a few time in this one.this movie is nowhere near the worst movie i have seen,nor the wost horror movie,but i isn't great either.for me,"Black Christmas" (2006)is a 5/10*.
Obvious plus of the movie is what is called 'dream cast': sorority is filled with beautiful starlets like Katie Cassidy 'When A Stranger Calls'), Michelle Trachtenberg ('Buffy' TV-Series), Lacey Chabert ('Mean Girls'), Crystal Lowe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (both from 'Final Destination 3').
However, compared to the remake, the original is an absolute masterpiece of terror.Black Christmas '06 is typical of the current trend for rehashing old scary films: it dispenses with what made the original effective, throws in some good looking teens and a splash of gore and sits back as undemanding audiences lap it all up.In typical slasher style, a group of ridiculously gorgeous, but still rather bland teens/twenty somethings, who are spending Christmas in their frat house, are killed off by an escaped lunatic named Billy.
The film is also extremely dark, with no-one pausing to turn on the lights in the house (eventually, there is a power cutbut up until that moment...).Black Christmas '06 is obviously aimed at teens: the vapid cast look good (Michelle Trachtenberg and Lacey Chabert are clearly a couple of honeys, but unfortunately their acting ability is severely limited); there is quite a bit of gruesome gore (they've got to compete with the Saws and Hostels, after all); and the silly ending is your typical 'sole survivor vs.
the bad guy' set-up.Admittedly, the makers do try to add the occcasional original and rather twisted moment (the incestuous mother, the killer's inexplicable eyeball fetish, and the fact that Billy is yellow!), but on the whole, this is lazy, by-the-numbers film-making that deserves to be vilified by horror fans worldwide..
"Black Christmas" is a thoroughly entertaining and quite surprisingly good remake.**SPOILERS**Stuck in their sorority house, Kelli Presley, (Katie Cassidy) Melissa, (Michelle Trachtenberg) Heather Fitzgerald, (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) Dana, (Lacey Chabert) Lauren Hannon, (Crystal Lowe) Megan Helms, (Jessica Harmon) Clair Crosby, (Leela Savasta) and Eve Agnew, (Kathleen Kole) as well as House Mother Barbara MacHenry, (Andrea Martin) try to make the best of the snowed-in situation.
But getting back to the point, this was the film's major redeeming factor along with the death scenes (which are over-the-top and gory).Knowing that each character wasn't really based on a stereotype made me forgive their stupid mistakes (like going out alone to turn the power back on, etc).
It doesn't hold a candle to the original for the fans but even though I liked the first one, the remake is the movie I'd prefer to watch.
I'd recommend this film to slasher/horror movie fans but if you don't like the genre, this isn't going to change your views on it..
Which the killer once lived in that house.Written and Directed by Glen Morgan (Willard "2003") made an amusing if somewhat unexpectional remake of the cult classic Canadian horror film of the same name.
Which Martin appeared in the original movie as one of the sorority girls.The picture didn't play well at the box office and writer/director:Morgan (Although it's rumored) that he didn't liked the final product of his own film.
I was really disappointed with the whole "let's make the killer mean something to the story", it does work for certain movies, but for a good slasher film, I like it when the killer doesn't have a certain motive, they're just a crazy psychopath, it makes them a little more scary like Michael Myers, no soul, no conscience, just kill for the sake of killing.
The story was just weak and lacked the originality of the first Black Christmas, even if it is a remake.It's the Christmas season, some sorority girls have decided to stay on campus in their house rather than go home.
When a few of the girls go missing, Katie, one of the girls left over, decides to find out what's really going on, but she may not wanna find out what's going on in her own sorority house.Over all the movie does deliver on the gore, it's not completely terrible, but the problem is that it just made the original story not as much fun.
But the death scenes were pretty cool, a little bit cooler than the original some aspect, I know I'll get a lot of hate for that, but you gotta love a little gore, it's a scary movie after all.
I feel that a remake should only be justified if you can add something that wasn't in the original, and instead of playing on the theme of the movie in 1974 but they've taken all the fun out of this movie, the suspense that makes horror movies so good.
The original BLACK Christmas by Bob Clark is basically the template for all slasher films of today.
While this film is no classic, and certainly doesn't come close to matching the original, it should satisfy its audience -- those craving lurid, gruesome shocks amid the otherwise feel-good fare playing during Christmas.From the start, the film abandons its predecessor's subtle, suspenseful approach to the story of a maniac preying on unsuspecting sorority sisters.
This film seems like the stolen identity of the original film called "Black Christmas", oh how original, as well as a sad combination of plot/characters and conclusion of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" for the continuous murdering of friends and cheesy murder sequences, and the stalking and for "Halloween" a nut-job gets locked up and time passes by when he escapes and relives his previous murder as a life style.
The inclusion of Billy's sister, Agnes, is so out-of-left-field that it feels like Morgan was simply trying to throw in a few extra kills and pad out the movie's already spare running time.
The story features some really poor and lame written elements, that you just don't learn in film-school.Yes, so it's still a remake of the 1974 horror movie with the same title but there are lots of differences.
I won't profess to be a big fan of the original Black Christmas - although I like it better than Halloween and it probably would find itself high up on my list of favourite slashers...if I ever were to make one.
It kind of reminds me of the trilogy Saw. Its a really good movie although the ended could have been better than it was.It wasn't the best horror film made, but it will get you your money's worth.
But for some people, Christmas time is merely another way to think up a plot to another slasher film, like this trainwreck of a movie, 2006's version of "Black Christmas".
Before I go any further, let me say that I have seen the original 1974 version of "Black Christmas" and while I can't say it was the greatest horror film I ever saw, at least it was better than this.
Here, the skin of the character is so bright yellow that he looks like a live character from "The Simpsons"!In Bob Clark's '74 version, we never knew who the killer was since we only saw thing from his point of view or if we were lucky his shadow and occasional eyeball, thus making the film all the more spooky.
I like bad horror and this is really the only reason why I would keep watching this movie over again just because I do kind of get some enjoyment of seeing the characters die in this one as I have very little emotional attachment to any of them...except for one so I can't really reveal who as it would be a spoiler.
I do like horror movies revolving around a holiday, it doesn't happen that often but it really should.This film is a loose remake of the original, that takes place in a sorority house.
Overall I'd say to those looking for a good entertaining horror movie: there are worse scary movies out there to watch, and there are certainly ones that are a hell of a lot better than Black Christmas (2006).
Black Christmas remake here is pretty much straight forward on delivering the blood and hot chicks getting slaughter one by one rather than building up the scare like the original film.
The original Black Christmas was just so good that its hard to top being extremely creepy and atmospheric and also with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre the first slasher film.The remake makes numerous changes to the story but I don't want to spoil anything so I'll leave that for you to find out (basically they just wanted to expand on the story of the original) its just a gorier,more straight forward less eerie version of the original and it also makes it exclusively clear who the killer is which is a real shame since one of the original film's great innovations was to make it a total mystery that never gets solved (although I understand they had to do something different from the original).
There's no denying it's a feast for the eyes.It's a shame because Black Christmas is such a beautiful looking, sleekly filmed movie, I WANT to like it.
This movie is somewhat scary but lacks the originality is predecessor had, the mysterious killer you never see, the execution-style deaths and the whole concept of killing at Christmas.
But it was all in good fun and I appreciate that.The acting was bad, but like all other remakes of horror films, I'm not surprised.
Incidentally, Andrea Martin  who played one of the victims in the original BLACK Christmas  appears here as the house mother (whereas Bob Clark himself figured among the remake's myriad producers!)..
Except that Glen Morgan gave birth to a terribly bland and boring horror movie, and to a horribly bad remake of "Black Christmas".