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| name = Black Christmas |
| name = Black Christmas |
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| image = Black christmas ver3.jpg |
| image = Black christmas ver3.jpg |
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| caption = Poster for ''Black Christmas'' |
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| director = [[Glen Morgan]] |
| director = [[Glen Morgan]] |
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| producer = [[ |
| producer = [[James Wong (producer)|James Wong]]<br>Odgen Gavanski<br>[[Bob Clark]]<br>[[Mark Cuban]]<br>Glen Morgan<br>[[Todd Wagner]] |
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| writer |
| writer = Glen Morgan |
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| starring = [[Katie Cassidy]]<br>[[Michelle Trachtenberg]]<br>[[ |
| starring = [[Katie Cassidy]]<br>[[Michelle Trachtenberg]]<br>[[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]]<br>[[Crystal Lowe]]<br>[[Kristen Cloke]]<br>[[Lacey Chabert]]<br>[[Oliver Hudson]]<br>[[Andrea Martin]] |
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| cinematography = |
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| rating = R (15 rating in UK) strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and langauge [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=mpaa&p=.htm] |
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| editing = Chris G. Willingham |
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| distributor = [[ |
| distributor = [[Dimension Films]] (USA)<br>[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (USA)<br>[[Pathé]] (UK theatrical)<br>[[20th Century Fox]] (UK DVD) |
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| released = [[December 25]], [[2006 |
| released = {{flagicon|United States}}<br>[[December 25]], [[2006]]<br>{{flagicon|United Kingdom}}<br>[[December 15]], [[2006]] |
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| runtime = 1 hours. 40 mins. |
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| country = [[Canada]]/[[USA]] |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
| language = [[English language|English]] |
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| gross = $16,235,293 |
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| website = http://www.blackchristmas.com/ |
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| website = http://blackchristmas.com |
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| preceded_by = ''[[Black Christmas]]'' (1974) |
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| amg_id = 1:324294 |
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| imdb_id = 0454082 |
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'''''Black Christmas''''' is a [[2006 in film|2006]] [[remake]] of the [[1974 in film|1974]] |
'''''Black Christmas''''' is a [[2006 in film|2006]] [[remake]] of the [[1974 in film|1974]] film of the [[Black Christmas|same name]]. It is directed by [[Glen Morgan]]. The movie is rated R in the US and 15 in the UK for strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and language [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=mpaa&p=.htm] |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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This film is a remake of the 1974 horror movie of the same title. The movie tells the story of Billy, a young boy who was abused by his mother as a child (due to being born with a liver defect, making him a freak in the eyes of his mother). While his mother was cheating on Billy's father, she eventually killed his father one Christmas (with a [[claw hammer]] right before Billy's own eyes) and kept Billy in the attic - for good (since she only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at him), while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. On one night, after her lover fell asleep while they were having sex, Billy's mother seduced him and they had intercourse, the result being Billy's mother being pregnant. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic after 15 years and brutally murdered his mother and her lover (using such [[objects]], as an [[ornament]] and [[rolling pin]]) as his sister looked on. Cut to present day, a group of nine sorority sisters consisting of Kelli, Melissa, Lauren, Heather, Dana, Megan, Clair, Eve and their house mother, Ms. Mac, who now live in Billy's childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery phone calls during Christmas break, and as two of the girls go missing, the girls begin being murdered one by one by none other than a mysterious person who lived in the house before them...might have been haunting them as well. |
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This film is a remake of the 1974 horror movie of the same title. The movie tells the story of Billy, a young boy who was abused by his mother as a child (due to being born with a liver defect, making him a freak in the eyes of his mother). While his mother was cheating on Billy's father, she eventually killed his father one Christmas (with a [[claw hammer]] right before Billy's own eyes) and kept Billy in the attic—for good (since she only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at him), while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. On one night, after her lover fell asleep while they were having sex, Billy's mother seduced him and they had intercourse, the result being Billy's mother being pregnant. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic after 15 years and brutally murdered his mother and her lover (using such [[objects]], as an [[ornament]] and [[rolling pin]]) as his sister looked on. Cut to present day, a group of nine sorority sisters consisting of Kelli ([[Katie Cassidy]]), Melissa ([[Michelle Trachtenberg]]), Lauren ([[Crystal Lowe]]), Heather ([[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]]), Dana ([[Lacey Chabert]]), Megan ([[Jessica Harmon]]), Clair ([[Leela Savasta]]), Eve ([[Kathleen Kole]]) and their house mother, Ms. Mac ([[Andrea Martin]]), who now live in Billy's childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery phone calls during Christmas break, and as two of the girls go missing, the girls begin being murdered one by one by none other than a mysterious person who lived in the house before them...might have been haunting them as well. |
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==Synopsis== |
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On a snowy winter night on Christmas Eve, in the Alpha Kappa Gamma sorority house, Lauren is getting changed into her pajamas. In the next room Clair Crosby is writing a Christmas card to her half-sister, Leigh. 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 |
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At a mental institution not far away, Billy Lenz is being served his Christmas dinner. He is locked away, rocking back and forth 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 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. |
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Outside of the sorority house Kelli Presley and her boyfriend Kyle Autry 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 calls Kyle on his cell phone. Meanwhile, Megan is in her room, arguing with Kyle, we do not hear the words. Kyle hangs up his phone. |
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Inside the house, we are introduced to the other girls. Mrs. Mac, the loving house mother, is sorting the Christmas gifts and trying to find Billy's. Melissa, the sarcastic funny one, is playing with her phone. Dana, the rich bitch, is painting her nails. Heather, the prude snobbish girl, is drinking wine. Finally, Kelli, the nice, new freshman, is wrapping presents. The girls talk, and they think Clair has already left with her sister to "bury the hatchet and rediscover themselves". Dana replies with, "I'd like to bury the hatchet with my sister...right in her head." |
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At the mental institution, 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 forth. 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. |
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Kelli goes to get Lauren to tell her they are opening presents. Lauren tells Kelli that she has to be more assertive. They go to Clair's door. 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. She is instead watching a home made porno of herself and Kyle. 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 than 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! |
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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. |
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Back at the house, Heather admits to not buying Billy a gift. She thinks it's not right to get a killer a gift, and Lauren tells her that Christmas is about warding off evil spirits. We are then drawn into a flashback to the sorority house in 1970. 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 Clair's in the present day, and finds a telescope. He is so very happy. A few years later his Mom and Dad 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. |
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Back to present day, the phone rings and Kelli answer's it. It's a man rambling on making weird sounds, not making sense. Lauren says some remarks to him, and the man replies with, "I'm going to kill you." Heather hangs up the phone. Melissa checks the caller i.d and is surprised to see "CLAIR CROSBY CELL". Heather yells at Lauren for provoking the caller. They have a mini fight, and Heather goes upstairs where she finds Eve. 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. |
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Flashback to Billy's mom having sex with her new husband when he falls asleep. The mother is annoyed and hears Billy upstairs in the attic and seduces him. Nine months later, the mother is rocking a baby girl, Agnes. She says, "You're my family now." |
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Back in present day, the girls talk about Eve and how she's an outsider. Meanwhile, Heather packs up and hears about a snow storm heading their way. They open their presents, with Ms. Mac getting some lingerie as a gag gift. Everyone laughs and Kelli goes to get the real gift when the phone rings. Melissa answer's it, and it's the man once again. He rambles on and repeats conversations the girls had earlier. Melissa hangs up, and checks the caller ID. This time it reads Megan's cell. Kelli goes to get Megan and runs into Heather. They go to Megan's room and Kelli screams as she see's Kyle in Megan's room. The girls run upstairs and are surprised. Kyle tells them Megan isn't in their room, and Lauren thinks Kyle has been the caller. Melissa says it is Billy, and Kyle tells them the rest of the story. |
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As Agnes grew older Billy became jealous. One Christmas, Agnes got a doll. A jealous Billy snapped and broke out of the attic: 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. |
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The girls are scared, and Kelli searches Megan's room with Kyle. Meanwhile, Lauren, Mrs. Mac, Heather, and Dana finds Leigh Colvin in their living room, looking around. She wants to know where Clair is. They find a present underneath the tree, wrapped in old newspaper, to AKA from Billy. They open it and find Agnes's doll. The girls suspesct Leigh, but Leigh wants to see Clair's room. Melissa brings Leigh to Clair's room, where Leigh opens up to Melissa saying how Clair and her aren't really close. Meanwhile Heather exclaims that she will check Eve's room for any more obsessive items to do with Billy. Dana stays downstairs with Mrs. Mac as Lauren begins vomiting due to her excessive drinking. |
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After the power goes out, Kelli finds the video of Megan and Kyle having sex, and goes off at Kyle. The girls finds Kelli and Kyle fighting, and Mrs. Mac kicks Kyle out. 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. |
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Lauren is beyond drunk now, having been chugging booze the whole night. Melissa tells her she stinks and needs to shower. As she showers, someone watches from a broken tile in the floor. After the shower Lauren goes to bed. |
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Everyone is wondering where the hell everyone is. Kelli questions what is taking Dana so long, and is even more startled when someone calls from Dana's cell number and hangs up. Kelli and Leigh go outside to look for her. They find Eve's car still parked outside. They open the car door and scream as Eve's severed head rolls out. The two women rush back inside, 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 a fence, causing an icicle to fall from above and go right into her skull. |
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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. Outside, Leigh slips in a pool of 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. |
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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 the unicorn statue and stabs the figure in the eye. She gets up and sees the figure has a glass eye. It's Agnes (Dean Friss). 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 looks over the balcony as she breathes heavily. Realizing it's over... |
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==Cast== |
==Cast== |
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*[[Katie Cassidy]] |
*[[Katie Cassidy]]... Kelli Presely |
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*[[Michelle Trachtenberg]] |
*[[Michelle Trachtenberg]]...Melissa Kitt |
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*[[Kristen Cloke]] |
*[[Kristen Cloke]]...Leigh Colvin |
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*[[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]] |
*[[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]]...Heather Fitzgerald |
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*[[Lacey Chabert]] |
*[[Lacey Chabert]]...Dana Mathis |
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*[[Crystal Lowe]]...Lauren Hanon |
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*[[Andrea Martin]] as Barbara "Ms. Mac" MacHenry |
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*[[Oliver Hudson]]...Kyle Langton |
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*[[Crystal Lowe]] as Lauren Hannon |
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*[[Jessica Harmon]] |
*[[Jessica Harmon]]...Megan Helms |
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*[[Leela Savasta]] |
*[[Leela Savasta]]...Clair Crosby |
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*[[Andrea Martin]]...Ms. Barbara MacHenry |
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*[[Oliver Hudson]] as Kyle Autry |
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*Kathleen Kole..Eve Agnew |
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*[[Robert Mann]] as Billy Lenz |
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*Robert Mann...Billy Lenz (Ages 20-35) |
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*Karin Konoval...Mrs. Lenz |
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==Trivia== |
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*Dean Friss...Agnes Lenz |
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* [[Andrea Martin]], who played Phyllis in ''[[Black Christmas]]'', said in an interview that she hadn't thought about ''Black Christmas'' for 32 years and it "came out of the blue" when Glen Morgan offered her the role as the house mother in the movie. |
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*Cainan Wiebe...Billy Agnes 6 + 12 |
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* Glen Morgan approached [[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]] about the movie at 4 AM in the airport after finishing ''[[Final Destination 3]]'' with her. After being hesitant at first after only just finishing a horror movie, she agreed to the role of "Heather" because she is a fan of the 1974 version. |
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*Christina Crivici...Agnes Age 8 |
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* Crystal Lowe's first leading role. |
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*Howard Siegel...Stepfather |
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* During one scene the famous "leg lamp" from ''[[A Christmas Story (1983 film)|A Christmas Story]]'' can be seen in the background. This may be a reference to [[Bob Clark]], the director of the original ''[[Black Christmas]]''. He directed ''A Christmas Story'' in [[1983 in film|1983]]. |
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*Peter Wilds...Mr. Lenz |
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*Ron Selmour...Security Guard |
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==Goofs== |
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*[[Michael Adamthwaite]]...Santa |
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*In the scene in which Billy kills his mom, the rolling pin he uses to beat her to death is very clearly seen to be broken over his mother's head, yet when he throws it back on the counter it is still in one piece. |
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*Peter New ...Asylum Worker |
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*When Melissa checks on Lauren before Mrs. Mac and Heather are about to leave, you see that Heather's bag is on her bed (Lauren and Heather are roommates), but when Kelli and Leigh rush in and Melissa is sitting down, the bag is gone. |
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*Juan Riedinger...Morgue Attendant |
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*Melissa says that all the boys next door live at the ADG house, but later on in the film the are called the GAD house. |
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*Aaron Pearl...Bludworth |
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*When Dana goes to check on the circuit breaker under the house, she unlocks the wooden gate to get to the crawlspace. When she is attacked, the gate is closed during the struggle and after she is killed her attacker leaves her body. When the others go to find Dana, the wooden gate is locked again. |
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*Anne Marie Loder...Mrs. Presely |
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*When Billy's father is killed and getting buried under the crawlspace, he is seen with the black bag over his head. When Dana is fighting in the crawlspace and is killed, she has scratched up part of his skeleton, however, there is no bag over his head. |
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*[[Greg Kean]]...Mr.Presely |
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*[[Clark Gregg]]...Lt. Henry Briggs [uncredited] |
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==Alternate and deleted scenes== |
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*A scene where Clair walks down the hallway at the very beginning and stops by Eve's room to peep on her almost-closed door, only to see Eve painting a huge portrait of Billy, was shot, but then cut on the final print because her fascination for Billy "needed to remain secret until the 45-minute mark," confirmed director Glen Morgan. |
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*An alternate death for Megan ([[Jessica Harmon]]) was shot but subsequently cut from the movie - it features her hearing Christmas music coming from upstairs, leaving her room and checking up the attic, only to be bagged by Agnes it, so the scene was shot on the same day onset. |
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*There were more scenes of the girls' attitude towards each other, especially Lauren and Heather. |
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*In an alternate ending, Leigh survives the film. She is in the hospital with Kelli and has an envelope with Kelli's cellphone. The phone begins to ring and the caller i.d show it to be Kyle and the two girls don't answer. This ending is on the DVD. |
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*In an alternate ending Billy is pronounced dead, but later his body disappears, it is shown that he survived, when his eye is seen in the fire alarm. This ending appears in the DVD. |
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*In the UK version, after Kelli kills Agnes, there is an extra shot of Agnes' face and blood coming out of her eyes, nose and mouth. This is not present in the U.S. theatrical version, neither is it in the Unrated version but it does appear in one of the alternate endings on the DVD. |
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*During one of the harassing phone calls, the killer threatens to "bury the hatchet" in someone's head. This is a reference to a line that got cut from the film where Dana mentions that Clair is trying to bury the hatchet with her sister. |
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*The DVD contains the international version of Melissa's death. In the international version, the killer puts a bag over Melissa's head and then proceeds to gouge out her eyes and eat them. The killer then drags away her body. It is prominent to note that Melissa is still alive and struggling while she is being dragged away with the killer's fingers in her eye sockets like a bowling ball. The re-shot US version, in which she is killed by an ice skate, may have been meant as a twisted reference to Michelle Trachtenberg's Disney film ''[[Ice Princess]]''. |
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*There is also an alternate version of Lauren's death scene. In the US theatrical release, her death is not shown at all (she is found with her eyes gouged out). In the unrated DVD, the killer sneaks into Lauren's room and creeps his hands pervertedly up and down her legs under the covers before retrieving the glass unicorn Eve gave Heather off Heather's desk and gouging Lauren's eyes out with the unicorn's horn. This is the only modus operandi seen in the remake that was also seen in the original film (Margot Kidder's character Barb, comparable to Crystal Lowe's character Lauren in the remake, is hacked to death in her bed with a glass unicorn in the original film, too). |
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==Criticism== |
==Criticism== |
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==Trivia== |
== Trivia == |
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*[[Glen Morgan]] didn't specifically have any male actors considered for the role of Kyle in the movie. Instead, during auditions, his 14-year-old daughter (stepdaughter of Glen's actress wife [[Kristen Cloke]], who also has a role in the movie), picked out [[Oliver Hudson]] shouting out, "That one!" |
*[[Glen Morgan]] didn't specifically have any male actors considered for the role of Kyle in the movie. Instead, during auditions, his 14-year-old daughter (stepdaughter of Glen's actress wife [[Kristen Cloke]], who also has a role in the movie), picked out [[Oliver Hudson]] shouting out, "That one!" |
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*This is the last feature film scored by composer [[Shirley Walker]]. She would pass away from complications of a stroke less than a month before its release. |
*This is the last feature film scored by composer [[Shirley Walker]]. She would pass away from complications of a stroke less than a month before its release. |
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==External links== |
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*{{imdb title|id=0454082|title=Black Christmas}} |
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* [http://www.blackchristmas.com/ Official site] |
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*[http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/blackchristmas Black Christmas Reviews] at [[Metacritic]] |
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* {{imdb title|id=0454082|title=Black Christmas}} |
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*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8093287824626709827&hl=en ''Black Christmas'' Clips] |
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* {{amg title|id=1:324294|title=Black Christmas}} |
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*[http://media.movies.ign.com/media/738/738378/vids_1.html ''Black Christmas'' Trailer] |
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* [http://www.radiolinkshollywood.com/detail_show.asp?ID=254 RadioLinksHollywood.com - Audio Clips] narrated by award winning radio journalist Lori Lerner. |
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Revision as of 13:15, 10 December 2007
| Black Christmas | |
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 Poster for Black Christmas | |
| Directed by | Glen Morgan |
| Written by | Glen Morgan |
| Produced by | James Wong Odgen Gavanski Bob Clark Mark Cuban Glen Morgan Todd Wagner |
| Starring | Katie Cassidy Michelle Trachtenberg Mary Elizabeth Winstead Crystal Lowe Kristen Cloke Lacey Chabert Oliver Hudson Andrea Martin |
| Distributed by | Dimension Films (USA) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA) Pathé (UK theatrical) 20th Century Fox (UK DVD) |
Release dates |  December 25, 2006  December 15, 2006 |
Running time | 1 hours. 40 mins. |
| Country | Canada/USA |
| Language | English |
Black Christmas is a 2006 remake of the 1974 film of the same name. It is directed by Glen Morgan. The movie is rated R in the US and 15 in the UK for strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and language [1]
Plot
This film is a remake of the 1974 horror movie of the same title. The movie tells the story of Billy, a young boy who was abused by his mother as a child (due to being born with a liver defect, making him a freak in the eyes of his mother). While his mother was cheating on Billy's father, she eventually killed his father one Christmas (with a claw hammer right before Billy's own eyes) and kept Billy in the attic—for good (since she only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at him), while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. On one night, after her lover fell asleep while they were having sex, Billy's mother seduced him and they had intercourse, the result being Billy's mother being pregnant. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic after 15 years and brutally murdered his mother and her lover (using such objects, as an ornament and rolling pin) as his sister looked on. Cut to present day, a group of nine sorority sisters consisting of Kelli (Katie Cassidy), Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), Heather (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Dana (Lacey Chabert), Megan (Jessica Harmon), Clair (Leela Savasta), Eve (Kathleen Kole) and their house mother, Ms. Mac (Andrea Martin), who now live in Billy's childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery phone calls during Christmas break, and as two of the girls go missing, the girls begin being murdered one by one by none other than a mysterious person who lived in the house before them...might have been haunting them as well.
Cast
- Katie Cassidy... Kelli Presely
- Michelle Trachtenberg...Melissa Kitt
- Kristen Cloke...Leigh Colvin
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead...Heather Fitzgerald
- Lacey Chabert...Dana Mathis
- Crystal Lowe...Lauren Hanon
- Oliver Hudson...Kyle Langton
- Jessica Harmon...Megan Helms
- Leela Savasta...Clair Crosby
- Andrea Martin...Ms. Barbara MacHenry
- Kathleen Kole..Eve Agnew
- Robert Mann...Billy Lenz (Ages 20-35)
- Karin Konoval...Mrs. Lenz
- Dean Friss...Agnes Lenz
- Cainan Wiebe...Billy Agnes 6 + 12
- Christina Crivici...Agnes Age 8
- Howard Siegel...Stepfather
- Peter Wilds...Mr. Lenz
- Ron Selmour...Security Guard
- Michael Adamthwaite...Santa
- Peter New ...Asylum Worker
- Juan Riedinger...Morgue Attendant
- Aaron Pearl...Bludworth
- Anne Marie Loder...Mrs. Presely
- Greg Kean...Mr.Presely
- Clark Gregg...Lt. Henry Briggs [uncredited]
Criticism
The film drew backlash from Christian groups because of the studio's decision to release a bloody slasher film about Christmas on Christmas Day. Several groups, including Liberty Counsel and Operation Just Say Merry Christmas, have called the film offensive, ill-founded and insensitive.[1] Additionally, L.A. Weekly columnist Nikkie Fenke also questioned the filmmakers' decision to release the film on Christmas.[2] Dimension Films defended the timing, saying "There is a long tradition of releasing horror movies during the holiday season as counter-programing to the more regular yuletide fare."[3] Dimension's own Scream, originally released on December 20, probably being the most successful example. Furthermore, genre critic Egregious Gurnow, of The Horror Review, countered Liberty Counsel's complaint[2] on several counts, foremost of which is the critic's citation that the organization's views upon the feature,
are naively idyllic and aesthetically limited, especially from a cultural perspective in that they forbid the notion that such atrocities as murder don't politely take a sabbatical during the Holiday season.
Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (December 2007) |
- Glen Morgan didn't specifically have any male actors considered for the role of Kyle in the movie. Instead, during auditions, his 14-year-old daughter (stepdaughter of Glen's actress wife Kristen Cloke, who also has a role in the movie), picked out Oliver Hudson shouting out, "That one!"
- This is the last feature film scored by composer Shirley Walker. She would pass away from complications of a stroke less than a month before its release.
- Andrea Martin (Ms. MacHenry) played "Phyllis" in the 1974 version of Black Christmas. Glen Morgan specifically wanted either Andrea Martin or Margot Kidder ("Barb") to return to pay respect to the 1974 version of the movie. Martin said in an interview that she hadn't thought about Black Christmas for 32 years and it "came out of the blue" when Morgan offered her the role of the house mother.
- The original film's villain was given no identity or back story, but this film gives him one.
External links
- Black Christmas at IMDb
- Black Christmas Reviews at Metacritic
- Black Christmas Clips
- Black Christmas Trailer
- RadioLinksHollywood.com - Audio Clips narrated by award winning radio journalist Lori Lerner.
- ^ "Christian Groups Fume Over Christmas Horror Film". Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ "Faith-Based Horror Film for Christmas?". Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ "Black Christmas not merry for religious groups". Retrieved 2006-12-19.