Black Christmas

2006

Action / Horror

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 14% · 65 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 32999 33K

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Director

Glen Morgan Photo
Glen Morgan

Top cast

Evan Adams Photo
Evan Adams as Doctor
Mary Elizabeth Winstead Photo
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Heather Fitzgerald
Ron Selmour Photo
Ron Selmour as Security Guard
Aaron Pearl Photo
Aaron Pearl as Bludworth
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850.6 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 1
1.71 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by juliamacon 4 / 10

Colorful and Silly Christmas Slasher

If Black Christmas gets anything right, it's the colorful Christmas inspired lighting and photography. It's hard not to feel a little festive as the camera moves in and around the hallways of this sorority house covered with all sorts of colored lights as jaunty Christmas music plays in the distant background. It's only a shame this well crafted atmosphere isn't in service of a better movie.Black Christmas is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name that involves a psychotic killer sneaking into the attic of a sorority house over Christmas break and tormenting the inhabitants with obscene and terrifying phone calls before killing them one by one. This is, more or less, the same set up for this film except, where the original featured a cast of interesting and well developed (certainly by slasher standards) characters, this film features an attractive group of young women who mostly look so much alike that you can't remember who's dead and who's not.The killer, Billy, is unwisely brought out of the shadows and given a full sob story about an abusive mother who loved his sister more than she loved him, which caused him to go on a homicidal rampage many years prior. For some reason, he has a thing for plastic bags and ripping eyes out so, if you're into that, you're in luck - that's how he dispatches of pretty much every character in the film except for one death where a stray shard of ice does the dirty work for him.It's hard to figure out what the creators of this film had in mind. It's long been rumored to have had serious studio interference, but the tone is all over the place. Is this supposed to be quite so campy? In the end, it doesn't work as a slice of slasher cheese, a full blown comedy, or a serious horror film.
Reviewed by reeceicy 6 / 10

Put On Your Safety Glasses!

Whoa. This is one of the gnarliest, nastiest, most gratuitous displays of violence I have ever seen! And I loved every minute of it! Going into this I was expecting very little due to the piss poor ratings, but the original is one of my favorite slashers of all time so I had to watch it. They absolutely nailed the Christmas vibe with the glowing lights, the booze, and the constant downpour of fake snow. As messed up as it is, I've always found the houses in both movies to be very cozy/comforting. The mid 2000's are on full display here as the blood and guts are amped up to highest degree. This movie has some of the most brutal, bloodiest, gruesome deaths put to screen. Unfortunately the ambiguity element is absent from this version and everyone involved knows who's on the other end of the killings. Did the backstory of billy need to be explained? Did he need to be yellow? Can we chill on the eye gouging? No, but I thought they did a decent job for what they were working with. From a film standpoint there are obvious gripes, but from a slasher perspective what's not to love?!
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