Movie Review - Black Christmas (2006)

BLACK CHRISTMAS (AKA BLACK XMAS) (2006)   Hospital Santa: [Noticing a padlock on Billy's cell door] A Padlock? Security Guard J.Bailey: His mom 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   And here it is people, my number one FAVE slasher flick !!! it stole my number one spot for the original friday the 13th because to me this movie is THAT GOOD !!! it is nothing but your basic slash stalk kill !!!! its got the blood its got the guts and its got the gore and its an ALL female cast apart from 2 cast members !!!   So what is it i love about this movie over all the others you ask, well nothing really i just love it, alot, it doesn't really follow the whole sin rules of your normal everyday slasher flicks, theres a bit more of a story line, but yet not really, most of it is for show so they can get to some good killings, even one victum aciddently kills themself !!! its got those creeppppy ass phone calls although not as pivotal in the remake as it was in the original, the remake relys solely on the bloody kills instead of the pee your pants phone call scares.     Basically the story revolves around a big ass house thats been made into a sorority house, but back in the 70's a kid called billy lenz lived there with his mother and father, and like any good back story poor billy lenz wasn't loved by his mother, so after witnessing his father being murdered he gets locked in the attic in the house, until yearslater he escapes and kills everyone and is then arrested and placed in a sanitarium.     So on christmas eve a bunch of sorority girls are opening presents with their house mother, when one of the girls seems to disappear but no one notices till another girl disappears and then the first girls sister rocks up at the sorority house demanding where her sister is because she was supposed to have been with her already. then one by one the girls get stalked and slashed byt a crazed killer we all assume is billy lenz escaped from the sanitarium. I honestly love this movie because the kills are pretty simple every day objects the killer picks up in the house to off the girls with, and then proceedes to pull out the girls eyeballs to hang them on a christmas tree in the attic, and also at one point even EATS one of the girls eyeballs, so its got the blood guts and gore of a slasher flick that i love, by the end when you get to the attic scene with final girl Kelli and the first girl to be offed's sister Leigh discover all the bodies and they all have there eyes missing and one of the girls head is on top of the christmas tree instead of a star or angel !!! its gross and awesome at the same time.     there is actually a decent plot line behind what is happening in the sorority house ! they actually go into it in the guise of the house mother and Kelli boyfriend Kyle who has lived in the town his whole life telling the story of Billy Lenz, everyone of course thinks Billy is dead, but they are wrong, but the girls are all lead to believe he's not dead and has returned to kill them all off one by one, without giving too much away if you pay enough attention to the story of billy and to the beginning of the movie you'll see there is more too it then that !!     Not only is there a pretty decent storyline in the movie but there are quite a few recognizable faces, Michelle Tratchenburg (from Buffy), Lacey Chabert (from Party of Five), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (From Final Destionation 3) and Katie Cassidy (from the Nightmare Remake and most noteable for me Supernatural Original Ruby !!!) so that for me was the draw card in the beginning for seeing this movie, it was a few months ago i first actually saw this movie or even heard of its existances, i was searching for some good horror movies to watch and stumbled across this one online, so i headed to the video store and hired it and they rest they say of course is history !!     I honestly cannot find much bad to say about this movie, i liked it from start to finish, maybe i am just a simple minded gal !!! i do honestly love most the bad slasher movies out there, the ones that most people dont like as i've said before in previous movie reviews, the thing is with this movie i watched the remake before i watched the original, i actually didn't know that this was a remake till a month or so after i'd discovered this little gem and watched it i found the original at the video shop and decided to watch it too, and i didn't really like the remake, it was kind of slow and didn't really build up to anything or go anywhere, i was slightly confused by the plot of the original, where as in the remake they outlined the plot clearly enough so you understood what was going on. I've said it before and i'll say it again, i loved this movie for the blood and gore involved too, always a big draw card for me is a movie thats not afraid to be a bit disgusting in its storyline, i mean eating eyeballs YUCK!! an when billy kills his mother on christmas, he makes christmas cookies out of her flesh and eats them with milk when he gets arrested by the cops!!! disgusting and sooooo awesome at the same time !!!     So this is DEFINATLY a movie i'd recommend watching especially if you love your slasher flicks and you love some good kills and a bit of disgustingness thrown in !!! then you will probably love this movie as much as i did !!! i even recommended watching the original and then watching the remake and try imagining the creeeeeeepy calls fromt he original placed into the kills of the remake !!! that would've been soooooo freaking creepy !!     they do use the creepy calls in the remake, but not so much to the extent of the first one, its more concentrated on the kills and the stalking then anything.     So i hope ya watch this movie and enjoy it as much as i do !! and i hope it gets added to your top 10 slasher flicks !! even if it doesn't get to your number one spot !!!!! Melissa Kitt: I'm sorry, but that-that fuckin' voice, that was not Megan or Kyle. That was the fucking devil, and he was not talking to us, he was talking to Billy