Black Christmas

Runtime: 84 Minutes

Studio: Dimension Films

Director: Glen Morgan

Writer(s): Glen Morgan

Staring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Katie Cassidy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert

Description: A group of sorority girls are spending Christmas in their frat house. It turns out that their Frat house used to be Billy's home. Billy is institutionalized for killing his family on Christmas and eating them for Christmas dinner. This Christmas, Billy wants to come home and nothing is going to stop him.

Gore/Violence: For a 14A movie, this movie had a lot of gore in it. I was very surprised at the amount of gore that was used in this movie. For an example on the gore level, in a few scenes, Billy kills his victim then rips out the eyes and eats them. The camera shows the whole process, even when he bites down on the eyeball.

Body Count: The body count is pretty good in the movie. Billy goes on a rampage and kills everyone he meets.

Nudity & Sexuality: There is a bum in the movie, and a glimpse of a half boob.

Death Scenes: The deaths were actually pretty good. Most of the deaths, Billy would just club them death and eat their eyes (which made the death scene good). Also, there are some outrageous death scenes, for example, Billy sucks a candy cane until there is a sharp point on the end and stabs a guard with, which is kind of unbelievable.

Acting/Storyline: The storyline of the movie is not really remake of the original. They took some ideas from the original (like the phone calls, and the names Billy and Agnes) and made them bad. The phone calls in the original was a major part of the creepiness of the original, this movie butchered those calls, and made a sad attempt to recreate it. Also, the fact that Billy has a half daughter/sister (Agnes) really bothered me because I wanted to watch an update to original, not a whole new movie based on the name.

Another part that really pissed me off was the constant flashbacks on Billy's life. The flashbacks tell why Billy became who he is and where Agnes came from. The people who wrote this movie took the original and made it into a teen comedy/horror which is a slap in the face to the original.

The acting in the movie did its job, nothing special about it. The one cool thing was bringing back Andrea Martin from the original (she played Phyllis in the original) for the role of Mrs. Mac.

Final Rating: This movie really has nothing to do with the original. The writers took some of the good ideas from the original and made them bad, then made a bad movie around them. I don't really mind the movie that much, but this movie should have been released with a different title because this is totally a different movie. Also, the original was way better than this movie, so why spend the money to see a crappy movie and an inferior film when its compared to the original?