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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019801089
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Dimension Films
Manufacturer: Dimension Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dimension Films
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 9647
Studio: Dimension Films
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2006
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Though it was only a mild success upon its release in 1974 the original BLACK CHRISTMAS (directed by Bob Clark who would go on to direct A CHRISTMAS STORY in 1984) has become a cult favorite among horror buffs since the dawn of the home-video era. An early example of the 'body count' genre the film also predates WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979) in its use of a killer making threatening phone calls that originate within his potential victims own house. In this remake writer/director Glen Morgan takes the basics of Roy Moore s screenplay for the original to create an elaborate and almost comically disturbing back story for Billy the killer who previously remained a mystery. A handful of sorority girls remain at the house after the school shuts down for Christmas break. An ominous snowstorm blows in isolating them. At the same time a killer--who in this version escapes from a mental institution to return to his former family home--breaks into the attic and begins making terrifying phone calls to the girls (led by Kate Cassidy Michelle Trachtenberg and Lacey Chabert) before killing them off one by one. SCTV veteran Andrea Martin who portrayed a victim in the original returns as Ms. Mac the house mother.Stylistically Moore s remake avoids casting the film in the ironic post-SCREAM or streamlined gore-free Japanese-horror-inspired fright films of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Instead he makes BLACK CHRISTMAS in the style of a wet and red '80s slasher film. The plentiful blood and guts will please fans of that era as will tributes to the HALLOWEEN films. This along with a soundtrack that eschews holiday standards in favor of modern pop music plus a dim lighting scheme that relies heavily on colored Christmas bulbs combine to create an atmosphere of holiday dread in this fun update of what has become a horror classic.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 796019801089 Manufacturer No: 80108
Amazon.com:
Needless and unnecessary are two words that have little meaning in Hollywood, especially when you're talking sequels or remakes. Case in point: Black Christmas, the revisionist version of the 1974 horror thriller largely thought to be the proto-slasher movie (this was four years before the first Halloween installment). The original, from director Bob Clark, is still considered a masterpiece of tension, understatement, innovative camera perspective, economic efficiency (a polite way of saying 'ultra-low budget'), and killing off pretty young girls in grisly ways without any cumbersome exposition regarding the psychopath's motives. This, by the way, from the same Bob Clark who would soon bring us the beloved Porky's franchise as well as Black Christmas's polar opposite, the sweetly nostalgic classic A Christmas Story. Anyway, as needless and unnecessary as this remake is, it certainly delivers the goods on 21st-century slasher conventions as the sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa are picked off during Christmas break in ever more gruesome fashion. There's nothing wrong with all of this, particularly for fans of impalements, crushed skulls, ripped-out eyeballs, and some good old-fashioned Christmas cookie cannibalism. Writer-director Glen Morgan, who earned his own credibility as co-creator of the Final Destination series and the interesting 2003 remake of Willard adds a few clever visual homages to the original along with the amped-up extreme gore. Clark's device (was he the first to use it?) of creepy, mouth-breathing phone calls from killer to victim remains intact and creepy. He also resurrects Andrea Martin, one of the then-unknown actor victims who, now famous, plays the prim housemother. Another addition, which may not be so welcome to purists of the genre, is a load of exposition and backstory for the killer. Disturbing as these flashback set pieces are, they're also somewhat distracting to the foreboding tone. But you get what you pay for, and lots of people are going to pay dearly to dream of the shocking frights another Black Christmas will bring. --Ted Fry
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - PATHETIC
What is with this recent need to create back-stories for psychopaths? Am I supposed to be stirred by the poor-pitiful-me exposition? I wasted 90 minutes watching this drivel and don't want to spend much more time even thinking about it, but here's the scoop:
* the killings are ridiculous and implausible (the icicle impalement and death by thrown ice skates in particular are howl-worthy and, let's see...IMPOSSIBLE)
* characters are lame and of course act in typical "bad horror ... Read More
Rating:  - Typical mindless killfest with no soul whatsoever
A group of girls are staying in their sorority house for X-mas. Later, they start disappearing one at a time. After realizing something is wrong, they then come to believe they are being stalked by the killer who once lived in the house.
These days I give mostly all remakes a chance. I don't come into them with intentions to compare it to the original and torch it. I was willing to give this a fair chance. Even if this remake didn't carry the name of the original. It's still a very ... Read More
Rating: - Bad flick, but I'll admit I had a blast watching it
Horror purists weren't too happy about a remake to Bob Clark's 1974 cult classic Black Christmas, but don't go into the remake expecting anything like the original about the only thing this version has in common with the original, is the name and setting. We don't learn much about whom Billy or Agnes is. But in the remake that is all explained.
Outside of the opening murder scene, Black Christmas 06 is a totally different movie. If anything this is more of a remake to your run of the ... Read More
Rating: - The worst movie i've seen in a year, honestly!!!
The quality of the DVD was great, however, this movie wasn't worth the $1 that I spent for it. Poor acting and a dry plot plaqued it. STAY AWAY, FAR AWAY!!!!
Rating:  - Stop your crying, the original sucked!
I have to say, I really hate when classic films are remade to get the attention of new audiences, but when it comes to a film like Black Christmas, it certainly needed a remake. The original dud was so over-the-top boring that a remake actual sounds like a horrible idea, but by completely refreshing the idea a pretty good movie came along. I'm not saying this is the greatest horror film of all time, but at least this Black Christmas is a fun way to spend 90 minutes. I've really missed the slasher ... Read More
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