Katie Cassidy, Lacey Chabert, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Billy, a young boy, was abused by his mother as a child. His mother cheated on Billy's father, and eventually killed the man, while keeping Billy in the attic--for good, while she was with her lover a...( read more  read more... )nd starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with the love he had never experienced, Billy came out of the attic after years and brutally murdered his mother and her lover. Cut to present day, a group of six sorority sisters consisting of Kelli, Dana, Lauren, Megan, Heather, Melissa and their house mother, who now live in Billy's childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery phone calls during Christmas Break. As one of the girls goes missing, they begin being murdered one by one by no other than Billy.

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Glen Morgan

Release Date: December 25, 2006

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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2007

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  • August 29, 2009
    Remake of Black Christmas. Was ok I guess. Watched a little here & there. (packed a bit, did this & that. The gore was cool. Maybe a couple times a little cheesy looking but fun. 4-5 girls in a sorority house during the xmas holiday. A Yellow skinned serial killer or is it really...( read more) him? More or less average. C+ don?t recall a movie that well can?t give away what the gore is. (actually there?s one quite nasty)
  • July 18, 2009
    The best part of this flick is it looks good and the effects really work well. The story is basically the usual thing and to be honest is does work but very predictable. The backstory of the killer and his upbringing is good and shows us how it all happened and the possible outco...( read more)me is good because yr not actually sure which girl will survive. Speaking of the girls, they are all lovely and you dont want any of em to die haha its not really scary, kinda 'Scream' style scary but not bad, better than most.
  • December 16, 2008
    Not as bad as everyone claims it to be. Fun, mindless crazy-violent slasher. Just for the record I'm not a fan of the original so that might have something to do with it too.
  • November 29, 2008
    Some fun stuff, but in the end it's just a slasher movie. I always enjoy a good jaundiced character, however.
  • November 28, 2008
    This is a very dumb movie about very pretty, very dumb girls who die in very dumb ways. Imagine the recent remake of Prom Night, except that it's set during Christmas at a sorority house. And it's somehow worse.

    Most of it makes no sense. It's really just a seri...( read more)es of jump moments and gross stuff, with a ridiculous backstory behind it all. With this many pretty faces, Black Xmas could have been a 2 1/2 star movie from T&A alone. Alas, even that opportunity is missed. Is this what the slasher genre has fallen to?
  • November 12, 2009
    Sounds like a sad story plot! A little bit like the ring? The whole child abuse thing : (
  • October 26, 2009
    im not sure really but i was really excited first
  • October 17, 2009
    Wonderful horror flick! Loved the camera angles and use of Christmas music.
  • October 15, 2009
    IF YOU WATCHED SLASHERS BEFORE, THEN DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS PILE OF CRAP. YOU'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING
  • October 1, 2009
    Pretty bad. Had so much potential to have all the hotties that were cast get naked and go down on each other before they got killed. At least to see Lacey Chabert, Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Elizabeth Winstead do it would have made this movie awesome. Some gory bits, nothing ...( read more)to get excited about.

Critic Reviews


January 5, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Glen Morgan's update of Bob Clark's 1974 slasher flick Black Christmas is an exemplar of how to screw up a modern horror film remake. full review

December 27, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Silly, obvious, clumsy, and just gruesome enough to keep jaded genre fans from angrily throwing popcorn at the screen. full review

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Comments


  • 03ediron
    July 8, 2007
    my favourite horror/teen slasher film of all time and check out the cool bebo profile about black christmas called 'the official page for black christmas'....it rox!!!
  • flappergirl93
    June 16, 2007
    This movie was sooo awesome. And it had tons of awesome people in it too: Lacey Chabert, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michelle Trachtenberg, Katie Cassidy, and many more. Everyone did really good in the movie. The only thing I didn't like was that all my favorite people died, but everything else was sooooo totally awesome.
  • peaceXloveXhappiness
    June 10, 2007
    sooooooooo awesome! was scary for mi and mi cousins suz were only in the 6th and 7th grade and we couldnt go anywhere alone that night and we got in trouble for scaring eachother and screaming!LOL it was easy to make fun of though
  • peaceXloveXhappiness
    June 10, 2007
    sooooooooo awesome! was scary for mi and mi cousins suz were only in the 6th and 7th grade and we couldnt go anywhere alone that night and we got in trouble for scaring eachother and screaming!LOL it was easy to make fun of though
  • peaceXloveXhappiness
    June 10, 2007
    sooooooooo awesome! was scary for mi and mi cousins suz were only in the 6th and 7th grade and we couldnt go anywhere alone that night and we got in trouble for scaring eachother and screaming!LOL it was easy to make fun of though
  • jackiehartwick249
    June 1, 2007
    OMG this movie was amazing i love it! i watch it at least once a week! my favourite part is when the teacher gets it in the head with an icecicle(cant spell)! there where a few screw ups tho, u cant have a shower whent he power is out! n how did billy call his ooown house when he attacts Agnus?! was he on a cell phon? i dont think so, there were no cell phones then!!!!
    BUT I LOVE IT!
  • yanejan02
    May 31, 2007
    for me the movie was quite ok its not that scary though...i saw it only b'coz i 'm a big fan of horror flick and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is my favourite
  • dontdropthesoap84
    May 25, 2007
    Stick to the original. This one sucked.
  • chatlaz999
    May 21, 2007
    it werent awfull, but it had no surpirises an i can only remember jumpin once. not a totall waste of money tho!
  • spirithouselight
    May 19, 2007
    sorry not bad horror flick but needed more suprise elements to make it more injoyable.

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