Black Christmas (2006) Movie Review

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Kevin_Dillehay]Kevin Dillehay
The 2006 horror movie Black Christmas is distributed by Dimension Films. Some of its stars include Katie Cassidy as Kelli Presley, Michelle Trachtenberg as Melissa, Kristen Cloke as Leigh Colvin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Heather Fitzgerald, and Lacey Chabert as Dana. The writers are Glen Morgan (Final Destination) and Roy Moore (Black Christmas 1974). The director is Glen Morgan.
Billy Lenz was a boy born with a rare skin condition that made it yellow. His parents do not love each other. His mom murders his dad and, after seeing her and her lover burying the body, Billy is locked in the attic for years. After unsuccessfully trying to have another child with her lover, Billy's mom enters the attic and seduces him. Nine months later, a little girl named Agnes is born. Several years later on Christmas Eve, Billy escapes the attic and murders his mother and her lover. He also disfigures Agnes by removing one of her eyeballs. The troubled boy also makes Christmas cookies out of his mother's flesh just before he is caught. He's committed to a mental asylum. Now in 2006, he escapes and returns to his childhood home which has since been turned into a sorority house. One by one, he kills off all the sorority girls until only a few remain. But they cannot leave because of the snow storm outside. They are trapped inside a serial killer's home waiting to be butchered.
Aside from the killer having yellow skin, there is absolutely nothing unique about this movie. It simply follows a classic slasher movie formula, specifically Halloween. A killer murders his family, gets caught and committed, and years later escapes to return to his childhood home. Billy Lenz kills his family, as slasher master Michael Myers did, and spends some time in a mental institution. He breaks out, again like Myers, and returns home. The average movie viewer can usually tell beforehand whether a movie is going to be any good based on how many attractive people star in it, specifically women. If there are quite a few, as is the case in Black Christmas, then that viewer may save a few extra bucks and not see the film because it's not worth the time and money.
As with most Christmas horror films, specifically those released on or near Christmas Day, there was some backlash from religious groups about the setting and time of the release. The gratuitous gore in the film did not help matters either. Movie creators must be careful when writing a slasher film such as this around a religious holiday as strongly hailed as Christmas. Another example, besides Black Christmas, is the movie Silent Night, Deadly Night. In this film, a man dressed as Santa goes around killing all the naughty people. In protest of this movie, people made signs that said "Santa doesn't slay". This case is much more extreme than Black Christmas. The story portrays extreme violence. Silent Night, Deadly Night is currently out of print and can only be found on the internet.
To wrap, if you're looking for an original kind of film, Black Christmas is not what you're looking for. But if you are a die-hard fan of an old-fashioned slasher movie, then it may be worth your time and money.
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