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Black Christmas (2006) DVD Review
Black Christmas (2006) DVD Credits:
Black Christmas (2006) Directed by:
Glen Morgan
Black Christmas (2006) Written by:
Glen Morgan
Black Christmas (2006) Cast:
Katie Cassidy, Lacey Chabert, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jessica Harmon, Oliver Hudson, Andrea Martin, Michelle Trachtenberg
Black Christmas (2006) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Black Christmas (2006) DVD Release Date:
2nd April 2007
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Black Christmas (2006) Synopsis:

The remake of the 1974 film is about a killer who terrorizes a sorority house with phone calls before he begins to murder various sorority sisters during the holiday break.

Black Christmas (2006) DVD Review:

There was nothing spectacularly great about the 1975 version of Black Christmas, in which an ax-wielding killer massacres a sorority house over the holidays, and that translates well in the remake. A throwback to the old fashioned serial killer films where the prey is usually a group of attractive women, the remake of Black Christmas has plenty of gore and plenty of girls to die, but somehow the revival of the genre doesn’t work as well as one might hope. There are bloody deaths and a few nude women, but too few scares to make it frightening and too much sophistication to be campy enough for enjoyment.

Writer and producer of Final Destination, Glen Morgan directs this remake with the same dedication to blood, gore, and shocks. Coincidentally a sorority house happens to be the same home in which brutal murders occurred years earlier. The young man who killed his family still receives Christmas gifts from the sorority each year, but on the same Christmas that they don’t get him a gift he also manages to escape from the mental institution to get home for Christmas. One-by-one the remaining sorority sisters are killed off in their own home, usually with the removal of their eyes. Each of the sisters (Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Katei Cassidy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead) have their individual problems aside from the killer in the house, but most no longer have to worry about their problems by the end of the film.

The violence is gruesome enough, but there is a bit more to the disgusting on the unrated version of the film, for the true gore fans. The DVD also has three alternate endings to the film, but none make the film any better or worse. The film is bizarre, as is the ending, but that is somehow fitting. There are also deleted scenes and two featurettes. One is about the basic concept in remaking the film, and the other is a filmmaker’s journey.

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Black Christmas (2006) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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