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Tell Others About This Page By Using This Button "BLACK CHRISTMAS" (2006) (Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg) (R) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Heavy Extreme Extreme *Heavy *Heavy Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Moderate Mild Extreme None Extreme Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Extreme Mild Extreme Moderate Extreme QUICK TAKE: Horror: A sadistic killer torments a bunch of sorority girls over Christmas break. PLOT: It's Christmas break at the Delta Alpha Kappa house and a number of sorority sisters have decided to stay there with their house mother Ms. Mac (ANDREA MARTIN). Among them is Kelli (KATIE CASSIDY) who's dating townie Kyle (OLIVER HUDSON), while Lauren (CRYSTAL LOWE) views everything Christmas related as just pagan rituals. That's unlike the more straitlaced Heather (MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD) who doesn't think their organization should be giving a ceremonial annual holiday gift to Billy Lenz (ROBERT MANN), a criminally insane convict who killed his mean mother and step-father years ago due to the way they treated him. While his sister and daughter (thanks to a previous incestuous encounter) Agnes (DEAN FRISS) hasn't been seen for years, the rest of the sorority girls -- including Dana (LACEY CHABERT), Melissa (MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG) and the nerdy Eve (KATHLEEN KOLE) -- become a bit unnerved when Kyle informs them that Billy's family once owned the house in which the girls now live. Unbeknownst to them or one of the girls' older sisters, Leigh (KRISTEN CLOKE), who's arrived to pick her up from school, Billy has managed to escape from the asylum. When they start disappearing one by one, the young women try to figure out what to do to survive the newly reinvigorated homicidal spree that strikes them and their sorority house. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? If they're into horror films or are fans of anyone in the cast, they probably will. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and language. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: KATIE CASSIDY plays a sorority sister who's upset upon learning her boyfriend had sex with another girl in the past (now viewable on the Internet), uses strong profanity, and tries to avoid the killers. MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG plays her sorority sister who tries to survive and uses some strong profanity in the process. MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD plays one sister who's had it with the defiling of Christmas, but must then contend with the killers' actions. LACEY CHABERT plays a sarcastic sorority sister who briefly smokes and uses some profanity. KRISTEN CLOKE plays the older half-sister to one of the girls who's arrived to pick her up and won't leave until she discovers whether she's alive or dead. She uses strong profanity. ANDREA MARTIN plays the sorority's housemother who wants to get on with the gift giving, but is interrupted by the killers' attacks on the girls. She then tries to protect them and get help. CRYSTAL LOWE plays one of the sorority sisters who has a bad attitude toward others and Christmas in general, uses strong profanity and drinks to the point of being sick. OLIVER HUDSON plays Kelli's boyfriend, a local guy who had sex with one of her sorority sisters in the past (with the video of that act now being on the Internet -- although he says he didn't put it there). He uses strong profanity. ROBERT MANN plays the deranged lunatic who escapes from the mental hospital, returns home, and kills some of the girls. KATHLEEN KOLE plays a somewhat nerdy sorority sister. DEAN FRISS plays Billy's sister and daughter (from an incestuous encounter with their mother) who kills various people in the house. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated horror film. Profanity consists of at least 30 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are uttered. Some sexually related dialogue is present, as are several sexual encounters that show movement, include sounds, and in one case, brief nudity (bare breasts). Unseen incest (mother and son) results in a baby, while a peeping Tom watches a woman shower (bare butt and breasts). Other bad attitudes are present, some resulting in tense family material culminating in a locked up boy finally killing his mean mom and step-dad. Other horror movie-style violence includes the killers dispatching their victims in various grisly, bloody, gory, and obviously deadly ways (with some eating of eyeballs and cooked flesh also occurring). Some of that and various "don't go in there moments" and other potential peril might be unsettling, suspenseful, and/or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material. Some characters smoke and/or drink, one to the point of being sick from having too much. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, a few point of view shots contain some shaky, handheld camera movement. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE Leigh's sister has wine. Ms. Mac has wine, as do some of the girls including Melissa and others. Billy's mom has a drink in a flashback. Lauren has a shot of tequila and follows that with wine. Later, she suddenly vomits from being intoxicated, and then does so again into a toilet. One young woman asks another (but not about drugs), "Are you high?" Ms. Mac has some wine. A coroner pours booze into his eggnog. BLOOD/GORE The killer slams a bag over a sister's head that she bashes against something (sending blood spraying onto the wall) and then yanks out her eyeball. We hear Billy hit someone hard enough that a great deal of blood splatters on the floor around the victim's shoes. We then see a large bag thrown into a dumpster with the dead man's arm sticking out of it. Young Billy peers under a door and sees his father's bloody face hit the floor, hears the impact of a hammer to his body, and then sees the bloody hammer dropped to the floor. We then see his mother and her boyfriend (with the father's blood on both) digging beneath the house to bury the body. We see a flashback to young Billy attacking his younger sister (and daughter), including yanking out and then eating her eyeball. He then stabs his stepfather in the eye with a long and sharp Christmas ornament (we see an eyeball on the end of it), and strangles his mother with a string of Christmas lights. We then see the motion of him repeatedly hitting her with a rolling pin (we hear but don't see the impact, although we then see the bloody rolling pin) and then taking a cookie cutter template and pushing it into her back. We then see such meaty and bloody cutouts placed on a cookie sheet, baked, and then eaten by Billy. Lauren suddenly vomits (from being intoxicated) and then later does more of that into the toilet. Melissa tends to her, seemingly gets a little on her hand, and then reacts to the smell of that, telling Lauren she needs to take a shower. A car door is opened and a victim's severed head rolls out and lands in the snow. As Ms. Mac cleans off a snow-covered car, there's movement inside it and then a sudden spraying of blood onto the inside of the back window (seen from the outside). Leigh slips and lands in a shallow pool of blood on the floor and then has that blood on her. The killer throws what look like ice skates at a girl. We then see blood spray onto a wall and then see a brief glimpse of a meaty and bloody wound on the dead woman's head. We see a dead victim whose eyes have been removed (leaving bloody sockets). We see the killer holding up a person's removed eyes and optic nerves that he then eats. We see a dead body in a chair with a bag over the head. We also see a victim with no eyes (but bloody eye sockets) as well as a severed head up on a pole and an eyeball in a Christmas tree. A coroner hears a sound coming from a body bag, looks into one, and then finds a killer alive in another. The killer then grabs a rotary bone saw and we hear its whirring sound and see blood spray onto a table and into a glass of eggnog. Kelli has a small, bloody cut on her forehead. A killer has bad burn marks on one side of his head. Kelli finds herself locked inside a hospital room and then sees blood filling an overhead light in the ceiling. A person falls down an open stairwell interior and is impaled on the top of a large Christmas tree ornament, killing him (with bloody/gory results). DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE The killers obviously have extreme cases of bad attitudes. A security guard jokes (about some Christmas cookies made for Billy) that they tried to get them to taste like his mom (referring to him killing her in the past, using a cookie cutter to cut flesh from her back, and then baking and eating that). Dana states that she doesn't like her family and that she'd like to bury the hatchet with her sister, adding, "Right in her head." We see a flashback to when Billy was a newborn and hear that his mother and father hated each other and she hated young Billy. She then grabs his first ornament and crushes it in her hand. We see a flashback to when Billy was a young boy with his mother saying that Santa isn't coming to see him, that the Russians shot down his sleigh, and that Santa is dead. Young Billy peers under a door and sees his father's bloody face hit the floor, hears the impact of a hammer to his body, and then sees the bloody hammer dropped to the floor. We then see his mother and her boyfriend (with the father's blood on both) digging beneath the house to bury the body. They then hear Billy, give chase and then his mom locks him in the attic. Lauren has a bad attitude toward others, including some of her sorority sisters. Billy's mother has sex with him (not seen, but the incestuous act results in a child). About the nerdy Eve, Dana says she's from the island of misfit toys. Billy maims his sister and kills their mother and stepfather. The killer does a peeping Tom bit with Lauren while she's in the shower. FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gore" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful, or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material, but those accustomed to such films might find it less so. A sorority sister hears sounds in her closet, goes to look, and then thinks it's just the house's ventilation system. However, the killer then slams a bag over her head and then stabs down into that bag, killing the girl (no blood). We see a security door at a hospital for the criminally insane accidentally end up propped open. We then see a pair of feet enter and slowly walk down the hall (making us think it's the killer), but it's really just a guy dressed up like Santa. A security guard looks into Billy's cell and sees that he's apparently missing. He then goes into the dark cell, and examines a hole in the wall with his flashlight. Billy then stabs a sharpened candy cane into the guard, killing him. A sister hears a sound above her room from the attic, goes out into the hallway, slowly climbs up the ladder into the attic and finds a wind-up ballerina toy. The killer then slams a bag over her head that she bashes against something (sending blood spraying onto the wall) and then yanks out her eyeball. Young Billy hears his parents arguing, then sounds of physical violence. He then peers under a door and sees his father's bloody face hit the floor, hears the impact of a hammer to his body, and then sees the bloody hammer dropped to the floor. We then see his mother and her boyfriend (with the father's blood on both) digging beneath the house to bury the body. They then hear Billy, give chase and then his mom locks him in the attic. Those in the house receive creepy calls from the killer (with anguished sounds of victims in the background) where each time he says, "She's my family now." We see a flashback to young Billy attacking his younger sister (and daughter), including yanking out and then eating her eyeball. He then stabs his stepfather in the eye with a long and sharp Christmas ornament (we see an eyeball on the end of it) and strangles his mother with a string of Christmas lights. We then see the motion of him repeatedly hitting her with a rolling pin (we hear but don't see the impact, although we then see the bloody rolling pin) and then taking a cookie cutter template and pushing it into her back. We then see such meaty and bloody cutouts placed on a cookie sheet, baked, and then eaten by Billy. The power goes out in the house, leaving the survivors in the dark. Needing to check on the fuse box, Dana goes out onto the porch and thinks she hears something under there (she shines her flashlight down through a small hole). She then goes down to the crawlspace, opens it and is suddenly yanked under the porch where she struggles with the killer. She slams a three-prong garden tool into the killer's clothed arm or torso, but the killer yanks that out and then slams it into the back of Dana's head, presumably killing her (we don't see the actual impact). As the killer struggles with another victim in a dirt crawl space, the victim's frantic actions partially unearth a human skull. A car door is opened and a victim's severed head rolls out and lands in the snow. One of the girls calls 911, but is told that due to the bad weather, no one will be able to get out to them for the next two hours. A girl cautiously pulls back the covers on a bed (to see what the large lump beneath it might be), but it just turns out to be Lauren. As Ms. Mac cleans off a snow-covered car, there's movement inside it and then a sudden spraying of blood onto the inside of the back window (seen from the outside). The killer slams a bag over a sister's head and the two struggle, with the girl getting away but then finding the room's window locked. She then repeatedly hits the killer with what looks like a hockey stick and then tries to escape again, with the killer throwing what look like skates at the girl. We then see blood spray onto a wall and then see a brief glimpse of a meaty and bloody wound on the dead woman's head. Kyle, Kelli, and Leigh slowly make their way toward the attic to confront the killer, with Kyle leading the way with his knife and a flashlight. The killer then suddenly slams a bag over his head and yanks him up into the attic, with the two women following. There's struggling on the floor, with Kyle pushing the killer off, but the killer then knocks the two women aside, grabs Kyle and stabs something into his covered head (we hear and see the motion of the impact). We then see the killer holding up Kyle's removed eyes and optic nerves that he then eats. Leigh partially falls through an attic floor and then slips through the rest, falling down to the floor below her. The killer attacks Kelli, they struggle, and Kelli jams a long two-pronged barbeque fork into the killer's head. The killer then pulls out the fork and a fake eye is stuck on the end. More struggling ensues and Kelli stabs something into the killer's head, but then ends up falling down between the walls inside the house, with the killer and his accomplice following along. Kelli tries to hold on, and Leigh tries to save her by bashing through the wall, but one of the killers then grabs her from the other side of the wall. Leigh fights that person off (hitting them with something) and manages to yank Kelli through the wall just as a baby carriage and some burning papers fall down into that interior wall space. One of the women then pours some flammable liquid that causes the fire to spread as the two victims escape. A coroner hears a sound coming from a body bag, looks into one, and then finds a killer alive in another. The killer then grabs a rotary bone saw and we hear its whirring sound and see blood spray onto a table and into a glass of eggnog. We hear the killer up above the ceiling in a hospital room. Kelli finds herself locked inside a hospital room and then sees blood filling an overhead light in the ceiling. A woman uses a defibrillator to shock an attacker to death, seemingly burning her to some degree in the process. She then tries to escape but encounters another killer, so she bashes him with a crutch, only to have him use the same to trip her. She then runs into a hospital worker and his cart, spilling medical gear on the floor, including a scalpel that the killer grabs. He then comes after Kelli, slicing at her, but ends up falling down the open stairwell interior and is impaled on the top of a large Christmas tree ornament, killing him (with bloody/gory results). GUNS/WEAPONS Various non-traditional weapons (sharp Christmas ornaments, a sharpened candy cane, etc.) are used to kill people in knife-like ways. Police enter Billy's house with their guns drawn. Kyle whips out a small knife while going in search of the killer. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "F*ck Christmas," "F*ck it," "Just f*cking lost it," "Oh f*ck no," "Little f*ckers," "Do you think we're f*cking stupid?" "A f*cking psycho," "A big f*cking weekend," "I really f*cking hated it here," "You f*cking liar," "Shut the f*ck up," "Merry f*cking Christmas," "F*ck all you bitches," "F*cked up," "F*ck you, Santa Claus," "Holy f*ck," "No f*cking way," "What the f*ck?" "Merry Christmas, m*therf*cker," "The house that scared the sh*t out of us," "Sh*tty," "Are you actually giving me sh*t?" "C'mon, you piece of sh*t," "Ball sac," "That sucks," "Whack job," "Spoiled bitches," "Pissed off," "Are you high?" "You (crazy) bitch," "Jerk" and "My frickin' job." It's possible some disturbed kids might try to imitate harming others with non-traditional weapons (sharp Christmas ornaments, etc.). Lauren wears a midriff-revealing top that's also open rather far down the front, showing her cleavage. Lauren gives Melissa "the finger" when the later calls her a joking name about being drunk. JUMP SCENES A young women opens a door and suddenly finds Kyle standing there. Leigh opens a door and suddenly comes face to face with a large Santa mask. A killer suddenly springs from a bed toward a victim. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) An extreme amount of ominous and suspenseful music plays in the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) None. PROFANITY At least 30 "f" words (1 used with "mother"), 15 "s" words, 1 damn, 3 uses of "Oh my God" and 2 uses of "G-damn." SEX/NUDITY Melissa refers to someone or some animal's "ball sac." We see and hear Kyle and Kelli passionately making out (clothed) in a car. Lauren wears a midriff-revealing top that's also open rather far down the front, showing her cleavage. We see one sorority sister watching a homemade sex tape on the Internet that shows Billy lying on the top of a sorority sister (not his current girlfriend), having rear entry sex (with movement and sounds, but no nudity). A woman suggestively asks a guy dressed like Santa if she sits on his lap will he give her what he wants. He then says she's been naughty and asks if she's ever seen the backseat of a sleigh, but nothing else sexual happens. One sister talks of serial killers and the sexual aspect of their acts. Melissa shows some cleavage. We see an overhead, flashback view of Billy's mom having sex on top of her boyfriend at the top of the stairs. We see movement and her bare back, hear sounds, and can see his bare chest and legs from under her, but he then falls asleep. As she gets up, we briefly see her bare breast. We then see a shot showing just her legs as she walks into Billy's room, drops her robe (we still only see her legs and don't see the boy), and we then hear that she had a baby girl nine months later (implying incest). We see Ms. Mac holding up some lingerie that she received as a gift, and she playfully asks if it comes with a man to wear it for. After Kelli sees Kyle's Internet sex video, she asks isn't sex enough and if he needs visual thrills as well. As Lauren drops her clothing to get into the shower while intoxicated (we see just her lower legs and bra, etc. hit the floor), we see the killer pop out small floor tiles for a peak at her. We then see that point of view, showing a rear and side view of Lauren in the shower (we see her bare back, butt and then side views of her bare breast). SMOKING Billy's mother, father, and Dana each smoke several times. TENSE FAMILY SCENES We hear that Billy killed his family (his mother and stepfather) in the past after his mother kept him locked in the attic for years. Dana states that she doesn't like her family and that she'd like to bury the hatchet with her sister, adding, "Right in her head." We see a flashback to when Billy was a newborn and hear that his mother and father hated each other and she hated young Billy. She then grabs his first ornament and crushes it in her hand. Young Billy hears his parents arguing, then sounds of physical violence. He then peers under a door and sees his father's bloody face hit the floor, hears the impact of a hammer to his body, and then sees the bloody hammer dropped to the floor. We then see his mother and her boyfriend (with the father's blood on both) digging beneath the house to bury the body. They then hear Billy, give chase and then his mom locks him in the attic. Billy's mother has sex with him (not seen, but the incestuous act results in a child). Billy maims his sister and kills their mother and stepfather. We hear that following Billy killing his mother and stepfather, the boy's sister (and daughter) was sent to an orphanage. A woman sees that her sister is dead. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT We hear that Billy killed his family (his mother and stepfather) in the past after his mother kept him locked in the attic for years. We hear that Billy was born with a condition that caused his skin to be yellow. Billy's mother has sex with him (not seen, but the incestuous act results in a child). Childhood events affecting people when they're adults. VIOLENCE A sorority sister hears sounds in her closet, goes to look, and then thinks it's just the house's ventilation system. However, the killer then slams a bag over her head and then stabs down into that bag, killing the girl (no blood). A security guard looks into Billy's cell and sees that he's apparently missing. He then goes into the dark cell, and examines a hole in the wall with his flashlight. Billy then stabs a sharpened candy cane into the guard, killing him. A sister hears a sound above her room from the attic, goes out into the hallway, slowly climbs up the ladder into the attic and finds a wind-up ballerina toy. The killer then slams a bag over her head that she bashes against something (sending blood spraying onto the wall) and then yanks out her eyeball. We hear Billy hit someone hard enough that a great deal of blood splatters on the floor around the victim's shoes. We then see a large bag thrown into a dumpster with the dead man's arm sticking out of it. We see a flashback to young Billy attacking his younger sister (and daughter), including yanking out and then eating her eyeball. He then stabs his stepfather in the eye with a long and sharp Christmas ornament (we see an eyeball on the end of it), and strangles his mother with a string of Christmas lights. We then see the motion of him repeatedly hitting her with a rolling pin (we hear but don't see the impact, although we then see the bloody rolling pin) and then taking a cookie cutter template and pushing it into her back. We then see such meaty and bloody cutouts placed on a cookie sheet, baked, and then eaten by Billy. Needing to check on the fuse box, Dana goes out onto the porch and thinks she hears something under there (she shines her flashlight down through a small hole). She then goes down to the crawlspace, opens it and is suddenly yanked under the porch where she struggles with the killer. She slams a three-prong garden tool into the killer's clothed arm or torso, but the killer yanks that out and then slams it into the back of Dana's head, presumably killing her (we don't see the actual impact). A car door is opened and a victim's severed head rolls out and lands in the snow. As Ms. Mac cleans off a snow-covered car, there's movement inside it and then a sudden spraying of blood onto the inside of the back window (seen from the outside). A large icicle falls from a house and impales a woman, killing her. The killer slams a bag over a sister's head and the two struggle, with the girl getting away but then finding the room's window locked. She then repeatedly hits the killer with what looks like a hockey stick and then tries to escape again, with the killer throwing what look like skates at the girl. We then see blood spray onto a wall and then see a brief glimpse of a meaty and bloody wound on the dead woman's head. Thinking he's the killer, Leigh repeatedly hits Kyle with a long two-pronged barbeque fork, but he then throws her down to a bed. Kyle, Kelli, and Leigh slowly make their way toward the attic to confront the killer, with Kyle leading the way with his knife and a flashlight. The killer then suddenly slams a bag over his head and yanks him up into the attic, with the two women following. There's struggling on the floor, with Kyle pushing the killer off, but the killer then knocks the two women aside, grabs Kyle and stabs something into his covered head (we hear and see the motion of the impact). We then see the killer holding up Kyle's removed eyes and optic nerves that he then eats. The killer attacks Kelli, they struggle, and Kelli jams a long two-pronged barbeque fork into the killer's head. The killer then pulls out the fork and a fake eye is stuck on the end. More struggling ensues and Kelli stabs something into the killer's head, but then ends up falling down between the walls inside the house, with the killer and his accomplice following along. Kelli tries to hold on, and Leigh tries to save her by bashing through the wall, but one of the killers then grabs her from the other side of the wall. Leigh fights that person off (hitting them with something) and manages to yank Kelli through the wall just as a baby carriage and some burning papers fall down into that interior wall space. One of the women then pours some flammable liquid that causes the fire to spread as the two victims escape. A coroner hears a sound coming from a body bag, looks into one, and then finds a killer alive in another. The killer then grabs a rotary bone saw and we hear its whirring sound and see blood spray onto a table and into a glass of eggnog. A killer breaks a woman's neck. A woman uses a defibrillator to shock an attacker to death, seemingly burning her to some degree in the process. She then tries to escape but encounters another killer, so she bashes him with a crutch, only to have him use the same to trip her. She then runs into a hospital worker and his cart, spilling medical gear on the floor, including a scalpel that the killer grabs. He then comes after Kelli, slicing at her, but ends up falling down the open stairwell interior and is impaled on the top of a large Christmas tree ornament, killing him (with bloody/gory results). Reviewed December 25, 2006 / Posted December 25, 2006

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