Black Christmas

"Let the slay ride begin."

2006 1h 32m EN

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5.2

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★5.2TMDB · 625

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As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions...

“Let the slay ride begin.”

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Cast

Katie Cassidy
Kelli Presley
Michelle Trachtenberg
Melissa Kitt
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Heather Fitzgerald
Lacey Chabert
Dana Mathis
Oliver Hudson
Kyle Autry
Kristen Cloke
Leigh Colvin
Andrea Martin
Barbara 'Ms. Mac' MacHenry
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
Lauren Hannon

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Glen Morgan
Writers: Glen Morgan
Languages: English
Countries: Canada, United States of America

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ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Canada, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Glen Morgan, shot by Robert McLachlan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Shirley Walker. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Chris G. Willingham shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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AWARDS

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Katie Cassidy and Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Elizabeth Winstead carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Let the slay ride begin.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0454082 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Glen Morgan directs. Robert McLachlan behind the camera. Shirley Walker scores. Chris G. Willingham cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in Canada, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 20 years ago.
2International production across 2 countries: Canada, United States of America.
3Directed by Glen Morgan, shot by Robert McLachlan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Shirley Walker. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Chris G. Willingham shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Katie Cassidy and Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Elizabeth Winstead carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Let the slay ride begin.".
8IMDB entry: tt0454082 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 19 themes, including "holiday", "psychopath", "difficult childhood", "female friendship".

The technical file

Cinematography: Robert McLachlan
Original score: Shirley Walker
Editing: Chris G. Willingham
Production design: Mark S. Freeborn
Costume design: Gregory Mah
Makeup / hair: Chris Devitt
VFX supervisor: Michael Kowalski
Sound: Tim Walston
Stunt coordinator: Dave Hospes
Runtime: 92 min · 1h 32m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $9,000,000
Box office: $21,510,851
Return: 239% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Black Christmas (2006)

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John Chard2015-10-02
★ 3/10
Eye eye, what we got ere then? There's a running eyeball motif throughout this revamp/reimaging of Bob Clark's much revered culter of the same name (1974), after sitting through it you may, like me, feel like extracting your own eyeballs and playing ping-pong with them! Bunch of pretty sorority girls get menaced and mangled by a deranged killer who has come home for Christmas... This lacks everything that made Bob Clark's film so effective. The less is more approach has gone, thus there is very little suspense, and in place is a gigantic back story for the killer. The characterisation of the girls, some acted by some very capable actresses, is practically non existent, so very little emotional heft to draw you into a state of caring for them. There's some good gore on show, but since tonally the pic is all over the place, it's never once scary or ironically funny. A poor show all round. 3/10
Gimly2020-01-17
★ 5/10
Obviously doesn't hold a candle to the original, and some of the acting is pretty genuinely bad, but it knows what it wants and it goes for it. What it wants, here being: To be hamstrung to keeping in step with its predecessor but also being wildly different enough to piss anyone off who was expecting an actual "remake". Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
Wuchak2021-03-21
★ 7/10
More entertaining than the original, but marred by a ridiculous tacked-on ending During Christmas Eve at a sorority house in New Hampshire, the students & housemother are harassed by a killer who likes to gouge out eyes. For some strange reason the mad slasher knows all the inner rooms and crawlspaces of the house (attic, basement, etc.). “Black Christmas” (2006) is the first of two remakes of the original film from 1974 (the other being released in 2019 and is a remake-in-name-only). This version is more colorful and entertaining than the original, but also more twisted, highlighted by a superior cast of women, including Michelle Trachtenberg (Melissa), Lacey Chabert (Dana), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Heather), Jessica Harmon (Megan), Leela Savasta (Clair) and Katie Cassidy (Kelli). Written & directed by Glen Morgan, the film is inventive with its backstory and the way the killer haunts the innards of the house, spying & preying on the girls. This is genuinely compelling stuff. Unfortunately, the film's tone and ending were marred by the interference of studio exec Bob Weinstein, who wanted a more over-the-top horror flick with cartoonish embellishments. The preposterous ending in particular seems tacked-on and (almost) ruins the movie. Thankfully some versions of the film are closer to Morgan’s original vision, at least as far as the climax goes. The movie runs about 1 hour, 30 minutes, with a couple other versions longer or shorter by 4-5 minutes (depending on which ending was used). The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the hospital scenes done at Riverview Hospital in nearby Coquitlam. GRADE: B