
In the 70's, the boy Billy is born with yellow skin due to a liver disease and his dysfunctional mother rejects him. Later he witnesses his mother and her lover killing his beloved father and burying him in the basement of their house, and he is locked in the attic alone along his childhood. When he is a teenager, he is sexually abused by his mother and she has a baby girl called Agnes. During Christmas, the deranged Billy escapes from his imprisonment, kills his mother and s... (Full plot summary below)
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In the 70's, the boy Billy is born with yellow skin due to a liver disease and his dysfunctional mother rejects him. Later he witnesses his mother and her lover killing his beloved father and burying him in the basement of their house, and he is locked in the attic alone along his childhood. When he is a teenager, he is sexually abused by his mother and she has a baby girl called Agnes. During Christmas, the deranged Billy escapes from his imprisonment, kills his mother and stepfather and blinds one eye of Agnes. He is declared insane and his sister is sent to an orphanage. In the present days, Billy escapes from the Clark Sanatorium to spend Christmas with his family. Meanwhile, his former house is the Delta Alpha Kappa sorority house in the campus of the Clement University, and the housemother and the sisters Kelli Presley, Dana, Lauren Hannon, Megan, Heather, Megan Helms, Melissa and Eve Agnew are preparing the house for Christmas party in a stormy night while Clair Crosby is in her room writing a card to bury the hatchet with her sister. When three sisters vanish, the others receive weird phone calls and believe something is wrong, but they find that they are trapped in the location.
Leave your thoughts about Black Christmas.
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisWith a peephole-riddled set and a flashback-heavy screenplay, Black Christmas smothers terror beneath a blanket of unnecessary information, revealing too much and teasing too little. |
| Time OutNigel FloydA modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to be. |
| OhmyNews.comBrian OrndorfIt's desperately punch-yourself-in-the-face awful in every single way. Why oh why couldn't Billy gouge my eyes out? |
| Film4Anton Bitelthis reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and variation that has evolved over the last thirty or so years since the original Black Christmas screened. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekDank, stupid and--the most unpardonable of sins--extraordinarily tedious. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineAlthough this is a more standard horror film, the tone is witty and gleefully grisly. |
| Worcester Telegram & GazetteDaniel M. KimmelUnfortunately for those hoping for shower scenes and other R-rated shenanigans, there's only one and it's pretty lame. |
| L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonThe flashbacks are wittily gothic, and the present-day murder scenes have the absurdist, chain-reaction intricacy of the "Final Destination" deaths. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovThis film is an evocative, effective entry into the holiday blood-spray subgenre in its own right. And if it doesn't make your skin crawl ... you probably ate too much Christmas dinner. |
| Reel.comJim HemphillMorgan's gleeful desire to shock the audience both with the gore and the perverse backstory is delightfully infectious. |