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Black Christmas

Black Christmas (USA)
Black X-Mas (USA: promotional abbreviation)

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Director:
Release:
2006 December, 15
Country:
USA
Canada
Runtime:
84 minutes
Genre:
Horror / Thriller
Keywords:
Budget:
$ 9 000 000
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$ 21 510 851

  

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Needless and unnecessary are two words that have little meaning in Hollywood, especially when you're talking sequels or remakes. Case in point: Black Christmas, the revisionist version of the 1974 horror thriller largely thought to be the proto-slasher movie (this was four years before the first Halloween installment). The original, from director Bob Clark, is still considered a masterpiece of tension, understatement, innovative camera perspective, economic efficiency (a polite way of saying "ultra-low budget"), and killing off pretty young girls in grisly ways without any cumbersome exposition regarding the psychopath's motives. This, by the way, from the same Bob Clark who would soon bring us the beloved Porky's franchise as well as Black Christmas's polar opposite, the sweetly nostalgic classic A Christmas Story. Anyway, as needless and unnecessary as this remake is, it certainly delivers the goods on 21st-century slasher conventions as the sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa are picked off during Christmas break in ever more gruesome fashion. There's nothing wrong with all of this, particularly for fans of impalements, crushed skulls, ripped-out eyeballs, and some good old-fashioned Christmas cookie cannibalism. Writer-director Glen Morgan, who earned his own credibility as co-creator of the Final Destination series and the interesting 2003 remake of Willard adds a few clever visual homages to the original along with the amped-up extreme gore. Clark's device (was he the first to use it?) of creepy, mouth-breathing phone calls from killer to victim remains intact and creepy. He also resurrects Andrea Martin, one of the then-unknown actor victims who, now famous, plays the prim housemother. Another addition, which may not be so welcome to purists of the genre, is a load of exposition and backstory for the killer. Disturbing as these flashback set pieces are, they're also somewhat distracting to the foreboding tone. But you get what you pay for, and lots of people are going to pay dearly to dream of the shocking frights another Black Christmas will bring. --Ted Fry

Много лет назад, будучи еще ребенком, своими собственными глазами Билли видел, как его мать жестоко убила отца. А затем заперла его, своего единственного свидетеля, на чердаке. Как собаку. На долгие годы. Но однажды Билли удалось бежать... Канун Рождества. Школа сестер милосердия оглашается тревожными телефонными звонками. Кто-то упорно терроризируют девушек, произнося зловещим голосом страшные угрозы. И вскоре таинственным образом одна за другой погибают воспитанницы школы...

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Black Christmas Canada
Black Christmas West Germany
Black Christmas France
Black Christmas United Kingdom
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Black Christmas India
Black Christmas Netherlands
Black Christmas - Un Natale rosso sangue Italy
Black X-Mas (promotional abbreviation) Canada
Black X-Mas (promotional abbreviation) USA
Craciun negru Romania
Crni Božić Serbia
Fainaru・Deddokōru (transliterated title) Japan
Fekete karácsony Hungary
Férias Assombradas Portugal
Final Deadcall (literal English title) Japan
Giáng Sinh Nhuốm Máu Vietnam
Gritos en la oscuridad Argentina
Gritos en la oscuridad Mexico
Gritos en la oscuridad Peru
Gritos en la oscuridad Venezuela
Krwawe święta Poland
Natal Negro Brazil
Negra Navidad Spain
Noël noir Canada
Чёрное Рождество Russia
Чорне Різдво Ukraine
ファイナル・デッドコール Japan
絕命聖誕夜 Taiwan
블랙 크리스마스 South Korea

Children's Cast:

Cainan Wiebe [11] Billy Lenz - 5 & 12 Years

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110. Black Christmas (2006)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$ 21 510 851


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