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Black Christmas

Official theatrical release poster

Directed by Glen Morgan
Written by Glen Morgan
Produced by Marty Adelstein / Victor Solnicki / Dawn Parouse / Steve Hoban / James Wong / Glen Morgan
Starring Katie Cassidy / Michelle Trachtenberg / Mary Elizabeth Winstead / Oliver Hudson / Lacey Chabert / Kristen Cloke / Andrea Martin
Music by Shirley Walker
Studio 2929 Productions / Adelstein-Parouse Productions / Hard Eight Pictures / Hoban Segal Productions
Distributed by Dimension Films / MGM
Release date(s) December 25, 2006
Running time 90 minutes (North American cut) / 84 minutes (European cut)
Country Canada / United States
Budget $9 million
Box office $21,510,851

Black Christmas (abbreviated as Black X-Mas) is a 2006 Canadian-American slasher film, and a loose remake of the 1974 horror slasher film of the same name. It was written and directed by Glen Morgan and stars Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, Andrea Martin, and Crystal Lowe. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and murdered in their house during a winter storm on Christmas Eve.

Plot[]

In 1970, Billy Lenz is born with a rare liver disease that made his skin yellow, and is constantly abused and hated by his mother, Constance Lenz. Five years later on Christmas Eve, setting her eyes on another man, Constance killed her husband, Frank Lenz, with the help of her lover and buried his body in the underground crawlspace under the house. When Billy is seen witnessing this, she locks him in the attic. In 1982, when Constance tries to conceive a new baby with her new man, she realizes he is impotent, and goes up to the attic and rapes Billy. Soon, Agnes Lenz is born, who is loved by her new parents. On Christmas Day 1991, Billy snaps and escapes the attic. He first disfigures Agnes by gouging her eye out, and gruesomely kills his mother and her new husband next. He then proceeds to make cookies out of his mother's flesh. He is caught by the police, and is sent to Clark Sanitarium while Agnes is taken to a local orphanage.

On Christmas Eve 2006, Billy escapes from his cell after killing the security guard, butchers a man in a Santa Claus costume, and disguises himself in the costume to escape.

At a sorority house, Delta Alpha Kappa, Clair Crosby and Megan Helms, two sorority girls, are brutally killed, unnoticed by the other girls. In the living room, the girls receive a call from a rambling man. During the call, Lauren Hanon taunts the caller, and he threatens to kill them. Meanwhile, Clair's sister Leigh arrives searching for her. After the lights go out, Dana goes to check them under the house, and is killed. The girls go out to find her, only to discover her dead, and also find Eve Agnew (Kathleen Kole) also killed.

Heather Lee-Fitzgerald (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Mrs. Mac (Andrea Martin) want to drive to the police, but are both killed when they step outside towards the car. Kelli (Katie Cassidy) and Leigh go to check, where the killer strikes again, killing Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Lauren. Kelli and Leigh find Kyle (Oliver Hudson), Kelli's ex. The three check the attic, where Kyle is killed.

The killer introduces herself as Agnes, and introduces all the murdered girls' dead bodies by a Christmas tree. Billy also makes his way into the attic and both killers close in on Kelli and Leigh, unintentionally starting a fire. Kelli and Leigh escape and leave Billy and Agnes to burn in the fire, and they are treated at the hospital. While Kelli goes for an x-ray, Agnes appears in the hospital unharmed and kills Leigh while Billy kills a hospital employee. When Kelli returns to her room, Agnes appears through the ceiling and attacks her as well, but Kelli uses the defibrillator and kills Agnes. Moments later, Billy enters through the ceiling and chases Kelli to the stairwell. They briefly fight, ending with Kelli pushing Billy off the railing where he is subsequently impaled on the tip of a Christmas tree, killing him.

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