Black Christmas (2006)

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Ah, the holiday season is upon us and what better way to celebrate then making some cocoa, curling up on the couch with the one you love, dimming the lights and watching a slasher flick. Black Christmas aka Black X-Mas gave me nostalgic tingles all over. I'm a huge fan of the 1974 original starring Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder. Even Andrea Martin of SCTV fame was in the original and co-stars in this remake as the ever optimistic sorority house frau. The original Black Christmas was a gem of slasher horror made at a time when the genre was about to loose all momentum. So to see a remake gave me a new kind of tingle. A tingle of expectation. I am not a huge remake fan. So many have been made and seemed pointless. Any one see Psycho? Point and case. I digress.

We open...like so many slasher flicks, on an insane asylum. Some one gets stabbed in the eye, someone escapes. Nice and dark and creepy....it involves a candy cane, but I don't wanna spoil too much. We cut too...Christmas Eve in a Sorority house with the left over roomies getting ready to head out and celebrate, but a demanding and cheery house mom won't let the Christmas spirit die. The Sorority Sisters are made up of such girl candy as Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls, Party of Five), Michelle Trachtenburg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Grindhouse), Katie Cassidy (Supernatural) to name a few of the more recognizable starlets.

Time for Secret Santa, but, there's a missing roommate, and a surprise new gift under the tree. The house mother tells the tale of the secret past of the house which most of the girls dismiss as urban legend. Throw in heart throb bad boy Kyle played by Oliver Hudson (Dawson's Creek) who isn't supposed to be there and let the blood bath begin.

A few bodies and red herrings later...The missing ...

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