The remake of the 1974 film is about a killer who terrorizes a sorority house with phone calls before he begins to murder various sorority sisters during the holiday break.
Black Christmas tells the story of Billy Lenz, a young boy who was abused by his mother as a child. Billy’s mother cheated on her husband and eventually killed him. She then permanently placed Billy in the attic while she started a new family with a new lover.
During the movie, Billy’s mother is seen having sex with her new lover in the stairwell, with a snore from the lover; Billy’s mother gets up and heads to the attic. Inside the attic she walks to the front of Billy’s rocking chair and drops her robe.
Billy’s mother then gives birth to a baby girl (whom she actually created with Billy) 9 months later and treats it with love and respect, which angers Billy. After several years, he brutally murdered his mother and her lover after pulling out his sisters / daughters eyeball.
The movie takes place in present day when a group of seven sorority sisters consisting of Heather (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Kelli (Katie Cassidy), Dana (Lacey Chabert), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), Megan (Jessica Harmon), Claire (Leela Savasta), and Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg) and their house mother (Andrea Martin), live in Billy’s childhood home. They find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating anonymous phone-calls during Christmas Break. The girls are then murdered individually by Billy throughout the movie, and as a twist, his sister (who he plundged the right eye out) Agnes gets in the slasher action too.
The slaughter continues untill the last two victums are taken to the hospital. As it turnes out, Billy and Agnes, (who survived through a fire set by an accident) come back to finish things. And the terror ends up with Agnes being electrocuted by a heart shocker. Followed up by Billy being pushed off a balcany and gets impaled on the top of a Christmas Tree in the loby of the hospital.
Trivia
Filming began January 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.
Andrea Martin also played “Phyllis” in the 1974 version of Black Christmas. Margot Kidder, who played Barb in the old version, was another choice for the role of Mrs. Mac.
Katie Cassidy, during an interview, said this will be her last horror film for a while.
Glen Morgan approached Mary Elizabeth Winstead in an airport at 4 AM for the role of Kelli, but she said she didn’t want to get stereotyped as a horror heroine, so she accepted the role of Heather instead because she was a big fan of the original.
Reshoots began on August 29th in a mental facility in Vancouver.
The Film Opens on Christmas Day.
The characters are much like originals: Kelli Pressley(Katie Cassidy) is like Jess Bradford(Olivia Hussey). Lauren Hannon(Crystal Lowe) is like Barbie Coard(Margot Kidder), and Clair Crosby is like Clare Harrison(Lynne Griffin).
These production notes provided by Dimension Films.
Black Christmas
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Andrea Martin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jessica Harmon, Katie Cassidy
Directed by: Glen Morgan
Screenplay by: Glen Morgan
Release: December 25th, 2006
MPAA Rating: R for strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and language.
Studio: Dimension Films
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $16,273,581 (76.5%)
Foreign: $5,012,591 (8.5%)
Total: $21,286,172 (Worldwide)