Black Christmas (2006)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Let's be realistic.

Absolutely brilliant

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Christmas horror movies are a very niche genre, with the original "Black Christmas" and "Silent Night, Deadly Night" being the most well known. While Black Christmas (2006) shares its name with the 1974 original, it bares little resemblance to its predecessor. One might remember the 00s as being an abysmal era for horror, with a slew of Saw rip-offs and torture porn gradually replacing the horror elements that made the genre scary. Black Christmas (2006) is the epitome of this, favoring cheap gross out tactics over plot, cohesion, and terror.Similar to Rob Zombie's Halloween, Black Christmas spends a great deal of its time adding an overblown and absurd backstory to its killer. Just like Zombie's Halloween: this actually makes our boogeyman LESS scary. The rest of the film chronicles our unlikable victims in their sorority on Christmas Eve, as they deal with a snow storm and some obscene phone calls. This set-up is about the only thing retained from original. Except, unlike the original, there is virtually no character development and everyone is basically just there to be killed. There are some attempts to pepper the dialogue with bits of girl power jargon, which is confusing since our characters spent all the time prior hating each other. Of course, we also have an expositional character who happens to know the entire history of the house and its killer, etc. One might think their sole focus on humorously desperate shock and gore would at least generate some cool death scenes, but that's not really the case. Most kills in this movie are fairly basic and unremarkable, unlike the original (who can forget the unicorn statue and the children's choir caroling in the background?). So, with all the original elements and storyline gone, what do we get? The killer's sister was added into the mix, looking like White Chicks on meth. There's also a second ending (or something) so ludicrous and pointless, that I felt a strong sense of cringe having to watch it with my significant other in the room. This, like the addition of the killer's sister, added nothing to the story. Seeing Andrea Martin return was the only decent thing about this movie. It takes a special film to garner a 1-star from me, but this movie embodies everything bad about 00s horror movies. If you want better gore, horror, or anything: look elsewhere. Do yourself a favor and watch the original instead.

To the fans of this movie, I like some stuff of the movie like the kills are neat, it's gory, the cast is decent, and the origin story okay to be honest. This movie is bad, I'd expect to like this film but just the bad acting, slow pace, and mediocre story ruined it for me. And this guy name Billy like he look like a Simpson because of his yellow skin. Billy's mom in the movie gave a terrible performance, I know she tried but still. Beside the mom rape his son off camera! WHAT THE HELL?! I almost gave this movie a 1 but I like some things in the film so 2 is a desirable rating. The phone call scene is like a rip off of Scream, I guess this is a Halloween plus a bit of Scream then you get this movie. I haven't watch the original but if I did, I bet it's better. The acting is terrible like cheap porn give better performances then this film. I wish I didn't watch this on Christmas. (I finally watch the unrated version and it's better. Still the same movie though).Score for unrated cut: 7/10

I feel like lots of people are quick to condemn any remake of a horror classic. Guess what? This does not destroy the original film. If anything, the 2006 version deserves credit for telling a brand new story and going all-out gory instead of being a shot-for-shot clone of the old film. The cast is great, the look of the film is beautiful, and some of the leaps that this story makes are just flat-out bonkers nutso crazy. Honestly, just put the original out of your mind and enjoy. Relax!

This is the worst Horror Movie of 2006 and an unforgiving remake of a classic. While the DP attempts to film it in a similar style to the 1970s version, everything else is bad. Bad acting, bad writing, bad dialogue, bad make-up, bad bad bad. Do not waste time. Don't fall for how it looks, after 10 minutes you will feel like you already wasted too much of your life on this.