Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 12/25/06 Home Video 04/02/07 MPAA Rating Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and language Running Time 1 hour 40 minutes Genre Horror Director Glen Morgan Writer Glen Morgan Cast Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Andrea Martin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jessica Harmon, Katie Cassidy, Oliver Hudson Studio The Weinstein Co |
BLACK CHRISTMAS
SYNOPSIS
A remake of Bob Clark's 1974 horror classic, Black
Christmas. The movie tells the story about Billy, a
young boy who was abused by his mother as a child.
While his mother was cheating on Billy's father, she
eventually killed his father and kept Billy in the attic -
for good, while she was with her lover and starting a
"new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a
daughter and treated her with love, which Billy never
experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the
attic after years and brutally murdered his mother
and her lover. Cut to present day, a group of six
sorority sisters consisting of Kelli (Katie Cassidy),
Dana (Lacey Chabert), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), Megan
(Jessica Harmon), Heather (Mary Elizabeth
Winstead) and Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg) and
their house mother (Andrea Martin), who now live in
Billy's childhood home, find themselves being
harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery
phone-calls during Christmas Break and as one of
the girls goes missing, the girls begin being
murdered one by one by no other than Billy...
--©Weinstein Brothers
A remake of Bob Clark's 1974 horror classic, Black
Christmas. The movie tells the story about Billy, a
young boy who was abused by his mother as a child.
While his mother was cheating on Billy's father, she
eventually killed his father and kept Billy in the attic -
for good, while she was with her lover and starting a
"new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a
daughter and treated her with love, which Billy never
experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the
attic after years and brutally murdered his mother
and her lover. Cut to present day, a group of six
sorority sisters consisting of Kelli (Katie Cassidy),
Dana (Lacey Chabert), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), Megan
(Jessica Harmon), Heather (Mary Elizabeth
Winstead) and Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg) and
their house mother (Andrea Martin), who now live in
Billy's childhood home, find themselves being
harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery
phone-calls during Christmas Break and as one of
the girls goes missing, the girls begin being
murdered one by one by no other than Billy...
--©Weinstein Brothers
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