Black Christmas

Well I decided to get into the Halloween mood and try a scary movie. I am not really into the scary genre and this movie is a reminder why.

Black Christmas is a remake of a 1974 movie of the same name staring Olivia Hussey & Margot Kidder. The movie is about a the Alpha Kappa Gamma sorority house and some of the sisters that stayed for Christmas. With any scary movie you always have that Drew Barrymore type killing at the beginning that usually sets the tone for the entire movie.

We learn that the sorority house was originally Billy Lenz's (Robert Mann) house and the movie flashes back to 1970 when Billy was a baby. Billy was born with a liver disorder that makes his skin yellow. His father loves him regardless but his mother is disappointed and wants nothing to do with him. Throughout the movie there are these flashbacks to Billy's life and about how screwed up he became. Present day Billy is in a mental institution and breaks out so he can be home for Christmas.

Eventually the girls at the house get picked off one by one. We soon realize that Billy has an accomplice his "sister" Agnes. Billy & Agnes also have an obsession with eye balls so when they killed someone they ripped their eye balls out and eat them. That is just gross.

I was not impressed by this movie at all. I didn't think there was much suspense it was just killing after killing in present time & flashbacks. I have never seen the 1974 version but I have a felling that it wasn't as gory as this present day disaster. I give this movie 3 out of 10.