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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974/2006) |
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(This picture shows exactly what the movie is about. Throughout the entire flim, it kept on showing the scene with the plastic over the dead girl's head and it ends there)
GENRE: SUSPENSE, HORROR
CONTAINS: VIOLENCE, A SEMI-INVISIBLE KILLER, TERROR
BLACK CHRISTMAS 1974
A MUST SEE MOVIE!!
Storyline:
Weird and strange phone calls are received by sorority girls in their house. Later on, the girls started disappearing one by one. And the police were called, and the strange calls that the girls are receiving are actually traced to their own house; the killer is in fact in their house in the attic.
Review:
I like to read reviews people have about scary movies. And on every one of their list, "Black Christmas" was on it and was rated "the scariest movie ever". So I got excited and went and ordered it.
Few days later I got this movie in the mail and started to watch it. It was very slow and very much like a 70s suspense drama. One sorority girl were killed and the killer had dragged her up in the attic of their sorority house, the killer put a plastic over her face and sat her near the window in the attic. Surprisingly, no one outside of the house saw the dead girl sitting by the window in the attic (which was pretty obvious). And for every five seconds the movie showed the scene of the dead girl in the attic over and over again. As if it was supposed to be scary or something. To me, it was just a very strange experience.
What disturbed me the most was the end of the movie. The way they ended it doesn't make sense. OK, so after the main character found half of the sorority girls in the house died. The main character (Jessica) saw her supposedly "derange" boyfriend outside the house. And naturally assumed that it was him (who was doing all the sick killings in the house). So she killed him and of course the police arrived at the end of all these mayhem. Then the cop precede to lay Jessica on her bed, instead of taking her to a hospital. The cops looked around and left (the cops left the crime scene with the victim in it, didn't really investigate, didn‘t really questioned her, didn‘t go around thoroughly...). And at the end, the movie showed us that the killer is still in the attic with the dead girl by the window.
WHO DOES THAT? The cop should at least GO up to the attic and investigate or take a look around. But they totally left the attic out of it.
The story is weird and it doesn't make sense.
Rate R (don't know what they rated R, for ?)
One out of Five Stars
BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006)
STORYLINE:
Not long ago, the sorority house was in fact a house that lived a family. A mother, a father and their child (Billy). Billy's mother always wanted a perfect child; but when Billy (her first born son) was born, he was less then perfect. His skin was yellow and his mother treated him like a monster or defected. But in fact Billy just has Jaundice; a liver defect that causes a person's skin to turn yellow.
One year in 1975 a day before Christmas. His mother couldn't take the pressure of having a defected child and a husband that she despised (who loved his son more then anything.) So, she killed her husband brutally with a claw hammer and then buried him under the house.
Since she hated Billy, saw him as a monster and the defected just as her husband. She took Billy upstairs, and locked him in the attic and forbidden him to get out.
But one day, Billy sure got out and killed his mother. He baked her flesh into holiday goodies and enjoyed the flesh cookie while waited for the police to come. After the police came and witness the brutal crime scene that Billy has created. The authorities sent Billy to a psych Ward institution for rehabilitation.
Years and years passed and now Billy's home has been renovated into a sorority house for sorority sisters of a college.
Soon, Billy came home and the only way he knows how to love and invite these girls to his family is by killing them.
REVIEW:
I LOVED IT. I watched it in the cinema in the opening week on Christmas. It was MORE then I expected. It was exciting, gross, sick and everything I wanted to see in a horror movie.
See, this movie explained a lot. In the original "Black Christmas" it was never explained why the killer always hide in the attic and who is this killer.
But in the remake of "Black Christmas" it explained everything. Now, it all makes sense now. Billy had a very bad childhood, I mean, not bad but TERRIBLE childhood. And no one had showed him how to love but his father. But his mother killed him in front of him. And perhaps that is when Billy realized that killing is love. Since people he loves get killed; to Billy it somehow all makes sense. That is one of the reason why Billy calls the sorority house (which was once his house) and tells the sorority girls , "welcome home" before he started killing them. Because in his mind only the dead will be his family and love him.
Rated R (for violent/brutal killings/gore/horror/nudity/adult content)
Five out of Five Stars |
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