Directed by:
Glen MorganCinematography:
Robert McLachlanComposer:
Shirley WalkerCast:
Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kristen Cloke, Crystal Lowe, Lacey Chabert, Andrea Martin, Oliver Hudson, Leela Savasta, Evan Adams (more)Plots(1)
The story of how the abused and psychologically disturbed Billy Lenz wreaked revenge on his ‘family’ one Christmas is so horrific that it’s become the stuff of urban legend and the old Lenz house still evokes a wary superstition amongst those who remember him. But those events are all long in the past. Billy is safely locked up and now the house is home to sorority sisters Kelli, Melissa, Heather, Dana, and their housemother.It’s a few days before Christmas and snow is falling heavily outside. The housemates are full of yuletide good cheer. They’re celebrating the holidays and swapping gifts around the Christmas tree when the phone rings. Their caller is not wishing them well and worse still, they soon discover that he’s making his viscous threats from somewhere inside the house. As sheer terror takes over and the body count grows, they realise that their only chance of survival is to find their unseen guest before he finds them... (Pathé Distribution UK)
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I like slashers, I'm a fan of Jason, but this one didn't quite work. The killer has no charisma, and nothing happens except the killing of the characters and they are not worth much.
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This is a just-about-bearable remake that doesn't just try to milk the original, but at least wants to give an interesting backstory to the antagonist Billy, creating a pretty bizarre Christmas legend. The stumbling block, however, is that the screenplay just does not seem to be interested in anyone else, so we just have a group of generic characters lining up to be the next victim. However, there is a certain ingenuity in the gruesome presentation of each of the grisly murders in this movie, that cannot be denied.
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