Black Christmas (2006)

 Black Christmas opened Christmas day 2006. Like any other horror movie that is Christmas themed, there was a bit of controversy from religious extremists in regards to both the content of the movie and its Christmas day release date. Unfortunately, the controversy did very little to attract additional viewers to come see it out of curiosity and the movie enjoyed only moderate success.
   The story begins with a boy named Billy Lenz who is constantly abused by his mother. Billy is very jaundiced which causes his mother to dislike him. However, Billy's father adores him. Mrs. Lenz is a pretty awful person, she hates her child and is cheating on her husband. She murders Billy's father and buries his body in the houses crawlspace with the help of her boyfriend. Billy sees this which causes her to lock Billy in the attic so he won't tell anyone what's happened. Years later, she attempts to conceive a new baby but realizes that her new man is impotent. She goes up to the attic and rapes 12-year-old Billy. Nine months later, a daughter named Agnes is born and she is treated like a princess by Mrs. Lenz, which makes Billy angry since she has never treated him this way. A few years later on Christmas Billy escapes from the attic and disfigures Agnes by gouging out her eye. Billy then kills his mother and her lover. He is caught by the police eating pieces of his mother's flesh which he has cut into Christmas shapes with cookie cutters and baked in the oven! Billy is then sent to a mental asylum. Cut to Fifteen years later, on Christmas Eve, Billy escapes from his cell and heads off to his former home, now a sorority house and begins killing off the girls who live there.
  I normally dislike remakes, but I must say I enjoy this movie much more than the original 1974 version. Don't get me wrong, the original is a classic movie, but it's more of a suspenseful thriller rather than a full on horror movie. I actually enjoy Billy's backstory and the fast pacing of this movie. There's a lot of dark humor in it and the kills are done very well. I would say if you're in the mood for something gory and Christmassy this Halloween season, you can't go wrong with this one.