Thoughts on Black Christmas

quicksilver · 12-28-2006, 12:35 AM

So I know I said I wasn't going to see this movie, but I'm still curious to know what the consensus is about it (for those of you who have seen it). Also, post any thoughts or reflections on the film.

I should have been more specific about not watching horror films and mentioned that stupid horror flicks are awesome; the ones that are so completely stupid they cease to be "horror" and start to be "comedy."

SOOOO... if I can be conviced that Black Christmas is indeed one of these types of movies, I might be persuaded to drop coin on it.

luv_monkey · 12-28-2006, 03:39 AM

From what I hear there are plenty of one-liners that are supposedly pretty funny. So I guess that adds to the cheese factor.

Stupid movie or not, I'm gonna see it cuz of Lacey (sole reason)

rlm · 12-28-2006, 06:16 AM

i've been told lacey is hardly in the movie. that she exists so fast. but since the movie only made it to 15th place, no one really saw it. i've heard its very dark humor.

edawg99 · 12-28-2006, 11:54 AM

So do you think it's worth paying to see ? I know Lacey's in it but according to rlm she not in the movie very. Which sucks.

quicksilver · 12-28-2006, 10:34 PM

Google has some compiled reviews of the movie here.

My favorite quotes:

"This is supposed to be an entertainment and if it's going to be bad, it should be bad enough to be funny."

"The acting is not bad enough, for the most part, and that's to the determent of the film. The fact that the gals in the victim pool have so much experience as child stars make Mann and Friss look horrible by comparison."

-Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette

"'Black Christmas' delivers a lot of what you'd expect from an R- rated horror film released on the holy day that our Lord and savior Jesus Christ was born: Someone gets impaled by a Christmas tree topper, someone else gets stabbed through the eye with an icicle, and there's a scene featuring the consumption of holiday-themed cookies that are made out of human flesh."

-Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

Lurio's last comment there is at least a plus (presumably) for Lacey as well as the *others* in th film.

luv_monkey · 12-29-2006, 03:30 AM

interesting...thanks for the small info

quicksilver · 12-29-2006, 10:44 PM

So who has seen it? I'm really looking forward to hearing some "real" people talk about it. I saw a survey and it seems people either really like it or really hate it.

luv_monkey · 12-30-2006, 01:14 AM

well being from Australia it's kinda hard for me to see it in the theatre hahah but the Internet is a wonderful place *shifty eyes* hehe

12-30-2006, 02:29 AM

I know how you feel luv_munky. We may have to wait for the it to come out on DVD and import it...well, i may seeing as i have the slowest 'puter on the planet. Its a shade away from being a Commodore 64...

luv_monkey · 12-30-2006, 06:38 AM

too true ninja, i'm definitely gonna try and download it but i will import it anyway when the dvd is released (i'm still waiting for Hello Sister Goodbye Life to come on dvd too)

rlm · 12-30-2006, 07:33 AM

is it me or there just doesn't seem to be a download of this movie anywhere on the interent. i don't get a chance to go to the movies like i used to and instead rely on downloading them just so i can get to see them. so far nothing has come out on this movie, not even on torrents. all there is, is the original 1974 movie which i already got. if there is anyone out there who has found a copy of the remake with lacey in it please let me know where to get it or give me and everyone else a link for it. please.

luv_monkey · 12-30-2006, 10:43 AM

well my guess is that it wasn't a hugely anticipated movie so there's no 'telesync' downloads or 'cam' downloads....we'll just have to wait for a DVDrip.

quicksilver · 12-31-2006, 01:21 AM

...OR just spend the money and at least support Lacey's work by paying for it. Now if it was a Dixie Chicks movie...

rlm · 12-31-2006, 08:17 AM

any movie that lacey dies in, i just can't support. i just can't.

quicksilver · 12-31-2006, 05:34 PM

that's a good point rlm...

rlm · 01-01-2007, 06:10 AM

now unless lacey was through out the whole movie and she died at the end, then i would support it but i would come out of the theater feeling very depressed.

luv_monkey · 01-01-2007, 09:25 AM

well Lacey was hardly in Not Another Teen Movie as well but I enjoyed it so I'll still be seeing this movie regardless of how long Lacey is in it

herbertlens · 01-03-2007, 07:19 PM

I have a feeling that this movie is not going to rock as much as I originally anticipated so I skipped seeing it. I am definitely going to buy the DVD though. I buy all Lacey's movies on DVD... apart from Rugrats/Thornberrys

I just wish she would be in the movies she is in for longer than she tends to be in them.

rlm · 01-04-2007, 07:54 AM

i'm watching this movie right now, finally found a torrent of it but the vid isn't that great, sounds ok. anyway i'm at the part where they find a gift to the sorority house from billy and the gift wasn't there before. so far lacey's role has been a few one liners and basically just sitting down on the sofa. and her character isn't the type of girl i would date. they're all playing snobby sorority girls who in some way or another deserve to get killed. so far the only interesting thing about the movie are the flashbacks to billy's childhood and why he went insane. more on this once i see the full movie but so far it's ok. finally lacey standing up and someone puking.

**ok had to come back now since lacey's time in the movie is over. originally i thought she was the one that got it with the christmas lights but it seems that she doesn't. i just wish this movie was a lot clearer but by what i just saw it seems everyone else got some cool death scenes and she didn't. oh i'm not going to give it away but they did seem to find a part of lacey inside a car. this movie is way different than the original.

in the original there was no background as to who billy was as all. he was just some guy that sneaked his way into the house and got into the attic and started killing the girls one by one. he would make those strange phone calls where it seemed there were all these voices overlapping one another (still don't understand how he did that). he does the same in this movie but not as much. in that movie you didn't see anything of billy except an arm, leg, or part of his face. in this one you see him walking around but you really can't see him clearly. also where they got the idea of billy stealing the eyes in the new one i don't know the original didn't have that. and billy seems to be looking for his sister agnus (actually his daughter, sick ain't he). by the way does anyone remember all those promo shots of the girls with their eyes torn out, lacey, michelle, and a couple of the others had those promos out, well that was the studio letting you know who was going to bite it in the movie. it's because of all this that the movie at least keeps you watching. there's a lot of new things that make it different. i'm guessing the real reason this movie didn't make it big at the box office is cuz no one wants to see a horror movie on christmas day, heck even during the holidays. but i bet you one thing, it'll be a big rental. it's acutally pretty good and still haven't really finished watching it and so far theres' a big twist at the end. not saying what it is but now the movie just stands on its own and has strayed away from the original.

quicksilver · 01-04-2007, 08:23 PM

"A Big Rental?" So I guess now you feel bad about using bit torrent to watch it? I've been leaning towards the "rent it" side of the fence anyway.

12-28-2006, 12:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
quicksilver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 162 My Profile	Thoughts on Black Christmas So I know I said I wasn't going to see this movie, but I'm still curious to know what the consensus is about it (for those of you who have seen it). Also, post any thoughts or reflections on the film. I should have been more specific about not watching horror films and mentioned that stupid horror flicks are awesome; the ones that are so completely stupid they cease to be "horror" and start to be "comedy." SOOOO... if I can be conviced that Black Christmas is indeed one of these types of movies, I might be persuaded to drop coin on it.

12-28-2006, 10:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
quicksilver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 162 My Profile	Not Very Glowing Reviews Google has some compiled reviews of the movie here. My favorite quotes: "This is supposed to be an entertainment and if it's going to be bad, it should be bad enough to be funny." "The acting is not bad enough, for the most part, and that's to the determent of the film. The fact that the gals in the victim pool have so much experience as child stars make Mann and Friss look horrible by comparison." -Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette "'Black Christmas' delivers a lot of what you'd expect from an R- rated horror film released on the holy day that our Lord and savior Jesus Christ was born: Someone gets impaled by a Christmas tree topper, someone else gets stabbed through the eye with an icicle, and there's a scene featuring the consumption of holiday-themed cookies that are made out of human flesh." -Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle Lurio's last comment there is at least a plus (presumably) for Lacey as well as the others in th film. Last edited by quicksilver : 12-28-2006 at 10:42 PM.

01-04-2007, 07:54 AM	#19 (permalink)
rlm Member of Sylar's Army Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: tx Posts: 1,886 My Profile	i'm watching this movie right now, finally found a torrent of it but the vid isn't that great, sounds ok. anyway i'm at the part where they find a gift to the sorority house from billy and the gift wasn't there before. so far lacey's role has been a few one liners and basically just sitting down on the sofa. and her character isn't the type of girl i would date. they're all playing snobby sorority girls who in some way or another deserve to get killed. so far the only interesting thing about the movie are the flashbacks to billy's childhood and why he went insane. more on this once i see the full movie but so far it's ok. finally lacey standing up and someone puking. *ok had to come back now since lacey's time in the movie is over. originally i thought she was the one that got it with the christmas lights but it seems that she doesn't. i just wish this movie was a lot clearer but by what i just saw it seems everyone else got some cool death scenes and she didn't. oh i'm not going to give it away but they did seem to find a part of lacey inside a car. this movie is way different than the original. in the original there was no background as to who billy was as all. he was just some guy that sneaked his way into the house and got into the attic and started killing the girls one by one. he would make those strange phone calls where it seemed there were all these voices overlapping one another (still don't understand how he did that). he does the same in this movie but not as much. in that movie you didn't see anything of billy except an arm, leg, or part of his face. in this one you see him walking around but you really can't see him clearly. also where they got the idea of billy stealing the eyes in the new one i don't know the original didn't have that. and billy seems to be looking for his sister agnus (actually his daughter, sick ain't he). by the way does anyone remember all those promo shots of the girls with their eyes torn out, lacey, michelle, and a couple of the others had those promos out, well that was the studio letting you know who was going to bite it in the movie. it's because of all this that the movie at least keeps you watching. there's a lot of new things that make it different. i'm guessing the real reason this movie didn't make it big at the box office is cuz no one wants to see a horror movie on christmas day, heck even during the holidays. but i bet you one thing, it'll be a big rental. it's acutally pretty good and still haven't really finished watching it and so far theres' a big twist at the end. not saying what it is but now the movie just stands on its own and has strayed away from the original. Last edited by rlm : 01-04-2007 at 08:26 AM.*

12-28-2006, 03:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
luv_monkey Ga-ga for Love & Lacey Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,220 My Profile	From what I hear there are plenty of one-liners that are supposedly pretty funny. So I guess that adds to the cheese factor. Stupid movie or not, I'm gonna see it cuz of Lacey (sole reason)

12-28-2006, 06:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
rlm Member of Sylar's Army Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: tx Posts: 1,886 My Profile	i've been told lacey is hardly in the movie. that she exists so fast. but since the movie only made it to 15th place, no one really saw it. i've heard its very dark humor.

12-28-2006, 11:54 AM	#4 (permalink)
edawg99 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 8,805 My Profile	So do you think it's worth paying to see ? I know Lacey's in it but according to rlm she not in the movie very. Which sucks.

12-29-2006, 03:30 AM	#6 (permalink)
luv_monkey Ga-ga for Love & Lacey Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,220 My Profile	interesting...thanks for the small info

12-29-2006, 10:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
quicksilver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 162 My Profile	So who has seen it? I'm really looking forward to hearing some "real" people talk about it. I saw a survey and it seems people either really like it or really hate it.

12-30-2006, 01:14 AM	#8 (permalink)
luv_monkey Ga-ga for Love & Lacey Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,220 My Profile	well being from Australia it's kinda hard for me to see it in the theatre hahah but the Internet is a wonderful place shifty eyes hehe

12-30-2006, 02:29 AM	#9 (permalink)
ninja4H Posts: n/a	I know how you feel luv_munky. We may have to wait for the it to come out on DVD and import it...well, i may seeing as i have the slowest 'puter on the planet. Its a shade away from being a Commodore 64...

12-30-2006, 06:38 AM	#10 (permalink)
luv_monkey Ga-ga for Love & Lacey Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,220 My Profile	too true ninja, i'm definitely gonna try and download it but i will import it anyway when the dvd is released (i'm still waiting for Hello Sister Goodbye Life to come on dvd too)

12-30-2006, 07:33 AM	#11 (permalink)
rlm Member of Sylar's Army Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: tx Posts: 1,886 My Profile	is it me or there just doesn't seem to be a download of this movie anywhere on the interent. i don't get a chance to go to the movies like i used to and instead rely on downloading them just so i can get to see them. so far nothing has come out on this movie, not even on torrents. all there is, is the original 1974 movie which i already got. if there is anyone out there who has found a copy of the remake with lacey in it please let me know where to get it or give me and everyone else a link for it. please.

12-30-2006, 10:43 AM	#12 (permalink)
luv_monkey Ga-ga for Love & Lacey Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,220 My Profile	well my guess is that it wasn't a hugely anticipated movie so there's no 'telesync' downloads or 'cam' downloads....we'll just have to wait for a DVDrip.

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12-31-2006, 01:21 AM	#13 (permalink)
quicksilver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 162 My Profile	...OR just spend the money and at least support Lacey's work by paying for it. Now if it was a Dixie Chicks movie...

12-31-2006, 08:17 AM	#14 (permalink)
rlm Member of Sylar's Army Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: tx Posts: 1,886 My Profile	any movie that lacey dies in, i just can't support. i just can't.

12-31-2006, 05:34 PM	#15 (permalink)
quicksilver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 162 My Profile	that's a good point rlm...

01-01-2007, 06:10 AM	#16 (permalink)
rlm Member of Sylar's Army Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: tx Posts: 1,886 My Profile	now unless lacey was through out the whole movie and she died at the end, then i would support it but i would come out of the theater feeling very depressed.

01-01-2007, 09:25 AM	#17 (permalink)
luv_monkey Ga-ga for Love & Lacey Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,220 My Profile	well Lacey was hardly in Not Another Teen Movie as well but I enjoyed it so I'll still be seeing this movie regardless of how long Lacey is in it

01-03-2007, 07:19 PM	#18 (permalink)
herbertlens Goat Whisperer Join Date: May 2004 Location: California Posts: 1,263 My Profile	I have a feeling that this movie is not going to rock as much as I originally anticipated so I skipped seeing it. I am definitely going to buy the DVD though. I buy all Lacey's movies on DVD... apart from Rugrats/Thornberrys I just wish she would be in the movies she is in for longer than she tends to be in them.

01-04-2007, 08:23 PM	#20 (permalink)
quicksilver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 162 My Profile	"A Big Rental?" So I guess now you feel bad about using bit torrent to watch it? I've been leaning towards the "rent it" side of the fence anyway.