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* RevengeByProxy: Billy attacking Agnes and ripping one of her eyes out. While [[FridgeLogic it's possible]] that he saw her a living reminder of his mother raping him, and/or that he might have done it just to stick it to the source of all the misery in his life, it still doesn't change the fact that Agnes was just an innocent little girl who, up until that point, never even knew that Billy existed.
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* TheDogBitesBack: The whole reason Billy was locked up in the loony bin in the first place. And ''boy'', did he bite ''hard''.
* PetTheDog: Billy's dad was the ''only'' person who was ever nice to him.
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TheRemake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 slasher film]] '''''Black Christmas''''', released in 2006.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: [[JustifedTrope Justified]], Billy and Agnes frequently use the vents and crawlspaces in the house, and again in the hospital.
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* NotQuiteDead: Billy and Agnes survive the sorority house burning down.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the UK cut, where Billy is, in fact, horribly burned in the fire, and later dies on the operating table.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the UK cut, where Billy is, in fact, horribly burned in the fire, and later dies on the operating table.
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* EvilMatriarch: Billy's mother, later devolves into AxCrazy.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Billy's mother and her boyfriend murdering Billy's father.
** Also, the abuse she inflicts on Billy, ''just'' because he's jaundiced.
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* RichBitch: Heather. [[Jerkass [[{{Jerkass}} In spades]].
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* DangerTakesABackseat: Billy kills Heather while she's sitting in her car. When the girls open the driver's door, her head immediately falls off.
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** Heather is also rather unpleasant, Ms. Mac even comments on it as she's getting the car ready.
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* MadwomanInTheAttic: Billy's mother despised his father, and by extension him (the fact that he looked like [[SinCity [[ComicBook/SinCity That Yellow Bastard]] only added to that hatred). She and her lover wound up murdering Mr. Lenz, and kept Billy locked up in the attic, presumably only giving him the bare minimum to survive.
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* MythologyGag: Several, like mostremakes. The remakes: the victims ending up with bags over their heads, the attic being the most obvious one important part of the house for slasher fans is the killers, and Andrea Martin as Mrs. [=MacHenry=], who was Phyl in the original ''Black Christmas''.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After witnessing his fathers father's murder at the hands of his bitch of a mothers mother's jerkass lover, being locked up in the attic for several years and being raped by his mother in order to conceive a child, its it's no wonder why Billy cracked up and became an axe crazy lunatic.
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->''Let the slay ride begin.''
TheRemake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 slasher film]] '''''Black Christmas''''', released in 2006.
Much like in the original, group of sorority sisters are celebrating Christmas. But the killer who crashes the party has more than a passing familiarity with their house: he used to live there, and he's going to relive the deaths of his parents.
!! The remake provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Billy's mother and stepfather.
* ArcWords: "... My family now."
* AssholeVictim: Mrs. Lenz and her lover.
* BadSanta: Billy, briefly.
* BareYourMidriff: Lauren's outfit.
* BarrierBustingBlow: Billy attacks Leigh through a wall.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Billy's mother despised his father, and by extension him (the fact that he looked like [[SinCity That Yellow Bastard]] only added to that hatred). She and her lover wound up murdering Mr. Lenz, and kept Billy locked up in the attic, presumably only giving him the bare minimum to survive.
* BloodierAndGorier
* BodyBagTrick: The [[NotQuiteDead not-so-dead]] Billy and Agnes pull this off in the hospital by the end.
* ChildByRape: Agnes.
* CreepyDoll: Agnes gets one as a Christmas gift in her childhood, and it shows up throughout the film.
* CrosscastRole: Adult Agnes was played by a man. And it ''shows''.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The candy cane shiv, for starters.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Megan is lured into the attic by footsteps and a snow globe tune, while Dana is lured under the step by rustling noises.
* DangerTakesABackseat: Heather's death.
* DeathByIrony: "You're my cookie, and I could gobble you up!"
* DeathBySex: The Santa is killed just as he's about to be get it on with a nurse.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Billy and Agnes.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Obsessed with having another, better child, Mrs. Lenz, after her lover passes out during a bout of drunken sex, goes up to the attic where she keeps her deformed son Billy, and rapes him, successfully giving birth to a daughter nine months later. Suffice it to say, this contributed greatly to Billy's already steady descent into insanity.
* DropTheHammer: Billy's biological father is beat to death with one.
* DullSurprise: Kyle.
* EvilPhone[=/=]HarassingPhoneCall
* EyesOfGold: Agnes's fake eye is gold.
* EyeScream: So much.
* FinalGirl: Kelli.
* {{Gorn}}
* AGodAmI: One of Billy's fellow asylum inmates apparently has messianic delusions:
--> '''Orderly:''' "Happy birthday."
* GoryDiscretionShot: The deaths of the Santa, Heather, and the morgue attendant.
* GrossUpCloseUp: Lots and lots.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Lauren.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
* HostileWeather: A snowstorm and the accidents it's causing make it so the authorities won't be able to reach them for several hours.
* ImAHumanitarian: Billy and Agnes. Two words: [[{{Squick}} Skingerbread men]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Billy ultimately dies, falling over the hospital railing and onto a Christmas tree with a pointy top.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The death of the sanitarium guard.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Christmas ornaments, a rolling pin, a candy cane, an ice skate, a gardening claw, the list goes on...
* IronicNurseryTune: ''Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies'' and a few others. Surprisingly effective.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kyle.
* KickTheDog: Billy's mother crushing the "Baby's First Christmas" bulb, and later telling him that Santa was shot down by the Russians.
* KillTheCutie: Melissa, the only main sister besides Kelli who is halfway decent.
* MadeOfPlasticine
* ManOnFire: Billy and, less severely, Agnes.
* MythologyGag: Several, like most remakes.
* NeckSnap: Leigh's death.
* NerdGlasses: Worn by Eve.
* OffscreenTeleportation
* OffWithHisHead: Eve's death, with Melissa's being a partial example.
* OrganDodge: Kelli stabs Agnes in her glass eye.
* ParentalIncest[=/=]VillainousIncest: Billy's mother rapes him in an insane attempt to impregnate herself. She succeeds.
* PeekABangs: Agnes favours this look.
* PeekABooCorpse: Eve is found [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]].
* ThePenIsMightier: Clair's death, and the first instance of EyeScream in the film.
* ReactionShot
* RedRightHand: Billy's skin is yellow. Agnes's gold-colored fake eye may also count.
* RichBitch: Dana and Heather.
* RollingPinOfDoom: Billy kills his mother with one.
* ScaryBlackMan: The asylum guard.
* ScreamingWoman
* SiblingsInCrime: Billy and Agnes.
* ShoutOut: Billy escapes the asylum he's in by killing a Rent-a-Santa and stealing his costume. A [[Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight deranged killer named Billy wearing a Santa suit...]]
* ShowerScene: Lauren gets one, which shows off her tramp stamp.
* SnowedIn
* SophisticatedAsHell:
--> '''Melissa:''' "No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it."
* TheStoner: Along with beers, Billy's stepfather has several bongs lying around.
* TeamMom: Melissa.
* TitleDrop: An old newspaper found in Eve's room mentions that Billy's first rampage was dubbed "Black Christmas".
* TitleIn: Repeatedly.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: They featured a lot of footage that wasn't in the film itself.
* TwoFaced: Billy, after he's burned.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Billy and Agnes somehow surviving the sorority house fire.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: In a "making-of" featurette, one of the filmmakers offhandedly mentions Billy's origin was partly inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper Edmund Kemper]].
* VoiceChangeling: Agnes.
* TheVoiceless: Billy.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Lauren throwing up.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Billy and Agnes.
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TheRemake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 slasher film]] '''''Black Christmas''''', released in 2006.
Much like in the original, group of sorority sisters are celebrating Christmas. But the killer who crashes the party has more than a passing familiarity with their house: he used to live there, and he's going to relive the deaths of his parents.
!! The remake provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Billy's mother and stepfather.
* ArcWords: "... My family now."
* AssholeVictim: Mrs. Lenz and her lover.
* BadSanta: Billy, briefly.
* BareYourMidriff: Lauren's outfit.
* BarrierBustingBlow: Billy attacks Leigh through a wall.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Billy's mother despised his father, and by extension him (the fact that he looked like [[SinCity That Yellow Bastard]] only added to that hatred). She and her lover wound up murdering Mr. Lenz, and kept Billy locked up in the attic, presumably only giving him the bare minimum to survive.
* BloodierAndGorier
* BodyBagTrick: The [[NotQuiteDead not-so-dead]] Billy and Agnes pull this off in the hospital by the end.
* ChildByRape: Agnes.
* CreepyDoll: Agnes gets one as a Christmas gift in her childhood, and it shows up throughout the film.
* CrosscastRole: Adult Agnes was played by a man. And it ''shows''.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The candy cane shiv, for starters.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Megan is lured into the attic by footsteps and a snow globe tune, while Dana is lured under the step by rustling noises.
* DangerTakesABackseat: Heather's death.
* DeathByIrony: "You're my cookie, and I could gobble you up!"
* DeathBySex: The Santa is killed just as he's about to be get it on with a nurse.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Billy and Agnes.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Obsessed with having another, better child, Mrs. Lenz, after her lover passes out during a bout of drunken sex, goes up to the attic where she keeps her deformed son Billy, and rapes him, successfully giving birth to a daughter nine months later. Suffice it to say, this contributed greatly to Billy's already steady descent into insanity.
* DropTheHammer: Billy's biological father is beat to death with one.
* DullSurprise: Kyle.
* EvilPhone[=/=]HarassingPhoneCall
* EyesOfGold: Agnes's fake eye is gold.
* EyeScream: So much.
* FinalGirl: Kelli.
* {{Gorn}}
* AGodAmI: One of Billy's fellow asylum inmates apparently has messianic delusions:
--> '''Orderly:''' "Happy birthday."
* GoryDiscretionShot: The deaths of the Santa, Heather, and the morgue attendant.
* GrossUpCloseUp: Lots and lots.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Lauren.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
* HostileWeather: A snowstorm and the accidents it's causing make it so the authorities won't be able to reach them for several hours.
* ImAHumanitarian: Billy and Agnes. Two words: [[{{Squick}} Skingerbread men]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Billy ultimately dies, falling over the hospital railing and onto a Christmas tree with a pointy top.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The death of the sanitarium guard.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Christmas ornaments, a rolling pin, a candy cane, an ice skate, a gardening claw, the list goes on...
* IronicNurseryTune: ''Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies'' and a few others. Surprisingly effective.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kyle.
* KickTheDog: Billy's mother crushing the "Baby's First Christmas" bulb, and later telling him that Santa was shot down by the Russians.
* KillTheCutie: Melissa, the only main sister besides Kelli who is halfway decent.
* MadeOfPlasticine
* ManOnFire: Billy and, less severely, Agnes.
* MythologyGag: Several, like most remakes.
* NeckSnap: Leigh's death.
* NerdGlasses: Worn by Eve.
* OffscreenTeleportation
* OffWithHisHead: Eve's death, with Melissa's being a partial example.
* OrganDodge: Kelli stabs Agnes in her glass eye.
* ParentalIncest[=/=]VillainousIncest: Billy's mother rapes him in an insane attempt to impregnate herself. She succeeds.
* PeekABangs: Agnes favours this look.
* PeekABooCorpse: Eve is found [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]].
* ThePenIsMightier: Clair's death, and the first instance of EyeScream in the film.
* ReactionShot
* RedRightHand: Billy's skin is yellow. Agnes's gold-colored fake eye may also count.
* RichBitch: Dana and Heather.
* RollingPinOfDoom: Billy kills his mother with one.
* ScaryBlackMan: The asylum guard.
* ScreamingWoman
* SiblingsInCrime: Billy and Agnes.
* ShoutOut: Billy escapes the asylum he's in by killing a Rent-a-Santa and stealing his costume. A [[Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight deranged killer named Billy wearing a Santa suit...]]
* ShowerScene: Lauren gets one, which shows off her tramp stamp.
* SnowedIn
* SophisticatedAsHell:
--> '''Melissa:''' "No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it."
* TheStoner: Along with beers, Billy's stepfather has several bongs lying around.
* TeamMom: Melissa.
* TitleDrop: An old newspaper found in Eve's room mentions that Billy's first rampage was dubbed "Black Christmas".
* TitleIn: Repeatedly.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: They featured a lot of footage that wasn't in the film itself.
* TwoFaced: Billy, after he's burned.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Billy and Agnes somehow surviving the sorority house fire.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: In a "making-of" featurette, one of the filmmakers offhandedly mentions Billy's origin was partly inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper Edmund Kemper]].
* VoiceChangeling: Agnes.
* TheVoiceless: Billy.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Lauren throwing up.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Billy and Agnes.
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