History Film / BlackChristmas2006

* SoundtrackDissonance: Joyous Christmas carols are heard playing in the background as Billy beats his mother to death with a rolling pin.

TheRemake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 slasher film]] ''Black Christmas'', released in 2006.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Billy and Agnes somehow surviving the sorority house fire]].

* TrailersAlwaysLie: They featured a lot of footage that wasn't in the film itself.

* {{Expy}}: Kelli is an expy of the original's Jess.

* AnyoneCanDie: A lot of the sorority girls get an equal amount of screen time and development, leaving the audience to try and guess who will be the final girl. When the killing ensues, the girls are all picked off at random. In the end, [[spoiler:every sorority girl is dead except for Kelli, a surprise as Katie Cassidy was an unknown at the time compared to her co-stars who were rather famous, and for playing the only blonde sorority sister]].

* {{Expy}}: Kelli is an expy of the original's Jess (FinalGirl status and boyfriend trouble) Lauren is an expy of * FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Kelli]] is the final survivor after [[spoiler:Leigh]] is killed off.

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.

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* {{Expy}}: Kelli is an expy of the original's Jess (FinalGirl status and boyfriend trouble) Lauren is an expy of Creator/MargotKidder's Barb (alcoholic and bitchy)
* FakeFinalGirl: This trope can apply to pretty much all of the sorority sisters, as it’s hard to predict which one will be the survivor.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Kelli]] is the final survivor after [[spoiler:Leigh]] is killed off.

* FinalGirl: Kelli is the final survivor after Leigh is killed off.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Subverted to the extreme, a rare feat. While the film has a quite a few male casualties, including [[spoiler:Billy’s Dad, Billy’s Stepfather, The Asylum Santa, A Security Guard, A Mortician, and Kyle]], the body count in this film is almost entirely made up of the female characters [[spoiler:Melissa Kitt, Heather Lee Fitzgerald, Dana Mathis, Lauren Hannon, Clair Crosby, Megan Helms, Eve Agnew, Leigh Colvin, Ms. MacHenry, Billy’s Mom, and Agnes]].

* BareYourMidriff: Lauren's outfit.
* BarrierBustingBlow: Billy attacks Leigh through a wall.

* BodyBagTrick: The [[NotQuiteDead not-so-dead]] Billy and Agnes pull this off in the hospital by the end.

* 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: Billy kills both Heather and Eve in their cars.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Billy and Agnes are never seen wearing shoes, despite the movie taking place at Christmas night.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The deaths of the Santa, Heather, and the morgue attendant.

** Ms. Mac's death is by an icicle through her mouth and out the back of her head.
** How Billy ultimately dies, falling over the hospital railing and onto a Christmas tree with a pointy top.

* KillTheCutie: Melissa, the only main sister besides Kelli who is halfway decent. Leigh is also a decent character, but isn't one of the sisters.

** Ms. Mac is also impaled, clean through her skull, by an icicle.
* ManOnFire: Billy and, less severely, Agnes end up in flames when they don't escape the burning sorority in time.

* NeckSnap: Leigh dies by Agnes snapping her neck.

* 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.
* OffscreenTeleportation: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], Billy and Agnes frequently use the vents and crawlspaces in the house, and again in the hospital.
* OffWithHisHead: Eve's is found decapitated in her car while Melissa's death is more of a partial example (and by ice skate of all things).
* OrganDodge: Kelli stabs Agnes in her glass eye.

* PeekABooCorpse: Eve is found [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]].

* RedHerring: Eve, who is obsessed with Billy Lenz, to the point of taking his old room in the sorority house, is initially implied to be the second killer... until they find her body.

* SiblingsInCrime: Billy and Agnes are working together to whittle down the sorority.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Billy and Agnes somehow surviving the sorority house fire.

* VoiceChangeling: Agnes, which she uses to call the sorority with creepy messages.

* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Billy and Agnes survive their burning and kill the morgue attendant.

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* {{Expy}}: Kelli is an expy of the original's Jess (FinalGirl status and boyfriend trouble) Lauren is an expy of Margot Kidder's Barb (alcoholic and bitchy)

* EyeScream: The killer's forte. Nearly every victim will eventually have both eyes plucked out.

-->'''Melissa''': No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it.[[labelnote:note]]Actually, the only difference between a spree killer and a serial killer is the lack of a "cool-off" time. A spree killer is someone who kills multiple people at one time or in quick succession ([[ShapedLikeItself AKA in a spree]]), a serial killer is someone who kills multiple people in distinct incidents. [[RightForTheWrongReasons Melissa's not wrong about Billy being a spree killer,
but she doesn't have the correct reasoning.]][[/labelnote]]

-->'''Melissa''': No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it.[[labelnote:note]]Actually, the only difference between a spree killer and a serial killer is the lack of a "cool-off" time. A spree killer is someone who kills multiple people at one time or in quick succession ([[ShapedLikeItself AKA in a spree]]), a serial killer is someone who kills multiple people in distinct incidents.[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Melissa''': No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it.[[labelnote:note]]Actually, the only difference between a spree killer and a serial killer is the lack of a "cool-off" time. A spree killer is someone who kills multiple people in quick succession ([[ShapedLikeItself AKA in a spree]]), a serial killer is someone who kills multiple people over a longer length of time.[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Melissa''': No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it.[[labelnote:note]]Actually, the only difference between a spree killer and a serial killer is the lack of a "cool-off" time.
A spree killer is someone who kills multiple people in quick succession ([[ShapedLikeItself AKA in a spree]]), a serial killer is someone who kills multiple people over a longer length of time.[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Melissa''': No. You see, serial killers murder repeatedly for sexual thrill. Billy Lenz was a spree killer - dude just fucking lost it.

* MadeOfPlasticine: [[spoiler: It apparently runs in the family, as both Billy's stepfather and Billy himself are ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, the former by a ''christmas tree'', no less.]]