Product Description

The college town of Bedford is receiving an unwelcome guest this Christmas. As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sig prepare for the festive season, a demonic stranger begins to stalk the house. A series of grisly obscene phone-calls start to plague the residents of the sorority and soon they will each meet their fate at the hands of the psychotic intruder. As the Police try to trace the calls, they discover that nothing is as it seems during this BLACK CHRISTMAS.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20436 in DVD
• Brand: KOCH ENT.
• Released on: 2008-11-11
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Features

• The few remaining residents of a Canadian sorority house are celebrating the onset of Christmas vacation when a thirteen year-old girl is found dead in the park. Soon, it is discovered that one of the sorority sisters is missing, which triggers a terrifying chain of murders within the house. Director Bob Clark's (PORKY'S, A CHRISTMAS STORY) tense, effective film is a precursor to the slash

Customer Reviews

The real Black Christmas in HD, but still not a definitive edition.
There is no need to discuss what a classic the original Black Christmas is. That has been done at length by reviewers for other releases. This review is specifically for the Black Christmas [Blu-ray] edition.

The transfer and sound are great. There are still some traces of foreign matter visible from the print used, but this is the nicest copy you'll probably ever see on a home edition. I believe it is the same transfer used for the Special Edition in 2006.

The features are identical to the Special Edition release:
- 12 Days of Black Christmas featurette
- Midniht Q&A
- Interviews ( Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and Art Hindle)
- 'Uncovered' Sound scenes


My only complaint is the lack of subtitles or commentaries, and for that reason I only give 4 stars. Apparently space limitations were the problem on the Special Edition. That would not be a problem on blu ray. It seems the rights to the commentaries from the 2002 Collector's Edition are owned by another company so those were not available, but it seems that new actor commentaries might have been obtained for this edition.

Sadly, Bob Clark was killed by a drunk driver in 2007. For fans wanting the director's commentary, the collector's edition is the only option and will become increasingly harder to obtain.

If you have the Special Edition and an upconvert dvd player you might give this one a miss, as there are no new features to speak of. If you have a blu ray player and don't already own the special edition, the Blu-ray edition is the way to go. Of course, you can hold out for a "Definitive Edition". There's always next Christmas...

This one never fails to entertain...
There is a reason why Black Christmas has lasted so long. It predates Halloween and Friday the 13th by several years as it is an early inspiration for the later rise of "slasher" films. It uses innovative camera tricks and gives us the killer's POV. And it takes the sacred holiday of Christmas and interjects it with real-life morality conflicts of its characters.

The transfer on this edition is decent, and is coupled with some great features. A 20-minute candid interview with Margot Kidder stands out. Also, a documentary featuring remembrances from the cast and crew is quite informative. Top it off with a new 5.1 mix, and you have a nice blu-ray bundle. Great to add to your collection!

Great movie, LOUSY, AWFUL, transfer.
Wow, is this bad.

This is one of my favorite movies and I hoped it would be a upgrade from the standard DVD that I have had for a number of years and is not very good. What a mistake. The grain is worse than my old DVD. I looks like it was filmed through a silk screen. To make matters ever worse, the audio is not synced. Impossible to watch. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!