In the 70's, the boy Billy is born with yellow skin due to a lever disease
and his dysfunctional mother rejects him. Later he witnesses his mother and
her lover killing his beloved father and burying him in the basement of
their house, and he is locked in the attic alone along his childhood. When
he is a teenager, he is sexually abused by his mother and she has a baby
girl called Agnes. During Christmas, the deranged Billy escapes from his
imprisonment, kills his mother and stepfather and blinds one eye of Agnes.
He is declared insane and his sister is sent to an orphanage. In the
present days, Billy escapes from the Clark Sanatorium to spend Christmas
with his family. Meanwhile, his former house is the Delta Alpha Kappa
sorority house in the campus of the Clement University, and the housemother
and the sisters Kelli Presley, Dana, Lauren Hannon, Megan, Heather, Megan
Helms, Melissa and Eve Agnew are preparing the house for Christmas party in
a stormy night while Clair Crosby is in her room writing a card to bury the
hatchet with her sister. When three sisters vanish, the others receive
weird phone calls and believe something is wrong, but they find that they
are trapped in the location.
The movie tells the story about Billy, a young boy who was abused by his
mother as a child. While his mother was cheating on Billy's father, she
eventually killed his father and kept Billy in the attic - for good, while
she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell
pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never
experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic after years and
brutally murdered his mother and her lover. Cut to present day, a group of
eight sorority sisters consisting of Kelli, Dana, Lauren, Megan, Claire,
Heather, Megan and Melissa and their house mother, who now live in Billy's
childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening and
intimidating mystery phone-calls during Christmas Break and as one of the
girls goes missing, the girls begin being murdered one by one by no other
than Billy...
Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood
of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz
suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his
cruel mother (who only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she
looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with
beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent
should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of
the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his
beloved father's brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with
a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the
attic for good, to hold his silence of what he'd witnessed that night. His
only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a
noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and
starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter
and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his
mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling
pin to his mother's head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye
before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before
he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to
mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved
in one eye... but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard
has been monitoring Billy's progress since he came into his care, back in
1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has
made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding... until now. Far away,
his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their
house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together ...but tonight
they're about to get a surprise visitor... and it's not Santa.