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Barbara MacHenry is the house mother to the Delta Alpha Kappa sorority sisters, the main focus of the film. Mrs. Mac is most compared and similar to Mrs. MacHenry (played by Marian Waldman in the original Black Christmas).


Biography[]

Mrs. Mac is the house mother of the sorority. She tries to keep peace and a level head. She gets along with all of the girls, but sometimes has some difficulty keeping a handful of college girls peaceful. She is a caring woman who wants to protect the sisters, but isn't afraid to lash out at someone for their stupidity.

Black Christmas (2006)[]

She first appears in the living room with the other sisters, waiting to open presents, asking who Billy Lenz's "Secret Santa" was. Heather claims that she drew Billy's name and didn't want to buy a present for a serial killer, legend or not. Shortly after, the house receives strange calls from Billy from the phones of two other sisters, Claire and Megan, who had already been killed. She is perturbed by the calls, but gets everyone to open their presents to keep their minds off it, Later, when Kelli's boyfriend Kyle enters the house, saying he did not want to disturb them and came through the window, all the sisters [including Mrs. Mac] start to suspect that he is the person who is making the calls; and maybe even guilty that the other girls have disappeared. Mrs. Mac asks Kyle what happened in the house years ago, as he used to live on the street before they become charters; and he recounts the legend of Billy Lenz. After Dana calls him an asshole, he responds with a "Fuck all you bitches", and Mrs. Mac kicks him out.

When Leigh, Claire's half-sister, arrives looking for her, Mrs. Mac and the girls start to have some suspicions about her, and asking her to ID herself to prove that she really is Claire's sister. When Eve, the weird girl nobody really likes, also disappears when the power goes out, Dana goes downstairs to check the circuit breaker. When she gets to the basement she is murdered and they all get a call from Dana´s cellphone, hearing a shout and the words "She's my family now". Everyone goes to look for the missing girls outside, and Heather and Leigh find Eve's decapitated head when they open the car door.

When they return to the house, Mrs. Mac asks what's going on, and begins to suspect that Billy has come back home. Melissa tries to calm her down, telling her that Billy is dead. Kelli calls the police and is told that it will take a long time to reach them because the winter storm is causing road blockages and really bad traffic. The girls get into a slight argument and start to form two groups: one that wants to go somewhere safe until they can get help, and another (Kelli, Leigh, and Melissa) that don't want to leave until the girls return. Mrs. Mac and Heather decide to leave for help while the rest of the girls stay at the house.

Death[]

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Mrs. Mac death

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Mrs. Mac body

Inside the car, Mrs. Mac hands Heather an ice-scraper to clear the windshield - but Heather's bewildered response and expression causes her to get out and start cleaning the windshield herself, cursing Heather, calling her a "fucking frigid princess". The car rocks violently and stops Mrs. Mac in her tracks. She stares into the frosted windshield, and sees a single jaundiced eye staring back at her. Paralyzed in fear, she watches from outside as the interior of the car is splashed with blood as Heather is murdered, unseen inside the car. Mrs. Mac, terrified, backs into a doorway so hard that it dislodges a large icicle, completely skewering her head through her eye, killing her instantly.

Trivia[]

  • She was the only sister who was not killed by Agnes or Billy and only being frightened by Billy after killing Heather which caused her to die.
  • Her character is based on Mrs. MacHenry (played by Marian Waldman in the original Black Christmas).
  • In a deleted scene that was posted on Youtube, After it shows Heather getting killed by Billy onscreen, Mrs. Mac backs away as Billy gets out of the car and walks towards her as she whimpers in fear, Billy then pulls out an icicle as Mrs. Mac screams, and Billy stabs her with it, killing her offscreen.
  • She is played by Andrea Martin, who played Phyllis in the original Black Christmas.

Quotes[]

  • "Come on girls we have to open the presents." To the sorority sisters
  • "Where is Billy present?." To the sorority sisters
  • "Billy never enter to the house, he was living here." To the sorority sisters
  • "What did you want?." To Leigh before meet her
  • "Claire´s surname is Crosby and here says Colvin." To Leigh
  • "He is here truth? Billy Lenz is here." To the sorority sisters and Leigh
  • "We will call you when we were at the police station." To Kelli
  • "Privileged bitch. Frigid Southern princess." To Heather

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