1. Appearances
    Alternate endings 

2. Casting and creation

3. Reception

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

In the film, Kelli is depicted as a member of the Delta Alpha Kappa sorority. Due to being an only child and not having a large family, she decides to spend Christmas with her sorority sisters. Unfortunately, their sorority house was once the childhood home of notorious murderer Billy Lenz. During Christmas, Kelli and her sisters begin getting obscene phone calls. Realizing that Billy has returned home, the girls attempt to survive the night as, due to a snowstorm, help is unable to reach them.

Critical reception towards the character was polarizing. Some considered her to be likable and sympathetic,^[2] whereas others criticized her for being bland, generic and unoriginal as well as being inferior in comparison to Jess from the original Black Christmas.^[3][4] Despite these criticisms, Cassidy herself was generally praised for her performance.^[5][6]

Appearances

In Black Christmas, Kelli first appears with her boyfriend Kyle, telling him that she intends on spending Christmas with her sorority sisters. After having gotten back to Delta Alpha Kappa sorority house, while opening up presents, Kelli and her sisters are called by an unknown caller who, initially, uses Clair's phone and later Megan's. Worried about Megan, Kelli goes to her room only to find Kyle there. While attempting to find clues about her disappearance the power goes out, causing Megan's computer to switch on from standby mode, revealing a recording Kyle made of himself having sex with Megan. After kicking him out of, she meets Clair's elder half-sister Leigh who came to the house looking for her.

Following Dana's murder, the killer uses her cellphone to call the girls. Figuring out that something is wrong, they go outside to look for her. There, they discover Eve's decapitated head inside her car. Realizing there is a killer out there, Kelli calls 9-1-1, only to be told that due to the snowstorm, help would be unavailable for at least two hours. When their housemother Mrs. Mac and Heather decide to take the car and reach the police station on their own, Kelli, Leigh and Melissa all go to Lauren's room to see them through their window and make sure they leave safely. Noticing that the car has started but they're not leaving, Kelli and Leigh go to check on them through the basement where Leigh slips on Mrs. Mac's blood, who had gotten killed by a falling icicle. Going back to Lauren's room, after a quick confrontation between Leigh and Kyle, they realize that Lauren has also been killed and despite protest from Kyle, decide to go to the attic in case any of the girls are still alive.

While opening up the attic door, Kyle is seized by an attacker and killed. They find out that the killer is Billy Lenz's sister Agnes, who has also set up the corpses of the sorority sisters around a Christmas tree. After Leigh falls through the floor of the attic, Kelli is attacked by both Agnes and Billy. While fighting, the Christmas tree catches fire while she and Agnes fall down into one of the holes in the wall. Managing to escape with Leigh's help, they set the house on fire and reach the hospital. At the hospital, Agnes, who had survived the fire, kills Leigh but Kelli manages to kill her using a defibrillator. When Billy chases her to the stairs, Kelli manages to knock him over, impaling him on the finial of a Christmas tree and finally killing him. She is last seen staring at Billy's corpse.^[7]

Alternate endings

Casting and creation

Cassidy, who was cast in early 2006,^[9] revealed in an interview for When a Stranger Calls (2006), that one of the reasons she became interested in the role of Kelli was because she wanted to play a leading role in a movie and loved the script. In the same interview she also described Kelli as "the girl next door" and stated that "she's probably there on a scholarship or something".^[10] In an interview with IGN, Cassidy further revealed that what attracted her to the role of Kelli is that the character "[grows] up" during the course of the film and has an active role, instead of being a damsel in distress.^[11]

Reception

Kelli received mostly mixed reviews from critics, with the perception being that she fails to stand out much from the rest of the characters in the movie, with Variety describing the character as generic.^[12] Horror website Dread Central, when comparing the two movies, described Kelli as "an awful character [who] exists in stark contrast to the very likable and level-headed Jess of the original."^[13]

Despite this, Screen Rant, in their list of the best final girls, when talking about Jess from the original movie, praised Kelli for being able to defeat both antagonists by herself.^[14][15] Katie Cassidy's performance however received a more positive response from critics.^[16]

See also

• Final girl

References

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