Review of Black Christmas (2006) by Brett H — 06 Apr 2012
A tragically bad remake of the awesomely great 70s horror flick. The original Black Christmas (1974) was one of the slasher movies that kept the slasher genre going. It had great characters, an in-depth plot and a really Christmas-spirited psychotic killer.
The atmosphere was light-hearted but dark at the same time, the characters who were mostly girls were all pretty much believable and the mise-en-scene is memorable. This movie literally drops all that and turns it into a visual-lacking gore fest.
In this movie, some sorority girls are celebrating Christmas in a isolated house that has been standing vacant for years and holds the past of a brutal serial killer named Billy who killed his mum and her new boyfriend on Christmas Eve.
The girls then receive a series of disturbing phone calls from the killer who kills them all one by one which I rarely gave a shit about. The only actresses I cared for are Katie Cassidy from A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010), Mary Elizabeth WInstead from The Thing (2011) and Kristen Cloke from Final Destination.
Oh yeah and there's some subplot about Oliver Hudson's character's sister being the daughter which I didn't know about. What happened to the Christmas horror atmosphere? What happened to the hidden message about the fact that you should always treasure your family? Most of the dialogues were boring and the kills aren't inventive.
It's just heads being covered with black bags and then getting stabbed through the head and then either eyeballs are taken out and eaten raw or the body is cut out with a cookie cutter and baked in a oven and then eaten.
Black Christmas gets a 4/10.
This review of Black Christmas (2006) was written by Brett H on 06 Apr 2012.
Black Christmas has generally received negative reviews.
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