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Black Christmas
Black Christmas

5.2

Black Christmas

R·2006·92m

Summary

As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions...

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Glen Morgan

Author

Roy Moore

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

October 2, 2015

3

Eye eye, what we got ere then?

There's a running eyeball motif throughout this revamp/reimaging of Bob Clark's much revered culter of the same name (1974), after sitting through it you may, like me, feel like extracting your own eyeballs and playing ping-pong with them!

Bunch of pretty sorority girls get menaced and mangled by a deranged killer who has come home for Christmas...

This lacks everything that made Bob Clark's film so effective. The less is more approach has gone, thus there is very little suspense, and in place is a gigantic back story for the killer. The characterisation of the girls, some acted by some very capable actresses, is practically non existent, so very little emotional heft to draw you into a state of caring for them. There's some good gore on show, but since tonally the pic is all over the place, it's never once scary or ironically funny.

A poor show all round. 3/10

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$9,000,000.00

Revenue:

$21,510,851.00

Keywords

holiday
psychopath
difficult childhood
female friendship
childhood trauma
remake
revenge
serial killer
slasher
murderer
incest
eye gouging
escaped mental patient
voyeurism
christmas horror
christmas
christmas eve
sorority girls
holiday horror