Black Christmas
Escaped maniac Billy returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
20 January 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3 August 1969, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
1 September 1981, North York, Ontario, Canada
28 November 1984, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
27 September 1962, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
2 September 1968, Van Nuys, California, USA
11 October 1985, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1947, Portland, Maine, USA
December 17, 2011
A colossal mess, which is not at all as dispiriting as those remakes of classic horror which are just empty, shallow exercises in genre mechanics.
July 11, 2007
Neither horror, nor comedy. It's barely even a movie...
January 02, 2007
As yuletide counterprogramming goes, here's one smelly lump of coal.
June 13, 2007
this reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and variation that has evolved over the last thirty or so years since the original Black Christmas screened.
December 29, 2006
Creativity is a stranger to this sick excuse for entertainment, which pounds a ridiculous back story into a butchered rehash that includes incest, cannibalism, eyeball gouging and impossibly dumb plot contrivances.
January 03, 2007
Black Christmas lacks the timing and visual wit to make its splattery EC Comics gags either genuinely scary or funny.
December 29, 2006
It also exchanges the police subplot that gave the earlier film its steady pace for a lot of pointless backstory about the mother-fixated stalker.
December 30, 2006
A modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to be.
October 17, 2007
All setup and no payoff makes this a dull film.
May 02, 2007
Shockingly awful in every way imaginable...
January 03, 2007
It's old-school stupid.
June 25, 2007
Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film.
