Black Christmas
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michelle Trachtenberg & Katie Cassidy | |
Performer: | Oliver Hudson, Andrea Martin & Kristen Cloke | |
Directed by | Glen Morgan | |
Edited by | Chris Willingham | |
Screenwriting by | Glen Morgan & Roy Moore | |
Composition by | Shirley Walker | |
Produced by | James Wong, Glen Morgan, Marty Adelstein, Victor Solnicki & Steve Hoban | |
Director of Photography: | Robert McLachlan | |
Executive Production by | Bob Clark, Noah Segal, Scott Nemes, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban & Marc Butan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: .5/5 --
Neither horror, nor comedy. It's barely even a movie...
Film Threat
Rating: 3/5 --
The result's an undemanding multiplex filler -- a ho-ho-horror movie that knows it's the season to be jolly.
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BBC.com
Rating: 4/10 --
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.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
As yuletide counterprogramming goes, here's one smelly lump of coal.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3.5/5 --
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.
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Projected Figures
Black Christmas lacks the timing and visual wit to make its splattery EC Comics gags either genuinely scary or funny.
Village Voice
Rating: 2.5 --
A rather useless remake. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cinemanía (Spain)
Product Description:
Though it was only a mild success upon its release in 1974, the original BLACK CHRISTMAS (directed by Bob Clark, who would go on to direct A CHRISTMAS STORY in 1984) has become a cult favorite among horror buffs since the dawn of the home-video era. An early example of the "body count" genre, the film also predates WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979) in its use of a killer making threatening phone calls that originate within his potential victims' own house. In this remake, writer/director Glen Morgan takes the basics of Roy Moore's screenplay for the original to create an elaborate and almost comically disturbing back story for Billy, the killer who previously remained a mystery. A handful of sorority girls remain at the house after the school shuts down for Christmas break. An ominous snowstorm blows in, isolating them. At the same time, a killer--who in this version escapes from a mental institution to return to his former family home--breaks into the attic and begins making terrifying phone calls to the girls (led by Kate Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Lacey Chabert) before killing them off one by one. SCTV veteran Andrea Martin, who portrayed a victim in the original, returns as Ms. Mac, the house mother.
Stylistically, Moore's remake avoids casting the film in the ironic post-SCREAM or streamlined, gore-free Japanese-horror-inspired fright films of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Instead he makes BLACK CHRISTMAS in the style of a wet and red '80s slasher film. The plentiful blood and guts will please fans of that era, as will tributes to the HALLOWEEN films. This, along with a soundtrack that eschews holiday standards in favor of modern pop music, plus a dim lighting scheme that relies heavily on colored Christmas bulbs, combine to create an atmosphere of holiday dread in this fun update of what has become a horror classic.
Stylistically, Moore's remake avoids casting the film in the ironic post-SCREAM or streamlined, gore-free Japanese-horror-inspired fright films of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Instead he makes BLACK CHRISTMAS in the style of a wet and red '80s slasher film. The plentiful blood and guts will please fans of that era, as will tributes to the HALLOWEEN films. This, along with a soundtrack that eschews holiday standards in favor of modern pop music, plus a dim lighting scheme that relies heavily on colored Christmas bulbs, combine to create an atmosphere of holiday dread in this fun update of what has become a horror classic.
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