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.
15 January 1972, Pasadena, Texas, USA
11 October 1985, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1947, Portland, Maine, USA
20 January 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3 August 1969, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
11 May 1972, Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
15 November 1966, Sliammon Reserve, British Columbia, Canada
1 September 1981, North York, Ontario, Canada
25 November 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 November 1984, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
7 September 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 September 1962, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
2 November 1945, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
27 December 1985, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
27 February 1981, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2 September 1968, Van Nuys, California, USA
24 October 1983, London, Ontario, Canada
July 11, 2007
Neither horror, nor comedy. It's barely even a movie...
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.
June 25, 2007
Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film.
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.
January 03, 2007
It's old-school stupid.
January 02, 2007
As yuletide counterprogramming goes, here's one smelly lump of coal.
October 17, 2007
All setup and no payoff makes this a dull film.
May 02, 2007
Shockingly awful in every way imaginable...
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.
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 30, 2006
A modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to be.
