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.
27 September 1962, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
24 October 1983, London, Ontario, Canada
27 February 1981, Banff, Alberta, Canada
27 December 1985, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
7 September 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 May 1972, Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
15 January 1972, Pasadena, Texas, USA
30 October 1971, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
30 September 1982, Purvis, Mississippi, USA
3 August 1969, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
20 January 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2 September 1968, Van Nuys, California, USA
2 November 1945, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
11 October 1985, New York City, New York, USA
15 November 1966, Sliammon Reserve, British Columbia, Canada
28 November 1984, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
June 25, 2007
Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film.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.May 02, 2007
Shockingly awful in every way imaginable...October 17, 2007
All setup and no payoff makes this a dull film.December 30, 2006
A modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to be.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.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.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.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.January 03, 2007
It's old-school stupid.