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Black Christmas

EMAILPRINTDimension Films / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Black Christmas reviews
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3.6 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 17 critic reviews
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Based on 107 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Glen Morgan
Roy Moore (1974 screenplay)

Directed by: Glen Morgan

Release Date:
Theatrical: December 25, 2006
DVD: April 3, 2007

Running Time: 84 minutes, Color

Origin: Canada / USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity and language

Starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Kristen Cloke, Crystal Lowe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, and Andrea Martin

The remake of the classic 1974 horror thriller in which a sorority house is terrorized by a killer who makes frightening telephone calls before murdering the sorority sisters during the Christmas break. (Dimension Films)

What The Critics Said

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50

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

The flashbacks are wittily gothic, and the present-day murder scenes have the absurdist, chain-reaction intricacy of the "Final Destination" deaths.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

This film is an evocative, effective entry into the holiday blood-spray subgenre in its own right. And if it doesn't make your skin crawl ... you probably ate too much Christmas dinner.

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38

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Morgan borrows Christmas-specific nastiness from a wide range of fright flicks, but the result is less than the sum of its parts.

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38

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Where the first film was a seminal forerunner of early stalker classics like "Halloween," this version feels as stale as old gingerbread.

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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Silly, obvious, clumsy, and just gruesome enough to keep jaded genre fans from angrily throwing popcorn at the screen.

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30

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

There are a couple clever touches here and there, including one sequence in which the end of a candy cane has been carefully licked into a highly lethal weapon, but for the most part the accompanying histrionics feel more regressive than retro.

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30

Los Angeles Times Sam Adams

Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, Black Christmas is destined to be forgotten the instant it's unwrapped, gathering dust until the season rolls around again.

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30

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

It exchanges the police subplot that gave the earlier film its steady pace for a lot of pointless backstory about the mother-fixated stalker.

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25

Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirshling

Twice as many accidental laughs as scares.

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25

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Seems to go out of its way to obliterate all the elements that made the original so special.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

Props to the Weinstein Brothers for having the guts to release a slasher film on Christmas Day. Too bad this one is the cinematic equivalent of tryptophan.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson

Lazy, perfunctory and free of tension, the new version will satisfy neither the admirers of the original nor anyone looking for a gory respite from seasonal good cheer.

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20

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

With a peephole-riddled set and a flashback-heavy screenplay, Black Christmas smothers terror beneath a blanket of unnecessary information, revealing too much and teasing too little.

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20

Empire Kat Brown

Bad film fans will think Christmas has come early, everyone else should ask for the receipt.

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10

Variety Joe Leydon

It's debatable whether the original 1974 "Black Christmas" is, as its most rabid fans claim, the mother of all slasher movies. But there can be no argument regarding the scant merits of its slapdash, soporifically routine remake, suitable only for the least discriminating of gore hounds.

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10

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The remake neither pays perceptive tribute to the original nor updates it in anything but hackneyed form.

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0

Village Voice Jim Ridley

The product itself isn't so much afterthought as afterbirth -- a bloody mess to be dumped discreetly.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.6 (out of 10) based on 107 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ryan S. gave it a0:
Probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Acting is terrible, story sucks...everything about this movie is horrible.

Dan A gave it a0:
So stale. Nowadays the horror film doesn't consist of tactics to scare the audience, but instead we're treated to good looking women who are killed by random people with no story and all in the same exact way. I'm not kidding. Every single person in this movie other than the killers and one woman are stabbed to death. One person's stabbed with a pen, another with a candy cane, and ice skate, a FREAKING unicorn decoration, an icicle magically falls through a woman's face. It's ridiculous.

James H. gave it a2:
A clumsy remake that did much more to buitcher the plot and dark ending of its namesake than it did to butcher utterly forgettable sorority girls.

Logan H. gave it a10:
I loved the sense of violent tension.

Wesley E. gave it a7:
A surprisingly large amount of fun packaged into what could be viewed as a very mediocre set of decorations on a rotten Christmas ham. One of the better horror remakes of recent times, made all the better by it's lack of morality. Certainly better than the recent The Hills Have Eyes II.

Patrick C. gave it a1:
This film is a poor versoin of the original, baring the same name. No film of last year was great, but this film was just awful. Everything about this movie is just terrible.

Mark C. gave it an8:
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, I expected a total ripoff of the original but found a more extended background for the Christmas Killer. Found myself saying more than a few times "nasty", is the way people where killed off. To Glen Morgan I would like to say that I've gone from Renting this DVD to Buying it, it is a good companion to my original, thank you for a new Christmas Slasher movie.

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