Given the deficiencies in characterization and storytelling, all we have to go on is the gore and the humor, and the latter goes south halfway through when it curdles into flouncing desperation. (Ooh, a deadly ice-skate! A randomly fatal icicle! How, um, not clever at all.) There's also a god-awful dénouement set in a hospital that couldn't scream "re-shoot" louder if it had a bullhorn attached to it. The 2006 Black Christmas is ultimately empty-calorie entertainment, a cinematic blood-filled Twinkie. Like a Twinkie, no amount of justification for its consumption can stop the empty feeling afterwards. This isn't a film to watch - it's a film to lose in a brain fog.
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Article comments
1 - Aaron Fleming
Sounds like a rather poor teen-market remake, aw well. Great review anyway, glad to see that ongoing cinematic education going so well.
2 - David Dougall
i think black christmas was a was of my time and money very poor horror , gore and storey line rate it among movies of the like of killer tomatos the blob cant understand how it got a R rating more like a P for pethetic rating in my book wast of $6 mil ?????????????????????????/