Movie Review for Black Christmas

Summary: "Black Christmas" is a remake of the 1974 slasher classic about a psycho terrorizing a sorority house during the holiday season.

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (7/0)
            an R-rated misfire from beginning to end

By Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            A surprisingly memorable creepfest that fleshes out the characters' backstories while adding a he...

By Jamie Russell of BBC (7/0)
            The result's an undemanding multiplex filler -- a ho-ho-horror movie that knows it's the season t...

By Ty Burr of Boston Globe (7/0)
            ...silly, obvious, clumsy, and just gruesome enough to keep jaded genre fans from angrily throwin...

By Anton Bitel of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            this reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and vari...

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Lacey Chabert are pretty, but ...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Who needs Scrooge or the Grinch to ruin your holiday cheer when you have tired horror rehashes li...

By Scott Weinberg of DVD Clinic (7/0)
            The fans will dig the brief-yet-nasty FX work, but they'll have to slog through a pretty tiresome...

By Luke Y. Thompson of E! Online (7/0)
            ...isn't in any way scary, realistic or well acted...

By Luke Y. Thompson of E! Online (7/0)
            Let's be clear: The new Black Christmas isn't in any way scary, realistic or well acted, but Morg...

By Kat Brown of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            Bad film fans will think Christmas has come early, everyone else should ask for the receipt.

By Felix Vasquez Jr. of Film Threat (7/0)
            Neither horror, nor comedy. It's barely even a movie...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Blake French of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            the most audacious and unlikely great horror movie in years!

By Blake French of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            ...there could be nothing more joyous than watching annoying sorority chicks getting diced to pie...

By Jason Anderson of Globe and Mail (7/0)
            Lazy, perfunctory and free of tension, the new version will satisfy neither the admirers of the o...

By Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
            It's one of the least original serial killer flicks of the decade.

By Peter Bradshaw of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            One for real horror-buffs only.

By Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            As yuletide counterprogramming goes, here's one smelly lump of coal.

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Black Christmas 2006 vs. Black Christmas 1974 is like finding beneath your tree an X-Box compared...

By Stax of IGN Movies (7/0)
            Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film.

By Sam Adams of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, Black Christmas is destined to be forgotten the inst...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            Oh, how painfully incompetent this movie is.

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            Just another slasher flick that stopped off at the theater on its way to the $5.50 dump bin at Wa...

By Jeannette Catsoulis of New York Times (7/0)
            Glen Morgan's disastrous remake smothers terror beneath a blanket of unnecessary information, rev...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Brian Orndorf of OhmyNews.com (7/0)
            It's desperately punch-yourself-in-the-face awful in every single way. Why oh why couldn't Billy ...

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Dank, stupid and--the most unpardonable of sins--extraordinarily tedious.

By Jeremy C. Fox of Pajiba (7/0)
            Morgan is never satisfied with a straightforward camera setup or with a simple asphyxiation -- no...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            What would Christmas be without the release of a lackluster horror movie?

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            Shockingly awful in every way imaginable...

By Jim Hemphill of Reel.com (7/0)
            Morgan's gleeful desire to shock the audience both with the gore and the perverse backstory is de...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Connoisseurs of trashy moviemaking are left with a bland slasher film, filled with a bad guy who ...

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            Although this is a more standard horror film, the tone is witty and gleefully grisly.

By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Glen Morgan's update of Bob Clark's 1974 slasher flick Black Christmas is an exemplar of how to s...

By Thomas Peyser of Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) (7/0)
            It's hard to get worked up over the fate of characters whose identities remain largely a matter o...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
            Dumbed-down, unscary hokum without a clue how to ratchet up a person's heartbeat.

By Nigel Floyd of Time Out (7/0)
            A modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Peter Howell of Toronto Star (7/0)
            Creativity is a stranger to this sick excuse for entertainment, which pounds a ridiculous back st...

By Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            Morgan borrows Christmas-specific nastiness from a wide range of fright flicks, but the result is...

By Joe Leydon of Variety (7/0)
            Even by the notoriously low standards of sadistic slasher pics, this remake is a thoroughly nasty...

By Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            Despite some admirably gory bits, this is a disappointing horror remake that's neither as scary n...

By Jim Ridley of Village Voice (7/0)
            Black Christmas lacks the timing and visual wit to make its splattery EC Comics gags either genui...

By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            The remake neither pays perceptive tribute to the original nor updates it in anything but hackney...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Daniel M. Kimmel of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (7/0)
            Unfortunately for those hoping for shower scenes and other R-rated shenanigans, there's only one ...

By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            Director Glen Morgan has a nice pictorial sense and a flair for ghoulish caricature, but the film...

By Randy Cordova of Arizona Republic (6/1) No reference
            This movie serves up a bland, interchangeable mix of victims. Because the sitting ducks don't dis...

By Tim Cogshell of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            If you were thinking of seeing the remake over your holiday break, consider the original Black Ch...

By J. R. Jones of Chicago Reader (3/4) No reference
            It also exchanges the police subplot that gave the earlier film its steady pace for a lot of poin...

By John Monaghan of Detroit Free Press (3/4) No reference
            For me, this was one of the best horror movies of the year, which sounds glowing until you consid...

                         Reviews of Black Christmas
By Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly (3/4) No reference
            It's old-school stupid.

By Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Where the first film was a seminal forerunner of early stalker classics like Halloween, this vers...

By Ty Burr of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (3/4) No reference
            ...silly, obvious, clumsy, and just gruesome enough to keep jaded genre fans from angrily throwin...

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MGM Distribution Company
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Production Companies
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Hard Eight Pictures
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