Black Christmas (2006)
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Katie Cassidy, Oliver Hudson, Andrea Martin
Screenwriter: Glen Morgan, Roy Moore
Producer: James Wong, Glen Morgan, Marty Adelstein, Victor Solnicki, Steve Hoban
Composer: Shirley Walker
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 5, 2008
HD DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Unspecified - English
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Reviews
Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film.
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.
The fans will dig the brief-yet-nasty FX work, but they'll have to slog through a pretty tiresome movie just to get their hands on those nuggets.
Morgan is never satisfied with a straightforward camera setup or with a simple asphyxiation -- not when he can shoot from a disorienting diagonal and give you an asphyxiation, eye-gouging, neck-breaking, and impalement all at once.
It's hard to get worked up over the fate of characters whose identities remain largely a matter of conjecture.
Glen Morgan's update of Bob Clark's 1974 slasher flick Black Christmas is an exemplar of how to screw up a modern horror film remake.
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