Black Christmas

Continuing with the general theme of remaking every classic horror movie to hell and back, is Black Christmas, a forgettable, but not terribly shitty horror movie.

As for the plot, there's not a ton of shit going on here. Sorority sisters and their house mother are attacked by a man named Billy who had a really fucked up past (and kinda dumb backstory) in the house. He's pissed. And for reasons unknown to us...he's decided to take it out on all these girls. A problem I have with the story is the explanation behind Billy's kills. Besides being in the same house, you never really get why he's so deadset on killing all these people. This is kinda a spoiler, but I figured it's worth mentioning. Billy is killing everyone with his sister Agnes, and this part of the story makes no sense at all. Agnes was depicted as a normal child. She was attacked by Billy. She probably had feelings of resentment towards Billy (like anyone who was attacked and lost an eyeball during). So why is she helping him? Just kill him. That part was fuckdumb.

As a pure gore lover, I was quite pleased with Black Christmas. All of the kills are gross and bloody as fuck and I loved it. They really waste no time. The first victim is offed less than 5 minutes into the movie. ME LIKEY. :D

The acting...is probably a bit better than expected. Sure, most of the people that make it to the end/around the end screech and scream throughout the entire movie, and yeah...the person who probably gives the best performance is criminally underused and offed too quickly, but no one is terribly shitty in the movie. Just a bit OTT at times. Which is generally expected in movies like this.

Overall, Black Christmas is a decent, run of the mill horror flick. It moves pretty quickly and will satisfy anyone looking to see 90 minutes of pure guts. It's a bit forgettable compared to stronger horror movies and some of the performances are a bit irritating, but you take what you can get with movies like this.

3/4