Black Christmas (2019)
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Duration: 92 minuten / 111 minuten (extended edition)
Country:
United States / New Zealand / Canada
Directed by: Sophia Takal
Stars: Imogen Poots, Lily Donoghue and Aleyse Shannon
IMDb score:
3,5 (21.518)
Releasedate: 11 December 2019
Black Christmas plot
"Slay, girls"
A group of college girls is terrorized by a maniac during the Christmas season. Soon, one of the girls disappears from the house. After that, a major search is launched and the police do everything they can to track down the perpetrator. But the killer will have to take on a few students, who will not just be messed around with.
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Riley Stone
Kris Waterson
Marty Coolidge
Jesse Bolton-Sinclair
Landon
Professor Gelson
Nate
Helena Ritterhouse
Fran Abrams
Phil McIllaney
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Tonypulp
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Woke Christmas. In the run-up to this ''remake'' of the highly respected Bob Clark classic, there's actually been plenty of talk about the film's pushy feminist nature and I'm guessing that in the aftermath this horrible spectacle will only get worse. The problem is of course not feminism per se; The horror genre has long been a genre that is extremely focused on female empowerment and usually according to the 'actions speak louder than words' principle. 'The final girl' is not without reason one of the most important and fun genre tropes. Black Christmas takes a slightly different approach and mainly uses a lot of buzzwords that they learned in their gender studies. In any case, it does not do the important themes such as sexual abuse any favors, because the pedantic / man-hating tone takes over. If the choice also falls on a PG-13 treatment, there is hardly any film left. This apparently came from Takal himself to ''reach a younger female audience''. So what are you saying is that films should be 'softened' for that group? Seems to me - according to their own logic - quite stigmatizing... Rarely seen such a pointless project.
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IH88
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- 9762 messages
- 3190 votes
“You messed with the wrong sisters.”
Mediocre. Director Sophia Takal clearly wanted to make a remake of Black Christmas (1974) with a feminist slant, but she forgot that the 1974 version already had a story about strong women taking on a stalker. With Margot Kidder, what more could you want?
This new version lacks a lot of things, but the worst part is that it is just deadly boring and the film seems more like a political pamphlet than an entertaining slasher/stalker film. It's all so transparent and predictable, from the boyfriend who calls his girlfriend 'hysterical', the sexist teacher to the white men who of course all turn out to be serial killers.
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