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Customer Reviews
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The worst movie i've seen in a year, honestly!!!
The quality of the DVD was great, however, this movie wasn't worth the $1 that I spent for it. Poor acting and a dry plot plaqued it. STAY AWAY, FAR AWAY!!!!
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Stop your crying, the original sucked!
I have to say, I really hate when classic films are remade to get the attention of new audiences, but when it comes to a film like Black Christmas, it certainly needed a remake. The original dud was so over-the-top boring that a remake actual sounds like a horrible idea, but by completely refreshing the idea a pretty good movie came along. I'm not saying this is the greatest horror film of all time, but at least this Black Christmas is a fun way to spend 90 minutes. I've really missed the slasher films of the 80's and everyone's out there doing their own takes on "Scream" over and over, it's about time we fans get a big budget campy gore movie. The acting isn't horrible, the gore is awesome, the villain is new, it's creepy, funny, and just all around awesome. I honestly don't see how people expect to go into a film like Black Christmas and get an intelligent spine-tingling film, and I'm pretty sure that's where the bad reviews come from. If you go into a horror movie expecting a good time, this one can't disappoint.
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Black Christmas HD DVD
I've been a fan of this movie since it came out. Not quite for everyone of course, but for me, the acting is so comical, I just get a kick out of it. Anyhow, the HD DVD version looks great. Great picture and sound. Too bad HD DVDs are running out!
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ho-ho-horrible indeed
This movie was bad. I mean really REALLY bad. It might have been good....if it would have been released as a comedy and not as a "horror" movie. Because it was certainly funny. That's about the nicest thing I can say about it. I was cracking up just from seeing the previews, so you can only imagine what the actual movie was like.
So why did I even see it, you ask? Well one night me and my sister were at the movie store and we decided to rent it just for fun, because we were in the mood for something stupid that would make us laugh, and this movie was the perfect candidate.
And while it was certainly funny indeed, about halfway into the movie, I no longer felt myself laughing, and instead I found myself cringing because all I could think was "am I seriously watching this?"
At one point, the killer kills someone by stabbing them with a candy cane. Enough said.
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Not great, but not as awful as it might have been.
Black Christmas (Glen Morgan, 2006)
Black Christmas is one of those remakes that is perhaps better looked at as an entirely different adaptation; this resembles Bob Clark's 1974 movie in the same way Tobe Hooper's 'Salem's Lot resembles Stephen King's novel. And while it may lose me all sorts of street cred, I have to say that I adore Hooper's movie almost as much as King's novel, though for entirely different reasons; while I don't like Glen Morgan's remake better than Bob Clark's original, I can appreciate it for entirely different reasons and still say "it's not a completely awful movie".
The two have in common a sorority house at the brink of Christmas break, a crazed killer, and an opening scene. From there, throw away the original movie (well, don't-- watch it, because it's a barrel of fun) and you'll probably like this one a lot better. All of Clark's original ambiguity-- about which slasher film fans will still argue at the drop of a hat-- is gone, but the solution to it that Morgan and co. came up with is so entirely different than any possibility in the original film that it kinda works. The script is just ghastly, though. I'm not one to complain about profanity most of the time (note glowing Inland Empire review elsewhere in this issue), but the script here was either heavily improvised by its stars or was written by a twelve-year-old who thinks such language is an acceptable stand-in for humor. There gets to be a point where it's just plain stupid, and Black Christmas hits that point roughly ten minutes in.
The killer's buffet is stocked with the usual array of young-and-beautifuls (including the delectable Lacey Chabert, for whom I'd have watched this even if it were the worst movie I'd ever seen; I'd watch Lacey Chabert read the phone book for ninety minutes, given the chance), and as with most horror films of this stripe, you recognize a number of them from bad teen-oriented TV shows. None of them is a terribly great actress, though SCTV alum Andrea Martin does have a few fun turns as the house mother. And (if you're watching the unrated cut) you can't beat the gore; Morgan out-Roths Eli and out-Miikes Takashi in some places.
Looked at from that angle, it's just your typical slasher film all dolled up for the new millennium. But you can't watch this movie and not compare it to the original-- which, laden with interesting and well-developed characters, excellent comic timing, the infamous ambiguous ending, and a passel of real honest-to-Pete stars-- was anything but a typical slasher film. That's what made the 1974 Black Christmas a cult classic, and why it remains such to this day. Glen Morgan's remake, in comparison, is entirely empty calories, but like most empty calories, they're at least momentarily satisfying. ** ½
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