Black Christmas

There's nothing like celebrating the holidays with a remade slasher flick. I really don't understand it. How could Hollywood possibly give the green light on remakes whose original film didn't make a lot of money? It just doesn't make any sense to me. Black Christmas isn't the only one. House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, and the up coming The Hitcher. Do we really need to see how a director can breathe new life into a film that never had a life to begin with? I guess so.

That's not to say that Black Christmas isn't a complete waste of time. If you're looking for a good slasher flick to catch at the theater, this is pretty much you're only choice. All the other slasher flicks are stuck in the video isles of your local Blockbuster. So the story goes that a now-occupied sorority house used to be the residence of a small child who was horribly abused as a child. The child and his sister come back to the sorority house to take out their Christmas angst on the many unsuspecting house sisters.

The directing is solid and the acting is above par for this type of film. The story and characters are solid enough and a lot of the stereo-typical plot elements are played upon creatively turning this into a who-done-it kind of film. The ending is solid enough to be satisfying but overall the movie is too over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek to be taken too seriously.

Rating: 3.5 out of 10