grkamerican1984 Review of Black Christmas

Black Christmas (2006)

the age of horror films has come and gone. heres the proof

[1/10 · 21 October 2007]

This is the biggest insult to a classic horror film i've ever seen, next to Gus Van Sant's remake of PSYCHO. Black Christmas is one of my favorite horror films. And when i heard it was going to be remade, i knew that this would give the original a bad name. in the original, there were only six or seven deaths. in the remake, i lost track. almost every death showed eyes getting ripped out, and after the 8 millionth victim gets her head ripped off, it starts t get so dull and predictable. everything was so gory, it was like the film depended on gore more than the actual plot. don't even get me started on the plot. in the original, we never see who the killer is, why he's killing people or what connection he has with the sorority group. in the remake, we're given a back story about how he became a psychopath obsessed with ripping people's eyes out, which just takes away all the mystery and suspense. How could Glen Morgan do this? He actually wrote the script too! Does this guy have problems or something? because only a totally deranged maniac could think of something like this, and/or find it entertaining. I'm not the only one who's saying this. as most people have heard, when the movie came out on Christmas day, it was a box-office flop, Christian groups were offended, horror fans were offended, and i'm offended, because glen Morgan took the original slasher film and turned it into a piece of sh**. forget coal, Santa should start putting the DVD of this movie in people's stockings if they've been naughty! 1/10