Like former
X-Files producer Glen Morgan's remake of boy-and-his-rat tale WILLARD (2003), this reworking of 1974's BLACK CHRISTMAS is coarse, bloody and unimaginative, even as it reproduces iconic moments from director Bob Clark and screenwriter Roy Moore's pioneering holiday shocker.
The film opens with a jolt: Pretty co-ed Clair Crosby (Leela Savasta) is in her room at Clement University's Delta Alpha Kappa sorority house writing a card to go with her present for older sister Leigh, when she's spooked by a noise form the closet. She investigates and all's clear... until someone pulls a plastic bag over her head, stabs her and hauls her body to the atti...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
84 mins