Black Christmas 2019: Pointless and Missing the Point

The original Black Christmas came out in 1974 before Halloween or Friday the 13th and was an inspiration to the slasher genre. It featured sorority girls and they were competent characters who weren’t helpless. The killer had a signature kill style and would call the house using weird voices. The 2006 Black Christmas remake took a in-depth look at the killer and gave them a backstory. The 2019 Black Christmas however was a generic slasher movie devoid of almost any element of the original as well as anything that made the original special or unique.

Blumhouse produced and released the 2019 remake and its essentially a generic script with the Black Christmas title slapped on it.  The movies biggest problem is it’s rated PG-13 when the original and 2006 remake were rate R.  So therefore they can’t show blood or on screen kills. This makes the movie extremely boring. The movie has a sorority house filled with girls. The main girl played by Imogen Poots, who isn’t a stranger to horror movies. She has appeared in the remake of Fright Night and Green Room. There is one girl who is an activist and the rest are forgettable. Cary Elwes plays a college professor who is clearly hiding something.

So while this movie is generic and boring there are elements of an interesting concept that needed to be fully developed as its own movie. SPOILERS! The plot is that the founder of the college believes men were superior to women and left instructions to hypnotize men to become super strong and reach their full potential. There is a cult that follows this including the professor and the girls have to stop them. This is somewhat a current topic because some people unfortunately believe that me are superior to women. Now the end of the movie goes from boring to batshit insane in thirty seconds. All the girls from the sorority show up to stop the cult with various weapons including a Hanukkah menorah, and attack and stop the cult in an action scene reminiscing of the movie 300. This is my opinion is the only real entertaining part of the movie. The producers should have developed the cult plot and made a movie out of that instead of lazily calling it Black Christmas without having any real connections to its predecessors. 🍔