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Black Christmas

So here's the deal, I have watched a lot of Horror movies, A LOT. I was one of them VHS kids in the early 80's who's Dad could always get his hands on the banned copies of The Burning, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, Evil Dead et al. Many a winters afternoon spent watching movies instead of studying. So by no means an expert, I have certainly put a good shift in over the years to appreciate this genre.

Black Christmas is a remake of a 1974 slasher horror movie. The story is that the neighbourhood maniac escapes from the local loony bin to return home for Xmas. Except his house has been turned into a frat house. Xmas he decides to knock them all off one by one. The 2006 version sticks pretty much sticks with the same story.

However this is where the twist(or lack of it) comes into it. It takes the whole 70's slasher flick and transform it Scream style and fail miserably. I mean how on earth can you mess up the classic psycho slasher flick. The film is entirely predictable. No scares there are no figures looming in the shadows. It doesn't goto the other end of the scale with wanton blood shed either. This is a poor poor movie that get's it wrong on so many levels. Nay every level. I would suggest the producer watch some of the old classics to understand the rules of the game.

It doesn't have to be Xmas to understand that this a Turkey.

I am struggling to give this a score and it ranks up there with Little Nicky as one of the worst films of all time