Synopsis
During Christmas break, the women at Hawthorne College start being preyed upon by an unknown stalker. Riley, a girl dealing with her own trauma, decides to take matters into her own hands before her and her friends are murdered too.
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Cast
- Imogen PootsRiley Stone
- Aleyse ShannonKris Waterson
- Lily DonoghueMarty Coolidge
- Brittany O'GradyJesse Bolton-Sinclair
- Caleb EberhardtLandon
- Cary ElwesProfessor Gelson
- Simon MeadNate
- Madeleine AdamsHelena Ritterhouse
- Nathalie MorrisFran Abrams
- Ben BlackPhil McIllaney
Recommendations
- 86
IGN
Blended brilliantly, this remake of Black Christmas makes for holiday horror that's a tantalizing and terrifying treat. - 70
Variety
You can’t take a movie like this too seriously, but it’s still one of the rare slasher films that offers a holiday from bloodshed for its own sake. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Black Christmas is a fun film that gets its kicks out of literally smashing the patriarchy. - 60
The New York Times
If the 2019 Black Christmas is not nearly as chilling as the original, it is genuinely barbed as gender satire, and it cleverly pre-empts obvious outrage. - 55
TheWrap
As a mainstream slasher remake, Black Christmas is bound to be judged a letdown. But Takal’s aims are more subversive. And thanks to her, there’s now a bonkers deconstruction of a mainstream slasher remake hiding in plain sight. - 40
Time Out
Sophia Takal's update of the cult classic turns the real horror of campus assault into a springboard for cheap thrills. - 38
Slant Magazine
The filmmakers’ overly simplistic depiction of good and evil is mitigated to some degree by the presence of Landon (Caleb Eberhardt). - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Initially a sluggish stalker flick whose undergraduate moral debates are tiresome instead of provocative, it eventually transforms into a patriarchy metaphor as obvious as, well, all those Greek-lettered paddles that decorate both the frat's and the sorority's clubhouses.
