Black Christmas
In a surprisal announcement , Blumhouse Productions reveals it ’s doing a remake ofBlack Christmasthat will be turn just in clock time for the holidays . While the slasher pigboat - genre is n’t the bighearted deal it once was , slasher dominated the earth of revulsion throughout the 1980s , and for much of the 1990s . Most tend to trace the slasher roaring back to John Carpenter ’s 1978 classic , Halloween , but there ’s really an ever early film that Carpenter himself admits shape his tale of butchered sitter , 1974’sBlack Christmas .
take aim by Bob Clark - who , quite hilariously , also later directed the beloved holiday hitA Christmas Story - Black Christmasis a clear ascendant of the wedge - genre that flick likeHalloween , Friday the 13thandA Nightmare on Elm Streetwould cement in pop culture . LikeHalloween , Black Christmasis centered on a vacation , sport a killer claiming victims for no readily evident reason , and includes memorable prospect from the slayer ’s point - of - sentiment . The cause of death , who ring himself Billy , also primarily targets a radical of young cleaning woman , albeit college daughter or else ofHalloween’shigh school students .
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Black Christmasis justly venerate by most repugnance fan , although those not well - versed in the literary genre may not be familiar with it , specially younger spectator . Well , the originalBlack Christmasis sure as shooting about to get set of renewed attention , as Blumhouse foretell today that it ’s preparing a remake of the film . Even better , the newBlack Christmaswill hit theaters on Friday , December 13 , 2019 , just in prison term for the vacation time of year . Sophia Takal ( V / H / S ) will address the projection , and also co - indite the script alongside April Wolfe . Imogen Poots(Green Room , theFright Nightremake ) lead the cast . Check out the official precis below , follow by the poster .
Hawthorne College is lull down for the holiday . One by one , sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker . But the sea wolf is about to discover that this generation ’s young char are n’t uncoerced to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the stopping point .
Of course , slasher fan will remember that this is n’t the first time Hollywood has attempted a remaking ofBlack Christmas . X - FilesandFinal Destinationvet Glen Morgan directed the first remaking , which was released in 2006 , and in reality featured quite the placeable cast of targets , including Katie Cassidy , Michelle Trachtenberg , Mary Elizabeth Winstead , and Lacey Chabert . Unfortunately , most fan disliked the remake , especially its choice to give the previously unexplained Billy a backstory and clearly specify motivation .
The 2006Black Christmasremake also fail to make a splattering financially , earning only $ 21 million worldwide on a budget of $ 9 million . After marketing cost , that likely puts the remake just barely in the shameful , so combined with the poor reviews , it ’s not hard to see why it never got a sequel . Hopefully , Blumhouse make do to craft a remaking that does the originalBlack Christmasjustice , and introduce a whole new contemporaries of fright fans to the terrors of Billy ’s telephone set calls . Of course , in the era of ubiquitous and constant electric cell telephone use and sophisticated caller ID feature - even when equate to the engineering science of 2006 - one wonders if they ’ll have to change his modus operandi around a snatch .
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