Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation's young women aren't willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.... (Full plot summary below)
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Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation's young women aren't willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.
Leave your thoughts about Black Christmas.
| IGNChristie PuchkoBlended brilliantly, this remake of Black Christmas makes for holiday horror that's a tantalizing and terrifying treat. |
| PolygonKaren HanFor the most part, Black Christmas is a breath of fresh air. Unlike their 1974 counterparts, these sisters are more than just bodies to be dismembered; they’re forcefully bonding together to fight back against an oppressive system. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsSo while not everything works in Black Christmas, the stuff that does is ultimately what matters most. |
| IndieWireJude DryUsing the hyper-gendered spaces of college Greek life as a fertile palette, Takal and her co-writer April Wolfe skewer toxic masculinity, the white male literary canon, rape culture, patriarchy, and white male rage — all wrapped up with a bow in the stylishly entertaining package of a studio-backed holiday horror. |
| Austin ChronicleMatthew MonagleFor all its political positioning and explorations of institutional violence, the thing that makes Black Christmas most endearing is the strength of its sisterhood. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Angelica Jade BastienIf the righteous retelling ever feels heavy-handed, it’s Poots’s command of her role and the cast’s electric chemistry that make this a reckoning fit for our fantasies. |
| Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersBlack Christmas is a fun film that gets its kicks out of literally smashing the patriarchy. |
| The Film StageJohn FinkA horror film populated by smart characters that take on the patriarchy by refusing to play by its rules, its anger and its heart is in the right place. The problem is how it achieves these ends with plot devices that feel borrowed from cheap studio cash grabs usually dumped in theaters in January and September. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanYou 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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattA sort of forgettable Christmas wisp, a black-hearted jingle bell only half-rung. |
