Black X-mas "remake" Unrated DVD

[gracie]

I didnt think too much of the remake. I havent seen the original oneyet but seeing how some people say the new one is better I migh give it a miss.

[bwind22]

Here's my mini-review...

Black Christmas

If you are gonna rent Black Christmas, get the original. This was okay, but the original is better. This had decent acting, but a lame villain and a very thin plot. There was a fair amount of gore but nothing we haven't seen a dozen times before. It was okay, but not a remake that needed to be made in the first place and especially not if they weren't even gonna make it cooler than the original.

C-

[mordrid]

Originally Posted by Posher778

Remakes aren't always bad, I heard this one was good. Just don't compare it to the original, watch it as it's own film.

Good Remakes:

House on haunted hill
Hills have eyes
House of wax
the thing*
the mummy
dawn of the Dead
Night of the living dead

There are more.

Posh, I agree with a few of those but not all. House of Wax and House on Haunted Hill were horrible, completely and totally a waste of time. Black Xmas was a decent remake. The Dead remakes were good, but neither as good as the originals. The Mummy I dont consider a remake. Hills Have Eyes was probably the best of the new wave of remakes.

[dabruce16]

to my surprise i actually enjoyed the remake of black christmas. sure it wasn't the best horror film out there, but at least it was a lot better than most horror films coming out nowadays.

i also really enjoyed the original black christmas. i actually enjoy seeing films being remade. i like seeing the new take on the originals. Sure a lot of people say remakes give the originals bad names, but if anything, remakes make new people watch the originals, to see if what the original is all about.

i've noticed that not many people know that a film is remake sometimes. like black christmas for example. i'm sure that a long of people now have seen the original too.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

The remake has to be one of the worst films I had ever watched, It was attrocious! Yes, even worse then the Hills Have Eyes remake.

[Papillon Noir]

I finally got this on Netflix this past weekend, and holy crap was this a disappointment. I would first like to say that I really liked the original, even though some parts were slow and it was very 70's (but in a cool way), it had a very kick ass ending, especially for that time period.

That being said, this is what I thought of the remake:


*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*




The only thing this remake had in common with the original was the initial base plot, characters, and location. By this I mean that it is set in a sorority house at Christmas with your house mother, girls that have already "gone home" for Christmas, heroine with suspect boyfriend, drunk/sleazy girl that you know will get gutted at some point, and perverted/creepy phone calls (which were a little sparse). There may be other similarities that I missed, but hey it's been a few months since I last saw the original.

After the first kill or two, and creepy phone call later, this movie pretty much turns into a slasher flick and really lacks the suspense that made the original so great. So, I tried to appreciate the movie for what it was(hey, I like slasher flicks just as much as the next girl), but it just got progressively dumb.

Amidst the sorority girl plot, there is a sub-plot told in flashback about the original family that used to live there. Abused child who grows up and goes on murderous rampage, killing most of his family and getting locked up for being totally insane.

Well, of course he escapes, and comes back to the house. Meanwhile we know from the start that there is a second killer, because the girls start getting murdered before the crazy guy even escapes! So retarded.

Giving the killers background I think was suppose to give "depth" to the characters, but they were totally uninteresting and every time someone was about to die (or just did), all they say is "you're/she's/they're my family now". It was really rather annoying.

Then we come to the ending. Our heroes seemingly defeat the killers and escape the house to safety. The movie should have ended there, instead there is the "aftermath", where the killers aren't really dead yet and reunite with our heroes to try to finish the rest of them off. It was like they were just trying to make the movie longer and/or just increase the body count.

Unless you just want to see this just because you liked the original (which is why I saw this despite the bad reviews), skip it unless you want something mildly entertaining to play in the background while you balance your checkbook and do your nails (which is what I ended up doing :) ).

[joshaube]

While it was horribly unlike the original, I can't say it was terrible. Ridiculous, yes, but if you can look past just how... freaking retarded everything is (yellow skin, incest, manish looking sister, animal-like mutants...) then it's decent. It looks pretty, anyway.

PS. The Hills Have Eyes remake was ace.