What the Hell Happened with the New “Black Christmas”?

For as much as he cornered the market on great Christmas movies, poor Bob Clark has sure had his classics thoroughly tarnished in the years since his death, hasn’t he?

A Christmas Story is arguably Clark’s best-known work to the general populous, but I think Black Christmas is worthy of equal or greater attention.

Released in 1974, for those unaware, the film follows what we would see today as a fairly standard slasher formula: members of a sorority house are stalked down and murdered by an unseen assailant over winter break, until the cast is whittled down to its final girl. Black Christmas was a film relatively unsung in its day, but has since gained a large cult status as one of the first modern slashers, credited with inspiring the 80’s classics like Halloween. It cannot be credited enough for how much it has shaped the current horror genre as we know it.

Alongside John Carpenter’s The Thing, it’s one of my favorite horror films to throw on at Christmastime.

The film, prior to this most recent reimagining, had already undergone the 2000’s remake treatment back in 2007. While the plot remained relatively…