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Black Christmas (2019) Review

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4.4640 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Bury Christmas everyone! ROFLOLOLOL!!!! No, but seriously folks, we like to joke... This week we review the new 2019 Model of Black Christmas. It’s a genuine attempt to reimagine Bob Clark's 1974 classic through the lens of today's modern woman. Listen to our full review on our latest episode or read the summary below. Also in this episode, we play Taglines and a new game called "Black Christmas or Black Christmas or Black Christmas". Enjoy. @Dgoebel00 on instagram provided this amazing pic. Follow him for more great horror art. Synopsis of Black Christmas 2019 Sabina, Elena, and Jane are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world's smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys... Oh wait that’s charlies angels Black Christmas is the second in the increasingly loosely based remakes of Bob Clark’s 1974 Black Christmas. The story follows 4 close-knit Hawthorne College sorority sisters named Riley (Imogen Poots), Kris (Aleyse Shannon), Marty (Lily Donoghue), and Jesse (Brittany O'Grady) during the very beginning of winter break. While most of the campus is abandoned by students going home for the holidays, these bold gen-z women opt to stay on campus and party with the other christmas holiday “orphans”. Soon it is apparent that they are being stalked by a mysterious man or men who are attacking and killing sorority sisters one by one. As we follow Sophie and company, it is revealed that the stalker/stalkers are part of a larger more nefarious conspiracy: THE PATRIARCHY. Black Christmas (1974)Add the BLuray to your collection or stream it now.Buy on Amazon Written, directed, and led by young women, this film’s diva cup runneth over with female empowerment. It is so loosely based on the original that it barely maintains the scaffolding of women at college being stalked by a killer. What it does bring to the party is straight ahead, unsubtle social commentary for today’s generation of women.  Quick Review of Black Christmas 2019 I imagine that this film is going to get a lot of hate, and there are a lot of creative and studio decisions that hinder its success, but I must say that I admire the creative vision of this movie. This film seems like a genuine attempt to reimagine Black Christmas through the lens of today's generation, with today’s technology. Supplanting the themes of abortion rights and women's lib, are the modern themes of rape culture and well, still women’s lib... I guess we’re still working on that. Watch Black Christmas 2019On AmazonClick here to Watch  Like I said before, it is not subtle in its message of social commentary, but in this case, I prefer the straight ahead messaging vs lame tacked-on virtue of other “woke” horror films. In terms of plot, this film goes charging off the rails in the third act. The end is truly ridiculous, but it is good campy fun.  The biggest hindrance and distraction of the film was its pg-13 rating. It’s so distracting and jarring at some points that it resembles a television edit from the late 80’s. But since they wanted to market the film to the younger generation of women movie goers, they had to say “yippee ki yay, mr. falcon” to their R-rating. https://youtu.be/DuQP4d_r_Gs?t=233 Score for Black Christmas (2019) 6/10 Spoilers for Black Christmas Expand for spoilers The film doesn't go to great lengths to create a mystery over who the killer is. It is shown early on that the killer is obviously from the same fraternity that Riley's rapist is from. Riley stumbles into a secret ritual involving an old bust that is weeping black goo. I cry because of my dying privilege If you're wondering if they ever explain what the black goo is. Don't hold your breath. It's bad, and it makes men bad.

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This episode brought to you by woke spokes, the bicycle spokes for the socially conscious.

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Hello and welcome to horror movie talk and opinionated an accidentally funny horror movie review show.

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Your panel of expert hosts each week are Dr. Bryce Hansen, who holds a PhD in Spugology,

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and Professor David Day, the foremost expert on Scare No-N-Nose.

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New theatrical releases always get priority, but we also review older horror movies, both good

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and horrible.

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I'm Bryce Hanson.

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And I'm David Day

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Every time

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Every time

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Wouldn't be an HMT episode

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If my levels weren't forgotten

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And special guest

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Eric

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Hi guys

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Thanks for having me on

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Studio audience is really into it.

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Very lovely.

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You guys may remember Eric from such episodes as The Prodigy.

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What an episode.

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What a great episode.

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It was actually, it was a good episode for us.

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