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Black Christmas

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Critics' Reviews

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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Silly, obvious, clumsy, and just gruesome enough to keep jaded genre fans from angrily throwing popcorn at the screen.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sam Adams
Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, Black Christmas is destined to be forgotten the instant it's unwrapped, gathering dust until the season rolls around again.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Gregory Kirshling
Twice as many accidental laughs as scares.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Jeannette Catsoulis
With a peephole-riddled set and a flashback-heavy screenplay, Black Christmas smothers terror beneath a blanket of unnecessary information, revealing too much and teasing too little.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
The remake neither pays perceptive tribute to the original nor updates it in anything but hackneyed form.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jim Ridley
The product itself isn't so much afterthought as afterbirth -- a bloody mess to be dumped discreetly.Read Full Review »
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