Unfortunately, Takal’s Black Christmas is far more ordinary ... someone wails desperately in the background) less upsetting than it is in real life. As students at Hawthorne College head ...

Now on HBO, the latest remake of a remake of Black Christmas, gives the old slasher-slays-sorority-girls formula, explored in the 1974 original and 2006 update, a sparkling feminist slant.

The new-but-unimproved "Black Christmas" opened Monday Dec. 25 without press previews, dropped into megaplexes like a lump of coal into a naughty child's stocking.

Black Christmas Revisited will be a true festive gift for fans of this ground-breaking and revolutionary proto-slasher.” “It’s always been there, independent and proud in the background ...