Black Christmas

On New Year's Day my good buddy Liz Taylor's House and I saw Black Christmas. It is a bit of a tradition for us that when we get together during the end of the year holiday season we see a horror film. We're just crazy like that.

I really wasn't expecting much from this movie since it was a remake and Liz Taylor's House said the original wasn't that great. However, we both agreed that this movie was actually quite good. We both jumped a couple times. It was put together well with the right amount of humor mixed in with the scares. Horror movies these days do have a tendancy to leave out the humor, this is always a mistake. That humor relaxes the audience and enhances the scares. And those who don't laugh at horror films are boring.

I was not that familiar with most of the cast but, they were all decent. However, I felt Oliver Hudson totally sucked. Talk about phoning it in. He never should have taken this role. Loved Lacey Chabert as always and as a huge fan of Mean Girls I absolutely loved her plastic moment. She also had probably the best one-liner of the whole movie.

Unfortunately it did have a not so great ending. They drug it out so they could do the whole leaving it open for a sequel thing. Not good at all with this one and unfortunately I just know we will probablly be getting a straight to dvd sequel in the next year. (Does anyone else remember when it was straight to video rather than straight to dvd?)

Paid full price for this movie and it was totally 100% worth the money. If you're lucky and it is still playing at a theater near you, you should check it out. If not be sure to pick it up on dvd.