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Black Christmas remake coming from Blumhouse


Black Christmas, the 1974 killer cult classic and monstrously macabre holiday-themed precursor from the eventual director of A Christmas Story (and, before that, crude comedy romp Porky’s), Bob Clark, is getting a remake from the horror hub of Blumhouse Productions.

Universal Pictures is teaming with Blumhouse for a full-on remake of Black Christmas, and the creative coalition has already announced the headlining actress who’ll be playing the film’s (presumed) final girl: Imogen Poots.

While this reimagining of the 1974 film is being described as “a bold new take”, putting the classic slasher through the lens of modern stylistic sensibilities, the project also sounds like it’s sticking to the premise of the original. Indeed, like that film, this project utilises the old urban legend of ‘The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs’, with the added element of a sorority house and an ongoing mystery about the identity of their elusive assailant.

As the Black Christmas remake’s official plot description reads:

“Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.”

The dump of details also came with the first official poster for the Black Christmas remake, as seen just below.

Star Imogen Poots (Green Room, Art Of Self Defense) will be joined in the cast by Aleyse Shannon (Charmed), Brittany O’Grady (Star), Lily Donoghue (The Goldbergs, Jane the Virgin) and Caleb Eberhardt (Broadway’s Choir Boy). The original film starred Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, John Saxon and Margot Kidder.

The Black Christmas remake will be directed by Sophia Takal (Always Shine), who’s working off a script she co-wrote with April Wolfe (Widower). Of course, they will be joined by a producer in studio head Jason Blum, whose Blumhouse racked up a what’s what of recent horror hits, most recently with Halloween, Split, Get Out and Happy Death Day.

Black Christmas is set to arrive on 13 December 2019, which, appropriately enough, will be a Friday the 13th, adding another homicidal holiday context to the release.

For the uninitiated, here’s the trailer for 1974’s original Black Christmas:



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