Black Christmas didn’t look too bad from it’s trailers, sure it was pretty paint by numbers but I was considering seeing it. Of course I didn’t end up making it out, and judging by the box office numbers not many did. Here’s what the people over at yahoo.com had to say:
‘Tis the season for stabbings, gouged-out eyes and disembodied heads — at least that is the rationale behind the December 25 release of “Black Christmas,” an idiotic, over-the-top retelling of the trailblazing 1975 Bob Clark slasher movie. this tension-free cheese ball of a thriller earned just $3.3 million on its first day, and will likely land on the curb along with those dried-out Christmas trees not too long after New Year’s Day.
Wow….harsh. But undoubtedly deserved. It’s too bad too because I think if the movie had been at all decent or advertised with any finesse it could have had a good returnI. know that If I had seen enough advertisements I probably would have remembered to check it out. But I hardly saw any trailers or posters around, the cute sorority sister fighting the crazy killer movie just wasn’t on the radar. And now with nothing but bad reviews I highly doubt I’ll watch it at all.
Hopefully the DVD release will happen at Christmas next year and the makers can cash in. Because let’s face it, a lot of the time if a movie is cheap and has “Christmas” in the title with a few pretty faces on the cover it will be picked up for a stocking stuff. I can’t help pitying the people who get those lumps of coal for the holidays next year.
