Black Christmas
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 25, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
The flashbacks are wittily gothic, and the present-day murder scenes have the absurdist, chain-reaction intricacy of the "Final Destination" deaths. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
This film is an evocative, effective entry into the holiday blood-spray subgenre in its own right. And if it doesn't make your skin crawl ... you probably ate too much Christmas dinner. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Silly, obvious, clumsy, and just gruesome enough to keep jaded genre fans from angrily throwing popcorn at the screen. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Morgan borrows Christmas-specific nastiness from a wide range of fright flicks, but the result is less than the sum of its parts. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Where the first film was a seminal forerunner of early stalker classics like "Halloween," this version feels as stale as old gingerbread. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesSam 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
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
There are a couple clever touches here and there, including one sequence in which the end of a candy cane has been carefully licked into a highly lethal weapon, but for the most part the accompanying histrionics feel more regressive than retro. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
It exchanges the police subplot that gave the earlier film its steady pace for a lot of pointless backstory about the mother-fixated stalker. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
Lazy, perfunctory and free of tension, the new version will satisfy neither the admirers of the original nor anyone looking for a gory respite from seasonal good cheer. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Props to the Weinstein Brothers for having the guts to release a slasher film on Christmas Day. Too bad this one is the cinematic equivalent of tryptophan. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirshling
Twice as many accidental laughs as scares. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Seems to go out of its way to obliterate all the elements that made the original so special. Read full review
20
EmpireKat Brown
Bad film fans will think Christmas has come early, everyone else should ask for the receipt. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette 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
10
VarietyJoe Leydon
It's debatable whether the original 1974 "Black Christmas" is, as its most rabid fans claim, the mother of all slasher movies. But there can be no argument regarding the scant merits of its slapdash, soporifically routine remake, suitable only for the least discriminating of gore hounds. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The remake neither pays perceptive tribute to the original nor updates it in anything but hackneyed form. Read full review
0
Village VoiceJim 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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