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Sophia TakalCamera:
Mark SchwartzbardActeurs:
Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady, Cary Elwes, Lucy Currey, Madeleine Adams, Zoe Robins, Ryan McIntyre, Caleb Eberhardt (meer)Streaming (2)
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Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes). Whoever the killer is, he’s about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t about to be anybody’s victims. (Universal Pictures US)
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It was already clear from the trailer that Black Christmas wasn't going to be a groundbreaking genre film, but I was kind of expecting it to have a touch of Scream or Halloween. Wrong! Black Christmas plays on something else (maybe even better) through the mystery line, and this somewhat far-fetched level brings the film to its knees. I also found the acting quite weak – at times I almost didn't care who survived the killing spree. Considering the (nowadays) popular pursuit of gender correctness, I am not at all surprised that a similar horror film was made, by a director with a central female cast and ubiquitous girl power. But I felt that the film pushed the envelope a little too hard in this regard, so the whole message became annoying until it came to naught. On the other hand, I don't want to completely condemn Black Christmas, as it does have some decent scenes and scares, but I was quite disappointed compared to my initial expectations.
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Well, you won't get much blood in this PG-13 slasher, but you certainly can feel the overly pretentious script bleeding to death. I have a number of problems with this movie as a whole, and especially its final meaning, which I could write about, but I don't want to make waves. However, I consider this type of one-sided views à la "only I am right and I have to shove my truth down EVERYONE'S throats" as very ignorant, vulgar, and even dangerous. Especially in connection with the director's excuses, who claimed that the audience the movie was intended for wasn't men (so she alienated half the audience in advance) and that it is necessary for as many young girls as possible to see it. Fortunately, the movie is so bad and ridiculously laughable in every way that even people with the IQ of a pumpkin couldn't possibly take it seriously. What a total garbage.
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