The original Black Christmas is one of the classic slashers,
a film that helped mould the genre into what it remains to this day. It even
has the prestige of being a slasher that influenced another seminal classic in
the genre with Halloween, both operating with the same type of inhumane beast
as the killer. Black X-Mas, the 2006 remake, went so far in missing the point
of what made the original work that it devolved into a movie about killers who
were brother and sister as well as father and daughter. No information right
into all kinds of TMI; it really says something when it came out in the midst
of the U.S. remakes of Japanese horror movie craze, and it still stands as one
of the most misguided remakes of its time.
