Unlike Jack Frost, Black Christmas is not ‘so bad it’s good’ but so very, very bad it isn’t even campy and entertaining. But it certainly is gory. Incredibly gory. In fact, so gory it received complaints upon its release, which we didn’t even think happened any more in this age of YouTube bullying and visual desensitization. When re-watching this, we made a little collective gasping noise during one particularly grizzly scene where a young girl’s eye is popped out of its socket. Ask yourself honestly – when did you last have that reaction to cinema violence? The premise is actually quite cool, so it’s a shame it was so badly portrayed: a young boy kills his rapist mother and impotent stepfather at Christmas after pulling his sister’s eye out. Scroll forward ten years and he escapes dressed as Santa Claus to a sorority house with the eyeless sister and together they inflict increasingly brutal levels of violence upon the occupants. Merry fucking Christmas.
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