Maki Sparkle ✨’s review published on Letterboxd:
“LICK IT!!!!!”
So I finally completed the Black Christmas remake trilogy but did totally backwards by finishing with the original. What did Syd say “don’t fuck with the original”. Period. This was a sound and rather creepy piece of work. I loved. It had a slight feminist angle which for ‘74 is revolution and I applaud, I say this because @ the beginning the first phone call, whcih are all frightening and ominous, the girls didn’t react like you think they would, also there’s the flag out presentation of Jess taking control of her body and going for abortion. This film just had many sleights that worked for me like the tracking of the calls, so old school to see how landline stations looked and a solid way to reveal the killer is on the home. Overall it had some good, not great kills, one in particular was well executed because of the startling frame of Billy standing over her ready to plunge a crystal decoration into “the wildest tongues in the west” in a crescendo of blood and glass. The shots of Clare dead and suffocated with a bag were effective af as well. Also, the bit with just Billy’s eye looking through the crack of the door frame spooked the hell out of me. I definitely had more fun with ‘06 remake but it’s not a polished or vital piece of work like this. & the 3rd remake let’s just forget that trash existed. But I mean seriously we have shots of the pov from the killer, this was 4 years before Micheal Myers. Genius I say. Excellent film.
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