History Film / BlackChristmas2019

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I will bring you to your knees."'']]

''Black Christmas'' is a 2019 [[SlasherMovie slasher flick]], and a loose remake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 original]] directed by Sophia Takal (''Always Shine''), written by April Wolfe, and starring Creator/ImogenPoots and Creator/CaryElwes. Not to be confused with [[Film/BlackChristmas2006 the previous remake from 2006]].

''Black Christmas'' is a 2019 horror flick, and a loose remake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 original]] directed by Sophia Takal (''Always Shine''), written by April Wolfe, and starring Creator/ImogenPoots and Creator/CaryElwes. Not to be confused with [[Film/BlackChristmas2006 the previous remake from 2006]].

* InformedAbility: The killers are said to be given supernatural strength, but they never display it. In fact, judging by the fact that they're routinely killed rather easily by women, they seem weaker than the average man.

* InNameOnly: It's a SlasherMovie set on a girl's sorority at Christmas. And that's all it has in common with the original. [[spoiler:The biggest changes are that there are multiple killers, the killers are being controlled (and granted superhuman physical prowess) by some demonic black goo, and the killers are explicitly motivated by murderous misogynistic beliefs induced by said black goo; the original film revolved around a single human killer who relied on stealth and cunning to pick the girls off one by one, and whose motivation is the generic "murderous psychopath" common for mundane-type slashers.]]

''Black Christmas'' is a 2019 horror flick, and a loose remake of [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 the 1974 original]] directed by Sophia Takal (''Always Shine''), written by April Wolfe, and starring Creator/ImogenPoots and Creator/CaryElwes.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The DKO Fraternity’s plan is to infiltrate the courts and eliminate women’s rights. This would be impossible to do since women’s rights are a civil right protected by the American constitution and any attempts to get rid of them would be thrown out as unconstitutional.

** That's not entirely true, abortion for one was very notably ''not'' protected by the constitution, or actual laws, and has actually been erased. Turns out the misogynyst men in power actually ''can'' make the situation worse for women. [[SarcasmMode Who would have thought?]]

* HarserInInsight: [[spoiler: Gelson']] plan to change the country by [[spoiler: the possessed students]] becoming politicians and lawyers hits differently after 2022 changes in the supreme court and what meant for women's rights as a whole.

* ButNotTooBlack: Both the Black characters in the main quartet, Kris and Jesse, were played by light-skinned actresses who have mixed race heritage.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: With the reveal of the [[spoiler:black goo from the bust of Calvin Hawthorne, it becomes unclear if all the members of DKO are truly evil and/or misogynistic. Some of the members have unnaturally colored skin and dark blood, while others have normal-colored blood and skin. Anyone who bleeds red or is of natural color are likely willing participants, while those with unnatural color and dark blood are likely brainwashed and not actually evil. It's never made clear to what extent the goo influences the frat's behavior, or who entered the fraternity willingly or was deceived.]]

** After receiving a few threatening messages on an app, Riley gets a phone call from an unknown number. She hesitates answering it, and when she does, it's a bunch of scary static and warped voices... until it turns out to just be Helena's mother with a bad connection.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Riley, Kris, and the surviving sorority girls destroy the DKO fraternity and rescue Landon. However, Nate and many others are dead and it's left questionable if many of the members of DKO were actually evil since they were being mind controlled by the strange goo, meaning that they may have killed potential innocent victims and are essentially mass murderers. And considering how sexist the campus police force are it's likely that they'll be arrested for mass murder. Worse, the post-credit scene shows their pet cat licking the black goo.]]

* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Riley and Kris are fleeing from the killer in the sorority house. The run into kitchen and crouch down at the far end of the kitchen island, out of sight of the door. They hear the killer enter and his footsteps slowly advancing towards their hiding spot. However, before he reaches the end of the island, he stops, turns around and walks out. [[spoiler:It is actually a trick to make them think it is safe to come out.]]

* HeManWomanHater: Professor Gelson and the fraternity. Even before the murders start happening, the frat brothers are shown to be condescending horn-dogs who make misogynistic statements and rebuff Riley's rape assertions against their former president. For his part, Gelson seems to preach patriarchy as part of his class.

** Riley stabs the cloaked man who first attackes her in the sorority house with her keys.

* InNameOnly: It's a SlasherMovie set on a girl's sorority at Christmas. And that's all it has in common with the original. [[spoiler:The biggest changes are that there's multiple killers, the killers are being controlled (and granted superhuman physical prowess) by some demonic black goo, and that the killers are explicitly motivated by murderous misogynistic beliefs induced by said black goo; the original film revolved around a single human killer who relied on stealth and cunning to pick the girls off one by one, and whose motivation is the generic "murderous psychopath" common for mundane-type slashers.]]

* ObviousVillainSecretVillain: The fraternity are already pretty crappy when it's clear they covered up Riley's rape, and the professor is a SmugSnake who lectures Riley on how women should know their place. Then the sorority sisters see them breaking in and killing people. But the sorority themselves [[spoiler:has one TokenEvilTeammate, Helena, who betrayed her sisters to them. Although she is swiftly dispatched.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: The police don't believe Riley when she reports her sexual assault and don't believe her again when she comes to report Helena's disappearance. The moment campus security does try to do something, however, [[spoiler: he gets killed seconds after arriving at a different sorority house.]]

* SexySantaDress: Riley, Kris, Marty and Jesse wear these during the talent show at the frat house. (Helena was originally supposed to one of the quartet, and is seen wearing the dress, but she gets drunk, and Riley takes her place.)

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Helena, who been secretly working with the fraternity, and stole items from her sisters that allowed the possessed pledges to locate their targets is killed afterwards.

* WorldOfJerkass: A rather typical trait in slashers. The men are jerks and/or killers, the women are superficial and insufferable, and ''everyone'' is sexist in one way or another. Riley and Landon are the only exceptions.

* StayInTheKitchen: The film is one giant middle finger to this sentiment.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The film doesn't do much to hide that Gelson, a university professor whose [[StayInTheKitchen reactionary views on women's roles]] are expressed through his repeated clashes with campus activists, is an unflattering parody of Jordan Peterson. Gelson is also supposed to be a satire of Brett Kavanaugh, whose alleged sexual assault of a college classmate in the early 1980s, which became a focal point of his 2017 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, inspired the movie.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The film doesn't do much to hide that Gelson, a university professor whose [[StayInTheKitchen reactionary views on women's roles]] are expressed through his repeated clashes with campus activists, is an unflattering parody of Jordan Peterson. Gelson is also supposed to be a satire of Brett Kavanaugh, whose alleged committal of sexual assault in the early 1980s by a former college classmate, which became a focal point of his 2017 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, inspired the movie.

* TakeThat:
** The Christmas dance is meant to be a derogatory reference to ''Film/MeanGirls'', which Sophia Takal doesn't like.

* JustHitHim: The male attackers often choose to grab or strangle their female victims, which helpfully gives all the other women around them ample opportunity to stab them with something.

* JumpScare: A lot.

* AnAxeToGrind: Nate grabs the hatchet used to chop firewood to in an attempt to defend the girls against the murderers. [[spoiler:Marty picks it up to cover the escape of her sorority sisters, but she gets disarmed and killed with it]].

* {{Jerkass}}: All the male characters bar Landon and Nate, but special mention goes to Professor Gelson and Brian Huntley.

** The glass unicorn statue doubles as a take that to ''{{Film/Deadpool}}'', which she considers "misogynistic".

* YouHaveToHaveJews: There has to be at least one Jew in this Christmas movie. Fran helpfully drops the fact that she's Jewish when wishing Riley a Merry Christmas. The sorority also has a Hanukah menora prominently placed in the main living room, which makes a comeback as an ImprovisedWeapon in the climax.