History YMMV / BlackChristmas2019

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The film was a feminist remake of the original with some less than subtle messaging. Fans of the original movie were dismayed by it [[InNameOnly not being a faithful adaptation]], and general audiences, even those who would agree with the Aesop felt that the character [[EightDeadlyWords were douchebags with nobody worth rooting and/or caring for]]. Predictably, it was met with savage reviews and underperformed at the box office, with the [[Film/BlackChristmas2006 ill-fated 2006 remake]] being perceived as SoBadItWasBetter.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The film was a feminist remake of the original film with some less than subtle messaging. Fans of the original were dismayed by it [[InNameOnly not being a faithful adaptation]], and general audiences, even those who would agree with the Aesop felt that the character [[EightDeadlyWords were douchebags with nobody worth rooting and/or caring for]]. Predictably, it was met with savage reviews and underperformed at the box office, with the [[Film/BlackChristmas2006 ill-fated 2006 remake]] being perceived as SoBadItWasBetter.

* EightDeadlyWords: Many viewers don't find ''any'' of the characters likable. The male characters are all misogynistic jerks and/or murderers (and even the sympathetic male characters end up being mostly useless), while the main characters are superficial and insufferable. Although Riley generally gets a warmer reception, even she's not enough to get most viewers invested.

* CompleteMonster: Professor Gelson is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynist]] who, upon discovering the bust of Calvin Hawthorn contains Hawthorn's malevolent will, uses it to brainwash frat pledges and sends them out to murder "unruly" women. Killing several women across campus, Gelson intends to have the frat dominate political institutions with any women who resist the new way of things to be disposed of. Trying to have the heroines murdered, Gelson promptly has a sorority collaborator killed despite her attempts to be "good" for them.
* CreatorsPet: Kris. She is meant to be a brave, combative feminist character and be in the right despite her behaving horribly towards Riley, ironically acting mighty misogynistically towards her. When in the movie she angrily asks 'Did you lump me in with the bad guys?' most of the audience will say, 'Yeah, because you are'.

* HilariousInHindsight: Imogen Poots's look in this movie has a striking similarity to Daisy Egar Jones in the series ''Literature/NormalPeople'' - released a couple of months after. Both are characters in a college setting, survivors of abuse and have outspoken feminist beliefs. They're also both British actresses putting on accents (Imogen a FakeAmerican, and Daisy a FakeIrish).

* Many felt that thee movie should have been its own thing rather than a remake, since the similarities to the original are superficial at best.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Many viewers don't find ''any'' of the characters likable. The male characters are all misogynistic jerks and/or murderers, while the main characters are superficial and insufferable.

%%* EightDeadlyWords
* EsotericHappyEnding: In the end, it's unlikely that anyone would believe what really happened to the sorority sisters. The police and school faculty also have an established pattern of not believing women, so it's going to be difficult for all of the survivors to come up with a story that will stick and be believed. The sudden change in Riley's expression from triumphant to dismayed in the last second of the film seems to convey that she's just realized how much shit she's still in.

* UncertainAudience: This is the second remake of the [[Film/BlackChristmas1974 slasher classic]] - which has a dedicated fan base. However, it has virtually [[InNameOnly no relation to the original's plot]], only taking place on Christmas and having a couple of {{Shout Out}}s. The film also has very unsubtle feminist subtext - dealing with rape culture in a way [[{{Anvilicious}} most viewers found very preachy]]. The director filmed it first to be R-rated but then decided in the edit to release it as PG-13, resulting in a lot of awkward cuts to some scenes. Horror fans were turned off by the heavy-handed social commentary more akin to a college lecture, which also had the effect of turning off feminists insulted by its simplistic messages (trying to deal with toxic masculinity and rape in a movie aimed at teenagers, similar to ''Film/{{Crossroads|2002}}).

* UncertainAudience: This is meant as a remake of a slasher film and audiences came into it expecting an update or at least a revision. Instead it preaches about misogyny and tries to display female empowerment, feeling less like a horror film and more like a college lecture. Needless to say, those that came in looking for horror or fans of the previous movies were solely disappointed and the film can't even appeal to feminists either due to the branding attached to it ''as a horror movie which the film marketed itself as''. So the film essentially shoots itself in the foot because it lies to one side of the demographic in being something it clearly wasn't (or at least being so wrapped up in it's message it forgets why people were coming to see it) and trying to appease another who weren't interested in it as a horror film in the first place. Making many wonder who exactly was this film supposed to be for?

** Riley is 100% justified in being annoyed with Kris for posting the video of their performance. Just because Riley agreed to do the dance as a replacement for Helena, it doesn't equal agreement to it being posted on the internet - especially as she didn't know that her quip at the end was actually caught on camera and even if she did, it being posted online would cause a lot of trouble for her ([[spoiler: her being there in the performance to begin with got her marked for death anyway, can you imagine what would happen if the outside world were brought in and the AKO frat actually won in the end]])

** The movie missed an opportunity to have [[spoiler: Kris die in the end, possibly pulling off a HeroicSacrifice or getting a DyingMomentOfAwesome.]] This would have alleviated many of the issues people had with the character being insufferable, and might have [[AlasPoorScrappy redeemed her in the eyes]] of some.

** Riley is 100% justified in being annoyed with Kris for posting the video of their performance. Just because Riley agreed to do the dance as a replacement for Helena, it doesn't equal agreement to it being posted on the internet - especially as she didn't know about Kris's quip at the end of the video.

* RootingForTheEmpire: A quick scroll through the comments in most reviews will reveal a trove of (predominantly) male audience members appalled by the "innocent" frat pledges Riley and her cohorts leave to burn in the racist, misogynist frat's lair. With minimal comment on the stalking, assault and attempted murder perpetuated against the sorority sisters.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The movie missed an opportunity to have [[spoiler: Kris die in the end, possibly pulling off a HeroicSacrifice or getting a DyingMomentOfAwesome.]] This would have alleviated many of the issues people had with the character being insufferable, and might have [[AlasPoorScrappy redeemed her in the eyes]] of some.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: One could interpret the film to also have AnAesop on the dangers of 'Call Out Culture', since Kris's activism either antagonizes people against her, irritate her sisters, makes Riley feel worse or only has people agree with her out of fear. Rather than opening up a level-headed discussion to convert people to her cause, she just tries to publicly shame and humiliate without a thought to the consequences.

* UncertainAudience: This is meant as a remake of a slasher film and audiences came into it expecting an update or at least a revision. Instead it preaches about misogyny and tries to display female empowerment, feeling less like a horror film and more like a college lecture. Needless to say, those that came in looking for horror or fans of the previous movies were solely disappointed and the film can't even appeal to feminists either due to the branding attached to it ''as a horror movie which the film marketed itself as''. So the film essentially shoots itself in the foot because it lies to one side of the demographic in being something it clearly wasn't (or at least being so wrapped up in it's message it forgets why people were coming to see it) and trying to appease another who weren't interested in it as a horror film in the first place. Making many wonder who exactly was this film suppose to be for?

* EightDeadlyWords

* TheUntwist: Gelson's leadership in the frat's murderous ways seems almost too obvious to be the real twist - especially when in an early scene, Riley literally walks past a paintingofa younger Gelson hangingwith paintingsof the other alumni - but yes, he's revealed to be the leader in the final act. The film doesn't play up the reveal very hard, so it seems they never really considered it much of a twist either.

* TheUntwist: Gelson's leadership in the frat's murderous ways seems almost too obvious to be the real twist, but yes, he's revealed to be the leader in the final act. The film doesn't play up the reveal very hard, so it seems they never really considered it much of a twist either.

* RootingForTheEmpire: A quick scroll through the comments in most reviews will reveal a trove of (predominantly) male audience members appalled by the "innocent" frat pledges Riley and her cohorts leave to burn in the racist, misogynist frats' lair. With minimal comment on the stalking, assault and attempted murder perpetuated against the sorority sisters.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: While the majority of critics just thought the film was mediocre at worst, Imogen Poots is generally considered to have given a good performance. She makes Riley a sympathetic and compelling protagonist, and carries the film in some of its weaker parts.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Regardless of the film's quality, the "Ho Ho Ho, I Didn't Know" song (and accompanying dance) is both catchy and delivers quite the catharsis.

* RootingForTheEmpire: A quick scroll through the comments in most reviews will reveal a trove of (mostly male) audience members appalled by the "innocent" frat pledges Riley and her cohorts left to burn in the racist, misogynist frats' lair. With minimal comment on the stalking, assault and attempted murder perpetuated against the sorority sisters.

* Rooting for the Empire: A quick scroll through the comments in most reviews will reveal a trove of (mostly male) audience members appalled by the "innocent" frat pledges Riley and her cohorts left to burn in the racist, misogynist frats' lair. With minimal comment on the stalking, assault and attempted murder perpetuated against the sorority sisters.