Gabe Reviews Horror

Twelve More Slays of Christmas #1 - Black Christmas (2019) [It does not appear that this movie is streaming for free anywhere; however, it can be found with a subscription on Hulu and... Disney+? Is that right?] Last year I watched both the original Black Christmas, as well as the 2006 remake- and if you recall (you can go back and read those reviews right now, I'll wait) I liked the original but the remake seemed to misunderstand everything that made the original good. So, only 13 years later, they decided to remake it again , so how does it stand up? Let's find out. (Fair warning, I'm going to be spoiling this movie. That usually means I don't think you should watch it.) Black Christmas (2019) follows a group of sorority girls staying on-campus over Christmas break, who get beset upon by one or more murderers. While that sounds similar to the other two, that's literally where the similarities end- instead of being a grounded (or even larger-than-life) story about ...

The Twelve Slays of Christmas #10 - Black Christmas (2006) Watch it here on Tubi! I'll get the synopsis out of the way: the 2006 Black Christmas remake follows a group of sorority girls who get killed off one-by-one in contrived and inexplicably unnoticed ways by an unseen serial killer on Christmas Eve. There's a couple small subplots going on but that's pretty much it. This movie is, in a word, terrible. It does two things very, very wrong: it took a story about a mysterious killer with unknown motivations and a clever whodunit twist, and gave the killer a complicated and winding backstory about a boy who was born with a liver disease that turned his skin yellow and then his mother hated his father for some reason so she killed the father and locked the boy in the attic but then one day the mother had sex with her son and she got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter so she loved the son but then the son broke out of the attic and killed his mother and ripped out his daug...

The Twelve Slays of Christmas #9 - Black Christmas (1974) Watch it here on Tubi! Considered by many to be one of the first slasher films (and definitely the first slasher revolving around a holiday), Black Christmas follows a group of sorority girls at the start of Christmas break. First they start getting a series of disturbing phone calls, and then the girls start disappearing one by one. When it's finally confirmed that some sort of foul play is afoot, the police think they've figured out who the culprit is- but the calls might be coming from inside the house. I'd never seen this film before, though I had seen the 2006 remake (which I'll be reviewing tomorrow). Right off the bat it's pretty easy to see why this is considered one of the classics- the plot is good and moves at a nice clip, the characters are engaging and fleshed-out enough (and not too much, which is important), and there's just the right amount of tension and suspense. It's mind-boggling c...