BLACK CHRISTMAS (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Imogen Poots (Green Room), Aleyse Shannon (film debut), Lily Donoghue (film debut), Brittany O’Grady (film debut), Madeleine Adams (Close Enough), Lucy Currey (film debut), Caleb Eberhardt (Love Beats Rhymes), Simon Mead (Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Ben Black (film debut), Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sophia Takal (Always Shine), director, writer; April Wolfe (film debut), writer; Jason Blum (Get Out), Ben Cosgrove (The Good German) and Adam Hendricks (Lucky), producers; Mark Schwartzbard (Wild Canaries), cinematographer; Jeff Betancourt (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

As the campus of Hardwicke College winds down for the holiday season, a group of sorority girls find themselves stalked by an unknown killer. However, the killer didn’t count on the girls being more than just helpless victims…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The second remake of the 1974 horror cult classic, this version of Black Christmas has a decisively more feminist tone and spirit, altering expectations of what a slasher movie can and can’t do with its female victims.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 13TH DECEMBER 2019

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