Black Christmas-Kids’ Movie Review
It’s almost winter break at Calvin Hawthorn University and the students are getting ready to celebrate! Some of the sorority girls are preparing their holiday skit for the talent show. The girls aren’t performing your typical Christmas carol, instead they’re singing a song accusing the fraternity boys of date rape. They want to create controversy and chaos ensues as masked figures show up at the sorority houses and begin to kill women. Black Christmas is a reboot of a 1974 holiday horror classic, which was previously remade in 2006.
Rating: 1.5 out of 5 buckets
Release Date: December 13, 2019
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 15+
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drug and Alcohol Content: Moderate
Will Kids Like It? No
Talking Points:
- The movie is more than a horror film. The film will spark some discussions regarding gender equality, diversity and date rape.
- One of the female students starts a petition to ban a professor as she feels his class focuses on the writings of white men.
Sexual Content: Moderate
- A college boy forcefully pushes a college girl on a bed and says he “wants her.” Someone walks in to separate them.
- A girl unzips her jeans and inserts a DivaCup. She doesn’t remove any clothes.
- Sorority girls wear sexy Santa outfits and perform a flirtatious song and dance. The lyrics are explicit relating to sex and accusing fraternity boys of date rape.
- A woman implies that she bought her friend a sexual toy for Christmas. There are several comments about sex and male/female anatomy.
Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive
- Several characters are murdered throughout the film.
- We see bloody wounds (actually black goop and not blood).
- Characters punch, hit, and stab one another.
- A woman’s cheeks are sliced with a knife.
- There’s a discussion about date rape.
- A group of girls sing a Christmas-style song accusing fraternity boys of date-raping women.
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
- We hear “s–t,” “b–ch,” “ass,” “fart,” and “d–k.”
Drug and Alcohol Content: Moderate
- College-age characters are shown drinking in several scenes.
- A female character drinks too much and vomits.
Will Kids Like It? No
Overall this is a Christmas horror film. Parents need to be aware of the excessive violence and moderate sexual and profane language.
