Director Bob Clark’s 1974 horror classic Black Christmas is getting its second remake this year. While the first remake took some creative liberties in more than a few places, the movie still retained the core concept and presented itself with an R-rating much like the original film. However, with Blumhouse’s new remake coming this December, they’ve already revealed throughout their marketing campaign that this will be a very different interpretation. And it turns out the rating will be too – as this will be the first Black Christmas film to receive a PG-13 rating.
It’s been revealed that the second Black Christmas remake’s PG-13 rating was received for:
“Violence, terror, thematic content involving sexual assault, language, sexual material and drinking.”
As for the new film’s plot which takes a wildly different stance than the previous two movies…
“Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.
As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes).
Whoever the killer is, he’s about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t about to be anybody’s victims.”
Black Christmas will be hitting theaters next month on December 13, 2019.
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