So, that BLACK CHRISTMAS remake has officially started moving...

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I love Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS, the true granddaddy of slasher films. I love HALLOWEEN, but this is the one that really started it all. You can credit PSYCHO, too, but BLACK CHRISTMAS really started the visual style and tentpoles of the genre, like the killer's POV and "pick off the college co-eds one by one" formula for example. The movie is very much a product of its time and I am really struggling against the idea of a remake. I don't like the idea of remaking this film at all. The story is cliche now, the characters work because of the actors in that moment in time. This sounds to me just a way for the money men to take a great title and set-up and make something that is otherwise totally unrelated to the original.

Dimension Films is distributing the movie in the US (another reason I'm thinking this remake is doomed) which will be handled by James Wong and Glen Morgan of X-Files the TV series (great), the WILLARD remake (really good), the original FINAL DESTINATION (fun) and Jet Li's THE ONE (retarded).

If you're a horror fan at all and haven't seen the original film, go seek it out. Put it high up on your Netflix cache, hit local video store or Best Buy and get it. It's a classic of the genre with a great, great ending. John Saxon is the man in the movie, Olivia Hussey is forkin' gorgeous and you can see young Margot Kidder before she went insane! Quality stuff all around. Let's just hope they don't fuck it up too bad with this remake.