Yet more classic horror remake news, this time about BLACK CHRISTMAS' young cast!
Published at: Jan. 17, 2006, 2:14 p.m. CST by staff
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... I love Bob Clark's Christmas movies: A CHRISTMAS STORY and BLACK CHRISTMAS. Both are perfect and fit in their times and places. I don't want to see either remade. Thank the Movie Gods that there's no talk of a CHRISTMAS STORY remake, but the long talked about BLACK CHRISTMAS remake (helmed by Glen Morgan of FINAL DESTINATION and WILLARD fame) is apparently going forward full steam ahead.
Production Weekly has the news that Michelle Trachtenberg (from Buffy and Nickelodeon TV fame) is starring in the film alongside some other youngsters named Katie Cassidy, Oliver Hudson and Mary Elizabeth. I don't have anything against this cast, but thinking back on the original... I mean, you had John Saxon kicking ass and taking names, Keir Dullea (2001), a young Andrea Martin, Margot Kidder before SUPERMAN and insanity entered her life and the amazingly beautiful Olivia Hussey in the lead.
That movie was lightning in a bottle, predating John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN by 4 years, and is still one of the best examples of the slasher genre. I'm not automatically predisposed to hate on a remake, but this one isn't sitting well with me.
