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Blumhouse’s ‘Black Christmas’ Will Be the First ‘Black Christmas’ Movie Rated PG-13
Blumhouse and director Sophia Takal‘s new take on Black Christmas will be the *third* horror movie released with that title, and the second remake of Bob Clark’s slasher classic. Both the 1974 original and the 2006 remake were released with strong “R” ratings, but we’ve learned today that Takal’s Black Christmas is going a little bit softer with all the holiday horror.
Black Christmas has been rated PG-13 for:
“Violence, terror, thematic content involving sexual assault, language, sexual material and drinking.”
Universal is releasing Black Christmas on December 13.
In the new film, Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker.
But the killer is about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.
Green Room actress Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes (Saw, “Stranger Things” 3), Aleyse Shannon (Charmed), Brittany O’Grady (Star), Lily Donoghue (The Goldbergs, Jane the Virgin) and Caleb Eberhardt (Broadway’s Choir Boy) will star in Takal’s holiday horror remake.
Takal (star of our V/H/S and director of Always Shine and the recent “Into the Dark” episode “New Year, New You”) directed a script written with April Wolfe.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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