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Sophia Takal’s ‘Black Christmas’ Brings an Early Present With This Official Image Gallery
Blumhouse will be releasing director Sophia Takal‘s new take on the slasher classic Black Christmas on Friday, December 13, and the official image gallery has arrived today.
The images introduce the sorority sisters who will be fighting back this holiday season, while also giving us glimpses of the masked maniacs they’ll be going up against.
Preview Takal’s Black Christmas below!
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.
(from left) A black-masked killer and Kris (Aleyse Shannon) in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
(from left) Kris (Aleyse Shannon), Riley (Imogen Poots) and Landon (Caleb Eberhardt) in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
(from left, foreground) Imogen Poots and director Sophia Takal on the set of “Black Christmas.”
(from left) Riley (Imogen Poots), Kris (Aleyse Shannon) and Marty (Lily Donoghue) in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Imogen Poots as Riley in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Brittany O’Grady as Jesse in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Lily Donoghue as Marty in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Imogen Poots as Riley in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Imogen Poots as Riley in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Lindsay (Lucy Currey) in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Lindsay (Lucy Currey) in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
(from left) Kris (Aleyse Shannon) and Riley (Imogen Poots) in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Aleyse Shannon as Kris in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Imogen Poots as Riley in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
(from left) Riley (Imogen Poots) and a black-masked killer in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Aleyse Shannon as Kris in “Black Christmas,” co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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