Blumhouse’s Black Christmas trailer sets up bloody holiday horror

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

WARNING: The above trailer contains major SPOILERS.

'Twas several months before Christmas, when all through the net, Blumhouse dropped a trailer and key art for BLACK CHRISTMAS, and thus the introduction for this article was set.

It wasn't long ago when Blumhouse bestowed an early Christmas gift horror fans with the surprise announcement of a remake of director Rob Clark's 1974 classic BLACK CHRISTMAS. Helmed by Sophia Takal from a screenplay she co-wrote with April Wolfe, the latest re-tooling of Clark's holiday horror classic stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, Simon Mead, and Cary Elwes.

Here's the official synopsis for BLACK CHRISTMAS:

Just in time for the holidays comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood.
 
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.

Producing BLACK CHRISTMAS are Ben Cosgrove and Adam Hendricks, with Couper Samuelson, Jeanette Volturno, Greg Gilreath, and Zac Locke all serving as executive producers.

Why the studio chose to cut such a spoiler-laden trailer is beyond me. I know that the goal is to pull people in, though there are elements of the story shown here that should have been left for a surprise. Watch the trailer at your own discretion, and be sure to stay off the naughty list until BLACK CHRISTMAS is unwrapped in theaters on Friday, December 13th.