Christmas has come early this year for fans of Blumhouse horror, because their UNTITLED BLUMHOUSE HORROR PROJECT has been revealed as a remake of the 1974 holiday horror classic BLACK CHRISTMAS. Set to slide down chimney theaters on December 13, 2019, the latest version of BLACK CHRISTMAS will be helmed by GREEN and ALWAYS SHINE director Sophia Takal. Leading the cast will be Imogen Poots (28 WEEKS LATER, I KILL GIANTS), who will be joined by Aleyse Shannon (CHARMED), Brittany O’Grady (STAR, THE MESSENGERS), Lily Donoghue (THE GOLDBERGS) and Caleb Eberhardt (THE POST, LOVE BEATS RHYMES) for the upcoming fright-fest.
In the 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.
The original BLACK CHRISTMAS, as helmed by director Bob Clark and starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea and Margot Kidder, was inspired by the urban legend “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" a 1960s tale in which a stalker relentlessly calls a young babysitter prompting her to "check the children."
This will be the second time that Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS is getting the remake treatment, as director Glen Morgan tried his hand at the holiday horror property in 2006 with a film starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert and Kristen Cloke, amongst others.
Penning the script are Takal and April Wolfe with Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse Productions. Ben Cosgrove and Adam Hendricks will also produce via Divide/Conquer. Meanwhile, Greg Gilreath and Zac Locke of Divide/Conquer will serve as executive producers.
You can see the new one-sheet that Blumhouse released for Takal's BLACK CHRISTMAS below: