{"id":137078,"date":"2019-09-06T02:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=137078"},"modified":"2019-09-06T02:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:17:58","slug":"trailer-to-slasher-film-black-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/trailer-to-slasher-film-black-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer To Slasher Film ‘Black Christmas’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have released the official trailer for the second remake of cult 1974 slasher flick \u201cBlack Christmas\u201d <\/strong>with Sophia Takal<\/strong> directing the new version.<\/p>\n

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots<\/strong>, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters\u2014athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue<\/strong>, The CW\u2019s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon<\/strong>, The CW\u2019s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O\u2019Grady<\/strong>, Fox\u2019s Star)\u2014prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.<\/p>\n

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Imogen Poots as Riley in Black Christmas, co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty\u2019s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead<\/strong>, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley\u2019s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt<\/strong>, Amazon\u2019s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Whoever the killer is, he\u2019s about to discover that this generation\u2019s young women aren\u2019t about to be anybody\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n

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Aleyse Shannon as Kris in Black Christmas, co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From director Sophia Takal (Always Shine) from the script she wrote with April Wolfe<\/strong> (Widower), comes a bold new take on the 1974 slasher classic produced by Jason Blum<\/strong> (Halloween, Split) for his Blumhouse Productions, by Ben Cosgrove (The Good German, Rumor Has It) and by Adam Hendricks (Cam, Bloodline, Lucky) for Divide\/Conquer. Blumhouse\u2019s Couper Samuelson and Jeanette Volturno will executive produce with Divide\/Conquer\u2019s Greg Gilreath and Zac Locke.<\/p>\n