The original Black Christmas is a classic horror movie that helped shape the slashers that followed it, and its socially aware messages still resonate today. The second remake of the original, 2019’s Black Christmas, is a movie with similar aspirations. This modern reinterpretation tried hard to create something significant and meaningful, but the end result feels like less than the sum of its parts. Find out why in the latest episode of The Last Theater!<\/p>\n
Download the show here: Download and subscribe on iTunes so you never miss an episode: Check us out on Spotify: Total Run Time: 38:14<\/p>\n Theme music: “Rising Game” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com<\/a>) Additional Music: “Opening” and “Up in the Frat House” from the Black Christmas\u00a0<\/em>soundtrack by Will Blair & Brooke Blair<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second remake of Black Christmas has some admirable goals and intended messages, but did it succeed in creating an entertaining and socially aware slasher movie in the tradition of the original?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[605,518,602,604,329,335,400,603,161,600,564],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-april-wolfe","tag-black-christmas","tag-black-christmas-2019","tag-imogen-poots","tag-podcast","tag-review","tag-slasher","tag-sophia-takal","tag-supernatural","tag-teen-horror","tag-the-last-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasttheater.cnjradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBlack Christmas (2019) – Podcast Episode 37<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe Last Theater on iTunes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5avwVSMlTuPNr1kQ35vDIy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nLicensed under Creative Commons:\u00a0By Attribution 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n