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Title: The sum is not as great as the parts.
Review: Black Christmas has creepy suspense, yeah. Great buildup, sure. And those phone calls? Freaking weird.But it does not have cohesion. Or closure. A movie doesn't need those things to be good, but their absence in Black Christmas wrecks the whole ship. All that suspense and those phone-melting calls are pretty good on their own, but the anticipation of figuring out "But who's doing it...and WHY?" is the driving force behind the movie. And what they actually led up to? Pllllllbbbtttttt. Totally unsatisfying.It's fitting that this movie is set around the holidays, because watching it is just like opening a bunch of cool presents on Christmas morning, saving the best wrapped one for last, and then ripping it up only to find nothing inside. Black Christmas, definitely.
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