Creativity is a stranger to this sick excuse for entertainment, which pounds a ridiculous back story into a butchered rehash that includes incest, cannibalism, eyeball gouging and impossibly dumb plot contrivances.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
29 Dec 2006
rotten:
A modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to be.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
30 Dec 2006
rotten:
As yuletide counterprogramming goes, here's one smelly lump of coal.
– Michael Rechtshaffen,
Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan 2007
rotten:
Black Christmas lacks the timing and visual wit to make its splattery EC Comics gags either genuinely scary or funny.