Blumhouse is set to release a second remake to Bob Clark’s 1974 cult slasher classic, Black Christmas, on December 13 but some horror fans were left a little disappointed when the film earned an official PG-13 rating yesterday. After a bit of fan outcry, the film’s screenwriter is defending the rating choice.
Screenwriter April Wolfe took to Twitter with the following statement about the rating:
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The response prompted Wolfe to make more statements because many were quick to point out that the 1974 film and the first remake, released in 2006, were both R-rated and they felt like a PG-13 rating dilutes its potential. Wolfe wanted to reiterate that a younger audience deserves exposure to horror as well.
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The PG-13 rating has also been defended by Phil Nobile Jr. editor-in-chief of the recently relaunched horror magazine “Fangoria”. “So now we have a gory Black Christmas,” Nobile wrote on Twitter, referring to the 2006 film, “a trauma-inducing Black Christmas with Margot Kidder and the C-word, and a Black Christmas to indoctrinate tweens into horror. Who loses?”
The new Black Christmas is set during the holidays at Hawthorne College, where, one by one, sorority girls 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 film stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady, Lily Donoghue, Caleb Eberhardt & Cary Elwes.
Directed by Sophia Takal, Black Christmas hits screens December 13 which happens to be Friday the 13th.
