How 'Black Christmas' became a 'fiercely feminist' slasher movie for the #MeToo era
A few years after Donald Trump's election coincided with the birth of the #MeToo movement and mere months after the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, director Sophia Takal set out to write a horror movie about being a woman in 2019.
"I just felt tapped into a lot of the rage that women felt and also a lot of the camaraderie that we felt with one another," she said. "I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about women being pitted against each other but finding strength through one another."
The resultant film, Universal's "Black Christmas" remake, turns the 1974 horror cult classic on its head by exploring the adversarial relationship between fraternity and sorority members at
