Black Christmas in July
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- This is perfectly normal time to make this video, because right now it is Christmas time. I'm not sweating, that's pure jolliness exiting my pores.
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Ah yes, the four seasons: Summer, Christmas, Halloween, and then Christmas again.
U forgot "ugh, another year again?"
"This a bad choice; I do not know why I did this"
It's 2020; there is no reason anymore
Black Christmas is a strange “series.” I completely forgot the pro-choice elements of the original. It’s shocking and sad that you’re completely correct about studios unwillingness to portray women’s reproductive autonomy as an unquestioned positive, even today.
Of course, at the time, a lot of movies shoehorned in abortion subplots specifically because it was such a hot topic. He's right that Black Christmas is atypical when compared to the slasher films that imitated it, but it was pretty common among films made in the first few years after Roe v Wade. (Ultimately leading to Airplane!'s classic red zone / white zone bit.)
Jason Blalock what slashers did Black Christmas imitate? Psycho? Peeping Tom? It came out 6 years _before_ Friday the 13th. Ten years _before_ Nightmare on Elm Street. The _same_ year as Halloween. If anything, Black Christmas helped to codify the genre in its infancy.
That said, you’re right about the proximity to Roe v Wade.
@@tawdryhepburn4686 you might want to reread my post... ;-)
Jason Blalock oh... yeah... never mind.
@@tawdryhepburn4686 heh, no worries. :-)
Black Christmas is probably one of my favorite horror films. I love how idiotic and useless the cops are portrayed as being. I remember being actually angry when they straight up left her in the house alone after all the shit went down, all the while patting themselves on the backs.
Black Christmas INVENTED the "the call is coming from inside the house" horor movie trope. It also was the first sorority house slasher. Black Christmas is like the great grand pappy of slasher flicks.
It didn’t invent the call trope, though. Foster’s Release used it as the focal point three years prior and it’s based around the Babysitter and the Man Upstairs, which dates back to the 60’s. Not sure on the sorority thing, though, so you might be right there.
I haven’t been outside in a while. It could be Christmas for all I know
2020 has been going on for 50 years now, we've gotta be getting close to Christmas soon
Dying of dehydration
Alone
Unloved
On Christmas
That’s how my Scaredy Matt fan fic begins
Can't believe that this was directed by the same guy who made A Christmas Story, for which ironically he shared the Juno award for best director for 1983 with David Cronenberg for Videodrome. Just wanted to play Captain Obvious Trivia there.
also directed Porky's and both Baby Geniuses movies. interesting body of work dhajsdh
Miniike god damnit, I came here to post about the Baby Geniuses’! You stole my thunder!
He also directed _Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things._
Yeah, I kind of wonder if Bob Clark had a problem with Christmas. I mean, that scene with the mall Santa was pretty horrifying in its own way. (Not to mention how Ralphie actually does shoot himself in the face the moment he gets the BB gun for Christmas.)
Jason Blalock i think it’s about what Christmas _represents._
Apparently Bob Clark had a wild career, I had no idea
The best Christmas slasher was The Muppets Christmas Carol cutting "When Love Is Gone"
I mean, you're not wrong, but...ouch.
The christmas-horror gods thank you for your sweat sacrifice, oh scaredy one
I'm kinda a big fan of slashers so i love most early slashers, but its good to see that someone who doesnt generally like them still likes black christmas, which is legit one of my fave horror movies and incredibly underrated, probably because everyone thinks its a killer santa movie
In my language "Christmas in July" is "Jul i Juli". That is all.
Matt, these perspectives on horror movies keep getting better and better, you've really opened my eyes up to the genre. I really loved in this one how the focus was firmly on trivia about the movie and, most importantly, your reaction to it and didn't spend too long recounting the plot.
Also - have you considered that if it's logically Christmas (which it undeniably is) and yet you are still hot then the only possible conclusion is that you've ended up in Australian Christmas and you should be wearing a Christmas T-Shirt and some shorts or a Speedo or something?
Margot Kidder is a gem in this film
I posit that given the limited information we have on the killer, we cannot prove that he didn't accidentally sign a contract to become santa, ala the santa clause, and that it wasn't the stress of being santa that drove him to become a murderer, therefore we cannot actually prove that past scardy matt was wrong when he said that this was an evil santa movie
it's legitimately winter here in the southern hemisphere and it's so f*cking cold
Where are you?
We gotta normalize Christmas tank tops this year. Global warming and all. XD
This is a great idea.
oh yes South Hemisphere
Is this a thing in Australia?
@@Olivenpaste do you mean christmas during summer? yeah a thing in like, half of the world
*laughs in Australian*
It is generally weird here that Christmas decor is cold things like snow, when activities with H2O is infinitely more likely to be a pool or going to the beach, than throwing snowballs.
How do I know this video isn't just a dream that's actually part of the Phantasm series of videos?
I bet that sweater is hiding orbs.
This is an impressive level of commitment to a fairly absurdist little joke.
I'm expected a fully decked-out Christmas tree in the next video.
This is the only explanation for "Christmas in July" that I will accept.
Little known fact: Matt holds the world record for dampest sweater four years running.
Man I love this movie. When I started getting into horror, I wanted to start with the kind of proto-slasher movie and this movie still holds a mysterious appeal to it from when I was younger
I hit the like button for you, but does Grumbletum also dine on likes from this channel?
grumbletum eats his sweat instead
Slashers didn't become uniformly super misogynist trash until the 80s, when everything got worse
Very good point, nearly everything got worse in the 80s. One day I want to write an essay or make a video essay about how First Blood/Rambo and Rocky changed drastically over time. The first entries in each series came out in the 70s/early 80s and have completely different messaging, tones, and aesthetics from their later 80s sequels. The contrasts between First Blood (1982) and Rambo III (1988) and between Rocky (1976) and Rocky IV (1985) are especially stark.
@@AmunDeus Do you think it's related to the ascendency of the neoliberal ideology?
@@sargecad3t Honestly, I think it does
Not only is Black Christmas a foundational Slasher in its own right, it’s also the film that inspired John Carpenter to make Halloween, which he based on a conversation with Bob Clark about what he would have done for a Black Christmas sequel, were he to ever do one.
Black Christmas deserves all the credit Halloween gets for pioneering the slasher genre.
Sorry for dropping this hot take out of nowhere but my hands were burning.
Bay of blood deserves all the credit you are crediting black Christmas. Halloween gets the credit for perfecting the slasher movie.
@@VasManHorrorLivesMatter Haven't seen Bay of Blood. That's going straight on the watch list. Thanks.
That's the kind of stories boomers made before they were jaded and cynical.
I'm such a sucker for that foreground framing, this movie looks swell.
I watched Black Christmas my very first year in Toronto. Possibly in December, too.
3 weeks of leaning into the sweat really hard? God damn that's delicious. I really need to find a way to be a patron, you deserve it.
Best Christmas movie ever: Gremlins
I don't know why you did this either, but I'm for sure glad you did
santa matt bravely sweating their brains out for the holiday season is braver than any US marine
I'm glad you got to enjoy a traditional Australian Christmas
What a nice treat to come home to this was.
Yes! Santa Matt said one full month of Black Christmas! Best present ever.
I gotta swoop in seven months after this vid came out to say the Muppet Christmas Carol is lit.
Yay, the cat DOES NOT DIE in the movie!
Agreed, it must be Christmas because I just got my Jingle Cats vhs in the mail
Bob Clark made two of the best Christmas movies ever.
I hate christmas, Matt (but just to be clear I don't hate Christmas Matt, he's alright), I was happy pretending christmas was months away. My favourite scene in this film is the boyfriend playing the piano for some audition or something, he's playing this really neat avant-garde piece and he's literally throwing everything he has into it, and then he just stops and pants and sweats with this look on his face like he's just fucked everything up. Sadly scenes like this did not become a standard slasher movie trope.
I gotta say, I'm just loving the hell out of your theming these last few months. Really getting into the Christmas spirit!
Xmas in canada might as well be in July for all of the curveballs this damm subpolar climate throws us
Mad respect for wearing a sweater and Santa hat just to keep up the spirit of the currently on-going but unseasonably warm holiday season
Thank you for making me smile during what is (it is increasingly becoming clear) a cursed year.
Keep them coming.
Please.
Stay hydrated, Scaredy Matt.
Matt: "2020 is over next week SHUT UP ITS CHRISTMAS"
i dont usually like horror (im just a fan of ScaredyMatt) but this show has managed to get me to watch several movies so far, and though i've had to do it during the daytime, i've still always had a fun time!
This movie sounds really good and now I need to figure out how to watch it
It's free on youtube rn (albeit with ads, but if you have an adblocker you might be able to get around that).
1: Home Alone
2: Die Hard (rest in peace, Alan Rickman)
3: Gremlins!!!
I know you don't need any more Christmas movies but like, maybe The Muppet Christmas Carol?
thank you for your sacrifice to keep the holiday spirit alive in these trying times.
Matt, so glad you decided to watch this. I saw it A LONG time ago when I was a young kid, and it scared me so much. Your assessment is 100% spot on. The movie is dark and slow, and while we all know the red herring in the film, it’s played perfectly.
Anyway, glad you’re on board!!!
I look forward to your videos each week.
Thank you for the fantastic content.
Absolutely one of the best, most underrated early slashers (and definitely the best one set at U of T, ha). Also I love to celebrate logically appropriate Christmas, looking forward to the festivities!
Is it underrated? It got 2 remakes, hardly been forgotten. The movie has the misfortune of coming a few years before the greatest slasher of all time. A lot of people see no reason to move further back from the perfection that is Halloween. Can't blame them really.
@@VasManHorrorLivesMatter I mean... you just described one of the reasons why it's underrated. Matt covers some in the video, too. Certainly now people speak about it more positively, but when I first saw Black Christmas it had one of the biggest gaps I've experienced between its rep and how great it actually was. Also not sure remakes have much of anything to do with being underrated or not, especially since neither remake made a big splash.
Little does Matt know that very Christmas he’d be spending his entire holiday watching house!
ah early canuckspoiltation films they just dont make them like they did during the tax code days reminds me of shivers by cronenberg
One of my all time favourites. I love this film so much that I even rate the first remake and its very final destination kinda tone more highly than most.
Margot Kidder is amazing in it, and the phone calls are genuinely horrifying little vignettes that get more and more involved. And god damn that ending.
Damn, I genuinely can't wait for the next two reviews.
Merry spooky Christmas in July Matt!
I'll sacrifice myself so you can go on. We need your genuine earnest love of these movies
My family's Christmas movies are Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, and The Ref.
I'm excited to hear your take on the new remake of Black Christmas because it got some poor reviews and was hard to find a theater screening it but I really like some of the other work the women who directed it made so I've been wanting to check it out. Unrelated: I just watched Among the Living (on shudder) and that was a really good kinda different horror movie that I highly recommend. It sorta sets up an entire goonies world and then puts all those characters into a slasher movie. It does a pretty good job of avoiding gore (probably in large part because most of the characters are 12 year old boys played by young actors) though there is a scene of a parent physically abusing a kid.
I saw this movie a long time ago but had kind of forgotten most of that. should rewatch for sure.
I watched this a few years ago and was also pleasantly surprised by the writing and acting! Thanks for covering it
You gotta watch a muppet christmas carol though. Best version of a christmas carol
30? Damn it is Christmas time being that cold, it was almost 44 where I live most of last week.
We commend the dedication to the bit
Unloved? Sir, you are the most loved slimer since that little green peanut who danced his way across a celluloid frame some thirty five odd years ago! xo
You can't escape 2020 that easily, Matt.
1:29 But if Gremlins is a Christmas movie (which it is), then so is ghoulies.
I just watched this last week and I’m glad Christmas Matt is helping me celebrate the Christmas season 🎄
Whoa, 86°F is hot to Canadians?! In Texas that's a late Spring day or a summer night! It's been unusually cool this year but in earlier summers it's topped 100°F for several days in a row. I'm kinda envious tbh.
By the way, I'm happy to hear how cool the first proper slasher is, there really do tend to be misogynistic tropes and tendencies in a lot of horror/slasher films. Sleepaway Camp even has the distinct "honor" of being a transphobic slasher D: (which sucks because it's otherwise a thoroughly enjoyable and effectively disturbing film; the whole thing gets ruined in just the last ten minutes)
Merry Crimbas, thanks for the rec!
I’m not much of a slasher fan, but this does look interesting and well shot. I’m usually more interested in creatures, effects, and magic, but I’d consider this out of novelty and curiosity.
Oh, and it’d be rad to hear your thoughts on Begotten, possibly the most black metal movie ever.
Emmett Otter's Jug-band Christmas was not among your Christmas movies and that simply will not do Matt. Directed by Jim Henson (and filmed in Canada, so there is a great reason for you to cover it!) It the tale of the poor widow Ma Otter that struggles to raise her son Emmett. Ma and Emmett are forced by the wealthy higher class citizens of the town to do menial labor to survive, such as laundry, and are regularly cheated by those with the means to fulfill their economic obligations for said labor. There is an upcoming Christmas concert talent show with the top prize of $50. Both Ma and Emmett secretly hatch plans to enter the talent show to win the money in order to buy the other one their most desired object. It is a really wonderfully done film interpretation of Gift of the Magi starring Jim Henson's puppets and features Kermit the Frog as the narrator.
I adored this film growing up, but as an adult I have realized the absolute horrors the fictional Otter family endure due to capitalism. I honestly think this would be a great fit for you to check out for your main channel or some special Christmas, non-horror, content. Truth be told the story is pretty horrifying though because ultimately what could be more horrific than struggling under the boot of the wealthy only to discover you will never be able to escape. The Riverbottom Nightmare Band feature in the film as one of the groups of antagonists and even if you don''t check out the whole film (which is available on UA-cam last time I checked) at least take in the glory of this evil rock and roll band, you won't be disappointing.
ua-cam.com/video/jJ3cWWNXBHg/v-deo.html
I just want to personally thank you for making this video in a sweater. I know that shit was hot AF, but I had a good chuckle.
Merry Christmas, ScaredyMatt.
Aww, we love you, Slime Fren.
Dear Santa Matt,
All I want for Christmas is Canadian citizenship so I may leave the dystopian hellscape that is the United States.
Love, Jimmy
Ok, if you're already dead, RIP thoughtslime/matt, you were loved. If that was just a joke, and wearing a Christmas sweater in July in the northern hemisphere is not fatal, well.... thanks for the video!
=8)-DX
I am never NOT excited to see Scaredy Matt.
I am sick and tired of the mainstream media slandering Scaredy-Mildratt by claiming he's anything other than the greatest horror film expert.
The pains you go through for your art are something else. My room is also 30C and I feel like I'm going to die sitting around in my skivvies.
This one of my favorite Xmas movies and my go-to for suspenseful films. And its a little Canadian movie that could! Now go roll in the snow before you combust.
Oh boy! Does this mean we're getting videos on the crappy remakes too?! It really is Christmas!
Best episode yet!
Two Front Teeth is also a Christmas time horror movie with an evil santa and I think you would enjoy viewing/reviewing the movie. It is a perfect choice for this definitely Christmas season.
Wait wow, didn’t know their favorite movie was Superman the movie
The world greatest horror expert cannot be burned alive at Christmas. The snow will put out the fire. Because it's definitely winter. Good move, world's greatest horror expert.
Matt sweated for our souls.
the cat does not die, i repeat, THE CAT DOES NOT DIE!🎉
matt still needs to watch the most quintessential Christmas movie of all time (muppets christmas carol)
I love Margot Kidder, too, in this movie and everywhere. Superman is also one of my favorite movies of all-time. Matt, will get on and watch the director's cut of Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 already? I'm curious to hear your thoughts in general, but you'll also appreciate the meaty role Margot plays.
This was super great, thank you ^^
Happy Holidays Scaredy Matt!
Matt, despite your protestations I am going to @ you. You said the same thing about putting off Texas Chainsaw Massacre under the assumption that it would be another cheap exploitation slasher, and you were surprised by how good it was.
First this is a very good. Second you are a very adorable human person all of the time.
nine seconds in and i am already 100% into this video
*sees slime-o in a wool sweater* Oh honey, what is you doin'? It's 30 degrees!
Dying of dehydration and alone, maybe. But not unloved!