Today’s horrors cannot be contained to shadowy figures. Jump scares are short-term frights, and flashing blood and guts are cheap thrills. When Jordan Peele’s Get Out blew our minds back in 2017, he reminded audiences about the clever directions the genre could go. And, of course, there were bound to be copycats, but it’s movies like Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas remake that remind us just how rare it is to pull off what Peele’s subversive eye did.
