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release Year: 2019
Genre: Mystery
writers: April Wolfe
story: Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus 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
1h, 32 M
Cast: Lily Donoghue

I just saw this movie after reading a bunch of snowflake men's activists on IMDB giving it 1 star and deciding I'd actually watch the movie and rate it myself. The verdict? This was a fun movie, that wasn't perfect, but had a lot to offer fans of the original and slasher films overall. Not every movie is out to reinvent the wheel, and this one doesn't. But it does enough things well with a different and clever spirit, more than enough to warrant its existence. How so?
Let's start with my favorite aspect of this movie, the mise-en-scene. There were just a lot of really interesting shots in this movie. It was kind of beautiful in the way that people and props were placed on screen. The best example is the opening kill where the woman is made into a snow angel in the snow. Another great example is a complex stairway scene zooming out to show the chaotic nature of the holidays.
Another great aspect of this movie was the characters. It had a likable lead with an interesting back story. She was date raped on campus three years prior and the police didn't believe her. However, unlike the men's rights activist reviews on here, she is more three dimensional than just an angry feminist. In fact, all the characters are, even the one that is an angry feminist. That character receives push back from the other women, showing how nuanced feminism and women's attitudes towards fighting patriarchy can be.
None of the characters come across as one dimensional and there are some great male characters, including a pair of fun love interests (because women can fight for equality and date men, duh. Any men's rights activist who says this movie is about all men being bad obviously haven't seen the movie. It IS a movie about how awful rape culture is, and that's a real thing that should be exposed.
Now to address the elephant in the room: does it respect the legacy of the original. I'd say yes. There are some great call backs, and while the original story isn't used, it lives up to the spirit of the original much more than the earlier remake. What the men's rights activists who trash this movie but glorify the original are forgetting is that the original was about a strong woman who makes the choice to have an abortion. It was kind of feminist itself. Also, just in terms of the tone it hits the mark (minus some supernatural schinanigans that is actually kind of fun. This movie isn't overly gory, which neither was the original, but it is creepy. Back to that mise-en-scene, the shots of the characters being watched through a window on campus or the creepy attic piece are all artfully done.
One last thing that the men's rights activist are ignoring. While the writing/directing team are two women, this movie has the backing of one of the most powerful men in Hollywood right now, Jason Blum. The production values really show. It also has horror legend Cary Elwes in a scene chewing role that is gleefully fun. Additionally, if the men's rights activists even saw the movie, they probably walked out before noticing that the film was dedicated to a man named Victor (not the MO of a bunch of men.
So is this a 1 star trash of a film about how all men are bad? Absolutely not! You might be one step ahead of the plot the whole time, but this is a well done and fun movie that has a lot to offer slasher fans. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to deliver a fun and clever take down of rape culture, which this movie absolutely succeeds at.