Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974) remains the very best of a long line of Christmas horror films. You could even make a case for it as the greatest genre film of all time. A precursor for what would later be defined as the slasher genre, it helped to lay out the mold, wrapped in a perfectly executed (and terrifying) package. My household doesn’t get through a single December without revisiting it.

Widely beloved by audiences everywhere, it was only a matter of time before someone remade the film. That...