You always knew he’d call back.
Bob Clark’s horror masterpiece Black Christmas has now been remade two times, most recently by Sophia Takal just last year, but those two films hardly aimed to recapture the eerie holiday creepiness of the 1974 proto-slasher. Filmmaker Dave McRae, however, is looking to do just that with his film It’s Me, Billy, an *unofficial* sequel to Clark’s classic.
Funded through Indiegogo earlier this year, McRae’s short fan film It’s Me, Billy is being described as “an unofficial sequel that’s set nearly 50 years after the events of the first film.”
In the short, “Unaware of the danger that’s hunting her, Sam and her two best friends are spending Christmas Eve at her grandmother’s old country mansion. Stalked by a sinister evil that’s been lurking in the shadows for nearly 50 years, Sam is about to come face to face with her grandmother’s chilling Christmas past, the deranged psychopath known as Billy.”
McRae and the team explain their goals, “We want to create a tribute film to one of the most famous Canadian films ever made by making a short sequel that displays the same type of mood, atmosphere, and theater of the mind that Black Christmas gave us in 1974. What Black Christmas did for the Canadian film industry has never been forgotten.”
Today we’ve learned that It’s Me, Billy is releasing in Spring 2021, and we’ve also been provided with the official teaser trailer. Meet the granddaughter of Jess Bradford below!
