Black Christmas
If Black Christmas doesn’t make your skin crawl, it’s on too tight!
At the start of winter break, a group of sorority sisters begin to receive threatening anonymous phone calls. The calls are initially creepy, but soon turn murderous as girls start disappearing from the sorority house and the sisters begin to suspect a killer is in their midst. But no one realizes just how close the mad murderer may be!
Inspired by the terrible true crimes of the Westmount murders in Montreal, Black Christmas is surely not your traditional holiday fare, but when the film is this historically significant — Bob Clark’s film is often cited as one of the first slasher films in horror — naughty or nice, it’s time to check it off your list!
Director
Bob Clark
Clark was a filmmaker who directed the cult classic Black Christmas, which is often credited as one of the earliest slasher films. His other directing credits include Breaking Point, Murder By Decree, Porky’s, and the iconic A Christmas Story, for which he won Genie Awards for best direction and screenplay. His other credits include the features Loose Cannons, My Summer Story, Baby Geniuses, and TV movies such as Fudge, Catch a Falling Star, and others.
Writer
Roy Moore
Cast
Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Producer
Bob Clark
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Interest
Cult & Offbeat Cinema
Original Language
English