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| One morbid anti-Christmas-y poster for Bob Clark's Black Christmas |
QUICK REVIEW:
A girl in a sorority house goes missing, until the alcoholic lady of the house finds her in the attic and ends her own life there as well. A homicidal sex maniac is at play!
Black Christmas distinguishes itself with its cast of characters, who are all awful in each their own way, making the title of the film extra pertinent. Especially the youths in the film are selfish and deprived of values.
The phone calls in Christmas are really scary.
A scary still from Bob Clark's Black Christmas
Despite quite a few innovations, the SPOILER murder-less ending is deeply unsatisfying, I thought.
Black Christmas is a Canadian independent film. It is sometimes called the first slasher ever, (not counting Psycho (1960)). It was either inspired by a Quebec Christmas serial killer or the urban legend of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs, or a mix of the two.
It is directed by Bob Clark (Porkys (1982)), who has also directed the inadmissibly horrid Baby Geniuses (1999) and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004), the latter as the last film he made before his demise in 2007.
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Cool, scary poster for the film, - click to enlarge
Watch the original, horrific, great trailer here, - it's long! But worthwhile
Budget: 0.6 mil. $
Box office: 4 mil. $ (North America only)
= Big hit
What do you think of Black Christmas?
What is your favorite slasher movie?
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