Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974): A Killer Classic
... " and repeated it ad nauseum. Black Christmas has just what it needs to be terrifying and doesn't need anything extra -- in fact, anything extra, such as more gore, more shocks or more plot exposition would only detract from the film. As with the best horror films, the film prods and activates the viewer's imagination rather than showing every gory detail of every murder and laying out every piece of the puzzle in clockwork order. A slasher classic of the highest order, I rate Black Christmas a 10 of 10 and cite it as essential viewing for all film buffs, period. ... beloved A Christmas Story could craft a truly frightening, downright disturbing film such as Black Christmas (also originally released under the titles Silent Night, Evil Night and Stranger In Our House) around the same wintry holiday, but here it is -- the original sorority slasher and one of the first horror films to deal exclusively with Christmas (only one segment of 1972's Tales From the Crypt was set at Christmas), except it has much more style and substance than the average sorority slasher that "borrowed" its formula. There's a talented all-star cast on hand here also, which we know ...
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Tags: black christmas | bob clark | 1974 slasher classic | influential horror film | sorority house | phone calls |