Synopsis
If this movie doesn’t make your skin crawl, it’s on too tight!
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Black Christmas
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Olivia Hussey Margot Kidder John Saxon Marian Waldman Andrea Martin Keir Dullea Nick Mancuso James Edmond Doug McGrath Art Hindle Lynne Griffin Leslie Carlson Martha Gibson John Rutter Robert Warner Sydney Brown Jack Van Evera Les Rubie Marcia Diamond Pam Barney Robert Hawkins David Clement Julian Reed Dave Mann John Stoneham Sr. Danny Gain Tom Foreman Michael Rapport
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August Films Film Funding Ltd. of Canada Vision IV Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC) Famous Players
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Alternative Titles
Navidades negras, Silent Night Evil Night, Stranger in the House, Jessy - Die Treppe in den Tod, Fekete karácsony, Kurayami ni beru ga naru, Stilla natt, blodiga natt, Noite do Terror, Navidad sangrienta, La residencia macabra, Noël tragique
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Horror, the undead and monster classics Intense violence and sexual transgression Thrillers and murder mysteries horror, gory, scary, killing or gruesome horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten zombies, undead, horror, gory or flesh comedy, horror, funny, humor or spooky Show All…
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The great thing about finding a film that counts as both a Halloween AND Christmas flick is that from now on I have the excuse to watch this twice every year. What an absolute banger of a time. Surprisingly one of the most brilliant takes on domestic abuse I've seen to come out of a horror movie, let alone a slasher! The cinematography is so playful and the editing could not be more perfect. There's a specific scene that uses a Christmas carol that is just...muah! AND its genuinely terrifying!! No better feeling than letting out an unintentional "Oh!" in the last 20 minutes of a film. Ugh!!
Don't take what I'm about to say too seriously, but horror seems…
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one of my personal favourite slashers. love the frequently moody compositions, patient camera moves, artificial glow of the christmas lights and quaint lived-in quality to its performances (actually quite funny with a crowd!) that really makes you notice the silence of its eventual bare soundscape when the girl's start disappearing. the sheer quiet intensity of its cross-cutting, split-diopters and POV imagery nearly send christmas caroling and ringing phones into the realm of the metaphysical. it is also one of the scariest movies about navigating male rage. the way the film intertwines the unseen killer's sexually-motivated violence and barely-repressed freudian trauma with the abusive boyfriend's increasingly unhinged spiraling after realizing he cannot control jess (both his vision of her and her…
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If Bob Clark's Black Christmas doesn't make you want to Deck the Halls and sing Jingle Bells; you must be a Grinch Scrooge.
Black Christmas has so much holiday cheer! There's a cool pussycat, plastic baggie fun, way way underage drinking, rad PoV kill vision, crazy Canadian humor to offset the absolute psychological terror tension, prank calls, high-tech phone tracing, a swearing Santa, turtle fucking, shag carpet, Juliet without her Romeo, classical music destruction, a fella with a mink coat who's straight pimpin', old lady drunkenness, Creepy Christmas Carolers, the Neighborhood Watch, a smart cop, a dumb as rocks cop and a killer that doesn't give a flyin' fuck!
God Bless, Bob Clark! He gave us Porky's, A Christmas Story,…
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Wishing each and every one of you a much better Christmas than this lot got.
I love you all enough to not want you to be slaughtered by a homicidal maniac.
Unless you do not love, cherish and adore this film. Then you can get the dry cleaner plastic ready.
Anyways, merry Christmas!
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It’s been a long time since I had last time I had seen this movie. I think it made it more entertaining since I had forgotten a lot of the movie! The movie is nicely done! The acting is very nice. Also a decent story! Not surprising this has become a Christmas Cult Classic. Though it is not perfect because it is a bit slow at first. If you haven’t seen it before you can check it out on Shudder. Merry Christmas!
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always thought the den mother with the hidden bottles of whiskey in the book/toilets was iconic but tonight i noticed margot kidder just crack open a can of beer at the police station...my queen...
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Silent Night, Evil Night.
Moody, dread infused atmosphere thickening in tone with each disgusting phone call or POV shot... and featuring one of cinema’s most unseen deranged wild mouthed lunatics lurking the perfectly lit sorority house—all disorientingly soundwaved by reverberating strings from hell that crawl right the under my skin. This movie... it’s like some sort of Canadian giallo thrown into the holiday aesthetic and dialed in hard and I love it so much. Taught, highly effective, and scary... legitimately scary.
My favorite kind of slow burn... dark as can be, oozing with tension, loaded with intricate likable characters (and a crybaby piano smashing asshole), beautiful camerawork, excellent lighting, and hair raising murder setpieces spewing out bursts of intensity that…
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In September 1921, in a region of Bavaria known as Hinterkaifeck ("beyond Kaifeck"), the Gruber family's housekeeper quit. She had been hearing strange noises from the attic at their house, and she couldn't take it anymore. Six months later, her replacement would die the first day on the job, March 22, 1922. Her body, and the bodies of the Gruber family, would not be discovered for a week. Leading up to this, for months, the family would report sightings, noises, remnants left behind that made no sense. All signs pointed to the fact that someone was hiding within their very home--and had spent the week after the murders living there, leaving shortly before neighbors arrived. Four of the bodies were…
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