My friend Jordan tells me it's a terrific underrated classic, released just two months after the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre (my personal pic for the greatest film of ANY genre ever made). I guess it was the precursor to Halloween (and superior to it, by some accounts) and A Stranger Calls, among others. I just got it on DVD (25th Anniversary edition) from Movie Madness and am about to watch it. Any comments? I was very surprised I'd never heard of it until recently. I'd always thought of Halloween as the first Slasher movie (Chain Saw to me is more of a nightmare/gothic fairy tale/demented work of art than a slasher) but Black Christmas predates it by four years.
By the way I'm glad this tribe exists because if it didn't I would have to start it.
Oh, and anyone who wants to send me some horror writings for the new literature/arts magazine DRECk which i'm starting, please do so! Now accepting submissions for the first issue. Fellow queer horror fans would be especially nice to have on board.
xo
tony LT
By the way I'm glad this tribe exists because if it didn't I would have to start it.
Oh, and anyone who wants to send me some horror writings for the new literature/arts magazine DRECk which i'm starting, please do so! Now accepting submissions for the first issue. Fellow queer horror fans would be especially nice to have on board.
xo
tony LT
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Re: Black Christmas (1974)
Sun, October 23, 2005 - 10:20 PMI love this movie. One of my faves. Finally caught it presented on the big screen last year in NYC during a film festival. -
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Sun, October 23, 2005 - 10:21 PMoh yah....and margot kidder is great in it as Barbie. Watch for her when she's drinking. -
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 4:26 AMit´s a very good film , very creepy and very well shot, i got it from a friend that download it from me and saw it a saturday at 1 am and it was a hell of a good time. In fact Halloween and when a starngers call where planned as sequels of this film but at the end they were shot as stands alone. -
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 10:08 AMrEALLY...so was john carpenter a part of Black Christmas? I didn't inspect the credits.
I watched the first 2/3 last night then had to go to bed...the scene where the maniac stabs the woman to death with a clear crystal spike is beautifully filmed. And the carollers singing in the background! What a scene.
Its moralism is pretty obvious..."sorority girls lead depraved lives of drinking and abortion, they have bad karma coming to them!" but it is a well-made film.
how could i miss margot kidder drinking? she's drinking in every scene! *LOL*
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 9:58 PMthe great thing is that she probably was really drunk during the scenes! -
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Tue, October 25, 2005 - 12:04 AMOh, of course. This was the fabulous 70s, when a coke scene really WAS a coke scene, right?
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Re: Black Christmas (1974)
Tue, October 25, 2005 - 1:13 AMDoesn't look like Carpenter was involved in it. IMDB.com doesn't list him anywhere in the credits.
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Sat, October 7, 2006 - 8:03 AMAt Lincoln Center? I was there, too! It was one of the greatest moviegoing experiences of my life.
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Tue, October 25, 2005 - 7:38 PMEXCELLENT Canadian made film!
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Re: Black Christmas (1974)
Wed, October 26, 2005 - 4:49 AMCarpenter was not onvolved on the film is just when he came up with the film the producres and distributors thought about making it a Black Christmas kind of sequel-spin off as the murders take place in another holyday like halloween, i think in the trivia section of both films at imdb.com they talked about it. -
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Wed, October 26, 2005 - 4:56 AMi just checked it is in the trivia section for "when a stranger calls" which also was planned as a possible sequel. -
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Wed, October 26, 2005 - 11:17 AMso THAT's why it wasn't covered in the AMERICAN NIGHTMARE documentary...it's Canadian!
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Re: Black Christmas (1974)
Sat, October 7, 2006 - 8:06 AM"Gee, mom, you're a real gold-plated whore."
This is one of my very very favorite movies of all time, and it still creeps me out if I watch it alone. Did you end up liking it? I wish that Margot Kidder had gotten more great roles like this one. THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was so dead in the water, and they gave her nothing to do.
If you like BLACK CHRISTMAS, I also highly, *highly* recommend DEATH DREAM, another Bob Clark horror film--a modernization of The Monkey's Paw turned into a Vietnam allegory. It's hard to believe that the guy who made these two near-perfect horror films went on to make PORKY'S!
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Sun, October 8, 2006 - 4:33 PMYeah, this movie really fucked me up as kid. Especially the ending. I own it now and consider it a prized possession. Go figure.
A year before its release, another flick called SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT came out with a similar storyline. Has anyone seen it? I haven't yet and am intrigued by the cast, which features Candy Darling, Mary Woronov and John Carradine. -
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Mon, October 9, 2006 - 12:41 AMYes, but Bob Clark also directed the classic
'A Christmas Story'
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Mon, October 9, 2006 - 6:40 PMSILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT is absolutely BRILLIANT and a classic in it's own right. The first two thirds of the movie are so intensely atmospheric that it's almost a let down when the slasher actually starts, er, slashign! -
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Wed, October 11, 2006 - 4:46 PMI was about to talk about how I'd just seen it recently at one of our cult theaters here in Portland, but then realized the movie I saw was "Silent Night, DEADLY Night." Funny 80's slasher. Not as good I'm sure, although it has its entertaining bits. -
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Wed, October 11, 2006 - 7:54 PMOh God that movie is SO TASTELESS. I LOVE it.
A few Halloweens ago I dressed as Billy (aka a Santa with an axe and blood all over me...nobody got the movie reference.) The great thing, though, was that it caused *such* a controversy when I went to the parade! People were screaming "THAT'S NOT RIGHT! SANTA'S HOLY! WHAT IF THE CHILDREN SEE!" I felt like I *was* SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, caught in the middle of the same ridiculous controversy that hit the movie when it was released in 1984. It was great.
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Re: Black Christmas (1974)
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 3:28 PMThe Felatio joke always cracks me up. I do like this film, I like films which offer little or no concept of why a killer is like it, and Billy is a prime example.
Margot Kidder is great, as is John Saxon.
Halloween is always credited as the first slasher as it is one of the first to show the killer stalking people and doing the deed. Black Christmas tends to keep Billy hidden.
