Black Christmas is quite
possibly the ORIGINAL slasher horror movie.
Best-Horror-Movies contributor Ronnie Angel
recently watched the 70s Horror Movie Black Christmas
for the first, and perhaps the last time. It's that scary!
Review by Best-Horror-Movies.com contributor Ronnie Angel September
17, 2006
Release: 1974 Written by: Roy Moore Directed by: Bob Clark
Starring: Olivia Hussey as Jessica Bradford Keir Dullea as Peter Smythe Margot Kidder as Barbie Coard John Saxon as Lieutenant Kenneth Fuller Marian Waldman as Mrs. Mac
There are many horror movies out there that give you a genuine, but not
particularly deep scare. After leaving the theater you are minimally
affected. There are some that really disturb you - To the point of
turning on the lights at night, checking behind corners, etc. Then
there are those few that creep you out so badly you feel like you need
to take a shower immediately after viewing them. Black Christmas is the last two examples in one movie. Black Christmas is a real shocker.
When I picked up Black Christmas I
wasn’t expecting much, especially from a 1970s slasher movie.
After watching it though, I believe that it is about the most
frightening movie that I have ever seen. This movie clearly paved the
way for all the Jasons, Freddies, Michaels, and others who followed in
the slasher genre. It has been said that it is tough to beat the
original, and in this situation it is very true.
Black Christmas begins with a party at a sorority house to mark
the beginning of Christmas break. While the party is going on, we see
an unknown man (from a first-person viewpoint, ala Halloween) sneak
into the house via the attic. Within minutes he has already claimed his
first victim, Claire (Lynne Griffin) with a very shocking
bag-over-the-head murder before dragging her body to the attic and
putting it right in the window for all to see. The body remains there
for the duration of the film!
The sorority sisters contact the police when Claire's father shows up
concerned about his daughter. The police are initially not too worried
about Claire's disappearance, but eventually organize a search party to
find the girl. Instead they find a different girl dead in the park, and
the news sends the whole town into a panic.
We now discover that the sorority has been plagued by obscene calls for
quite some time, and they gradually begin to get weirder and worse with
each occurrence. Meanwhile the sorority sisters are being murdered one
by one in horrible ways by the mysterious man who has taken up
residence in the attic.
The police name the seemingly imbalanced Peter, boyfriend of sorority
sister Jess, as a prime suspect in the strange happenings. But is Peter
really the killer and the one behind the calls? It is true that when
Jess tells him of not wanting marriage and of her plans for an abortion
he does not take it very well, but is this motivation for murder?
The police finally decide to put a wiretap on the phone to try to catch
the mysterious obscene caller, only to discover that the calls are
coming from inside the house!
The creepy atmosphere in Black Christmas
is built perfectly to create a sense of the unnerving calm of the dead
of winter, a flawless atmosphere and setting for this seriously
disturbing horror movie. The killer is genuinely creepy and the obscene
calls that he makes will truly disturb you. Black Christmas is frightening from the opening scene right up until the surprising ending.
Black Christmas is really a groundbreaking
movie in the horror industry in terms of the slasher elements and
disturbing sequences. This makes me wonder: If Black Christmas is still so effective today, what were audiences thinking back in 1974? They must have been scared out of their minds! Questions or comments about Black Christmas? Contact us!
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Black Christmas begins with a party at a sorority house to mark
the beginning of Christmas break. While the party is going on, we see
an unknown man (from a first-person viewpoint, ala Halloween) sneak
into the house via the attic. Within minutes he has already claimed his
first victim, Claire (Lynne Griffin) with a very shocking
bag-over-the-head murder before dragging her body to the attic and
putting it right in the window for all to see. The body remains there
for the duration of the film!
We now discover that the sorority has been plagued by obscene calls for
quite some time, and they gradually begin to get weirder and worse with
each occurrence. Meanwhile the sorority sisters are being murdered one
by one in horrible ways by the mysterious man who has taken up
residence in the attic.
The police finally decide to put a wiretap on the phone to try to catch
the mysterious obscene caller, only to discover that the calls are
coming from inside the house!
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