One part frosty Xmas atmosphere, one part stalk ‘n’ slash magnificence and all parts awesome, Black Christmas is a timeless, terrifying and demented holiday tradition. Years before he crafted the ultimate comedic yuletime experience A Christmas Story, genre pioneer Bob Clark gave us one of the most influential Hitchcockian slashers of all time. Black Christmas gets *everything* right.

When sorority sisters Olivia Hussey (Romeo & Juliet ’68), Margot Kidder (Superman) and Andrea Martin (SCTV) are under attack from a vicious potty-mouthed killer, it’s up to police chief John Saxon to even the odds. But what about Keir Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey), the brooding art-school pianist? Could he have something to do with the Xmas rampage?

“A pioneering genre film. If you’ve seen a slasher film, almost any slasher film, you’ve likely seen the tropes that Black Christmas created.” – Jason Concepcion, The Ringer

“A well-made excursion into the bloody unknown, driven by characterization and modulated by a tone that knows when to amplify the scares and when to back away from them, usually at the service of a story with the morbid curiosity to investigate further.” – David Keyes, Cinemaphile.org

“Made at a time when there were as yet no fixed rules for the slasher subgenre, here anything goes, and the survival of neither virgin nor even final girl comes guaranteed.” – Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

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