Black Christmas (1974) 4K Restoration
- Today, Dec 21
- Sun, Dec 22
Today, Dec 21 @ 7:30 pm: 4K PresentationSun, Dec 22 @ 7:30 pm: 4K Presentation
Director: Bob Clark Run Time: 98 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1974
Starring: Andrea Martin, John Saxon, Margot Kidder, Marian Waldman, Olivia Hussey
Country: United States
Language: English
Screening as part of the December 2024 Cult 101 lineup. Join us for this month’s Fright Club Live on Friday, Dec 20th.
About the film:
As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb’s friend Claire (Lynne Griffin) goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.
“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 for Little White Lies
About the filmmaker:
Before helming the perennial holiday classic A Christmas Story (1983), award-winning director and screenwriter Bob Clark helped pioneer the slasher genre with the intense 1974 horror film Black Christmas and launched the teen sex comedy craze with the phenomenally popular 1981 film Porky’s. He was also the mind behind Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972), the critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes film Murder by Decree (1979), Berlin Film Festival selection Tribute (1980), the Baby Geniuses films, and Rhinestone (1984), a musical starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.
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