Overview:
As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions...| Status: | Released (1974-10-11) |
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| Awards: | 3 wins & 2 nominations |
| Screen: | Roy Moore |
| Productions: | August Films, Film Funding Ltd. of Canada, Vision IV, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Famous Players |
| Production Countries: | Canada |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 24695: Olivia Hussey - Jess
- 11163: John Saxon - Lt. Fuller
- 8263: Andrea Martin - Phyl
- 12698: Bob Clark - Billy
- 81055: Marian Waldman - Mrs. Mac
- 20011: Margot Kidder - Barb
- 245: Keir Dullea - Peter
Crews
- 12702: Reginald H. Morris - Director of Photography - Camera
- 1122623: Findlay Quinn - Executive Producer - Production
- 12698: Bob Clark - Director - Directing
- 58405: Roy Moore - Screenplay - Writing
- 12698: Bob Clark - Producer - Production
- 1015791: Karen Bromley - Art Direction - Art
- 12703: Stan Cole - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
Wuchak
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***Historical slasher with John Saxon, Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder*** It’s the Christmas season at a sorority house in the Northeast wherein an ambiguous psycho hiding in the attic makes crank calls to the girls and slays them one-by-one. John Saxon plays the local detective. ....
Continue reading ->Dsnake1
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Black Christmas is what happens when a director decides to make a slasher but also decides to make a good movie. Each character has a purpose. By that, I don't mean simply to drive the plot along. Each character is a person, and they each have their own unique personalities and m ....
Continue reading ->Gimly
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One of only two films in my adult life to have been in any way involved in giving me a sense of genuine fear. _Final rating: ★★★½ - I strongly recommend you make the time._
Continue reading ->The Movie Diorama
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Black Christmas decorates traditional festivities with blood, suffocation and disturbing phone calls. Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! And have a slashin’ good time! The slasher sub-genre was most proficient during the mid-to-late 70s, with ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, ‘Halloween’ and a pl ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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I suppose a sorority can be used to host a multitude of characters, so that's what Bob Clark does here as he puts four quite different girls into an house supervised by the likably dypso "Mrs. Mac" (Marian Waldman). The house has, for ages now, being getting crank calls from a guy th ....
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