Saturday, October 18, 2008

Black Christmas (1974)

originally posted on AOL Blogs, Wednesday, December 7, 2005
revised Thursday, November 1, 2018


Released December 20th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story: A group of women college students living in a sorority house is having a small night before the party , as the start of their Christmas break.
The phone never seems to stop ringing and when one of the girls answers the phone she listens on as a prankster rambles some really harsh things but makes no sense.
The girls think nothing much of the prank and some even poke fun then go on with the party.
No one knows it but the prankster is now closer than any of them think and he is definitely not sane or gentle.
One of the girls decides to head to her room for an early night because she must get up and help out tomorrow with some local children at a Christmas party, then she is to meet with her father.
The next morning the girls' father is in the place they had decided to meet but she never shows up.
Her father asks around and finds out where the house is that his daughter lives.
So he visits the house but finds his daughter is not there either and that no one has seen her since last night just before she went to her room.
In the midst of all of this commotion, the prankster is still calling the house and saying some really off the wall things to whoever picks up the telephone.
So the missing girls' father decides, along with her boyfriend and a friend from the house to go on over to the police station and make a report that she is missing.
They find out that a young girl had been murdered the night before in a nearby park.

Now everyone is looking for a murderer on the loose in the small town , all on Christmas day.
Stars Olivia Hussey , Margot Kidder , Lynne Griffin , Andrea Martin , Martha Gibson , Keir Dullea , James Edmond , John Rutter , John Saxon , Art Hindle , Michael Rapport
Directed by Bob Clark
Rated R
THRILLER/HORROR

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