Holiday movies are sentimental and uplifting, but surprisingly devoid of knife murders. BLACK CHRISTMAS—one of the most influential Hitchcockian slashers of all time—is here to help. When sorority sisters Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder (SUPERMAN), and Andrea Martin find themselves under attack from a foul-mouthed killer, it’s up to police chief John Saxon (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET) 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 mutilation rampage? BLACK CHRISTMAS is a terrifying and demented holiday tradition that gets everything right. We’d expect nothing less from Bob Clark, the pioneering director of A CHRISTMAS STORY.

“It would be another four years before John Carpenter made Halloween, very much under the influence of Black Christmas. Clark and his screenwriter A Ray Moore had only Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, the ’60s urban myth of the babysitter and the man upstairs, and Italy’s gialli, to guide them in their invention of the tropes that would come to dominate the horror landscape of the late ’70s and ’80s.” ~ Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

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