Black Christmas – the 1974 groundbreaking Slasher classic – at the Guild Cinema Saturday, December 4 – 10:30 pm only
Directed by Bob Clark – 1974 – 98m.
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Directed by Bob Clark (A Christmas Story, Porky’s) and featuring a cast worthy of a Christmas miracle (Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Olivia Hussey), this is ground zero for holiday slashers now and forever and ever.
One part frosty X-mas 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, 1968), 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 sub-genre, here anything goes, and the survival of neither virgin nor even final girl comes guaranteed.” – Anton Bitel, Little White Lies
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