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Black Christmas
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1974 film directed by Bob Clark
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7.0As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
Cast
- Olivia Hussey as Jess
- Keir Dullea as Peter
- Margot Kidder as Barb
- John Saxon as Lt. Fuller
- Marian Waldman as Mrs. Mac
- Andrea Martin as Phyl
Themes
- winter
- pregnancy
- toronto, canada
- murder
- serial killer
- slasher
- police officer
- killer
- alcoholic
- attic
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
55,485 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
73%
Metacritic
65/100
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Bob Clark
- Written by
- Roy Moore
- Produced by
- Bob Clark
- Starring
- Olivia Hussey Keir Dullea Margot Kidder John Saxon
- Cinematography
- Reginald H. Morris
- Edited by
- Stan Cole
- Music by
- Carl Zittrer
- Production companies
- Film Funding Ltd. Vision IV Canadian Film Development Corporation Famous Players
- Distributed by
- Ambassador Film Distributors (Canada) Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
- Release date
- October 11, 1974 ( 1974-10-11 )
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $686,000
- Box office
- $4 million
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by Roy Moore. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are eventually stalked and murdered by a killer during the Christmas season.
Inspired by the urban legend "the babysitter and the man upstairs" and a series of murders that took place in the Westmount neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Moore wrote the screenplay under the title Stop Me. The filmmakers made numerous alterations to the script, primarily the shifting to a university setting with young adult characters. It was shot in Toronto in 1974 on an estimated budget of $686,000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black Christmas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.