What do Black Christmas and Silent Night, Bloody Night have in common?
Blurry first-person Pov? Check. Mouth-breathing killer? Double check. Creepy phone calls? Triple Check. In both Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974) and Theodore Gershuny’s Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), an unknown killer stalks their victims around the Christmas season, both striking terror and intrigue. Each entry succeeds to varying degrees in balancing cheer and fear; one becoming a holiday classic and the other a largely-forgotten gem. As a slasherific double feature, this holiday season brings a little goodwill and a whole lotta torture.
Gene Siskel once called Black Christmas a “routine shocker,” giving it a measly 1.5 out of 4 stars. That’s a paltry review for a tightly-wound and tense proto-slasher that helped catapult the slasher genre into the limelight. It might have come four years before Halloween, but it does many of the same things and in some ways,...
Blurry first-person Pov? Check. Mouth-breathing killer? Double check. Creepy phone calls? Triple Check. In both Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974) and Theodore Gershuny’s Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), an unknown killer stalks their victims around the Christmas season, both striking terror and intrigue. Each entry succeeds to varying degrees in balancing cheer and fear; one becoming a holiday classic and the other a largely-forgotten gem. As a slasherific double feature, this holiday season brings a little goodwill and a whole lotta torture.
Gene Siskel once called Black Christmas a “routine shocker,” giving it a measly 1.5 out of 4 stars. That’s a paltry review for a tightly-wound and tense proto-slasher that helped catapult the slasher genre into the limelight. It might have come four years before Halloween, but it does many of the same things and in some ways,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Bee Delores
- bloody-disgusting.com
Throughout the month of December, we will be highlighting a film a day that has some tie into the holiday somehow. Some titles will be obvious, others won’t be. Some films will be good and, again, others won’t be. However, we think all titles are worth your time whether to give you chills inside your home or to make you drink more eggnog until you puke laughing.
Finals are over and the sorority house is starting to clear out. After a party one of the new pledges, Clare (Lynne Griffin), goes missing. And Jess (Olivia Hussey) reveals to her boyfreind, Peter (Keir Dullea), that she’s pregnant. He’s delighted but Jess has no plans to carry the baby to term. When Clare’s father (James Edmond) shows up the next morning they contact the police, who aren’t too concerned. And with all that going on there...
Finals are over and the sorority house is starting to clear out. After a party one of the new pledges, Clare (Lynne Griffin), goes missing. And Jess (Olivia Hussey) reveals to her boyfreind, Peter (Keir Dullea), that she’s pregnant. He’s delighted but Jess has no plans to carry the baby to term. When Clare’s father (James Edmond) shows up the next morning they contact the police, who aren’t too concerned. And with all that going on there...
- 12/21/2014
- by Jeremy Jones
- Destroy the Brain
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