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| Genre | horror movie, thriller movie, holiday movie, top Me, Christmas movie, Black Xmas, DVD Movie, movie night, Blu-ray Movie, sorority slasher, Christmas slasher, Silent Night, Evil Night, Noel tragique, Stranger in the House See more |
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| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 38 minutes |
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The college town of Bedford is receiving an unwelcome guest this Christmas. As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to stalk the house. A series of obscene phone calls start to plague the sorority and it becomes clear that a psychopath has more than merriment on his mind. As the police try to trace the phone calls, they discover that nothing is as it seems during this Black Christmas.
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- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Package Dimensions : 6.73 x 5.47 x 0.55 inches; 4.48 Ounces
- Director : Various
- Media Format : 4K, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes
- Release date : December 6, 2022
- Actors : Various
- Studio : SHOUT! FACTORY
- ASIN : B0BG9HNF9T
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #205 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #106 in Blu-ray
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It’s hard to believe the same man directed both the self-deprecatingly nostalgic A Christmas Story and Black Christmas, a twisted little shocker (based loosely on an urban legend) about an anonymous killer who infiltrates a sparsely inhabited sorority house at Yuletide. The two films could hardly be farther apart on the Christmas-spirit spectrum. But then Bob Clark was a dedicated craftsman who preferred to adapt his style to the subject matter at hand. He began his career as a regional horror filmmaker in Florida - his debut "gendertwist" She-Male is a bizzaro classic. Clark then churned out in quick succession the wonderful titled Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things and Deathdream (on Blue Underground), a scathing Vietnam-era zombie version of “The Monkey’s Paw,” before emigrating to Canada and taking on a script then entitled The Babysitter. Clark extensively reworked the scenario, altered the location, and added in substantial amounts of very black humor.
Black Christmas just may be the perfect antidote to the saccharine sweetness of most Christmastime fare. It’s perhaps best described, in the pungent phraseology of Burt Lancaster’s dictatorial columnist from Sweet Smell of Success, as “a cookie full of arsenic”: Over the course of the film’s charity Christmas party, children are encouraged to knock back alcoholic beverages, and Santa’s cheerless greeting is “Ho, ho, f***.” Later on, the sorority’s resident vamp regales a dinner party with tales of animal sexual behavior. The vein of vulgar humor running through Black Christmas provides an unexpected link with another Bob Clark film, the archetypal teen sex comedy Porky’s. But the humor here is far less good-natured, and the gags never work to defuse the mounting tension, even if they occasionally threaten to derail the narrative, like the protracted “fellatio exchange” routine.
Clark takes the time and trouble to establish his location and fully flesh out his characters before bumping them off. What’s more, these characters are refreshingly complex individuals who do and say unexpected things. Clark’s abetted immeasurably by a strong cast of up-and-comers, blending fledgling stars like Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and Keir Dullea with faces that would soon become familiar from the films of David Cronenberg (particularly Art Hindle and Les Carlson). The film’s sexual politics are also surprisingly progressive: Jess (Hussey) is a strong-willed, independent heroine, who speaks openly and honestly about finding herself pregnant out of wedlock, not wanting to keep the baby, and being unashamed of wanting what she wants. In any other slasher film, either she or Kidder’s brazen hussy would be first on the chopping block, but Black Christmas takes out its chirrupy virgin first.
Black Christmas lays much of the groundwork for the holiday-themed slasher cycle that came into its own four years later with Halloween. (Clark says he gave John Carpenter the basic scenario and even the title for Halloween while sketching out a hypothetical sequel to his film.) Both films open with a faceless killer prowling outside a house, the camera unsettlingly adopting his subjective POV. Clark uses this technique throughout (and to more radical effect) because ultimately his killer is never clearly seen, and his identity is never revealed. The prowler (per the credits) or “Billy”—as he perhaps names himself in a series of disturbingly obscene calls to the sorority girls—is far from the unstoppable boogeyman that Michael Myers represents. He’s an all-too-human killer with unclear, if clearly disturbed, motivations.
Both Halloween and Black Christmas conclude on an ambiguous note of irresolute resolution. Seemingly dead, Michael’s body suddenly disappears, signifying perhaps the indestructibility of pure evil but certainly paving the way for an eventual sequel. Black Christmas’s ending is much more unsettling, as the blame for the killer’s crimes rests firmly on the wrong shoulders, its heroine out cold and completely helpless. And then the camera executes a leisurely dolly back down the hallway, peeking into the rooms where the various sisters met their ends, winding up at the hatchway to the attic as it slowly creaks open. And so we’re left utterly clueless as to what might happen next, once that phone starts endlessly ringing again.
Image/Sound
This two-disc edition of Black Christmas offers two very different viewing options: The first Blu-ray presents a new 2K scan of the film negative in Bob Clark’s preferred 1.85:1 aspect ratio, while the second Blu-ray contains the 2006 “Critical Mass HD transfer” in 1.78:1. The 2K scan looks brighter and reveals increased clarity and fine detail, with a far more natural color palette. The 2006 transfer is noisier, darker, and murkier. Both transfers show speckling and a few vertical scratches in the final reels.
On the sonic side, things get a little messy. The Critical Mass transfer comes with only a lossy Dolby surround track. The 2K scan boasts three audio tracks—and they all have issues. The mono mix sounds more akin to the theatrical presentation but was apparently sourced from a 35mm film print that’s distractingly marred by sibilant hiss and lots of distortion. Both the surround and stereo tracks are more robust (with real depth to some of the ambient music and effects in 5.1), but both “sweeten” the mix with beefed-up sound effects and amped-up musical stings. Nevertheless, all three tracks do right by Carl Zittrer’s creepy atonal score for prepared piano. Optional English subtitles are provided.
Extras
Shout! Factory culls virtually every supplement from prior DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film, yielding over five hours’ worth of bonus features, including two new interviews with actors Art Hindle and Lynne Griffin—not to mention three separate commentary tracks. What emerges as you excavate your way through the various strata of supplements is an archeological record replete with overlapping anecdotes as well as nuggets of new insight, stretching back to almost two hours of raw interview footage with Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Art Hindle, John Saxon, and Bob Clark. (Cream of the crop: Kidder confiding, before cackling delightedly, “What a blur it all was!”) Highlights among the extras include pieces on the film’s legacy, the “On Screen!” episode, and the “Revisited” featurette. What’s more, the commentary with Nick Mancuso in character as “Billy” should provide some choice background chatter for your next Christmas party.
Highly recommend!
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I consider myself a horror buff but this title for whatever reason has eluded me and I'm seeing it for the first time,(though if i review i watch the movie fresh anyhow) so I miss out on the effect it might have had on me as a younger kid. Most horror films that are the scariest to us I believe stems from what we saw at a young and impressionable age, when our imaginations were at their peak. However seeing this at 29 years old it still is a terrifying movie. For me the part that grabbed me is when the older woman in charge of the girls says goodbye as they are going off with a search party leaving the old woman alone. As viewers we know who is in that house, and I for a moment thought of any late ominous night i had said goodbye to friends and was alone, leaves you with an eerie feeling. In this horror film the killer isn't trying to get in to get you, he's already there so for us the scary part isn't don't go in the woods or who would go there it is when someone goes to bed, or friends leave then we feel the terror, I think we can relate to that terror. For example think back to when your a child and you saw a horror movie, you really wanted to, you told your parents it's fine and it was. Now it's dark out, soon it will be bedtime and we can't get those horror movie images out of our heads and we panic. Maybe we have some friends over for a sleep over and we watch horror films all night, no big deal, then the next night there gone and were alone now those movies are scary, or even if it's daytime and we have to go into the basement alone to do laundry, maybe we sing aloud la la la calmly walking to put the laundry in then as if were tricking said ghosts we bolt for the upstairs. That's the brief familiar feeling i got when they left for the search party leaving that woman in the house alone, that is where the movie for me got freaky and then didn't let up.
Some have pointed out how Halloween got some of it's ideas from Black Christmas, and that Halloween not Black Christmas is considered such a classic. I would agree Black Christmas could've very well influenced Halloween, but i wouldn't say steal, Halloween is a classic and deservedly so and Black Christmas in any horror forum or discussion is also considered one by most. However i would like to point out a movie i felt did directly take from this that i have not heard mentioned, When a Stranger Calls (1979). Creepy phone calls, a traced call from police, and calls are coming from a second line in the house. I mean now that is pretty specific, almost makes me like When a Stranger Calls less.
Also some things i thought noteworthy, the calls that come are very freaky the voice is reminiscent of the voices Regan would make from The Exorcist in one of her devilish outbursts. Olivia Hussey is one of the sexiest sleepers. The ending is top notch as well. The only hole i wanted to say something about was the fact this guy is on a phone line upstairs screaming but nobody hears him in the house, however the good heavily outweighs the bad, this is a great horror film with good character development, this movie could even spark up a pro life debate.
The real horror is that Bob Clark and his son were killed by a drunk driver earlier this year April 4, 2007. R.I.P
DVD
Special edition dvd
2 hours of new bonus material
Supervised by uberfan Dan Duffin, Creator of the [...] Website
-Digitally re-mastered anamorphic video and newly created 5.1 surround stereo audio
-Two original scenes with a new vocal soundtrack that were recently uncovered
-"The 12 days of black Christmas", an all new documentary featuring current interviews with Art Hindle, Doug McGrath and Lynne Griffin among others.
-Separate interview segments with Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder
-Midnight Screening Q&A session with John Saxon, Bob Clark, & Carl Zitter
-Animated menus
** Black Christmas is ranked # 87 on Bravos scariest movie moments and When A Stranger Calls # 28, personally they should switch **
Movie 4.5 B +
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As per the movie itself - great movie, highly recommend if like me you like the origins of the slasher subgenre. Just don't buy this blu ray to watch it. Prime video has a hi def digital copy.
As a shocker it is 100% original, it pre dates both Halloween and Friday the 13th yet hardly anyone seems to have heard of it and even fewer people seem to be aware the effects it had on its far more illustrious and in my opinion slightly inferior shocker relatives.
The cast are excellent John "B movie king" Saxon, Margot Kidder and Olivia Hussey are all standouts. Black Christmas will make you laugh, shudder and jump in equal measures. If you are a fan of ground breaking, CGI free original and pure horror this is the perfect film for you. After being at the upper end pricewise it has come down significantly in price. So buy now to avoid disappointment but only if you enjoy being scared.

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