Synopsis
Black Christmas follows a group of sorority sisters who begin receiving increasingly disturbing and obscene phone calls from an unknown caller during their Christmas holiday. One by one, the girls are brutally murdered by an unseen killer hiding within their own house. The film is widely regarded as a pioneering work that helped establish the slasher genre, influencing countless horror films that followed.
Did You Know?
- Often credited as the first true slasher film ever made.
- The killer's identity is deliberately never revealed in the film.
- Margot Kidder starred just two years before Superman fame.
- Director Bob Clark later made the holiday classic A Christmas Story.
- The film inspired John Carpenter when making Halloween in 1978.
Iconic Quotes
- Agnes, it's me Billy. Don't tell them what we did, Agnes.
- This is Sergeant Nash, have you checked the house thoroughly?
- The calls are coming from inside the house.
- I'm going to kill you.
- Billy is not responding. Billy is in the closet.
