Black Christmas
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Black Christmas 1974

★★★★½

Watched 22 Dec 2023

Chilling.

That’s the best way I can describe this Christmas movie. And not because it’s cold.

I figured I only had enough time to watch one Black Christmas movie and I wasn’t going to choose the ugly 2006 one or the embarrassment that was the 2019 one.

This is 1974. Four years before Carpenter’s Halloween. It is, SO GOD DAMN IMPRESSIVE how this movie looks. How low budget yet effective it is.

The characters aren’t cheesy or over the top. They come across as realistic as all fudge! And such an impressive cast from Margot Kidder (freaking Lois Lane herself) to John Saxon.

The way the movie’s shot works in making you feel creeped out. With a killer hiding out inside the very house they’re living in, with constantly showing the body of the first victim, with the disturbing moaning voice from the phone calls.

And what makes this slasher more effective: We never find out who he is or what his motives are. It’s left as an open case, and I love that!

Merry Christmas everybody.

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