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Black Christmas
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1974 film directed by Bob Clark
OverviewAI-generated
Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian horror film directed by Bob Clark, who also served as producer. The cast includes Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon. Distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the movie was released on October 11, 1974, with subsequent releases in December 1974 and 1975. It is set in North America during the 1970s Christmas holiday season and deals with home invasion and abortion.
The film has a runtime of 98 minutes and was produced by August Films, Film Funding Ltd. of Canada, Vision IV, Canadian Film Development Corporation, and Famous Players. Its budget was $686,000, generating $4,000,000 in revenue. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.1 from 55,485 votes, a Rotten Tomatoes score of 73%, and a Metacritic score of 65/100. The work is rated R and has won three awards with two nominations.
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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
via OMDb · IMDb
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- Christmas film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- abortion
- Director
- Bob Clark
- Cast member
- Leslie Carlson
- Producer
- Bob Clark
- Narrative location
- North America
- Duration
- 98
- FilmAffinity ID
- 277358
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Black Christmas (1974) logo.png
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- publication date
- 1980-12-04
- title
- Black Christmas
- distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- derivative work
- Black Christmas
- set in period
- 1970s
- set during recurring event
- Christmas and holiday season
- review score
- 71%
- Commons category
- Black Christmas (1974 film)
- different from
- Black Christmas
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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.