Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Canada | English w/optional Eng subs | 98min
Cast: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Andrea Martin, Art Hindle
As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls.
Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly.
Soon, one of the girls goes missing from the sorority house, and then a local teen is found dead, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose.
But no one realizes just how near the culprit really is.
Nearly half a century later Black Christmas is still an effective festive horror. And Margot Kidder is fantastic as the damaged Barb.
It's a rarity of the genre it helped create - a slasher with enough intelligence to wind up the tension between bloody outbursts.
Black Christmas offers fiendishly enjoyable holiday viewing for genre fans.
aka: Silent Night, Evil Night, & Stranger in the House.