At the police station, they learn that a high school girl, Janice Quaife, has also vanished.Īfter putting a drunken Barb to bed, Mr.
Harrison, Barb, and Phyl attempt to report Clare as missing to Sergeant Nash, who doesn’t take them seriously. This angers Peter, and he forces her to continue this discussion later that night. Later that day, Jess goes to a conservatory to meet her boyfriend, Peter, and explains to him that she is pregnant and planning to get an abortion. MacHenry assumes Clare went to the fraternity house for a party, and helps Mr. The following morning, Clare's father arrives to take her home for Christmas break, but she fails to show up. As the party wraps up, the killer carries Clare’s body into the attic and places her into a rocking chair by the attic window. As Clare packs her things upstairs, she fails to notice the intruder hiding behind a plastic dress bag Clare eventually hears the cat meowing from the closet and slowly approaches it, only to be suffocated with a plastic dress bag. MacHenry, the housemother, arrives and is immediately given a negligee by the girls. A younger student, Clare Harrison, suggests that the caller could be a rapist before returning to her bedroom to pack her suitcase. The girls are initially startled by the caller, but Barb, an inebriated student, insults the caller after a moment of bickering, the caller threatens to kill them in sudden low tone.
Jess calls the other sorority girls and they listen as the caller rants, moans, and screams in strange voices. The house phone rings, and Jess Bradford answers to discover it is an obscene phone call from a person who has called before known as "The Moaner". 7.4 It's Me, Billy: A Black Christmas Fan FilmĪn unseen man climbs the exterior of a sorority house, where a Christmas party is being held, and enters the attic.7.2 It's Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited.The film has since received retroactive recognition and has been regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made. It is the first film in the Black Christmas series, being followed by two remakes in 20. Aside from its earning a cult following since its release, a novelization written by Lee Hays was published in 1976. It is also praised for its influence on John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). Upon its release, Black Christmas received mixed reviews, but it has since received critical re-appraisal, with film historians noting it for being one of the earliest slasher films.
It was shot in Toronto in 1974 on an estimated budget of $620,000, and was distributed by Warner Bros. The filmmakers made numerous alterations to the script, primarily the shifting to a university setting with young adult characters.
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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 story follows a group of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are eventually stalked and murdered by a deranged killer during the Christmas season. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman, Lynne Griffin and John Saxon. Black Christmas (originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by A.
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