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Summary: CHILLING!!
Review: I guess it is my job to recomend the good horror films from the bad. This is one of the good, no GREAT horror films. Now I know what you are thinking "Oh it's just another slasher flick," not at all! This is and exceptionally scary and disturbing movie and ranks as ONE OF THE SCARIEST MOVIES EVER MADE! I won't spoil any details for you, but I garantee that you will not regret purchasing this gem of a horror film. This isn't just a film, it is an experience! You must buy Black Christmas Now!!
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Summary: old scary horror
Review: some older movies can be really cheesy this one however, was freaky.....i just can't believe how it ended......
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Summary: This Is The Edition To Get! Ignore The 25th Anniversary Ed.
Review: This is the Critical Mass Collector's Edition of Black Christmas, released December 03, 2002. It's an update to their previous release, the 25th Anniversary Edition, and is available only in Canada. It is a dramatic improvement over that edition, featuring a brand new 1.66:1 widescreen transfer (though not anamorphic, alas), and a plethora of new extras including a 36 minute documentary, 2 audio commentaries, the complete script (!), poster galleries, still galleries, reversible cover art, TV spots, radio spots, interviews with principal cast members (including John Saxon) theatrical trailers, and alternate title sequences.This is the version to get. Ignore all others and order this.
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Summary: GREAT but not the 1st slasher
Review: Psycho (1960) is actually the first REAL slasher film, and was followed by superior and scarier slashers such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, BLACK CHRISTMAS, Halloween, The Boogeyman, The Fog, and Nightmare on Elm Street. This is VERY SCARY, and it is easily one of the all time scariest movies ever made! This is great. If you happen to find it, BUT or Rent it. WATCH IT ALONE IN THE DARK!!!
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Summary: Scary??...yes.....Overrated?..yes!.....but u decide.
Review: Listen here goes, Black Christmas is without a doubt a landmark movie, after seeing it u will realize how many movies including Halloween copied it. My major downfall with this film is that it is way to slow,,I mean real slow, I do not think it is a top-notch horror flick, and I despise these new genre of horror/comedy films like Scream,etc... I do think I need to watch it again and then maybe my review will be different. It does have some scary parts but I just thought the killing of the women could be more of the focus in the movie, way to much soap opera like B.S.,,,,check it out ur self..u decide.
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Summary: Hel-loo ? Hel-loo ?
Review: If you've seen this movie, you should know what the title is a reference to. For those of you who haven't, it is exactly how the heroine of this movie answers the phone.
And phone-answering plays a pretty important part in this movie. Black Christmas was the very first slasher film, made all the way back in 1974. While it may not be the precise blueprint for all subsequent slasher movies to follow ( Halloween comes closer to this. It had a chain of sequels, too, which is an important part of any slasher movie franchise ). Black Christmas, while it may not be terrifying, is a neat, tight little gem. Its game is mainly suspense, with only a few smears of blood to scare us with otherwise... and those obscene telephone calls the girls keep getting. If you like horror movies, check Black Christmas out. I think it's telling when almost everyone who remembers this movie remembers it fondly... and with goosebumps rippling up and down their arms. As a matter of fact, the cashier at the video store where I checked this movie out at said, upon looking at my selection, "Oh! Black Christmas! This was the first horror movie I ever saw and it is *so scary*!"
I couldn't have put it better myself.
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Summary: A SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS....
Review: I first saw this back in the eighties on late nite cable and it stayed with me for days afterward. Nobody saw it but me and apparently no one I've ever met has seen it since then. That's a sad thing because this is the best movie of it's kind out there. And it's out there...I've seen copies here and there. In fact, that's how I found it on Dvd...just digging around "out there". I am so pleased that it's a clear transfer---sound and all---because it deserves to be discovered. Directed by Bob Clark (who later trashed his career with the "Porky's" series) the film shows what a capable director he is and that he knows how to make a scary movie. Perfectly cast and well acted, this sleeper pulls no punches in it's depiction of an unknown maniac terrorizing 3 sorority sisters stuck in their house during the Christmas holidays ...alone. Or are they? They are menaced by some of the most terrifying and bizarre phone calls I've ever heard in this type of film. The atmosphere is heavy with cold and snow (you can FEEL it) and even the Christmas lights look forlorn and dreary. The carolers that come to bring songs are interrupted and sent home because of the news of a murder in the park behind them---further isolating the girls from the outside. But the worst is yet to come as they begin to realize how sick the caller is and that he's closer than they think. Moments of humor do not distract from or diminish the terror that engulfs the girls as well as the audience as the film builds to a crescendo and then ends on a frustrating note. At least I found it frustrating because you come to care about the girls (especially the lead, Jess) and want everything to wrap up OK. I recommend this to anyone who likes a truly frightening movie. But don't watch it with anyone who scares easily....
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Summary: black christmas
Review: I saw Black Christmas for the first time on a little b/w Tv which made it all the more scarrier, now its on dvd not a lot of extras just the movie and its well worth the wait. This was
Bob Clarks (Porkys) first movie he directed and done very well, it leaves you guessing right till the very end. I dont want to give away the ending.
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Summary: No great extra but a great movie
Review: ***Contains Minor Spoilers***
The third of director Bob Clark's three horror movie's he directed in the 70's(Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things & Deathdream aka The Night Andy Came Home) and one of the best slasher's ever made. In my opinion Deathdream is slightly better but Black Christmas is right next to it. While a lot of people compare this with Halloween the two are like night and day. Clark brings a feeling of dead so thick you can cut through it with a knife. While Michael Myers is thouroughly explain in Halloween the killer is Black Christmas is a total mystery. Who is he? Where did he come from? While Myers never talked here the killer expains in phone calls to the victims how completely crazy he is. Most people don't get the ending but remember the phone rings after each murder.
The extras are nothing to speak of: a short interview with John Saxton, short filmographies of the main players, & a very good film trailer. The remastering is very good, I noticed very little grain and excellent sound(something extreamly important in this type of movie).
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Summary: Scary and smart
Review: It was the best horror movie I have ever seen that took place during the holidays. It was smart the way the keep you on they edge of your seat. They keep the killer extremely anonymous throughout the whole movie. They should of went into more detail about the killer. Most of the people I know that saw it said it was the scariest movie ever made. If you like horror movies you would like this a lot.
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