As far as time line goes, I think this one is the oldest I have watched yet. This is what happens when you take an “Urban Legend” and make a movie about it.
#15 Black Christmas
What does that even mean?
When I first heard about this movie, I couldn’t have been more excited to see it. I love horror movies (obviously) and hearing that it was Directed by the same guy (Bob Clark) that did “A Christmas Story”… my jaw dropped. This had to be a great movie, for more than a few reasons. Margo Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Superman movies, and John Saxon that played Roper in Enter the Dragon (and Deaney in Mitchell) were among some of the “stars” in this film. The movie revolves around a sorority house that is terrorized at Christmas time by a rash of obscene phone calls. Then one of the sisters disappears, then another, and another… Each time a murder is committed another phone call, and more crazy voices on the other end. The movie is only about an hour and thirty minutes but it felt like forever. The story drags on forever, and the characters aren’t interesting at all. By the time it ended I was completely bored with it. Oh and did I mention they made the entire movie based around the ol’ “The calls are coming from inside the house.” deal, because, yeah it was. If you couldn’t predict the stinger at the end, you haven’t watched enough horror movies. All in all, I was disappointed all the way around with this one. Though now I need to hunt down the remake they did a couple years ago just to see how bad THAT movie can be. Fudge!
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