Black Christmas (1974 Film)

Black Christmas (1974 Film)

Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian horror film directed by Bob Clark and written by A. Roy Moore. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman and John Saxon. It follows a group of college students who must face a deranged serial killer lurking in their sorority house. The movie was inspired by an urban legend called "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs", but was also largely based on a series of murders that took place in Quebec, Canada around Christmas time. It is generally considered to be one of the first slasher films.

A remake of the same name, produced by Clark, was released on 25 December 2006.

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