Black Christmas (1974 film)

Black Christmas former titles include Silent Night, Evil Night and Stranger in the House is a 1974 Canadian independent psychological slasher 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. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who are receiving threatening phone calls, while being stalked and murdered during the holiday season by a deranged murderer hiding in the attic of their sorority house.

A disoriented man climbs up into the attic of a sorority house while the occupants hold a Christmas party. Jess Bradford Olivia Hussey receives an obscene phone call from the moaner, a man who has recently been calling the house. After she calls sorority friends Barb Coard Margot Kidder, Phyllis Phyl Carlson Andrea Martin, Clare Harrison Lynne Griffin and the several other girls to listen, he starts saying perverted things to them, until Barb provokes the caller, to which he replies, IM GOING TO KILL YOU. Barb and Clare argue about the things she said to him, and Clare leaves. She is then attacked and killed with plastic wrapping her body is carried up into the attic, where the killer places her in a rocking chair and puts a doll in her lap.The next day, Clares father arrives to take her home for the holidays. The housemother, Mrs. Mac Marian Waldman, cannot help him, and neither can Phyl or Barb. Meanwhile, Jess meets her boyfriend, Peter Smythe Keir Dullea, a neurotic aspiring pianist, at the piano recital hall to inform him that she is pregnant and wants to have an abortion. Peter is upset and urges her to discuss the situation with him but she refuses. Elsewhere, Mr. Harrison, Barb, and Phyl go to the police to report Clares disappearance. ........

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