Episode 37: Black Christmas

Happy Horror for the Holidays! Joining us is a frequent guest and fabulous human being Laura Ray!

In this episode, we look at the 1974 Canadian Holiday Slasher Black Christmas. Directed by Bob Clark, and written by A. Roy Moore. Starring  Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman, Lynne Griffin, and John Saxon.

Trigger Warnings: Stabbing, Suffocation, Acholisism, Obscene Phone Calls, Rape, Stalking

Cocktail:

The Ho Ho Ho Fuck
Make your favorite hot chocolate
Add 1 Shot Butterscotch schnapps
1 Shot Whipped Cream Vodka
Stir
Top with Whipped Cream

Recommendations:

Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Directed by Curtis Harrington 
Original story by David D. Osborn
Screenplay by Robert Blees and Jimmy Sangster
Starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester,Chloe Franks, and Sir Ralph Richardson
Is a 1971 horrorthriller film based partly on the fairy taleHansel and Gretel“, the film focuses on a demented American widow living in her husband’s English manor, who becomes obsessed with a young orphan girl who resembles her dead daughter.

All I Want For Christmas (1991)
Directed by Robert Lieberman
Screenplay by Thom Eberhardt and Richard Kramer
Starring Harley Jane Kozak, Lauren Bacall, Thora Birch, Ethan Randall, and Leslie Nielsen
A brother and sister attempt to bring their divorced parents back together for Christmas.

Black Christmas (2019)
Directed by Sophia Takal
Written by Sophia Takal and April Wolfe
Starring Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, and Cary Elwes.
A group of female students is stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy. 

When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Directed by Fred Walton
Written by Fred Walton and Steve Feke
Starring Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda. 
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

It Follows (2014)
Written and Directed by David Robert Mitchell
Starring Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

Links:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/568067/black-christmas-horror-movie-facts 
https://medium.com/@wewillbethestars/women-in-horror-series-black-christmas-92b50051a9fc
https://film.avclub.com/black-christmas-reminds-us-that-nothing-is-sacred-1798275044

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