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Nearly a decade before he made ‘A Christmas Story,’ Bob Clark turned a horror movie about an unsuspecting group of sorority sisters and a mysterious killer lurking in their attic into a different kind of holiday classic.

Halloween by four years, Bob Clark’s 1974 seminal slasher Black Christmas, with its prowling unseen perpetrator’s point-of-view camera moves and creepy predominantly housebound premise, arguablay set the standard for the horror subgenre. Of course, it’s loosely based on the old urban legend of ‘the babysitter and the man upstairs’, concerning a sitter who receives disturbing phone calls from a stalker who insists that she “check the children”, only for it to later emerge that the...