Flashback: Black Christmas - SciFiNow - The World's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Magazine
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 calls are actually coming from inside the house. Clark’s imaginative take on the story ce...
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