Director Bob Clark’s brace of Christmas movies are hugely influential. This bleak Canadian horror movie set the slasher movie template a thousand imitators would follow, right down to setting the terror during key holiday periods. Clark’s A Christmas Story from 1983 is one of the most cherished seasonal movies and directly influenced The Wonder Years.
An attractive cast includes Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder and Art Hindle, but Black Christmas’ atmosphere of dread and a dank winter chill is what lingers most.
And there are multiple theories on who is the movie’s killer. Whoever it was, they should have put the dreadful 2006 remake on their list.
