1975’s Black Christmas
(Friday, Oct. 31, 2008)
You want the best spook for Halloween? Try a Christmas movie. Rent Black Christmas — don’t mistake it for 2006’s un-scary/unfunny Black Christmas starring Michelle Trachtenberg, an offensive remake that didn’t retain the original’s classic agenda of blood ‘n’ kitsch, like, at all. Considered to be the very first slasher flick, it’s got “cult” written all over it -- the formula includes: crank dialer, aka “The Moaner” + sorority house + sorority girls getting offed while Christmas carolers drown out the screaming. Nevermind that there’s a surprise pregnancy on the side (which by the looks of the father-to-be smashing a piano, we surmise that the baby is unwanted); the best death is the one that’s on the DVD cover: a sorority girl in a rocking chair with a plastic bag over her screaming face. Above that, it says: “If this picture doesn’t make your skin crawl … it’s on TOO TIGHT.”
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