Cover Revealed for Definitive BLACK CHRISTMAS Retrospective, IT’S ME BILLY!
IT S ME BILLY: BLACK CHRISTMAS REVISITED will be a definitive retrospective of Bob Clark s seminal slasher. By Josh Millican
Authors Paul Downey and Dave Hastings are busy working on a brand-new definitive book chronicling the making of Bob Clark’s seminal 1974 Christmas slasher film, in the forthcoming
It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited, which will be published through Bear Manor Media in 2022.
Gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary and being acclaimed by critics around the world as well as fans,
Black Christmas has never been granted the more mainstream attention given to films it helped inspire (like John Carpenter’s
Black Christmas Getting Definitive Behind-the-Scenes Book
A Christmas Story, but nearly a decade earlier, he delivered audiences the seminal slasher film
Black Christmas, which is getting an all-new book that dives deep into how that project came to life. Many audiences consider John Carpenter s
Halloween as the film that helped popularize the slasher subgenre, but devout fans know just how important and influential Clark s 1974 film remains, which has since gone on to earn remakes in both 2006 with
Black Xmas and in 2019.
It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited is expected to hit shelves in 2022.
The book is described, Featuring brand-new & archive interviews brought together for the first time ever with cast/crew, new academic insights into the film’s themes & visuals, as well as investigating the 50-year legacy of the film including in-depth explorations of the characters, the journey from concept to release, the fandom, the controversies, and the numerous re