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 centres on chilling events around a busy sorority house during the festive season, where a group of girls along with their boozy house mother become the prey of a disturbed prowler who places regular obscene phone calls. Veteran character actress Lynne Griffin portrayed the unfortunate first victim Clare Harrison. “At that point in my life I did play a lot of very sweet and straight, virginal
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