Black Christmas (1974)

"A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break."

What can I possibly say about the late Bob Clark's Canadian horror classic which you haven't already heard before? Well, you haven't read my review of it yet for one thing so here it is.

Just to be seasonal, since this is the middle of Summer, I decided to actually watch "Black Christmas" all the way through for the first time ever. I've watched it in instalments many times before but either I fell asleep or just got bored with it and switched it off only to return to it far too late to notice any problems with the pacing or flow of the story.

This time I forced myself to examine every detail of the film as much as my attention span would allow. I've always considered "Black Christmas" to be overrated but I never really assessed by how much or how little until tonight. I'm sure that you've all watched this film too by now (and some of you are a lot more familiar with it than me) so due to necessity I'm going to give a few spoilers.