Synopsis
If this movie doesn’t make your skin crawl, it’s on too tight!
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Olivia Hussey John Saxon Andrea Martin Bob Clark Marian Waldman Margot Kidder Keir Dullea James Edmond Doug McGrath Lynne Griffin Art Hindle Michael Rapport Leslie Carlson Martha Gibson John Rutter Robert Warner Sydney Brown Jack Van Evera Les Rubie Marcia Diamond Pam Barney Robert Hawkins David Clement Dave Mann John Stoneham Sr. Danny Gain Tom Foreman
August Films Film Funding Ltd. of Canada Vision IV Canadian Film Development Corporation Famous Players
Navidades negras, Silent Night Evil Night, Stranger in the House, Jessy - Die Treppe in den Tod, Fekete karácsony, Kurayami ni beru ga naru, Stilla natt, blodiga natt, Noite do Terror, Navidad sangrienta, La residencia macabra, Noël tragique, Det er morderen som ringer, Natal Negro, Black Christmas (Un Natale rosso sangue), Черное Рождество, Černé Vánoce, חג מולד שחור, 블랙 크리스마스, Crăciunul negru, Черната Коледа, Чорне Різдво, Residencia macabra, Czarne święta, 黑色圣诞节, Crni Božić, Musta joulu, 暗闇にベルが鳴る, En morder i dit hus
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The great thing about finding a film that counts as both a Halloween AND Christmas flick is that from now on I have the excuse to watch this twice every year. What an absolute banger of a time. Surprisingly one of the most brilliant takes on domestic abuse I've seen to come out of a horror movie, let alone a slasher! The cinematography is so playful and the editing could not be more perfect. There's a specific scene that uses a Christmas carol that is just...muah! AND its genuinely terrifying!! No better feeling than letting out an unintentional "Oh!" in the last 20 minutes of a film. Ugh!!
Don't take what I'm about to say too seriously, but horror seems…
One of my personal favorite slashers. Love the frequently moody compositions, patient camera moves, artificial glow of the Christmas lights, and quaint lived-in quality to its performances (actually quite funny with a crowd!) that really makes you notice the silence of its eventual bare soundscape when the girls start disappearing. The sheer quiet intensity of its cross-cutting, split-diopters, and POV imagery nearly send Christmas caroling and ringing phones into the realm of the metaphysical. It is also one of the scariest movies about navigating male rage. The way the film intertwines the unseen killer's sexually-motivated violence and barely-repressed Freudian trauma with the abusive boyfriend's increasingly unhinged spiraling after realizing he cannot control Jess (both his vision of her and her…
always thought the den mother with the hidden bottles of whiskey in the book/toilets was iconic but tonight i noticed margot kidder just crack open a can of beer at the police station...my queen...
In September 1921, in a region of Bavaria known as Hinterkaifeck ("beyond Kaifeck"), the Gruber family's housekeeper quit. She had been hearing strange noises from the attic at their house, and she couldn't take it anymore. Six months later, her replacement would die the first day on the job, March 22, 1922. Her body, and the bodies of the Gruber family, would not be discovered for a week. Leading up to this, for months, the family would report sightings, noises, remnants left behind that made no sense. All signs pointed to the fact that someone was hiding within their very home--and had spent the week after the murders living there, leaving shortly before neighbors arrived. Four of the bodies were…
i went in a expecting a fun, campy, christmas time slasher and instead got one of the most bone chilling horror films i've seen in ages. not because of the actual murders themselves, but because of the abuse, control, and manipulation the characters undergo - something too many women face from men in their life. that feeling of never being safe, not even in your own home or in your own body. this could have very easily been a misogynistic mess, but instead it's a feminist piece of work that subverts all conventions associated with the treatment of women in that subgenre. one of the best horror films i've seen in a while.