Black Christmas Review

Review of Black Christmas (1974) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

There's been a lot of talk surrounding this as one of the best horror features around (not including claims of "best Canadian horror" and "best Christmas horror" and so forth). It's easy to see where and how these claims got made but in reviewing the film the extreme reverence for this feels blown a little out of proportion.

BLACK CHRISTMAS is a fine film. It did solidify a lot of standard filming conventions horror and otherwise, but the movie itself is just decent. The phone calls (and tantrum sequence) definitely offer a new and strange insight into the killer but the film doesn't do much more than that.