On Christmas Eve a crazed killer sneaks into a girls' sorority house where he starts making frightening, obscene phone calls to the girls downstairs and picking off the residents one by one. The premise of this hugely influential shocker, which is one of several films credited with starting the stalk-n-slash genre, sounds silly, because how can he do all the things he does without any of the girls noticing? But Roy Moore's screenplay and intelligent actually turn this problem into an asset by the murder juxtaposing with - among others - the girls laughing very loud about a present they've just given to their landlord and a group of young kids singing Christmas Carols. Not only does it explain why the murder goes unnoticed, it also adds some very dark, sardonic humor to the proceedings. All this makes for a very intelligently written, well-acted and at times truly scary horror film, with possibly the most memorable final shots ever.
Review of Black Christmas
