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Director: Bob Clark

Bob Clark directed both A Christmas Story and Black Christmas, which is an extraordinary pair from one filmmaker, and also made Porky’s. Black Christmas predates Halloween and established several conventions that film is credited with.

Black Christmas (1974) film posterBob Clark

Black Christmas (1974)

A sorority house is terrorized by an unseen caller during Christmas break, in the proto-slasher that preceded Halloween by four years. Black Christmas is Bob Clark's 1974 Canadian horror film depicting a sorority house during Christmas break terrorized by an…

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