

Black Christmas
If this picture doesn't make your skin crawl... it's on TOO TIGHT.
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $686K
- Box office
- $4M
- Language
- English
- winter
- pregnancy
- toronto, canada
- murder
- serial killer
- slasher
- police officer
- killer
- alcoholic
- attic
- voyeurism
- christmas horror
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR20 Dec 1974
- TheatricalR(re-release)26 Dec 1975
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical18X (original rating, cut)25 Sept 1975
- Physical1823 Oct 2003
- Physical18Arrow Video 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray7 Dec 2026
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical17 Jun 1976
CanadaCA
- TheatricalR11 Oct 1974
- PremiereRCinefest Sudbury International Film Festival26 Sept 1998
BrazilBR
- Physical16DVD12 Jun 2007
FranceFR
- Theatrical29 Oct 1975
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1624 Oct 1975
GreeceGR
- PhysicalDVD11 Oct 2004
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1821 Nov 1975
ItalyIT
- Theatrical12 Feb 1976
- Physical15 Apr 2006
JapanJP
- Theatrical13 Dec 1975
MexicoMX
- TheatricalC4 Dec 1980
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Black Christmas was released on 11 October 1974.
Audience reviews
5- W6/10
Wuchak
7/26/2019
***Historical slasher with John Saxon, Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder*** It’s the Christmas season at a sorority house in the Northeast wherein an ambiguous psycho hiding in the attic makes crank calls to the girls and slays them one-by-one. John Saxon plays the local detective. “Black Christmas” (1974) obviously influenced “Halloween” (1978), e.g. the closet scene, but was influenced itself by psycho slasher…
- D7/10
Dsnake1
10/11/2019
Black Christmas is what happens when a director decides to make a slasher but also decides to make a good movie. Each character has a purpose. By that, I don't mean simply to drive the plot along. Each character is a person, and they each have their own unique personalities and motivations. Barb isn't just the drunk and morally abrasive stereotype; she's driven by her jealousy and likely by issues from her childh…
- G7/10
Gimly
12/29/2019
One of only two films in my adult life to have been in any way involved in giving me a sense of genuine fear. _Final rating: ★★★½ - I strongly recommend you make the time._
- T7/10
The Movie Diorama
1/16/2020
Black Christmas decorates traditional festivities with blood, suffocation and disturbing phone calls. Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! And have a slashin’ good time! The slasher sub-genre was most proficient during the mid-to-late 70s, with ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, ‘Halloween’ and a plethora of spicy Argento features to add a worldly aesthetic. However, one film that innovated the tropes and traits commonly found in th…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
12/22/2023
I suppose a sorority can be used to host a multitude of characters, so that's what Bob Clark does here as he puts four quite different girls into an house supervised by the likably dypso "Mrs. Mac" (Marian Waldman). The house has, for ages now, being getting crank calls from a guy they call the "moaner". Some get upset by his behaviour, others laugh it off but when one of their number "Clare" (Lynne Griffin) disappea…
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