Black Christmas is an inherently feminist franchise. Released in 1974, Bob Clark’s original film follows a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and dispatched by a mysterious killer over the holiday break between semesters. During a busy Christmas party in the full sorority house, the girls receive a call from someone they refer to […]
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“Up in the frat house shit went down, and I’m telling everyone in town…” It’s Christmas Eve and the Halloweenies are hanging out at Hawthorne College, where they’ve just been asked to attend the annual talent show at the Delta Kappa Omicron fraternity. Something is amiss, though, and it appears there’s a strange black liquid […]
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It’s been an incredibly robust and busy year for horror, which also extends to its physical media releases. The good news is that shopping for the holidays is more manageable than ever. The bad news is that the sheer selection available can be overwhelming, to say the least. To help, here’s a Bloody Disgusting Gift […]
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Bloody Disgusting has learned today that Scripts Gone Wild returns to El Cid on November 30 at 7pm for a Christmas-centric reading of the Bob Clark horror classic, Black Christmas. “Seeing as how a key plot point of the film revolves around an unwanted pregnancy, the charity for this read is the Center for Reproductive […]
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Scream Factory is bringing Bob Clark‘s slasher masterpiece Black Christmas to 4K Ultra HD on December 6, and today the full special features package has been announced. You can pre-order the Collector’s Edition release right now, which comes with an exclusive poster. There’s also a deluxe set that includes the poster as well as a special pin set. Bonus […]
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Scream Factory has announced another horror classic for 4K Ultra HD upgrade this year, with Bob Clark‘s slasher masterpiece Black Christmas coming to 4K UHD on December 6! You can pre-order the Collector’s Edition release right now, which comes with an exclusive poster. There’s also a deluxe set that includes the poster as well as […]
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Axes, machetes and chainsaws – oh my! certain objects will forever be associated with the horror genre despite having completely normal uses in real life. This makes sense, as years of genre cinema have conditioned us to expect bloody carnage whenever a kitchen knife shows up in a scary movie. However, some filmmakers like to […]
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“I’m sorry, but that fuckin’ voice, that was not Megan or Kyle. That was the fucking devil, and he was not talking to us, he was talking to Billy.” It’s Christmas Eve and the Halloweenies are shacking up at New Hampshire’s Clement University — more specifically, Delta Alpha Kappa. Things are … festive, to say […]
Before John Carpenter’s Halloween there was Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, an early slasher film that helped lay the foundation for the eventual arrival of horror movie icons like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. After two remakes, Black Christmas is now getting its own definitive retrospective book, titled It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited! Written by Paul […]
‘Tis the season to watch holiday-themed horror, and we’re here to make that even easier for you. We’re breaking down the best holiday horror selections across the many streaming apps available to us, and we’ll be running individual articles for each of the big services. To begin, Shudder‘s robust horror library means no shortage of […]
Bloody Disgusting loves Barbara Crampton, an icon in the horror industry who is not only a celebrated actor but also a producer on many projects. After starring in several 80s classics from Re-Animator (also available on Screambox) to From Beyond, Chopping Mall, and Castle Freak, Crampton made her return in the slasher classic You’re Next, […]
Now streaming on Netflix, Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a badass terminator in the action-thriller Kate, a poisoned assassin who has 24 hours to get vengeance on her murderer before she dies. Not surprisingly, Winstead absolutely owns the role, with Kate delivering brutal violence with a side order of heart, further establishing her as one of […]
The next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration unleashes a gory neo-Giallo set at cinephiles’ most coveted space; the movie theater. In a delightfully macabre meta-twist, The Last Matinee (Al Morir La Matinee) slices its way to Digital HD and VOD platforms on August 24th (linktr.ee). In The Last Matinee, the audience attending the last showing of a horror film in […]
Sometimes characters in movies wear clothing you can’t actually purchase in the real world, and that’s long been the case with the iconic sweater worn by Olivia Hussey in Bob Clark’s slasher masterpiece, Black Christmas. Well, nearly 50 years after the release of the holiday horror movie, Ama Lea‘s Poltergeists and Paramours has just released […]