Black Christmas (1974 Bob Clark)

Here it is at last, Bob's companion piece to A Christmas Story. Considering its vintage and setting in a girls's sorority house, film is refreshingly (disappointingly, depending on one's point of view) devoid of half-naked teens, though does feature some bold obscene phone call material (these calls make for sinister listening). The gore factor is low, humour high e.g. Marian Waldman's boozy guardian, murder to 'Silent Night'. Also has quite a lot of police involvement and suspense, too. Very unusual and distinctive, lots of POV and good writing by Roy Moore apparently inspired Halloween.

Girls include Olivia Hussey (Romeo and Juliet), Margot Kidder (effectively trading on her bad girl persona), Andrea Martin; Keir Dullea is the piano smashing BF and John Saxon the cop (many horror films and TV).