Screening Dates
  • December 21, 2017 7:00
Free Admission

An unknown killer stalks the halls of a sorority house at Christmastime in this Canuxploitation classic and box-office hit from Canadian cinema’s much-maligned ​“tax shelter” years. Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, and Margot Kidder star; director Bob Clark later made the fearsome Porky’s (and family-favourite A Christmas Story, also screening at The Cinematheque this month). ​“Clark’s creepy, atmospheric Toronto-shot thriller may be our country’s most influential contribution to the horror genre, its inventive camerawork, ruthlessly clever scares, and shocking violence crystallizing the tropes that would define the ​‘slasher’ cycle of the 1980s and beyond … Black Christmas retains its unnerving power to this day—a true-north testament to its innovative and sophisticated approach to supposedly cheap thrills” (Paul Corupe, Canada on Screen digital catalogue).