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101 Films presents the Bob Clark: Horror Collection, Featuring the director’s highly influential horrors of the early 1970s, brought together for the first time. Though he would achieve wider success in the 1980s with hit comedies such as Porky’s (1981) and A Christmas Story (1983), Clark’s run of three horror movies a decade…

BLACK CHRISTMAS ***** Canada 1974 Dir: Bob Clark 92 mins The ultimate festive slasher movie, and the creepiest Christmas horror film of all time. Despite a notable absence of nudity, sex and gore, it was a prominent forerunner to the American slasher cycle, employing many of the tropes and devices…

BLACK CHRISTMAS **** USA 2006 82 mins Dir: Glen Morgan. Although retaining certain narrative and visual aspects of Bob Clark’s 1974 classic (and, notably, dropping the line “Let me lick your big cunt”), the remake from FINAL DESTINATION writing / directing duo Glen Morgan & James Wong abandons the original’s…