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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maybe the real slasher was the misogyny we made along the way
The great thing about finding a film that counts as both a Halloween AND Christmas flick is that from now on I have the excuse to watch this twice every year. What an absolute banger of a time. Surprisingly one of the most brilliant takes on domestic abuse I've seen to come out of a horror movie, let alone a slasher! The cinematography is so playful and the editing could not be more perfect. There's a specific scene that uses a Christmas carol that is just...muah! AND its genuinely terrifying!! No better feeling than letting out an unintentional "Oh!" in the last 20 minutes of a film. Ugh!!
Don't take what I'm about to say too seriously, but horror seems…
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My favourite movie about abortion.
Nothing more conceptually terrifying than men
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The unanswered ringing phone over the credits is creepy as all fuck
He would never get me because I don’t answer my phone
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One of my personal favorite slashers. Love the frequently moody wide-angle compositions, patient camera moves (and zooms!), artificial glow of the Christmas lights, and quaint lived-in hangout quality to its performances (actually quite funny with a crowd!) that really makes you notice the silence of its eventual bare soundscape when the girls start disappearing and bodies piling. The sheer quiet intensity of its cross-cutting, split-diopters, and (post-Giallo, pre-Halloween) POV imagery nearly send Christmas caroling and ringing rotary phones into the realm of the metaphysically terrifying... Love the killer's eye poking out of the closet, the shot of the swinging hook cutting to the sorority house mom being yanked up into the attic, the glass unicorn kill, the iconic "the call is…
i went in a expecting a fun, campy, christmas time slasher and instead got one of the most bone chilling horror films i've seen in ages. not because of the actual murders themselves, but because of the abuse, control, and manipulation the characters undergo - something too many women face from men in their life. that feeling of never being safe, not even in your own home or in your own body. this could have very easily been a misogynistic mess, but instead it's a feminist piece of work that subverts all conventions associated with the treatment of women in that subgenre. one of the best horror films i've seen in a while.
now how am i supposed to go to sleep after THIS 😭
every time i rewatch this, i’m taken aback by how effectively it avoids exploitation despite being centered around a serial killer of women and how easy it would be to fall in that trap, especially with a male director and male writer. it doesn’t take much to imagine a slimier and schlockier execution of this premise from lesser artists who emphasize the killer’s lecherousness and objectify his victims, but here, clark and moore are remarkably empathetic throughout (the sensitively told abortion subplot that was spotlighted only one year after roe v. wade?!) and play it pretty straight throughout, because they know they don’t have to add any sleazy stylistic embellishments to get our attention or scare us shitless - the…
That one cop fucked up so bad, jesus.
always thought the den mother with the hidden bottles of whiskey in the book/toilets was iconic but tonight i noticed margot kidder just crack open a can of beer at the police station...my queen...
