Black Christmas will always have a special place in my heart this movie is unlike any horror film where you see the killer but in Black Christmas (1974) you don't really see the Killer only his shadow or you'll see only his Eye! This movie definitely make my skin crawl and I'll watch it every Christmas! :) Billy was such a terrifying character and I always wondered if he has D.I.D (Dissociative identity disorder) or if he can hear Voices In His Head that tell him to do bad things like the scene where he started freaking out when killing the people in the attic it's like he didn't wanna do it! Bob Clark really made a movie that would creep us out and this movie definitely took that route!
Agree, black Christmas is a classic. I love the creepy overall tone and the phone calls were disturbing. The decision to leave the killer vague was great and really made for a powerful ending ..
Halloween’s spiritual progenitor, Bob Clark provided the birth of the slasher genre right here. Late 1974 and the release of BC would prove to be that precise moment in time when it is possible to isolate the first the slasher genre. Halloween, of course, would go on 4 years later to popularize the genre, but this is its birthplace. And it’s actually a genuinely filthy and terrifying movie. Those bone chilling calls. You’d be hard pressed to name a horror film as both obscene and legitimately scary as BC. And the makers of When A Stranger Calls, a far inferior film noteworthy only because its opening first 15 minutes would virtually entirely ape the very similarly plotted horror film.
"The truth is John didn't copy Black Christmas, he wrote a script, directed the script, did the casting. Halloween is his movie and besides, the script came to him already titled anyway. He liked Black Christmas and may have been influenced by it, but in no way did John Carpenter copy the idea. Fifteen other people at that time had thought to do a movie called Halloween but the script came to John with that title on it." - Bob Clark, 2005
@@SatanicAussie The script for Halloween was originally called The Babysitter Murders, but then producer Irwin Yablans decided to change it to Halloween.
Irwin Yablans came up with the idea for Halloween, not Bob Clark or John Carpenter. Carpenter himself debunked that myth during a panel discussion. Nothing any of these people are saying is actually true.
@@paulvoorhies8821 It's not a belief. Look at who is credited for the story of Halloween in the credits: Irwin Yablans. Bob Clark probably believes what he's saying, but what he's saying is incorrect. Clark seems unaware of the fact that Yablans came up with the idea for The Babysitter Murders, or that Yablans is the one who came up with the idea for changing the name to Halloween. Yablans even had to search through copyright records to make sure that no one had ever used that title before. Clark also seems unaware that Carpenter was hired by Yablans and Moustafa Akkad to direct "The Babysitter Murders," later retitled "Halloween," after the story had already been conceived. Carpenter and Debra Hill wrote the screenplay, but the story idea was all Yablans. It appears that Clark is being presumptuous.
@@paulvoorhies8821 Okay, here's what Bob Clark actually said: "The truth is John didn't copy Black Christmas, he wrote a script, directed the script, did the casting. Halloween is his movie and besides, the script came to him already titled anyway. He liked Black Christmas and may have been influenced by it, but in no way did John Carpenter copy the idea. Fifteen other people at that time had thought to do a movie called Halloween but the script came to John with that title on it." - Bob Clark, 2005
I am wondering what bob meant with billy doesnt like girls and agnes doesnt like Boys. Does he mean that both of them are gay or that he hates girls cause he was abused and she hates boys cause of billy
Its funny I watching tcm and they were showing when a stranger calls and they said that was the first movie to do that urban legend of the caller is calling from inside the house. The first to have that line I had to check dates cause I was like what about black Christmas lol. Yeah they did it five years before that lol
Billy and Michael Myers is very similar similar opening scene similar mystery lack of motive basically and similar ending they still out there they could be Anywhere lol
Black Christmas is an amazing film, but according to the one-sided narration in this documentary, all horror movies that came after were copycats. Be happy with the film...but do we need to hear all the anti-American nonsense. Canadians need to relax a bit, wow
Black Christmas will always have a special place in my heart this movie is unlike any horror film where you see the killer but in Black Christmas (1974) you don't really see the Killer only his shadow or you'll see only his Eye! This movie definitely make my skin crawl and I'll watch it every Christmas! :) Billy was such a terrifying character and I always wondered if he has D.I.D (Dissociative identity disorder) or if he can hear Voices In His Head that tell him to do bad things like the scene where he started freaking out when killing the people in the attic it's like he didn't wanna do it! Bob Clark really made a movie that would creep us out and this movie definitely took that route!
Agree, black Christmas is a classic. I love the creepy overall tone and the phone calls were disturbing. The decision to leave the killer vague was great and really made for a powerful ending ..
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I swear, John Saxon got the oldest he could get in the 70s and then remained unchanged till his death.
Halloween’s spiritual progenitor, Bob Clark provided the birth of the slasher genre right here. Late 1974 and the release of BC would prove to be that precise moment in time when it is possible to isolate the first the slasher genre. Halloween, of course, would go on 4 years later to popularize the genre, but this is its birthplace. And it’s actually a genuinely filthy and terrifying movie. Those bone chilling calls. You’d be hard pressed to name a horror film as both obscene and legitimately scary as BC. And the makers of When A Stranger Calls, a far inferior film noteworthy only because its opening first 15 minutes would virtually entirely ape the very similarly plotted horror film.
"The truth is John didn't copy Black Christmas, he wrote a script, directed the script, did the casting. Halloween is his movie and besides, the script came to him already titled anyway. He liked Black Christmas and may have been influenced by it, but in no way did John Carpenter copy the idea. Fifteen other people at that time had thought to do a movie called Halloween but the script came to John with that title on it."
- Bob Clark, 2005
Halloween was originally called "The Babysitter Murders' so I dont know where Bob had got his information from
@@SatanicAussie The script for Halloween was originally called The Babysitter Murders, but then producer Irwin Yablans decided to change it to Halloween.
43:30. Proof that the idea for Halloween was germinated right here with Bob Clark.
Irwin Yablans came up with the idea for Halloween, not Bob Clark or John Carpenter. Carpenter himself debunked that myth during a panel discussion. Nothing any of these people are saying is actually true.
@@44excalibur So, Bob Clark is just a flat out liar?? Okay then. You have your beliefs, I have mine.
@@paulvoorhies8821 It's not a belief. Look at who is credited for the story of Halloween in the credits: Irwin Yablans. Bob Clark probably believes what he's saying, but what he's saying is incorrect. Clark seems unaware of the fact that Yablans came up with the idea for The Babysitter Murders, or that Yablans is the one who came up with the idea for changing the name to Halloween. Yablans even had to search through copyright records to make sure that no one had ever used that title before. Clark also seems unaware that Carpenter was hired by Yablans and Moustafa Akkad to direct "The Babysitter Murders," later retitled "Halloween," after the story had already been conceived. Carpenter and Debra Hill wrote the screenplay, but the story idea was all Yablans. It appears that Clark is being presumptuous.
@@paulvoorhies8821 Okay, here's what Bob Clark actually said:
"The truth is John didn't copy Black Christmas, he wrote a script, directed the script, did the casting. Halloween is his movie and besides, the script came to him already titled anyway. He liked Black Christmas and may have been influenced by it, but in no way did John Carpenter copy the idea. Fifteen other people at that time had thought to do a movie called Halloween but the script came to John with that title on it."
- Bob Clark, 2005
@@44excalibur You’re totally missing the “spiritual” point, which is fine.
I am wondering what bob meant with billy doesnt like girls and agnes doesnt like Boys. Does he mean that both of them are gay or that he hates girls cause he was abused and she hates boys cause of billy
Canadia’s gratest film? Yaz
Its funny I watching tcm and they were showing when a stranger calls and they said that was the first movie to do that urban legend of the caller is calling from inside the house. The first to have that line I had to check dates cause I was like what about black Christmas lol. Yeah they did it five years before that lol
Total bull****! The idea for Halloween was created by Irwin Yablans, not John Carpenter or Bob Clark.
Billy and Michael Myers is very similar similar opening scene similar mystery lack of motive basically and similar ending they still out there they could be Anywhere lol
Black Christmas is an amazing film, but according to the one-sided narration in this documentary, all horror movies that came after were copycats. Be happy with the film...but do we need to hear all the anti-American nonsense. Canadians need to relax a bit, wow
Also,the comment that the texas chainsaw massacre is gory, and bloody is wrong,there is very little blood in the film.