# Black Christmas (1974 film)

Black Christmas (originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States) is a 1974 Canadian horror film about a group of sorority girls who are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break.
    Directed by Bob Clark. Screenplay by Roy Moore.

## Mrs. MacHenry

* These broads would hump the Leaning Tower of Pisa if they could get up there!
* [singing as she packs her suitcase] Alligators come through the gate, but goodbye leg if ya get away late! Lollies love to pop!

## Barb Coard

* [on phone] You're a real gold-plated whore, mother, you know that?
* [upon seeing that Mrs. MacHenry is coming inside the house] Speaking of professional virgins - here we have the queen of vaudeville herself!
* Oh, why don't you go find a wall socket and stick your tongue in it? That'll give you a charge.
* I think the little bugger's schnockered, son of a bitch.

## Mr. Harrison

* I didn't send my daughter in here to be drinking and picking up the boys.

## The Killer

* Filthy Billy, I know what you did nasty Billy!
* Agnes, It's me Billy! Don't tell them what we did!
* Let me lick ya, you pretty piggy cunt!
* [to Barb, while on the phone] I'll stick my tongue up your pretty pussy!
* [to Barb, while on the phone] [sombre] I'm going to kill you.
* [Quietly singing] Little baby bunting/ Daddy's went a-hunting/ Gonna fetch a rabbit skin to wrap his baby Agnes in.

## Dialogues

    Sergeant Nash: Excuse me? Could you give me the number at the sorority house? Please?
    Barb Coard: Yeah, sure. It's, ah... Fellatio 20880. Fellatio. It's a new exchange, FE.
    Sergeant Nash: That's a new one on me. How do you spell it?
    Barb Coard: Capital F, E, little L, LA, TIO.
    Sergeant Nash: Thanks.
    Barb Coard: Don't mention it.
    [after the mysterious caller hangs up]
    Clare Harrison: I don't think you should provoke somebody like that, Barb.
    Barb Board: Oh listen, this guy is minor league. In the city, I get two of those a day.
    Clare Harrison: Well maybe. But you know that town girl was raped a couple of weeks ago.
    Barb Coard: Darling, you can't rape a townie.
    Clare Harrison: Could that really be just one person?
    Barb Coard: No, Clare, it's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir making their annual obscene phone call.
    Lt. Fuller: [hands Nash a form] What's this?
    Sergeant Nash: Oh, that's the number of the sorority house.
    Lt. Fuller: Fellatio?
    Sergeant Nash: Yeah, it's a new exchange: FE.
    Lt. Fuller: [suppressing a laugh] A new exchange?
    Sergeant Nash: Yeah, Fellatio. One of the girls that was in this afternoon gave it to me.
    Lt. Fuller: [sarcastically] She gave it to you?
    Sergeant Nash: Yeah.
    Lt. Fuller: Nash, I don't think you could pick your nose without written instructions. [takes the form and walks back to his desk]
    Sergeant Nash: [thinks for a moment] I know. It's something dirty, ain't it?
    Sergeant Nash: [Jess has managed to keep the caller on the line for almost a full two minutes, allowing the phone company to trace the call] Uh, Lt. Fuller?
    Lt. Fuller: Yeah, Nash, what is it?
    Sergeant Nash: The phone company's on the other line, sir. They say they got a trace on this one.
    Lt. Fuller: Yeah, let's have it!
    Sergeant Nash: He says the calls are coming from #6 Belmont Street.
    Lt. Fuller: For Christ's sakes, Nash, you got it wrong. That's where the calls are going into.
    Sergeant Nash: That's where they're coming from too, sir.
    Lt. Fuller: [pause] Oh, shit...
    Sargeant Nash: [after Sergeant Nash calls the sorority house] Who is this?
    Jessica Bradford: It's Jess.
    Sargeant Nash: Ms. Bradford, this is Sergeant Nash. Are you the only one in the house?
    Jessica Bradford: No. Phyll and Barb are upstairs asleep. Why?
    Sargeant Nash: Alright. Now I want do you exactly what I tell you without asking any questions, okay?
    [Jessica begins to question]
    Sargeant Bradford: No, no, no... no questions. Now just put the phone back on the hook, walk to the front door and leave the house.
    Jessica Bradford: What's wrong?
    Sargeant Nash: Please, Ms. Bradford, please just do as I tell you.
    Jessica Bradford: Okay. I'll get Phyll and Barb.
    Sargeant Nash: [Raising his voice] No, no, no, don't do that Jess.
    [Long pause]
    Sargeant Nash: Jess, the caller is in the house. The calls are coming from the house!

## Taglines

* If this picture doesn't make your skin crawl...it's on TOO TIGHT.
* Christmas is coming early this year. And it's murder.
* The sort of Christmas you don't dream of.
* A Christmas with another colour brings a killer on the loose!
* Twas the Night, Before Christmas, and All Trough the House, a Creature was stirring. The Stocklings were Hung by the Chimney with care, but it was Hard to Say that St. Nick would be there. A Christmas with another colour brings a Killer on the Loose.
* Have Yourself a Scary Little, Black Christmas. It's Not at All Like the Ones You Used to Know.
* He Knows When You're Sleeping, He Knows if You're Awake, HE KNOWS...
* It's beginning to look a lot like—bloodshed! Christmas is almost here, and a deranged, axe-wielding psycho is terrorizing a sorority. As it happens, the mad murder also makes obscene phone calls—and he lives right above the girls...

## Cast

* Olivia Hussey – Jess Bradford
* Keir Dullea – Peter Smythe
* Margot Kidder – Barbara ‘Barb’ Coard
* John Saxon – Lieutenant Kenneth Fuller
* Marian Waldman – Mrs.‘Mac’ MacHenry
* Andrea Martin – Phyllis ‘Phyll’ Carlson
* James Edmond – Mr. Harrison
* Doug McGrath – Sargeant Nash
* Art Hindle – Chris Hayden
* Lynne Griffin – Clare Harrison

## External links

* Black Christmas (1974) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Black Christmas (1974) at Rotten Tomatoes
* Black Christmas at Allmovie
* Black Christmas at Mojo