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OLIVIA HUSSEY IN BOB CLARK'S CULT SLASHER 'BLACK CHRISTMAS'

Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS Year: 1974 Rating: **1/2

In the case of Bob Clark's 1974 cult-horror BLACK CHRISTMAS, Christmas comes before HALLOWEEN since John Carpenter's 1978 slasher took some inspiration from not only a killer stalking a group of pretty young ladies (college instead of high school), but the camera sporadically becomes his shaky, formidable perspective...

But not for long enough as most of the would-be victims remain alive for too long: except poor Lynne Griffin's curiously foreboding shy girl, seeming perfect for the sole survivor — described by a loose, foul-mouthed Margot Kidder (more befitting a sex comedy than horror) as a professional virgin — but lovely-lithe Olivia Hussey's our final girl...

Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS with Keir Dullea

And while meek, passive, she's anything but sexually-inexperienced with a melodramatic side-story involving temperamental beau Keir Dullea railing against an abortion — his entire purpose is to provide a red-herring for the faceless killer, always a phone call away...

Making BLACK CHRISTMAS more an offbeat ensemble-thriller than body-count slasher (including a lush den-mom; the first victim's affable boyfriend Art Hindle; nice yet ugly girl Andrea Maritn; token cop John Saxon), and, ultimately, the primary focus of the villain— young girls in a sorority house — isn't the primary focus of the movie itself. 

Margot Kidder in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Lynne Griffin with Art Hindle in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Lynne Griffin and Andrea Martin in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Margot Kidder in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Margot Kidder in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Lynne Griffin from BLACK CHRISTMAS
John Saxon in BLACK CHRISTMAS 
Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS with Margot Kidder
Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Olivia Hussey and Andrea Martin in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS
From BLACK CHRISTMAS
Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS
Opening from BLACK CHRISTMAS

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