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Released
1974 · FILM

Black Christmas

When a series of obscene phone calls turns deadly, a tight‑knit sorority must uncover the hidden stalker and survive his murderous game before Christmas night ends in blood.

“If this picture doesn't make your skin crawl... it's on TOO TIGHT.”

Directed by
Bob Clark
Written by
Roy Moore
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
98 min
HorrorMysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

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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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 34

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stan ColeShot by Reginald H MorrisScored by Carl Zittrer

Box Office

1974 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.0M

Budget$686K
Worldwide gross$4.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Jessy – Die Treppe in den Todde
  • Silent Night, Evil Nighten
  • Stranger in the Houseen
  • Un Natale rosso sangueit

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