The girls receive disgusting phone calls where a man makes weird noises and shrieks, and moans, and insults them and talks to them about what he’d do to them... disgusting, but then there really are pathetic losers/evil creeps like that in the world.
Barb (Margot Kidder) doesn’t appear to be scared at all, on the contrary she insults him in reply. He takes it badly and tells her that he’ll kill them. Claire (Lynn Griffin) goes upstairs to pack but is killed, choked with a plastic bag. Her body is placed on a rocking chair by the window in the attic. She missed the appointment with her dad of course, so the next day her father comes asking about her, all worried. Everybody is surprised, they thought she left the night before - although nobody said goodbye.. - and apparently nobody ever looks up because from outside they could see Claire’s
The police guy doesn’t take them seriously when they report her disappearance, and Claire’s boyfriend gets angry and goes talking to the lieutenant (John Saxon).
Looking for the cat, Mrs Mack sees Claire’s body in the attic and gets killed. She was supposed to go away for the holidays though, so nobody questions her absence.
During a search, the body of a high-school girl is found in the park.
The obscene calls keep coming. Peter (Keir Dullea) is angry and threatens Jess (Olivia Hussey) because she wants to abort (as if he was the one who would have to do everything..).
The Lt looks in Claire’s room, then has his man Bill Graham tap their phone to catch the dirty caller. He also tells them that there is a car outside, so “you’ve nothing to worry about” ...yeah right.
Barbara is now drunk and sleeping. Phyl is exhausted and goes to sleep too. The guy comes down from the attic. Barbara wakes up screaming with asthma - although she doesn’t know how to use a ventolin - and says she dreamed of a stranger in her room.. then while Jess listens to some kids singing outside the door, Barb gets repeatedly stabbed to death in her bed. The weirdo on the phone repeats Peter’s words to her, but she doesn’t say that to the police, she can’t believe Peter would do that. Later Peter calls her, crying, saying that abort is a sin and blah blah blah. Phyl goes checking on Barb. The Lt asks Jess if Peter was with her any of the time she received the calls, and relieved she says “he was here, it couldn’t be Peter”. Next thing, the police trace the call, it’s from the other line in the house! Policeman Nash calls her to get her out of the house, but she wants to get Phyl and Barb, so Nash tells her that he is in the house, shouts to get out, but she doesn’t. She screams hysterically for Phyl to answer her, then goes upstairs with a poker.. and finds Phyl and Barb’s bodies, sees the killer’s eye, shuts the door, runs down, but he grabs her by the hair; she gives one good scream and then hides. Peter finds her, the police arrive, hear her screams. She killed Peter, and believing that it’s all over she was given a sedative and left to sleep in the house; so everybody now thinks Peter was the killer, but at the end there’s a voice in the attic.. the phone rings again and Claire is still in the rocking chair by the attic window.
So basically the mysterious guy murdered the young girl, escaped and entered their house, made obscene calls until Barb provoked him, then started killing them. At the end he is still alive, it was not Peter, and he’s calling again, and Jess is asleep in the house and who knows what will happen ..
ITA Black Christmas - un natale rosso sangue
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