I don’t know about you, but I kind of hate Christmas. I don’t mind the whole getting-together-as-a-family-and-receiving-ill-fitting-socks-as-a-present-from-granny thing. It’s just the draining chaos that goes with the holiday — the mad rush to buy presents, wading through hordes of other tardy present buyers, the relentless Christmas jingles. This is why I like to spend my Christmases watching films that match my mood. My personal holiday favourite is Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), a gory classic that has gotten me through many a merry season. Coming in a close second is the genuinely chilling (and far superior, though it’s not really fair to compare the two) Black Christmas, which ranks among my all-time favourite slashers. The original US one-sheet for Black Christmas is a cracker. It wraps one of the creepiest moments from the film in jarring Christmas cheer. The tagline is also perfect: If this picture doesn’t make your skin crawl… it’s on TOO TIGHT. YES!
This amazing piece of horror history, along with stacks of other cool original posters, is available from Westgate Gallery. The lovely folk of Westgate offer Mondo Exploito readers 15% off 1-2 posters and 20% off 3 or more! Get your last minute Christmas gifts in, guys!
Source: Westgate Gallery
2 comments
Christian at Westgate Gallery says:
Dec 16, 2014
Thanks so much for another shout-out, Dave! I became obsessed with seeing this at age 7 in 1975, after finding the now-insanely rare novelization by screenwriter Lee Hays on my local drugstore’s swiveling paperback book-rack. I should’ve just bought the damn thing, because I had to wait 10 years to see it! My big missed chance was on Halloween night, 1979, when HBO ran it as part of a triple feature with PHANTASM & THE FURY. The problem was the stupid title change to STRANGER IN THE HOUSE! It remains a creepy, brilliantly directed, massively influential and perversely funny masterpiece. Margot Kidder & Marian Waldman scrap it out for show-stealing honors as the catty, asthmatic, alcoholic sorority bitch and the raunchy alcoholic house-mother, respectively. And it’s finally gotten a great Blu Ray release (from Germany).
Westgate Gallery has many cool posters for it, topped by the linen-backed US 1sh pictured above, including very rare German & Japanese 1 sheets. Rock on, Nasty Billy!
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