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Vincent Karbone is a leading construction magnate in Philadelphia and a suspected leader of one of the city’s most notorious criminal gangs. Several of his thugs are on trial, and the key witness is Michael, a mild-mannered judo instructor with a wife and kids. Karbone will stop at nothing to keep the muscles of his organization out of prison, including striking at Michael’s family to keep him from testifying.Read More »
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At the height of an unnamed war (presumably Vietnam), the Brooks family finds its tranquil dinner interrupted by news that their golden boy son, Andy (Richard Backus), has died in combat. The father, Charles (John Marley), finds the blow harder to bear when his wife, Christine (Lynn Carlin), immediately slips into a denial bordering on insanity and pleads for her son’s return. Much to everyone’s surprise, Andy shortly turns up on the doorstep in his uniform, looking quite alive but apparently shell shocked. Read More »
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.Read More »
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Black Christmas (also released under the titles Silent Night, Evil Night, and Stranger in the House) is a 1974 Canadian independent horror film directed by Bob Clark and written by A. Roy Moore. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and murdered over Christmas vacation by a killer hiding in their sorority house. It was inspired by the urban legend of “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs”, but was also largely based on a series of murders that took place in Quebec, Canada around Christmas time.
Black Christmas is generally considered to be one of the first slasher films. A remake of the same name, produced by Clark, was released in December 2006.Read More »