12 Days of Christmas Movies, Day 3

Black Christmas (1974)

"Why don't you go find a wall socket and stick your tongue in it, will that give you a charge?"

The take-home message of "Black Christmas" is to educate the viewer on how not to handle a prank caller. Margot Kidder, pre-Lois Lane & looking like your typical anorexic skank, heads up this cast of characters holed up in a sorority house on Christmas Eve. While everyone else is getting packed up and ready to go back to their family homes for the holidays, these girls are pretty much trapped and stranded by the town around them; given that one popular philosophy is that “you can’t rape a townie,” you can understand why no one's too eager to help house these girls. Cue up prank caller who makes lewd requests and bizarre commentary with a "mother" persona, and you got all the makings of a chilly little film. One of my particular favorite scenes has Kidder responding to a rather silly psychotic rant by lambasting the caller’s sexual prowess, which results in the caller making a most crystal clear, bone-chilling declaration, "I’m going to kill you."

Spoiler alert: The caller is inside the house!!!