The Rocking-Chair corpse. Epic Canadian horror movie and Proto Slasher.
A slow and very well constructed suspenseful horror classic and the model for all the slasher movies that were to come
(4 years later especially with Halloween). I remember seing it about 1975 or 1976 and everyone in school liked it.
Swedish title was "Stilla natt, blodiga natt" (translated - Silent night, Bloody Night).
The film isn't gory but so good you don't even notice this fact.

It's Christmas time and the Campus is emptying as students travel home for the christmas celebration. Already at the
start of the film we see the perp of the movie, even though we never get to see his face, when he pants heavily but still
manages to climb a wall and enter the sorority house of the students through a window. He almost immediately murder
a female student and also also the house-mother and then hides their bodies in the attic.
The girls (that are still left in the house) are getting obscene phone calls, dirty, nasty, evil and frightening, and the
Police are wiretapping the phone and also searches for the missing women, not just the first victim at the house, Claire
(Lynne Griffin) but also after a missing 13 year old girl. Claire's poor father is looking for her everywhere, but she's
already dead. John Saxon plays the investigating cop, Lieutenant Ken Fuller.

Above: The old 2006 US DVD edition

Finally only three girls are staying at the house, Jess (Olivia Hussey), Barb (Margot Kidder) and Phyl. But, there's
another one too, the perp hiding upstairs. Creepiest thing in the movie though, could be the freak kids singing the
Christmas Carols. Two objections: 1. The Police didn't bother to check the attic even when a girl had been murdered
upstairs .... ? 2. All the perps yelling and shouting from the upstairs phone should've been heard from below one
might think .... ? The film was shot in Toronto. The image of The Rocking Chair Corpse has become an epic horror
film image.

The film is presented in widescreen 1.85:1 with english restored audio DTS-HD MA 5.1 or Original mono and with
english subtitles.

Disc 1 - Feature film in 4K UHD, region all. Extra: Three separate audio commentaries: with director Bob Clark, with
actors John Saxon and Keir Dullea, with with actor Nick Mancuso, and an audio interview with Bob Clark

Disc 2 - Feature film in region A Blu-ray (with the same commentaries and interview as above disc)

Disc 3 - Region A Blu-ray with Extras:

Remembering Black Christmas with actor Art Hindle (26 minutes), Remembering Black Christmas with actress Lynne
Griffin (26 minutes), Black Christmas Legacy (40 minutes), 2006 Critical Mass Home Video Version 1.78:1,
40th Anniversary panel at 2014 Fun Expo (18 minutes), On Screen: Black Christmas (48 minutes), 12 Days of Black
Christmas (20 minutes, 2006), Black Christmas Revisited (36 minutes), Archival interviews (101 minutes), Midnight
Screening Q&A (20 minutes), Two scenes with alternative sound mix, Theatrical Trailer, Original TV and Radio
spots, Alternative title sequence and a Photo gallery

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The 2006 US DVD extras:

anamorphic widescreen, english audio 5.1 or original mon"The 12 Days of Black Christmas" -Interview with i.a. John
Saxon, Olivia Hussey (19 minutes), two scenes with alternative soundtrack, Film Festival Q&A with Bob Clark, John
Saxon, composer Carl Zittrer (20 minutes), Long interviews with Olivia Hussey, Art Hindle and Margot Kidder (R.I.P.
in 2018 by suicide)