Wed, Dec 20 / 9 pm
Black Christmas
Directed by Bob Clark
1974, Canada, 98 min
Book Launch: YULETIDE TERROR: CHRISTMAS HORROR ON FILM AND TELEVISION
Screening: Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)
Introduced By Caelum Vatnsdal.
Filmmaker and author of They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema, Caelum Vatnsdal is an expert on Canadian horror movies. He formed Mighty Kraken Films to make the feature Black as Hell, Strong as Death, Sweet as Love, and has made award-winning music videos for The Weakerthans and other Canadian bands. He has a new essay in the book Yuletide Terror and will introduce Black Christmas while copies of the book will be for sale in the lobby.
Cinematheque is excited to announce a joint screening / book launch to celebrate the release of Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television. Winnipeg cult horror expert Caelum Vatnsdal introduces the 70’s horror classic Black Christmas – the story of a psychopath stalking a sorority house at Christmas time. Canadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical will have copies of the new 488 page forthcoming book devoted to the darkside of holiday entertainment, Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television. Founder of Spectacular Optical Publications, Kier-la Janisse says this comprehensive new book collection of essays for sale will deck your halls with insightful looks at all your festive fright favourites, from the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas to Silent Night, Deadly Night (and the ensuing controversy). A compendium of over 200 Christmas horror film reviews by key commentators of the horror genre. Contributors include everyone from Lee Gambin (Nope, Nothing Wrong Here: The Making of Cujo) to Zack Carlson (Destroy All Movies!!!) Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women) and Amanda Reyes (Made For TV Mayhem)
Plays With:
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
Directed by Sean Hogan, 2017, UK, 20 mins
A lonely recluse prepares to celebrate Christmas alone when a figure from his past unexpectedly reappears. But are the old ghosts stirred up by her arrival just bad memories or something more? In this windswept tribute to the classic English ghost stories of M.R. James and the 1970s A Ghost Story for Christmas series they spawned, writer/director Sean Hogan reteams with his co-producers on Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014) and The Devil’s Business (2011) star Billy Clarke to bring this Christmas horror short made especially to coincide with the Yuletide Terror book.
