It's really hard to imagine that the late Bob Clark gave two of our most iconic Christmas films here in the US, and they could not be further apart in viewing experience! This film was universally reviled all over the country and banned in some places upon it's release in 1974. It not only helped birth the slasher genre that would go on to be such a Hollywood obsession in the 1980's, it also brought the idea of a Christmas horror film fully front and center--love it or hate it, there was no denying that Christmas horror films were here to stay. It proved that there was indeed an audience for a horror film set at such a seemingly sacred and/or "merry" time of year. On the other hand, in 1983 Clark brought us A Christmas Story, the central character of which is a frustrated little boy who just wants a bee bee gun from Santa, and constantly endures admonitions of "you'll shoot your eye out!" I think only Bob Clark could have pulled that off. RIP!
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