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Omg thank you so much !!

I used a song called Catastrophe by VØJ

*Re did my Black Christmas Edit cos it needed a bit more umphhhh* lol

❄️🎄❄️🎄Don’t answer the phone on Black Christmas!🎄❄️🎄❄️

Black Christmas (1974) is Bob Clark's seminal holiday horror classic credited with kickstarting the modern slasher sub genre as we see it today while simultaneously subverting many of the maligned slasher tropes that dozens of its derivatives popularized in the 80s.

Instead of punishing the characters for enjoying their youth the film portrays empowered young adults eager to face their issues head one, except Barb who is shown from the start to use drinking as a coping mechanism for her abandonment issues and later, guilt while cloaking these anxieties with wit. but it works because we have a clear sense of who Barb is, or at least a part of her personality. All the characters are written as regular people, not one dimensional slasher bait.

Along with writing well developed characters, The film manages to utilize many second wave feminist ideas regarding body autonomy and a woman's right to choose education and a career over the traditional domestic maternal role forced on young women. These ideas shine through the characterization of its intelligent and ambitious female characters, specifically Jess. We get a sense of their empowered confidence immediately once the women start receiving obscene phone calls at their sorority house. While bothered, Barb is ready to cloak this by using that wit against the harasser, something she probably has done in the past.