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Black Christmas may refer to: * ''Black Christmas'' (1974 film), a Canadian slasher horror film ** ''Black Christmas'' (2006 film), the first remake of the 1974 film ** ''Black Christmas'' (2019 film), the second remake of the 1974 film * Black Christmas boycott The Black Christmas Boycott, also known as the Christmas Sacrifice, in Greenville, North Carolina was a non-violent demonstration of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 during the months of November and December. The implementation of Jim Crow law ..., a 1963 economic boycott of businesses in Greenville, North Carolina * Black Christmas bushfires, a 2001–2002 brushfire in New South Wales, Australia * Black Christmas (Hong Kong), the surrender after the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941 See also * Dark Christmas (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Christmas (1974 Film)
''Black Christmas'' (originally titled ''Silent Night, Evil Night'' in the United States) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by A. Roy Moore. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Lynne Griffin and John Saxon. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are eventually stalked and murdered by a deranged killer during the Christmas season. Inspired by the urban legend "the babysitter and the man upstairs" and a series of murders that took place in the Westmount neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Moore wrote the screenplay under the title ''Stop Me''. The filmmakers made numerous alterations to the script, primarily the shifting to a university setting with young adult characters. It was shot in Toronto in 1974 on an estimated budget of $620,000, and was distributed by Warner Bros. in North America. Upon its release, ''Black Christmas'' received mixed reviews, but it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Christmas (2006 Film)
''Black Christmas'' (abbreviated as ''Black X-Mas'') is a 2006 slasher film written and directed by Glen Morgan and starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, and Andrea Martin. The film takes place several days before Christmas and tells the story of a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and murdered in their house during a winter storm. It is a loose remake and reimagining of the 1974 film of the same name. A co-production of Canada and the United States, the film was produced by Morgan and James Wong through their production company Hard Eight Pictures, along with 2929 Productions, Adelstein-Parouse Productions and Hoban Segal Productions. It is the second film in the ''Black Christmas'' series. Director Glen Morgan signed on to write and direct the film after the release of his 2003 remake of '' Willard''. Shooting took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2005. The film was co-distribute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Christmas (2019 Film)
''Black Christmas'' is a 2019 American slasher film directed by Sophia Takal, and written by Takal and April Wolfe. Part of the ''Black Christmas'' series, it is the loose second remake of the 1974 Canadian film '' Black Christmas'', after the 2006 film, and follows a group of sorority sisters at Hawthorne College as they are preyed upon by an unknown stalker. The film stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, and Cary Elwes. Development of the project began in June 2019, when Jason Blum announced that he would produce the film through his studio Blumhouse Productions. Sophia Takal signed as director and co-writer, and principal photography began soon after, lasting for 27 days in Otago. ''Black Christmas'' was theatrically released in the United States on December 13, 2019, by Universal Pictures, coinciding with Friday the 13th. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was considered a box office success, having grossed $18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Christmas Boycott
The Black Christmas Boycott, also known as the Christmas Sacrifice, in Greenville, North Carolina was a non-violent demonstration of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 during the months of November and December. The implementation of Jim Crow laws and the customs of racial segregation resulted in a lack of jobs for the members of the black community of Greenville; most businesses refused to hire black Americans during the holiday season. Following Dr. Martin Luther King’s practice of non-violence, the black community of Greenville organized a boycott of Christmas products, targeting downtown businesses that engaged in racially discriminatory hiring practices. They tried to avoid buying products such as Christmas gifts, lights, decorations, and specialty foods. Later, they settled on a Christmas blackout as another form of silent protest. Background Black Christmas movements were one of many forms of non-violent protests of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1960, in concurrence w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Christmas Bushfires
In Australia, during winter and spring 2001, low rainfall across combined with a hot, dry December created ideal conditions for bushfires. On the day of Christmas Eve, firefighters from the Grose Vale Rural Fire Service (RFS) brigade attended a blaze in rugged terrain at the end of Cabbage Tree Rd, Grose Vale, believed to have been caused by power lines in the Grose Valley. On Christmas Day, strong westerly winds fuelled more than 100 bushfires across the state, creating a plume of smoke that extended across Sydney. This plume of smoke would not clear for some days as the bushfires continued to burn, creating some of the worst pollution that Sydney has ever experienced, with a regional pollution index reading of: 200 in North-West Sydney; 120 in Central-East and South-West Sydney. The fires mainly burnt in Lane Cove National Park, the Royal National Park and Blue Mountains National Park. Approximately was burnt. 121 homes were destroyed across the state and 36 damaged, mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Christmas (Hong Kong)
The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong, without declaring war against the British Empire. The Hong Kong garrison consisted of British, Indian and Canadian units, also the Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC). Within a week the defenders abandoned the 2 of the 3 territories of Hong Kong (Kowloon and New Territories) on the mainland, and less than two weeks later, with their last territory Hong Kong Island untenable, the colony surrendered. Background Britain first thought of Japan as a threat with the ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1921, a threat that increased throughout the 1930s with the escalation of the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 21 October 1938 the Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
