Black Christmas (1974)

Canadian produced early slasher film from A Christmas Story director Bob Clark. This is the movie were the genera cliché line "he's calling from inside the house, the killer is inside the house" comes from. The house in this case is a sorority house, the movie begins at the start of Christmas break, and among the sorority girls are Olivia Hussy and Margot Kidder, both seem a little to old for their roles. It keeps things interesting with the killer, who spoiler..... we never learn who he is. The sequences with the community being organized to search for a missing girl, I really liked that, it felt real, their was a civic sense there you don't often associate with horror movies. Smarter then what this genera would become, I recommend it. ***