The irony of Bob Clark's career in film is that he's so good at so many things that he’s forgotten for many of them. Undoubtedly his best loved modern masterpiece is
A Christmas Story.
He also directed the seminal, scandalous teen comedy Porky' as well as the Sherlock Holmes classic, Murder by Degree.

Clark has an uncanny ability to create unforgettable movies. That talent has endeared him to fans of horror since his first film, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. That film, and his second horror classic Black Christmas drew a legion of fans through late-night television screenings in the 1970's. Whereas 'Children' is a black-hearted gore-fest with a sense of humor, Black Christmas shocked audiences with its merciless deaths and its unapologetically dark ending. Clark completed his trio of masterful horror films with Deathdream, a tale with echoes of The Monkey's Paw, in which a dead soldier inexplicably returns home from Viet Nam with a zombie's need for human blood in order to sustain his increasingly horrifying place among the living.