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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.
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