Black Christmas was NOT first
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emwolf — 12 years ago(December 18, 2013 04:26 PM)
I know this is years after your post, but when we were taking home economics class (would have been 1975 or 1976) and we were talking about babysitting, they played a movie called "Foster's Release" which was a 20 minute film with the recently released convict making calls from the extension in the house to the babysitter. I vividly remember the sitter slamming the freezer door into the face of the pursuing psycho ex-con. American education at its finest!
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MozartsMuse — 10 years ago(June 17, 2015 09:18 PM)
Apparently there were two short films based on the babysitter urban legend:
Judson's Release
(aka
Foster's Release
) (1971) and
The Sitter
(1977).
Here are some articles about
Judson's Release
:
http://www.fangoria.com/new/unearthed-a-secret-history-of-horror-at-usc/
http://cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=14564
Outside of the trivia on IMDb, I can't find any other details about
The Sitter
.
I really want to watch both of these short films, but I'm having trouble finding information on them. It would be cool if they were included as special features on the blu-rays for other films like
When a Stranger Calls
or
Black Christmas
.
Welcome to
Fright Night
.for real.