Mask of Satan is the Italian tile of Mario Bava's "Black Sunday." One of the best horror flicks of all time, and it's also Tim Burton's favorite movie (there's an homage in "Sleepy Hollow").
Black Christmas is the first holiday-themed slasher. It was made by Bob Clark who went on to do Porkys. He also wrote and directed Deathdream (The Night Johnny Came home), Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, and Deranged (uncredited) with Allan Ormsby, who is now a script doctor. The sequel to Black Christmas was going to be called Halloween, but John Carpenter beat him to the punch. margot Kidder is really sexy in it.
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