An underrated episode of Star Trek: The Original Series featured one of Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) most questionable romances. The TOS version of Kirk was very much a product of 1960s TV storytelling conventions; he was the Captain and thus, the hero of the TV series, which means Kirk gets to punch out the bad guy, and he always gets the girl (until the next week's episode). But the introduction of Lenore Karidian (Barbara Anderson), Kirk's love interest in "The Conscience of the King," was problematic in several ways.
Bob Clark's 1974 horror film Black Christmas is one of the most influential slasher movies of all time, and it has an unforgettably chilling ending. In Black Christmas Billy is considered the villain as he picks off victims one by one, and after almost 50 years, his identity is still debated. The story takes place in a sorority house, where the residents are throwing a Christmas party before they depart. Little do they know, however, that a perverted killer has made his way into the house, and is preparing to pick them off one by one. The Billy Black Christmas character remains in the shadows for most of the movie, that is, until the chilling ending.
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