Many great action movies never saw the sequels and the franchises they deserved, resulting in some surprisingly standalone classics. The action genre is home to some of the most consistently high budgets in Hollywood, and when playing with such stakes, studios demand clear and incontrovertible proof that a franchise is profitable. Modest box office success, even when attached to films with massive stars and promising cinematic worlds, is rarely sufficient to justify greenlighting a sequel. Moreover, even sequels to films that are massive successes at the box office can wither in development hell before being canceled.
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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