{"id":5600,"date":"2026-08-27T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:50:03","slug":"black-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5600","title":{"rendered":"Black Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mu\u00f1oz continues his holiday horror spree (after <strong><em>Turkey Day<\/em><\/strong> and others) with this grisly sorority-house-Christmas set tale that\u2019s based on the 1974 film of the same name. With Christmas celebrations and travel, the young women at the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house barely see one another and have no time to deal with the creepy phone calls they receive from a man they dub \u201cthe moaner.\u201d Or is it a man? The calls sometimes seem to also feature a woman and a baby crying. Well, whatever. The sherry is flowing, boyfriends are calling to the house, and there\u2019s little time for that weirdness; add the problem that nobody believes the young women. When an adolescent girl is found murdered in a nearby park, however, the police realize it\u2019s serious, thought they\u2019re too late to stop the killings that are already underway at the house, which are gory and terrifying. An ending chase reflects the book\u2019s slasher-film origins and will keep readers on edge, all while the shocking treatment of young women by the police and the sorority sisters\u2019 families and boyfriends continues unabated. <strong>An eye opening and grisly twist on the usual Christmas coziness, for those who relish Stephen King and slasher films<\/strong>.<em>\u2014Henrietta Thornton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mu\u00f1oz continues his holiday horror spree (after Turkey Day and others) with this grisly sorority-house-Christmas set tale that\u2019s based on the 1974 film of the same name. With Christmas celebrations&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[75,302,242],"class_list":["post-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-horror","tag-middle-eastern","tag-slasher"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Black-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Black-400x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}