10 Horror Movies That Got Better YEARS Later

Black Christmas has never really gotten its full due for being one of the genre's first-ever slasher flicks, even predating John Carpenter's Halloween by a full four years. But more than that, Bob Clark's visceral seasonal horror flick has proven itself to be an impressively progressive and timely film with regard to the issue of women's reproductive rights.

A subplot in Black Christmas involves protagonist Jess (Olivia Hussey) informing her boyfriend Peter (Keir Dullea) that she's pregnant and going to have an abortion, much to his anger. Despite that, Jess remains steadfast in her decision, and while the film itself was likely responding to Roe v. Wade establishing a woman's right to an abortion a mere year prior, few could've anticipated how America would change decades later.

In the current American climate, where a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices is being eroded by those in charge, Black Christmas feels ever more relevant in underlining the importance of said right to choose. It's just depressing that a 50-year-old movie paints a more permissive picture of bodily autonomy than the present paradigm.