One-Sheet & Paper Snipe & Lobby Card (27" x 41" & 11" x 14" & "12.5 x 21.5") ; Alternate Title "Silent Night, Evil Night"
Very Fine on Linen; Artist Robert Tanenbaum
Warner Bros., 1974

This rare one-sheet has the Silent Night, Evil Night title as well as a Black Christmas snipe intended to be used when the original title was retained. Also included is a lobby card for the Silent Night release.

This lot consists of three items. The professionally linen-backed one-sheet with the film's original title had minor color touchup applied to a few staple marks in the poster, most notably in the lower white background and the holly laurel. The lobby card is in near-mint condition, and the snipe has signs of wear, including misfolds, staple marks, and creasing.

Black Christmas (titled initially Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark and written by A. Roy Moore. For its American release, the film was retitled Silent Night, Evil Night due to fears that the original title would mislead audiences into believing it was a blaxploitation movie. They retracted the title after the initial release, restoring it to Black Christmas for subsequent screenings.[11]

Estimate: $300 - 600

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