Black Christmas Director Killed in Auto Accident

Posted by Horror Grinder on April 6, 2007

Th AP reports that film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic A Christmas Story, died in a car accident yesterday in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 67.

Clark and his son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were both killed in a head-on collision with a driver under the influence of alcohol, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman.

In A Christmas Story, all 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range model air rifle.

His mother, his teacher and Santa Claus all warn: “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”

A bully named Scut Farkus, a leg lamp, a freezing-flagpole mishap and some four-letter defiance helpPublished the movie become a seasonal fixture with TBS running a marathon that starts on Christmas Eve: in 24 hours the film is shown a dozen times in a row.

Clark specialized in horror movies and thrillers early in his career, directing such 1970s flicks as Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, and Black Christmas. His breakout success came with the 1982 sex farce Porky’s.

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