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I think we need to go to the man upstairs.

An unseen man upstairs, dishing out pabulum, approval and approbrium, entirely arbitrarily.

He says he must've done something wrong ... and the man upstairs took notice.

You simply can't predict when the big man upstairs is gonna start hocking loogies.

Oprah Winfrey has gotten another huge endorsement for a 2020 presidential run: the man upstairs.

He even says the big man upstairs was the good Samaritan who allegedly took him to the hospital.

The actor clarified his comment to PEOPLE, saying that he hopes The Man Upstairs has a sense of humor.

He then expresses gratitude to the man upstairs, saying, "Thank you God for allowing me to recover and continue."

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize," P.G. Wodehouse wrote in his 1914 novel The Man Upstairs.

If this rehab trip ends up being all for naught ... hey, at least she's scoring points with the man upstairs.

And even after the Pope got approval from his team and the man upstairs, there was still more work to be done.

" She added: "So, we took our chances with the man upstairs who gave us grace and allowed us to still be here today.

Except, unlike the singers he's drawing from who often looked to the sky for their salvation, he replaces the man upstairs with Lucifer.

He did the occasional television movie, including "The Man Upstairs," a 1992 comic drama on CBS that starred Katharine Hepburn and Ryan O'Neal.

Our Bieber/Baldwin sources tell us Justin and Hailey don't consider themselves "officially" married ... because they haven't cemented their vows with the man upstairs.

Murphy is famously and deeply serious about his Christian faith, and when I met him last October he was quick to credit the man upstairs for his success.

Manning continued, "I'm going to take care of those things first and definitely going to say a little prayer and thank the man upstairs for this great opportunity."

Kirk was at the Liberty University Convocation last week and went into what made him walk away from the big cash, and it's all about the man upstairs.

A small film takes a big shot at the man upstairs in a new film from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's experimental production company Oats Studios simply entitled God.

The point -- as far as we can tell -- is that Kanye is becoming more comfortable with preaching, and way more comfortable talking about his relationship with the man upstairs.

X was at the airport bar and grill Monday night in St. Louis when he started breaking down what the man upstairs has done for him in times of need.

Montell Jordan says Kanye West needs a real God in his life ... and he's willing to take him under his wing to show him how to properly reach the man upstairs.

We spoke to someone in the QB's inner circle who says although Robert 100% still wants to play ... he's telling people close to him it's all in the hands of the man upstairs.

While some animals can't stand their shitty, soul-crushing jobs and long for the chance to roam free among their fellow beasts, others just aren't cut out for serving the big man upstairs.

Justin Bieber says he was celibate for a year before getting back together and eventually marrying Hailey Baldwin -- and it sounds like he did it (or didn't do it) for the man upstairs.

Darryl Strawberry says there's only one thing that saved him from the despair of drug addiction ... God ... telling TMZ Sports it was the man upstairs who was finally able to pull him from his habit.

She claims that God will save her, but John Marston's not about to rely on any man upstairs: "Nobody made my path but me" are his words to Bonnie when she asks if he's religious.

Ryan Garcia says he knew he was going to knock out his opponent on Friday night -- which he did, BTW -- so he sent a little prayer up to the man upstairs on behalf of the guy.

"The man upstairs was looking out for me because I got in and changed my shirt and, yeah, I think it helped me out a lot," Stephens said in an on-court interview after the match.

Tennessee Titans linebacker Avery Williamson says he was conflicted about wearing special cleats to pay tribute to 9/11 victims ... so he asked for advice from the man upstairs ... and God told him to lace up.

So I remember just waiting, and I knew I was getting ready to get this move, and I was talking to the big man upstairs and I was like, "Please, God, make this OK, make this OK".

While the self-destructive Toby pursues fame and endless sex, the nurturing Eric makes friends with the older man upstairs, Walter Poole (Hilton again), the physically frail, unexpectedly heroic partner of the strapping billionaire businessman Henry Wilcox (John Benjamin Hickey).

It's unclear whether their attempts to do so were swayed by the man upstairs, though the New Yorker noted the DOJ "expressed no serious antitrust concerns" about conservative billionaire Rubert Murdoch's deal to sell 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company.

Speaking of that, Kanye also pumped himself up a bit by saying that he was the greatest artist that God ever created ... and now, he was working for the man upstairs again -- instead of working for the devil, which he believes most of his contemporaries are doing now.

"The Good Angel" as it appears in the 1914 collection The Man Upstairs contains no such mention, although there is a "Lord Stockleigh" involved.

The Man Upstairs is later heard at the end of the movie asking "Honey, where are my pants?" in a reference to the sitcom from the first movie.

Ladies' Love Oracle is the first solo album by Grant-Lee Phillips. The song "Don't Look Down" was later covered by Robyn Hitchcock on his 2014 album The Man Upstairs.

McIlvaine (1990), p. 147, D17.1. "Sir Agravaine" was illustrated by Milo Winter in Collier's.McIlvaine (1990), p. 145, D15.7. In Cosmopolitan, "The Man Upstairs" was illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg,McIlvaine (1990), p. 147, D17.2.

The Man Upstairs is a 1958 British psychological drama film directed by Don Chaffey. It stars Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee. The film was produced by Robert Dunbar for Act Films Ltd.Action! Fifty Years in the Life of a Union.

Robyn Hitchcock is the twenty-first studio album by British musician Robyn Hitchcock. It was released in 2017 through Yep Roc. The album, largely rooted in psychedelic rock, represents a stylistic change from his previous LP, The Man Upstairs, which was entirely acoustic.

Delafield Wants to Marry (1986), Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988), The Man Upstairs (1992). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie for producing Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry. In 1996, he published his memoirs Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences.

The Man Upstairs (portrayed by Will Ferrell) is an unnamed adult Lego collector and the father of Finn who appears in the live-action part of the film. He comes home from work and chastises his son for "ruining" the set by creating variations of different playsets while stating that he left the child blocks for him and his sister to use. With every Krazy Glue in his possession, "The Man Upstairs" proceeds to permanently rebuild and glue his perceived perfect creations together. Eventually, he finds that Finn based Lord Business off of him and joins Finn into removing the Krazy Glue from him.

A butler named Keggs works for the Keiths in the 1910 short stories "The Good Angel" (collected in The Man Upstairs) and "Love Me, Love My Dog" (collected in Plum Stones). There is also a butler named Keggs in The Coming of Bill.Garrison (1991), p. 102.

However, "the Man upstairs" (an American reference to God) was listening - when the phone rings and Mama answers it, the voice on the other end is that of Daddy, apparently safe and sound. He asks if they had been singing that song during the search for him.

I Was a King's Anne Lise Frøkedal also plays guitar and sings vocal harmonies on the album. The album's cover was created by musician and artist Gillian Welch. In 2020, Hitchcock released an album of outtakes from the Man Upstairs sessions, The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities.

Most of Starr's songs had jazz influences. Like those of Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray, they were sung in a style that anticipated rock and roll songs. These included her hits "Wheel of Fortune" (her biggest hit, No. 1 for 10 weeks), "Side by Side", "The Man Upstairs", and "Rock and Roll Waltz".

The three realise that 'the man upstairs' has gone, though they do not know whether he has been killed or has simply abandoned them. The power shuts off, leaving them in darkness and without water. Now weakened and delirious, Fred is killed when he drinks some bleach, after becoming desperate and ill. Linus and Jenny are left alone.

Porky is well equipped and ready to begin duck hunting. Porky practices with his rifle, frightens his dog, Rover and shoots a man upstairs, who comes down to punch Porky in the snout. At a lake, Porky spies a duck, but other duck hunters suddenly appear and shoot at it for several seconds. They all miss.

First edition The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 26–27, A17. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United States.

The diary abruptly finishes mid-sentence. It ends of on the note with no satisfied ending. No explanation to as what had happened, the point of it all, the identity and ending of said man upstairs, or the fate of them all. Linus then wakes up as he has survived and learns that the goal was to be the last man standing.

He played Rudy in Patch Adams as well. He also played Mr. Noodle's brother, Mister Noodle, on Sesame Street from 2000 to 2003. He appeared in an episode of Touched by an Angel in 1999 as Gus, an insurance salesman who arrives in Las Vegas in the episode "The Man Upstairs". His last two appearances were in the films Open Range and The Polar Express.

The Sitter is a 1977 American horror-thriller short film directed by Fred Walton on which his 1979 feature film When a Stranger Calls is based. It is a suspenseful retelling of the classic urban legend of "The babysitter and the man upstairs" about a babysitter who is menaced by mysterious and frightening phone calls which are finally revealed to be coming from inside the house.

She died peacefully in her sleep on 30 August 2005, two months after her 115th birthday. She had remained mentally alert up until her death, but suffered from increasing frailty. Several days prior to her death she told the director of her nursing home, Johan Beijering, that "It's been nice, but the man upstairs says it's time to go". She agreed to leave her body to science when she was 82.

The 1976 UK paperback edition includes "The Traveler", originally from the aforementioned Dark Carnival, and omits "The Next In Line", "The Lake", "The Small Assassin", "The Crowd", "Jack-In-The- Box", "The Man Upstairs" and "The Cistern".Bradbury, Ray. The October Country (1976) London: Grafton . In 1999, The October Country was published by Avon Books, Inc. with a new cover illustration by Joseph Mugnaini, and a new introduction by Bradbury called “Homesteading the October Country”.

Finn (portrayed by Jadon Sand in The Lego Movie and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Graham Miller as a younger kid in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) is a boy who is the son of "The Man Upstairs". He created the world of Lego, all the events and the characters, including Emmet. In the second film, Finn clashes with Bianca's ways with Lego which nearly brings Armamageddon to the Lego universe.

Linus tries to convince everyone to continue co-operating, but his efforts are merely met with hostility and complaints from some of the group. Desperate for escape, Linus attempts to lure 'the man upstairs' into the bunker, but the kidnapper sends down a vicious Doberman in the lift instead. The dog savagely attacks Bird, but is then killed by Fred. Due to this latest escape attempt, the food stops, and Linus resorts to eating insects.

He directed episodes of TV series like Theatre Royal, The Adventures of the Big Man, Chevron Hall of Stars, The Errol Flynn Theatre, Assignment Foreign Legion, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dial 999, and The New Adventures of Charlie Chan. He interspersed these with features like A Question of Adultery (1958), The Man Upstairs (1958), Danger Within (1959), Dentist in the Chair (1960), Lies My Father Told Me (1960), and Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961).

Five of the stories had appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1914 collection The Man Upstairs. All had previously appeared in UK. periodicals between 1901 and 1915; some had also appeared in the U.S. Five short items are included from UK magazines of the 1900–06 period; ten items from 1914–19, nine from the U.S. Vanity Fair magazine. The collection was edited and introduced by David A. Jasen, and features a foreword by Malcolm Muggeridge.

My last overseas team threatened my job if i didn't write a fake letter on social media saying my relationship was a lie. But all i know, Love is a great feeling! I understand we all judge and its in human nature, but the more i speak to God i never feel judgement front he man upstairs, even tho he has all the power too! He tells me to fall, learn, and grow because thats life.

When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological horror film written and directed by Fred Walton and co-written by Steve Feke. It stars Carol Kane, Colleen Dewhurst, Tony Beckley and Charles Durning. The film derives its story from the classic folk legend of "the babysitter and the man upstairs". The film has developed a large cult following over time because of the first 20 minutes, now consistently regarded as one of the scariest openings in movie history.

The Man Upstairs is the twentieth studio album by Robyn Hitchcock. It was released on August 26, 2014 on the Yep Roc Records label. The album comprises ten acoustic songs, all produced by Joe Boyd, noted for his work with various folk acts in the 1970s. It contains five original songs by Hitchcock and five covers of songs by the Psychedelic Furs, Roxy Music, Grant-Lee Phillips, Norwegian indie-rock band I Was a King, and The Doors.

Coraline Jones and her loving parents move into an old house that has been divided into flats. The other tenants include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage and Mr. Bobo, initially referred to as "the crazy old man upstairs," who claims to be training a mouse circus. The flat beside Coraline's is unoccupied, and a small door that links them is revealed to be bricked up when opened. Coraline goes to visit her new neighbours.

O'Neal had a support part in a Liza Minnelli TV special Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988), and also supported in the romantic comedy Chances Are (1989). He returned to TV opposite his then-partner Farrah Fawcett in Small Sacrifices (1989). He and Fawcett made a short-lived CBS series Good Sports (1991) which lasted 15 episodes. O'Neal co starred with Katharine Hepburn in the TV movie The Man Upstairs (1992) and had a cameo in Fawcett's Man of the House (1995).

He encounters a woman from the 19th century without arms; she disappears like the fingerless man. Upstairs, Spike meets up with Angel, who thinks that Spike is starting to feel how close he is to Hell. Spike says that it can't be a big deal, since Angel managed to escape, but Angel says that he didn't, he just got a reprieve. Spike says that Fred told him about the Shanshu Prophecy, which Angel says isn't real because there's no such thing as destiny.

She made a minor film debut for director Roy Boulting with Happy Is the Bride (1957), and then began switching between the theatre and the screen. In director Pat Jackson's comedy Virgin Island (US: Our Virgin Island, 1958), she appeared with John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. She gained a British Lion contract and appeared in The Man Upstairs (1958) and as an air hostess in Jet Storm (1959). She also made an impact on the stage in The Catalyst and in live TV drama.

In an exclusive interview with Malaysiakini, Balasubramaniam claimed he was fighting to ensure that justice would prevail, adding that "the man upstairs and the spirit of the murdered Mongolian woman still needed him to continue with his crusade".TV3."P. Balasubramaniam Dies of Heart Attack" , Media Prima, 15 March 2013. Retrieved on 17 March 2013 On 28 February 2013, Balasubramaniam made a press conference that he was back to find justice for Altantuya, but also to help Pakatan Rakyat win the 13th General Election.CT Ali.

Upon being called up to Taco Tuesday by Finn's mom, "The Man Upstairs" tells Finn that he will now allow his younger sister to play with them. This resulted in aliens from the planet Duplo beaming down and announcing their plans to destroy them. He does not appear in the second film, only flashbacks from the first film. His voice is heard when Finn and Bianca's mother talks to them about putting the Legos into storage as he tells them to listen to what their mother said.

Hitchcock wrote the song "Sunday Never Comes" for the 2018 film Juliet, Naked, which was sung in the movie by Ethan Hawke's character, an aging, reclusive musician. He later released a companion video of his own version of the song. In September 2019 Hitchcock collaborated with XTC frontman Andy Partridge on a four-song EP Planet England, co-writing the songs and both singing. In 2020, he released The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities, an album of outtakes recorded in 2013 as demos for The Man Upstairs.

He falls in love with Marguerite Laurier (Alice Terry), the unhappy and much younger wife (by an arranged marriage) of Etienne Laurier, a friend of Julio's father. The affair is discovered, and Marguerite's husband agrees to give her a divorce to avoid a scandal. It seems as though Julio and Marguerite will be able to marry, but both end up getting caught up in the start of the Great War. The scene where the man upstairs (Nigel de Brulier) shows Julio (Valentino) and his manservant (Bowditch M. Turner) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Billy was partially inspired by the urban legend of "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs", which had become widespread during the 1970s. In it, a young woman babysitting three children is tormented by a madman who leaves threatening phone calls, later revealed to be coming from upstairs in the house. It was also the basis for the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls, and its subsequent remake. A. Roy Moore took further inspiration from a series of murders that occurred during the 1943 holiday season in the Westmount area of Montreal.

Blake (voiced by Craig Berry) is an actor who stars in the Octan Corporation's TV series "Where Are My Pants?", which is the favorite show of Emmet and the citizens of Bricksburg. His character tends to misplace his pants with them ending up in odd places which leads to him asking his wife the titular question. Blake's question in the TV series was referenced in the second film when "The Man Upstairs" asks his wife the titular question, revealing that these real life situations are the basis for the sit-com.

Welch and Rawlings' contributions on Hitchcock's album Spooked was described by Christopher Bahn of The A.V. Club as "subtle but vital". She later created the cover art for Hitchcock's 2014 album The Man Upstairs. Mark Deming of Allmusic wrote that their work on Ryan Adams' album Heartbreaker "brought out the best in Adams". Artists who have recorded songs written by Welch include Jimmy Buffett, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Trisha Yearwood, Joan Baez, Brad Mehldau & Chris Thile, Allison Moorer, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Kathy Mattea and ZZ Top.

Wyldstyle explains that Business wants to use the Kragle , a tube of Krazy Glue with a weathered label, to freeze the world into his own personal vision of orderly perfection. Though disappointed to find that Emmet is not a Master Builder, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his potential when he recalls visions of a deity referred to as "The Man Upstairs". Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cop's forces with the aid of Batman, Wyldstyle's boyfriend. They visit the hidden realm of Cloud Cuckoo Land, where they meet Unikitty.

In 2011, he released Tromsø, Kaptein, an album of songs written in Norway, and released physically only in that country. Hitchcock was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform "I Often Dream of Trains" at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to be curated by Mangum in March 2012 in Minehead, England. The album Love From London (working title: File Under Pop) was released on Yep Roc Records on 5 March 2013. The label also released his subsequent record, The Man Upstairs, on 26 August 2014.

Roville-sur-Mer is a fictional resort in Northern France, 'in Picardy' (French Leave) and the setting of the likes of The Adventures of Sally and French Leave; the name, however, is reminiscent of Deauville and Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the Channel. It first appeared in two of the short stories collected in the book The Man Upstairs, published in the U.K. in 1914: Ruth in Exile and The Tuppenny Millionaire. It also appears in the short story, "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" (in The Inimitable Jeeves).Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 216–217.

Foster's Release is a 1971 American short film directed by Terence H. Winkless. It is a suspenseful retelling of the common story of "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" about a teenage babysitter who, alone in a house at night, is harassed by a series of phone calls made by a psychotic killer. The film was featured at the Edinburgh Film Festival, L.A. Filmex and the Chicago Film Festival, among others. In Illinois, it is commonly shown to classes in home economics, for whom it illustrates the concepts of responsibility and deviancy.

She recounted the images of mothers and children with their clothing on fire drowning in the rough waters of Hell Gate. Others were killed as they were drawn into the blades of the paddlewheel. The total death count was 1,021 of the 1,331 passengers who were on a Sunday school outing, and among the victims were her mother, her nine-year-old brother Walter, and her 9-month-old sister Agnes. "Sometimes he is very cruel, the man upstairs," she said in her interview with The New York Times on May 24, 1989, when she was already 96.

Encouraged by the audience reaction, in April the brothers began filming a pilot for Deputy Seraph, a proposed weekly TV series in which Chico and Harpo were angels whose job was to possess people for brief periods of time: bringing two lovers together, exposing a criminal, and so forth. Groucho was cast as a "Deputy Seraph" who would appear in approximately every third show to help undo some of the pandemonium created by his brothers. He would contact "the man upstairs" via telephone: saying, "Phone, please!," would cause a telephone handset to magically appear in his hand.

She returned to television screens in 1992 for The Man Upstairs, co-starring Ryan O'Neal, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1994 she worked opposite Anthony Quinn in This Can't Be Love, which was largely based on Hepburn's own life, with numerous references to her personality and career. These later roles have been described as "a fictional version of the typically feisty Kate Hepburn character" and critics have remarked that Hepburn was essentially playing herself. Hepburn's final appearance in a theatrically released film, and her first since Grace Quigley nine years earlier, was Love Affair (1994).

Billy is a fictional character from the Black Christmas film series. He first appeared in Black Christmas (1974), as a deranged murderer who taunts and kills a group of college students during the Christmas season. Created by Bob Clark and A. Roy Moore, the character was partly inspired by the urban legend "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs", as well as a series of real murders during the holiday season. Several members of the cast and crew would portray and voice the character in the original film, including Nick Mancuso, cameraman Bert Dunk, and director Clark.

In The Coming of Bill, a butler named Keggs is employed by the Bannisters and later by the Winfields. A butler named Keggs appears in several other Wodehouse stories, though it is unclear which of these characters are the same. Other stories with such a character include the 1909 novella The Gem Collector and the 1910 short story “The Good Angel” (collected in The Man Upstairs). There is a landlord and retired butler named Augustus Keggs in Something Fishy (1957) and Ice in the Bedroom (1961), who was a butler in the 1919 novel A Damsel in Distress.

In 1986 Gerry Colvin worked with other musicians as The Man Upstairs co-writing "Consumer Song", "Country Boy" and "I Bet They're Really Missing Me Downstairs" on the collectable The Consumers' EP. Gerry Colvin collaborated with singer-songwriter Alison Moyet on the song "Find Me" which appears on her 1991 album Hoodoo. He went on to front two bands, Gerry Colvin's Inexperience and The Atlantics, both of which were popular live acts. Colvin subsequently performed and recorded with Nick Quarmby, Martin Fitzgibbon, Allen Maslen and Marion Fleetwood as ColvinQuarmby. Terry Lilley studied for and achieved a higher national diploma in jazz studies; the only double-bass player to do so.

Mom (voiced by Amanda Farinos in The Lego Movie, portrayed by Maya Rudolph in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) is the unnamed wife of The Man Upstairs and the mother of Finn and Bianca. Her voice is heard in The Lego Movie when she tells her husband and son that the tacos are ready. In The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, she is fully seen where she has brown hair and her fingernails and toenails are painted pink. A recurring gag in the film is when she steps on Lego pieces with her foot causing her to scream "Ayeeee!" due to her being barefoot at the time.

The Duplo Aliens (voiced by Sawyer Jones, Liam Knight, Cora Miller, Graham Miller, Emmett Mitchell, and Ollie Mitchell) are a race of giant aliens made of Duplo blocks that come from the planet Duplo. As a result of "The Man Upstairs" allowing his younger daughter Bianca to play with him and Finn, the Duplo Aliens arrive with the lead Duplo Alien announcing their plans to destroy everyone before the film ends in a cliffhanger. In the second film, the Duplo Aliens' attack turned Bricksburg into Apocalypseburg. However, it is also revealed in the second film is that they only wanted to join Bricksburg but had communication problems.

In early 1977, Fred Walton and his old college friend Steve Feke were throwing around story ideas for a film and Feke told him the legendary tale of "The babysitter and the man upstairs" which Walton felt had potential for a film. The production of The Sitter was made on a low budget with both Feke and Walton working steadily for the financing, including their friends' contributing $1,000 here and there. The 22-minute film, shot on 35mm in three days in May 1977 on a budget of $12,000, closely prefigures the opening twenty minutes of When a Stranger Calls, now consistently regarded as one of the scariest openings in horror movie history.Rockoff, Adam.

"The Man Upstairs", revealed to be Finn's controlling father, enters the basement and is shocked to see his collection being played with. He proceeds to lecture his son and uses several tubes of superglue in an attempt to restore the collection to the way it was. Realizing the danger Finn's father poses to Emmet's world, Emmet catches Finn's attention by shaking himself, and Finn distracts his father long enough to retrieve the Piece of Resistance (now revealed to be the cap of the Kragle) and return Emmet to the Lego world. Emmet, now a Master Builder, lands in a construction site, and creates a giant robot to fight against Business' army of Micro Managers.

Teenager Linus Weems wakes up in an underground bunker (having been drugged with chloroform and kidnapped by a stranger). Linus is originally from a wealthy family, but since the death of his mother and subsequent arguments with his father, he had run away from school and been living on the streets. It was there that the stranger was able to kidnap Linus, by posing as a blind man needing assistance. As Linus adjusts to his new surroundings, he finds that the bunker has a kitchen, bathroom and six small bedrooms, but there are also cameras and microphones so that 'the man upstairs' (as Linus calls the kidnapper) can watch his every move.

Black Christmas was initially developed by Canadian screenwriter Roy Moore, who wrote the screenplay under the title Stop Me. Inspirations for the film came from the urban legend known as "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs", which had become widespread during the 1970s. Moore also claimed to have been inspired by a series of murders that occurred during the holiday season in the Westmount area of Montreal. As noted in an article for The Telegraph, the murders, which occurred in 1943, were perpetrated by a fourteen-year-old boy who bludgeoned several of his family members to death. Film producers Harvey Sherman and Richard Schouten had Timothy Bond rewrite the script to give it a university setting.

Black Christmas (originally titled 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. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman, Lynne Griffin and John Saxon. The story follows a group of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are eventually stalked and murdered by a deranged killer during the Christmas season. Inspired by the urban legend "The babysitter and the man upstairs" and a series of murders that took place in the Westmount neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Moore wrote the screenplay under the title Stop Me. The filmmakers made numerous alterations to the script, primarily the shifting to a university setting with young adult characters.

" Appel defended their decision saying, "we took our chances with the man upstairs, who gave us grace and allowed us to still be here today." After she amended her version of events with the alleged Taiwanese attack on Sea Nymph, Appel said she eschewed the EPIRB because it would have immediately alerted the Taiwanese captain, as opposed to her telephoning Guam and relaying her emergency in English. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific-Ocean weather readings for May 3, 2017 Appel and Fuiava said they encountered a "force 11 storm" on May 3. Though the National Weather Service in Hawaii issued a small craft advisory for the ʻAlenuihāhā and Pailolo Channels that day, it recorded "no organized storm systems near the Hawaiian Islands on the dates of May 3, 2017 or the few days afterward.

The early 1970s saw an increase in exploitation films that lured audiences to grindhouses and drive-ins by advertising of sex and violence. Robert Fuest's And Soon the Darkness (1970) set off the '70s exploitation wave by maximizing its small budget and taking place in daylight. The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971) follows an insane killer who stalks and murders victims at a nursing academy. Fright (1971) is based on the "babysitter and the man upstairs" urban legend while Tower of Evil (1972) features careless partying teens murdered in a remote island lighthouse. Pete Walker broke taboos by advertising his films' negative reviews to attract viewers looking for the depraved, using a "no press is bad press" mantra with The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Frightmare (1974), House of Mortal Sin (1976), Schizo (1976) and The Comeback (1978).

Some films explored urban legends such as "The babysitter and the man upstairs". A notable example is When a Stranger Calls (1979), an American psychological horror film directed by Fred Walton starring Carol Kane and Charles Durning. Alien (1979), a British-American science- fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott was very successful, receiving both critical acclaim and being a box office success. John Carpenter's movie The Thing (1982) was also a mix of horror and sci-fi, but it was neither a box-office nor critical hit, but soon became a cult classic. However, nearly 20 years after its release, it was praised for using ahead-of-its-time special effects and paranoia. The 1980s saw a wave of gory "B movie" horror films – although most of them were poorly reviewed by critics, many became cult classics and later saw success with critics.