However, despite her awareness of what’s going on around her, Jess makes several fatal errors during the climax of Black Christmas — including staying in the house when she should very obviously leave, being suspicious of the wrong person, and going into the basement.
Black Christmas’ Jess Bradford (Olivia Hussey) will last a little longer than Marion Crane because she is at least discerning enough to know when something is clearly wrong in her sorority house.
Unwilling to treat her frequent prank calls and disappearing sisters as a joke, the co-ed at the very least knows she’s in a horror movie by the end of the film.