Also known as Rosemary's Killer.
Here we have a prime 80s slasher that I have not yet reviewed, lets fix that eh? I had definitely seen it, but it had been a while, and this one is a good one. It deserves to be watched again.
The Prowler begins with classic WWII footage and reading of a Dear John letter to an unknown soldier. Then we cut to a high school where the girl who wrote it, presumably, is hunted down and killed on graduation night. Now in the modern day of 1981, the school has not had a graduation since, but they are about to kick it back into gear. Because of this, a killer reappears and bodies start stacking up.
It's a fairly simple premise, we don't watch these for their originality. What we watch them for is bodies, both dead and naked. Also, it helps if effects are by Tom Savini, even if it's mostly cut out by the censorship people.
What this movie has is an iconic looking killer with a pitchfork, and that dareisay is just about all you need to be a successful slasher, and this one is certainly good. I'm trying to do the math in my head about why it isn't as well known and in fact it was not a financial success, but I can't even really say. I guess it probably got buried by all the others.
Spoiler alert in the end of Friday the 13th a kid Jason leaps out of the lake and pulls down the final girl, it is then revealed to be a dream sorta. Sorta because all the sequels that actually star Jason point towards that this did happen...? At then end of this one, the final girl gets grabbed by a suddenly reanimated dead body, then that is a dream. So by Friday the 13th logic, the sequel to this should have that dead body, that murder victim, now being a killer and hunting people. I wanna see it! Prowler 2.
I liked this, I'll give it 4 stars.
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