Synopsis
Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
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Cast
- Vicky DawsonPam MacDonald
- Christopher GoutmanMark London
- Lawrence TierneyMaj. Chatham
- Farley GrangerSheriff George Fraser
- Cindy WeintraubLisa
- Lisa DunsheathSherry
- David SederholmCarl
- Bill NunneryHotel Clerk
- Thom BrayBen
- Diane RodeSally
Recommendations
- 70
L.A. Weekly
Special effects master Tom Savini did the makeup for this overlooked gem (actually, his fingerprints are on a few of the films on this list), and some of the kills are downright ugly (or beautiful, in horror jargon). - 63
Slant Magazine
What the film lacks in narrative drive, coherence, and performance, it makes up with thoughtful lighting, strong cinematography from Raoul Lomas and an uncredited João Fernandes, and, of course, Savini’s lovingly overblown and impossible splatter effects. - 50
Washington Post
For all its boldness of concept and carnage, The Prowler is never entirely satisfying. There are too many missed opportunities to transcend the genre’s schlock, too many passages where nothing happens, too many scares that fall flat. Still, it’s an intriguing artifact of an earlier horror-movie era, one that toys with the idea of villains and victims while slashing the slasher formula to bits. - 40
Time Out
Mad axeman action yet again, cravenly conformist in every department. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
The real reason for the existence of this unexceptional film is to show off the artistry of special-effects man Savini.
