Main Cast: Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti, Peter Dupre, Gwen Lewis
Release Year: 1981
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this slasher film, Lauren Tewes stars as a TV anchorwoman whose deaf, dumb and blind teen sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the next target of a killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Review
Don't be deceived by the surreal, creepy promotional artwork -- this tired, unimaginative slasher-thriller plays like a sleazy TV movie-of-the-week punctuated with gory murder scenes (courtesy of makeup effects wizard Tom Savini) and would have vanished into obscurity if not promoted as the big-screen debut of The Love Boat's Julie, Lauren Tewes. Tewes manages a tenuous grip on her nice-girl image as a squeaky-clean TV news anchor who slowly begins to suspect that the man in the apartment adjacent to her own is none other than a notorious murderer and rapist, whose reign of terror she has been regularly documenting on the nightly news. Of course, the killer eventually becomes aware of Tewes' less-than-discreet snooping, after which she fights to save both herself and her blind sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) from the inevitable bloody confrontation. Occasionally stylish visuals and fairly classy production design can't disguise the mediocre, misogynist slasher plot -- definitely a step backward for director Ken Wiederhorn after his impressive horror bow, Shock Waves. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
Kitty Lunn - Annette; Timothy Hawkins - Jeff; Toni Crabtree - Mona; George de Vries - Father; Dan Fitzgerald - Bartender; Robert Goodman - Crewman; Luke Halpin - Tape Editor; Amy Krug - Young Jane; Bob Small - Dr. Bob; Cassandra Peterson; Ted Richert - Roger England; Richard Allen - News Director; Mel Pape - Doctor; Sonia Zomina - Elderly Couple; Herb Goldstein; Alan Lee - Photographer
Credit
Jessica Sack - Art Director, Ken Wiederhorn - Director, Rick Shaine - Editor, Richard Einhorn - Composer (Music Score), Mini Rojas - Cinematographer, Ronald Zerra - Producer, Mark Jackson - Screenwriter, Eric L. Bloom - Screenwriter
The film centers around a rapist and murderer who stalks his victims and then calls them repeatedly before raping and killing them. A TV anchor becomes suspicious and investigates one of her neighbors, who she believes is commiting the crimes.[1]
