The Prowler
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Movie Reviews of The Prowler
Movie Review: Great 80's Slasher Flick
Summary: 4 Stars
iF you think youre safe youre dead wrong! Awesome slasher flick. What more can you ask for Savini's effects were great in this film. Its great to see the behind the scenes Gore effects and theres no censoring here. The extras were great. ONCE AGAIn BLUE UNDERGROUND does a great job with there horror flicks. They make sure they release a quality flick. Check out any of Blue Undergrounds DVD's.Movie Review: 3/5 OUT 5 OVERALL
Summary: 3 Stars
The Prowler is classic to horror fans and when it came out in early 1981 we witnessed more of Tom Savani's great effects. First off The Prowler is about a World War vet that is over seas and gets a Dear John letter,his girlfriend Rosemary says she can no longer bare the pain of having to wait for him,so she told him she found someone else and moved on with her life. In 1945 a graduation dance is held and a couple is brutally murdered with a pitchfork. Years later the town has the graduation dance again but a prowler is on the loose. Could it be the jealous girl,the angry boyfriend,the shrieff,the man that lost his daughter in 1945 at the dance? Its a great coverup of the identity until the end. Lastly the death scenes are brutal unlike Paramounts April Fools,My Bloody Valentine,or Friday The 13th these death scenes are credited with Tom Savani's (1977/DAWN OF THE DEAD,1981/THE BURNING)effects and are all uncut/unedited. There is even a special effects making extra,and trailer,tv spots,picture galleries and great creepy score DON'T MISS THIS CLASSIS OR WILL BE MISSING ONE OF THE BEST HORROR/SLASHERS OF THE EARLY 80'S!Movie Review: I'll give it a solid 4.
Summary: 4 Stars
If you think you're safe, you're dead wrong! On the night of her graduation dance in 1945, young Rosemary and her date are brutally murdered by a prowler thought to be a jilted soldier home from the war. The killer was never found. Thirty years later, the dance is held again for the first time since that horrific evening--but something else may have also returned. Back in the eighties one of the unsung secrets of the horror video scene was the little seen shocker 'Rosemary's Killer' (aka 'The Prowler'). Widely available for rent in many UK video shops, horror fans in the know keenly sought out copies to view the welcome collaboration of Joseph Zito and splatter king Tom Savini. Following that initial underground interest the film seemed to disappear from not only the video shop shelves but from the attention of the genre fan, that was until Blue Underground announced that it would be one of their debut release titles. Now more than twenty years later, a whole new generation of horror fans can discover the slasher sleeper gem that is 'The Prowler' It's decent but a little cheesy in some parts. But with so many slasher movies out there what makes 'The Prowler' stand out and justify your deserved attention? Well once we break through the basic regulation genre plot (the only thing original it offers is the plot setting opening sequence) you'll find that the real stars of the show are not in fact the story or even the actors but the collaborative work of director Joseph Zito and effects guru Tom Savini. Zito confidently keeps the pace flowing, carefully building the suspense levels and priming you for 'the fright' with great confidence. He also very welcomingly opens the door for the legendary Savini to take centre stage whenever the blood needs to flow, allowing him to deliver some of perhaps his most classic gore set pieces without having to worry about quick cut editing for all us splatter fans to savour his work. Sure at the end of the day 'The Prowler' is very much [related to]'Friday the 13th' that no one seems to talk about, but like Blue Underground I think it's time fans of the slasher genre rediscovered this bloody gem again. You know what you're getting, so you should also know that you should pick this up. Nice one!Movie Review: typical slasher
Summary: 3 Stars
i heard this was one of the better slashers, but in reality it doesn't stand out. my big problem was the fact that i knew who the killer was in the first 2 min. of the movie, just listen to the clever dialogue, and also the first half dragged. before i get this i'd get another one first, like sleepaway camp, where you find out the killer is the girl, but she's a BOY!!!!!!!!Movie Review: Gore galore, but not much more
Summary: 2 Stars
THE PROWLER (USA - 1981): Just after the end of World War II, a small-town graduation dance is halted by a gruesome double murder. Thirty-five years later, the dance is reinstated and a killer dressed in military fatigues begins to rampage through the partygoers.
Thrown together on the cheap by director Joseph Zito and debut screenwriters Glenn Leopold and Neal F. Barbera (son of legendary animation producer Joseph Barbera) as a showcase for makeup master Tom Savini's horrific special effects, THE PROWLER emerges as a real disappointment. Following a terrific pre-credits sequence which evokes the post-war period through a combination of soft-focus cinematography and imaginative production design, the movie segues into a barely adequate contemporary story which unfolds at a snails-pace and is almost completely lacking in suspense. Savini's effects are just as shocking today as they must have seemed in 1981, particularly a mean-spirited twist on the PSYCHO shower murder which positively revels in the victim's blood-spattered torment. But these effects - which are pretty few and far between - are almost all the film has going for it. Despite a paltry 88 minute running time, the feeble storyline is padded beyond distraction by endless scenes in which the two central characters - a deputy sheriff (Christopher Goutman) and a plucky young partygoer (Vicky Dawson) - wander around various locations (the cemetery, an old house, the college dormitory, etc.) in search of clues to the unfolding mystery, culminating in a mind-numbing sequence involving an unhelpful motel clerk which seems to last forever and serves only the flimsiest of narrative purposes! The young cast are all pretty nondescript, though top-billing is reserved for Farley Granger (a long way from STRANGERS ON A TRAIN!), who provides an extended cameo as the local sheriff. Lawrence Tierney (RESERVOIR DOGS) also receives a major credit, but he has no dialogue and is on-screen for less than a minute! The movie is technically competent, but it fails to generate a sense of dramatic urgency and relies too heavily on a small number of graphic set-pieces, though Richard Einhorn's tinny music score - played by what sounds like a five-piece orchestra! - does its best to disguise the cracks in the narrative. Ultimately, THE PROWLER is recommended only for Savini-worshippers and slasher completists.
Blue Underground's disc restores the movie to its original widescreen dimensions (1.85:1) for the first time on home video, though the image is crawling with grain, particularly during daylight sequences. Extras include a series of clips from Tom Savini's home movies which chronicle the filming of the various makeup effects, offering ghoulish confirmation of the film's entire raison d'etre. Savini joins director Zito for a fascinating audio commentary in which they admit the movie's shortcomings, but they also have fond memories of the production and many of the people involved in its creation. The two men later collaborated on FRIDAY THE 13th THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984), which is everything THE PROWLER is not - stylish, suspenseful and genuinely frightening.
NB. THE PROWLER was released overseas as ROSEMARY'S KILLER, and the excellent British quad poster design is replicated on an insert included with Blue Underground's DVD.
88m 9s
1.85:1 / 16:9 enhanced
DVD soundtrack: Mono 2.0
Theatrical soundtrack: Optical mono
No captions or subtitles
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