The Prowler
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Movie Reviews of The Prowler
Movie Review: Hmmmmm
Summary: 3 Stars
One of the previous post mentioned that this film is often overlooked and has seldom been noticed or acknowledged in the world of horror films. They were definetly right.
I hadn't ever heard of this 1980 slasher flick until an AMC 100 Greatest Horror Films special that aired around Halloween of last year.
I put off buying this movie, mainly because it was unavailable to rent at my local video stores AND via netflix and blockbuster online...but I finally caved a week ago and shelled out the 15 buckeroos and had this bad boy sent out via amazon.
I must admit that I am slightly dissapointed. I don't know if I was simply not in a horror movie mood when I watched this, or if it truly is a poor slasher film...but the movie left me feeling underwhelmed.
I have to give Tom Savini credit for his incredible special effects. The gore is intense for it being made it 1980. Savini gives us shots of knives sawing into flesh and pitchforks prodding into body parts, that actually LOOK real. The pitchfork in the stomach looked pretty real, and i was grossed out at the pool scene. The blood is actually quite dark and realistic too, which is a pretty high feat.
The film's traditional heroine, while sweet and somewhat innocent, reminded me too much of Ginny from Friday The 13th Part 2, and I couldn't help but have the two characters overlapping in my mind throughout the movie.
There seemed to be a problem with the pacing of the film too. Something just felt OFF. The ending was lackluster and didn't impress me. I gotta give this movie 3 stars simply for Tom Savini's incredibly original and gore filled special effects. The rest of the movie was a total bummer for me though.
Movie Review: How does that guy see through that rag over his face?...
Summary: 3 Stars
The prowler is probably the ultimate soso slasher movie. It must be made clear that this movie is actually Friday the 13th. part 3.5. It was made between Jason's hockey mask debut and before the final chapter. You see, the F13 franchise was simply testing the market for a fatigued-garbed Michael (Jason,JASON I mean!) the director Joeseph Zito and FX stud Savini even went on to make F13 5 (Uh,4,I meant to say). The soundtrack is also Friday the 13ths. part 1's creepy violin music, but with the important Ch,ch,ch,cha,cha,CHA's strangely deleted. Some of it's redeeming values, however, include the killer's costume, which is way more neat-o than a hockey mask, an excellent pitchfork slaying in a shower scene, and you get to see the 70's classic rock band "Boston" in their final stage performance!! SWeeT! That shower scene is particularily good; he stabs her, and as he lifts her up against the wall, you can hear the tips of the forks scrape against the wall (a nice touch), then she screams and blood shoots big-time out of her mouth, and best of all, the scene ends with that said scream fading into one of Boston's slower numbers. Not really recommendable. There ae some cool scenes in this movie, but most of it is just long stretches of lame plot developement and creepy violin music. One teenage-screwN'kill sequence is set up but never carried through. The Blue Underground release has ten minutes of Savini's home-video footage of the prowler sawing on the swimming pool chick's neck and moaning in a very comely fashion and oozing and squirting blood all over the place (oh yeah, Savini blows up a dummies head with a shotgun that is suppose to look like Farley Granger, but looks more like former vice president Al Gore).Movie Review: Nothing in between...
Summary: 3 Stars
I had high hopes for "The Prowler". Yes, the death scenes and gore are good. However they are few and far between and what you get stuck with in the middle is some awfully boring and painful filler.
The whole girl running around with a cop trying to solve the "mystery" of the prowler is VERY badly acted, and so completely lame and far fetched that it leaves you praying the movie will end soon.
Why would a woman who was chased and attacked make it her personal mission to try and discover who the pervert is only moments after being ambushed ???? Oh the humanity!
A horror movie can't just rely on the death scenes alone. There has to be SOME interesting stuff going on in between. "The Prowler" has none of this. "The Prowler" as a character is a pretty cool concept. He looks bad a*s, but we just don't get enough of him. I will say that I was a little surprised as to who "The Prowler" actually was once revealed. I think I was so bored in between that I didn't even bother guessing.
My best suggestion if you want to watch "The Prowler" would be to watch the first 20 minutes or so.....and then just fast forward to each and every death scene afterwards. You wont be missing anything in between I promise! As always, Tom Savini is masterful with his effects...
Let the last 5-10 minutes play and save yourself everything in between. You can thank me later. ;-)
Movie Review: Brilliant gore effects
Summary: 3 Stars
The Prowler (AKA Rosemary's Killer) is probably around average in the slasher movie categry. It isn't origional but has some pretty impressive qualities that put it above a lot of others. There were only a few death scenes and there was almost no character development. However, the death scenes that DID happen were very good. All of the kills were on-screen and very bloody and, despite having been made in 1981, the gore effects were much more impressive then a lot of the CGI we see in modern films - it looks REAL. The killer himself (or herself) is actually pretty creepy and there's a scene where the killer is under the water when a soon-to-be-victim is trying frantically to swim away which I found very suspenceful.
Overall there are both good points and bad points to this movie. I would say that it is worth a watch for fans of the genre because of the amazing gore effects by Tom Savini.
Movie Review: Not the big body count it says on case but good movie anyway
Summary: 3 Stars
On the case it says this movie has "one of the biggest body counts on the 80s".not true.only like six people die but their deaths are greusome thanks to sfx by tom savini.the story is acually good and easy to follow and i can see why this called a gem of a slasher movie.once you start watching it has you right until the ending,which in itself is very graphic.i bought this dvd and it will get seen a few times and any slasher or horror fan should add this to their collection,its more then worth it.