UHM - Review - The Prowler

I heard a lot of mixed reviews on this film and I wanted to check it out myself, because I knew since Tom Savini did the effects that it would be pretty gory and I was right. It starts off with a WW2 veteran returning home and finding a "Dear John" letter left behind by his girlfriend. After reading the note he goes out and kills her. Fast forward some years and a graduation party is going to be held around the same area where the veteran's GF was murdered at, and it doesn't take long for bodies to start turning up.

This is a pretty decent 80's slasher, but it wouldn't have been anything without Savini doing the effects, because the death scenes where pretty cool and realistic. Without those death scenes the movie would just fall under another lame slasher. I liked how the killer would go around killing people in his old WW2 uniform. It actually looked creepy in scenes and it was good that it wasn't just some dumbass mask like in most other slashers.

The acting and directing was okay, but nothing special. A lot of the scenes seemed a little longer than they should have been and made things a bit slow at times, which is one reason I decided to give it a 5-rating. I guess I was hoping for more action going on. The body count wasn't very high, but at least the deaths were better than average. This movie also goes by the title The Graduation Killer and Rosemary's Killer.

OVERALL

An average 80s slasher with higher-than-average death scenes thanks to Tom Savini. Slow down in parts, but worth a rent if you're into slashers.

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Tyler :

Posted 235 days ago

Been dyyyyyyiiiiiiinnnnggg to see this one too!!!!!

jey :

Posted 294 days ago

one of my favorite slasher films the uncut dvd is nasty! dont rent the vhs if u find it,its cut! i give it 8/10

Werewolf Hunter :

Posted 331 days ago

All this movie had were good, graphic kills. The rest was made up of nothing more than boring scenes, thin characters, a fuzzy plot, etc. For better action from Joseph Zito, watch "Friday the 13th Part 4".

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