After getting a "Dear John" letter by his highschool sweetheart a WWII veteran comes back and kills a couple during a dance with a pitchfork. With the killer still at large the school quits holding the dances until 35 years later, which brings the killer back to kill again.
The Prowler starts out in the year 1945 with the "Dear John" letter that this WWII vet takes seriously enough to come back and kill. Now from what I understand he kills the girl that wrote the letter and the dude she was at the dance with but I'm not for sure, either way they get stabbed together with a pitchfork, and that damn pitchfork becomes notorious throughout the movie. My question is what the hell does a GI need with a pitchfork? I mean. He's got guns and knives right? Well, he does use a bayonett which is pretty sweet, especially during this scene where he cuts a girl's neck in a swimming pool but other than that he's pretty pitchfork crazy.
 
So after killing the kids at the dance we go forward to the year 1980 in which the school is having their first dance since the murders 35 years prior, and everyone's all about it except the guy Major Chatham who's daughter was the one killed at the beginning of the movie. Needless to say the idiot kids still hold the dance and for some reason the killer comes back, like maybe he was looking in the newspaper and saw that they were having the dance or something, there's no telling how he knew. So anyways he goes on his relentless killing spree, but no one really knows why, and personally I don't care because there's nothing better in slasher flicks more than teenagers getting slashed, especially in the shower. This movie does impress with the kills.
Anyways, I must say though that this movie is a very inspirational flick in the way that Tom Savini really did a great job in the FX and really made the kill scenes something special for the time it came out. He put alot of detail to each kill scene and they all came out just incredible, which gives reason for his popularity. This movie is on the list of my top 10 favorite movies of all time, if that says anything.
Now considering this movie isn't very well known most people haven't had a chance to check out this awesome flick, and if you personally haven't, get off your lazy ass and get it, don't rent it, buy it, you wont be disappointed!
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Rosemary's Killer, The Graduation
MOVIE YEAR: 1981
DIRECTOR: Joseph Zito
WRITING CREDITS: Neal F. Barbera, Glenn Leopold
GENRE: Horror, Slasher
CAST: Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Farley Granger
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 88 min
RATING: 10/10
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