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The Prowler (1981)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
12/25
12/25:
As far as slasher films go, The Prowler is painfully slow.
Two principal characters walk through houses, dorms, and cemeteries and listen for sounds. Sometimes, the female
gets frightened whenever somebody shows up suddenly with a tap on her shoulder and asks, "Are you all right?"
When the killer's identity was unrevealed, my first and only guess had been correctly proved
because...who else could it be? However, there's no explanation why, and the movie simply ends. Thanks for
nothing, Joseph Zito! He might as well remove the reference to what happened in 1945.
Sure, several kills are creative, thanks to Tom Savani's special effects work. But they alone aren't enough
to make a horror movie. It's been a lot of dull moments with none of the tension matching either
Black Christmas or Halloween.
Of course, at one point, the viewer will want to ask himself which is more important when the female in the
shower is being pitchforked to death: the act or her breasts. I hate the part when the sheriff's deputy had
his shotgun straight up while holding the flashlight on the other hand. How is he going to react and get his
target in two seconds that way?
All in all, made for mere $1 million, The Prowler deserved to die at the box office.