Rish Outfield's reviews
Oddly, this wasn't so bad. It had a pretty good story and was fairly evenly entertaining. The acting was good and the dialogue was nice, but it was pretty predictable in who was going to die next (wait, maybe the video box gave that away). The young heroine was really attractive in an Eighties Slasher Movie Virgin way, but she also seemed to have talent, so I wonder what happened to her. One of the two female stars went on to do the first Friday the 13th, but I'm too dumb to remember which it was. By the halfway point, tyranist and I knew who the killer was, but there were a lot of red herrings thrown in for bad measure. Though it was obviously cheap and quickly-made, it was always coherent and well-thought-out, which raises it above a lot of horror movies we've reviewed here. There were some odd moments when the title character stared at herself in the mirror in various states of undress, almost as if she had been body-swapped with Rish Outfield, but that was explained somewhat at the end. I was only left with one question, when all was said and done--Just what was Patrick McNee doing in this?

The tyranist's thoughts
This is a pretty typical early 80's slasher with a couple of interesting exceptions. Exception one is that it is pretty much the boys of the town that are getting hacked up, and exception two is that they try to do the racial tension thing. The fact that Rish and I knew who the killer was in under fifteen minutes probably indicates that this isn't terribly successful. They made several attempts to lay the blame at someone elses feet and still couldn't convince us that we were wrong. Some of the highlights of the movie are that it has Patrick Macnee in it, the OTS is the classically gratuitous kind that predominated in the early 80's, and the fact that the boys get chopped up instead of the girls. There is also an interesting subplot involving the town sheriff and a county records worker, but it may be that we were so bored with the rest of the movie that we latched onto the first thing that showed any promise of entertainment. Still it was better than some.