The Prowler (1981)****.

In 1981, producer and director Joseph Zito, "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter", (1984), made "Rosemary's killer", aka "The Prowler", three year's before. The movie written by Glenn Leopold and Neal Barbara, tells of a girl named Rosemary who tells her GI boyfriend by letter, (decades before E-mail was the norm), that she has another boyfriend, after the end of World War II ends in 1945, in the prologue. When Rosemary and her date are murdered, the film begins...and the horror starts.
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US Blue Ray of "The Prowler", (1981).
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Everyone is celebrating the end of the War, unaware of the horror that affects everyone decades later...Joseph Zito's "The Prowler", (1981), at the beginning of the movie, that's shot in black and white.
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Thirty-five years' later in 1980, Pam MacDonald, (Vickie Dawson), is preparing for party with her friends, as she's dating cop Mark London, (Christopher Goutman). Pam, Lisa, (Cindy Weintraub); Sherry, (Lisa Dunsheath); and Carl, (David Sederholm), are excited at the news of the party. As they set-up, a killer in GI clothes, and black boots on his feet, decides to get revenge after the events in the prologue.
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The mystery of who is the prowler adds to the horror, as Pam and Mark investigate who is the killer at night time...Joseph Zito's "The Prowler", (1981).
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After several murders at a party at Avalon Bay, Mark decides to solve the case while protecting his girlfriend. Pam is a strong girl who battles the killer in various places, especially in houses, etc. She is a cross between Laurie Strode, (Jamie Lee Curtis), John Carpenter's Halloween, 1978; and Ginny Field, (Amy Steel), from "Friday the 13th Part II, 1981, the same year. The special effects were done by Tom Savini, who worked on Tony Maylam's "The Burning", in 1981. In short, I won't tell you who the killer is, but "The Prowler" also stars Farley Granger and Lawrence Tierney in supporting roles, that strengthen the star power.
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Pam attempts to find out the truth in the cemetery at night time...Joseph Zito's "The Prowler", (1981).
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In all, "The Prowler", is an underrated horror movie from the 1980's. By 2018, thirty-seven years' later, it remains one of few horror movies not to get a sequel, prequel, or re-make, in that decade.
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The Prowler enters the house, and attacks Pam...Joseph Zito's "The Prowler", (1981).
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Pam attempts to evade the jilted GI killer...Joseph Zito's "The Prowler", (1981).
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