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ntains let s not neglect to note that just before dawn is a vibrantly lensed film despite its requisite small budget thanks to the location shooting in oregon s gorgeous silver falls state park few slasher films have the means or access to fill their frames with to majestic waterfalls and so they settle for filling them with exposed breasts instead aware of its advantage just before dawn gives you both in the same shot posted by jc at 8 00 am 1 comment labels 1980s psycho slasher slashtober 3d email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 10 2014 slashtober 3 d part i the prowler 1981 dir joseph zito logline in the summer of 1945 the small new jersey town of avalon bay was shocked by the gruesome double murder of two young lovers during the local graduation dance by an unknown assailant thirty five dance less years later a group of college co eds resolves to revive the town s abandoned graduation celebration despite the fact that it s the year 1980 and as such they d probably all be happier off at a house party somewhere with a keg and funkytown blaring on the stereo nevertheless with the local sheriff farley granger away on a fishing trip the combat geared killer of thirty years prior is primed for his big pitchfork laden comeback the residents of avalon bay are advised to check their bushes for the prowler crime in the past can we fault rosemary joy glaccum for ditching her gi boyfriend off fighting overseas in world war ii through one of the era s many dear john letters she makes a strong case for her own innocence she s a young girl and she had resolved okay sure promised to wait for her beau to return from the war but boy that war sure is going on for a long time and she s not going to be young forever you know in this case distance or thousands of miles of ocean and war torn european countryside does not make the heart grow fonder it s a bum situation but rosemary handles it with surprising maturity in her letter which we have read to us through voice over she lets her unnamed high school lover down lightly explaining her sympathetic dilemma and expressing her hope that they can still be friends when he returns rosemary s is not the best way to show appreciation for this particular nazi pummeling defender of the american way but it s her choice and she s honest respectful and realistic about their situation so it s really rude that her former lover upon his disembarkation from the queen mary mails a pitchfork through the beating chests of rosemary and her new boyfriend roy timothy wahrer at the 1945 graduation dance as his form of a reply letter the usps would deliver anything in those days bodycount 8 dear er dead johns themes moral code in most ways the prowler s moral code is about as prudish as you d expect vodka condoms and rolling papers litter the trail to slasher hell bawdy college students of both sexes though with special emphasis placed on the women are punished for their transgressions which are as various as flashing old men in wheelchairs spiking the punch at the dance and canoodling in the shower that said the film does feature a few moments that undermine the typical slasher audience s expectations for instance consider the surprise arrival of creepy big lug otto bill hugh collins wielding a shotgun in the final act though a red herring for the killer in his early appearances here he arrives as a hero attempting to assist pam vicky dawson in her tussle with the killer attempting is the key word for otto is almost immediately murdered by the killer after making his presence known shattering our sense of momentary peace and prolonging the finale with otto dead and her boyfriend deputy mark christopher goutman lying unconscious in the other room pam is made of aware of the fact that the cinematic world she s living in is not one in which gallant men ride into the scene and save the day this maiden will have to fend for herself also reflect upon the moment that transpires just before the credits roll pam relieved and exhausted after her victory against the killer returns to her dorm room and discovers the still living lobotomized body of a friend of hers and one the killer s victims strung up in the showers in this carrie inspired stinger the poor boy reaches out towards pam and the camera as if he were an undead creature but in reality he s gasping for assistance we realize he s been hanging around in that steamy tomb hovering above his girlfriend s corpse with a belt around his neck for almost the film s duration and only now at the conclusion is his suffering allowed to end this brief coda reminds us in a rather chilling way of the massive death toll that is often forgotten by the audience of slasher films and by the characters within them as the action rushes towards the final conflict forgetting the killer s demise and whatever little catharsis that brings there s no happy ending in the prowler just a lot of bodies killer s motivation our killer in both 1945 and 1980 is none other than our sheriff george fraser his identity as the killer isn t exactly difficult to guess the actor playing him farley granger is the film s only marquee name and his early excuse of gone fishin to explain his absence for the bulk of the film is about as subtle as gone slaughterin the innocents we might imagine that his motivation for killing his ex girlfriend rosemary and her new obnoxious boyfriend back in 1945 was due to rage and jealousy fueled by the misogynistic macho bullshit expectation of men s possession of women as objects or perhaps we might imagine that he was merely homicidally offended that of all the other dudes she could have chosen over him she chose the jackass roy whose proudest accomplishment is his access to his father s checkbook but nah this killing is no rational act georgie boy seems to have suffered some sort of war trauma witness his preference for killing in full combat gear and has now psychotically associated it with the end of his romantic relationship suiting up in his murdering garb for him is like preparing to head into battle and his enemies are young lovers everywhere the revival of avalon bay s college dance awakens george s psychotic personality from its decades long slumber forcing him to relive that fateful night in 1945 as we see he mistakes every girl he comes across for his once beloved rosemary and thus must once again plunge the pitchfork into her heart and into his own the killer also seems to have a particular hang up about young women submerged in water that one i can t explain he hates the juxtaposition of water as the symbol of purity with the nubile bodies of sexually active women we ve dived too deep i fear final girl pam is textbook she s pretty but not as conventionally pretty as her girlfriends she s more motivated than her friends as she demonstrates by spearheading the planning for the dance she doesn t take part in the other teens hanky panky nor does she imbibe alcohol or controlled substances she s squeaky clean she s dating an older guy deputy mark and squabbles with him over his giving more attention to the other girls perhaps in grand final girl tradition pam doesn t put out best of all she s also an amateur sleuth narrowing down the list of suspects quicker than the police manage to when her strength is called upon she goes at it with the killer and winds up blowing his face off with a shotgun pam is everything a final girl is prescribed to be and that makes her a crushing bore evaluation the prowler is a personal favorite but i would never deny that it s an acquired pitchfork to the gut director joseph zito he of friday the 13th part iv the final friday 1984 and a few chuck norris dolph lundgren and gary daniels action films must have had a reputation on set for falling asleep on set and thus neglecting to communicate his directions to the actors how else to explain the many unending sequences of characters aimlessly wandering through a handful of locations discovering and accomplishing nothing could he have possibly imagined he was hired to direct a documentary on the formation of cobwebs these laborious suspense free stretches of the film seriously they might make up as much as 1 4 of the running time are so patience testing that they re certain to turn off all but the most tolerant of viewers in fear of having these moments transform the whole affair into cinematic molasses editor joel goodman goes so far as to cut into them unrelated shots of the killer wandering around but we re not fooled this thing is padded and it knows it but when it s not wasting our time it s one the bizarro greats arguments for the defense a it s a partial period piece slasher the most rarefied of its kind b it features some of tom savini s most brutal practical gore and it utilizes these moments exceptionally well like little shots of adrenaline to perk us up out of our collective slumber c and it boasts a wickedly bleak sense of humor that 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