The Prowler might as well have no plot. That there is one is something of a miracle, albeit a dubious one at best. Mostly characters wander around from place to place while a guy in military fatigues kills the crap out of them in horrible ways.
In fact, the only reason to watch this movie is for the Tom Savini makeup effects, which are admittedly pretty spectacular. My favorite involves a shower kill where the killer drives a pitchfork through a naked girl and then forces her up the wall slowly while she bleeds to death but somehow never looks like a makeup effect. There's another one where a knife slices sideways rather deep into someone's throat, then the corpse goes underwater and blood continues squirting out. There's a two-for-one kill with a pitchfork in the beginning, and a knife-through-the-head gag that turns a guy's eyeballs white. Pretty brutal.
Otherwise, I can't tell you much. Nothing really seems to happen and characters come and go at random. There's a great scene involving a really lazy motel clerk messing around with the local sherriff that feels oddly out of place in the movie, if for nothing else than seeing a morbidly obese redneck wearing a Boston Red Sox cap.
Watch The Prowler for the kills, skip the exposition. That's my advice.
Off to bed. Back tomorrow and Sunday with Hillbillys in a Haunted House, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Uncle Sam, Dracula A.D. 1972, Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman, Shaun of the Dead, Student Bodies, Creepshow, and Troll 2, plus more Tales from the Darkside, Tales from the Crypt, Twilight Zone, and a Treehouse of Horror episode!
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