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The Prowler (1981)
Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1981
Running Times: 87 mins (UK - with cuts) 89
mins (USA)
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Graduation
Executive Producer: James Bochis
Producers: Joseph Zito, David Streit
SCRIPT
Script: Glenn Leopold, Neal F. Barbera
Additional Dialogue and Script Consultation: Eric Lewald,
Mark Edens, Michael Edens
DIRECTION
Director: Joseph Zito
1st Assistant Director: Peter Giuliano
2nd Assistant Director: Forrest Murray
Additional Assistant Directors: Leslie Kalfin, Paul
Sparks
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Raoul Lomas
Additional Director of Photography: Robert Lindsay
Camera Operators: Michael Duff, Ed Herschberger, Forrest
Murray, Frost Wilkinson
Assistant Cameramen: Philip Sparks, Richard Magnum
Loader: William Kahane
Gaffer: Frost Wilkinson
2nd Electrician: Robert A. Stevers
Additional Electricians: Raffi Ferrucci, John McNally,
Kenneth McComiskey, William S. O'Leary, Karl Schurman
Key Grip: Dwane Arthur
Grip: Christopher Stoia
Stills: Bobbi Leigh Zito
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Joel Goodman
Associate Editor: Andrew Galler
Assistant Editor: James H. Nau
Apprentice Editor: Patricia Swain
MUSIC
Music: Richard Einhorn
Conductor: Peter Schubert
Original Rock Music Composed and Performed By: Nowhere
Fast (John Christian, Richard Colligan, Steven Bock,
Matthew Iddings)
Period Dance Music: Aaron Alexander's Orchestra
Period Music Consultant: Dan Singer
Music Recording Engineers: James McCurry, Barry Harris
Music Recorded At: Sound Ideas Studios Inc, New York City
Mixed At: Magno Sound, New York
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Gary Rich
Assistant Sound Editors: Hank Corbin, Wendy Kaplan
Re-Recording Mixer: Jack Cooley
Sound Effects: Roy Vallee, Ar-Vee Sound, Magnofex, New
York
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up / Hair: Jane Forth
Costumer: Danajean Cicerchi
Wardrobe Assistants: Nancy Grossi, Linda Schultz
SPECIAL MAKE UP
EFFECTS
Special Make Up: Tom
Savini
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Tom
Savini
Special Effects Assistant: Darryl Ferrucci
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Titles and Opticals: The
Optical House, New York
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Lorenzo Mans
Art Director: Roberta Neiman
Assistant Art Director: Marty Riggleman
Property Master: Sam Swope
Art Department Assistants: William Billowit, Susan
Doukas, Jan Foster, Beverly Kreuger
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Janine Stover
Production Auditor: Maxwell Snow
Assistant Auditor: Dorothy Watson
Executive Assistant: Bobbi Leigh Zito
Assistant to the Producers: Barbara Gregory
Production Assistants: Richard Deodati, Curt Frick,
Steven Holt, Karen Moody, Darryl Nitke, Paul Rosenburg,
Don R. Simmons, Marcus Ticotin, Peter Zimmern
Production Office Coordinator: Ingrid Johanson
Choreographer: Sissy Boyd
Dance Sequence By: Stepping Out, Dance Couple
Stock Footage Consultant: Jack Muth
Title Consultant: Marie Hersch
Rose Chatham's Letter By: Sarah Higgins
Television Contributed By: T/A Cossaboon's TV
Flower Creations By: Fancy That Gift Shop
LOCATIONS
Locations: Cape May, New Jersey, USA
Location Managers: Peter Pastorelli, Edward Crocitto
Locations Equipped By: Filmtrucks Inc
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Theproducers wish to express their sincere appreciation
to the Mayor and Townspeople of Cape May, New Jersey and
to the New Jersey Film Commission for their cooperation
Special Thanks To: Philip Peyton
CASTING
Casting: Bill Williams
CAST
Vicky Dawson (Pam MacDonald)
Christopher Goutman (Mark London)
Lawrence Tierney (Major Chatham)
Farley Granger (Sheriff George Fraser)
Cindy Weintraub (Lisa)
Lisa Dunsheath (Sherry)
David Sederholm (Carl)
Bill Nunnery (hotel clerk)
Thom Bray (Ben)
Diane Rode (Sally)
Bryan Englund (Paul)
Donna Davis (Miss Allison)
Carleton Carpenter (1945 M.C)
Joy Glaccum (Francis Rosemary Chatham)
Timothy Wahrer (Roy)
John Seitz (Pat Kingsley)
Bill Hugh Collins (Otto)
Dan Lownsbery (Turner)
Douglas Stevenson (young Kingsley)
Susan Monts (young Kingsley's date)
PLOT SUMMARY
A jilted GI returns from
World War II and murders his ex-lover and her new man
with a pitchfork at the graduation ball. Thirty years
later and the long-abandoned graduation balls are being
relaunched - but someone is determined that the dance
shouldn't go ahead and soon co-eds are being slaughtered
in particularly brutal fashion.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Though the hackneyed
plot was looking threadbare by this time, The
Prowler still scores thanks to the sheer
savagery of Tom Savini's effects sequences. It doesn't
have much else to offer, though Zito's direction is
impressive, but be honest, all a good slasher should be
is moderately suspenseful and full of nasty pay-offs. On
that count, The Prowler certainly
delivers and is one of the best of the early 80s body
count movies.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Entertainment Film Dists Ltd
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Sandhurst
DVD Distributor: Blue Underground Inc (BU1927DVD)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: banned; later R (with 19 seconds of cuts)
Norway
Rating: banned
Sweden
Rating: 15 (with cuts)
UK
Rating: X (with cuts)
USA
Rating: R
West Germany
Rating: 18; banned
TIMELINE
1981
November
6: USA - theatrical release
10: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release,
with cuts)
POSTER TAGS
It will freeze your blood.
The human exterminator.
if you think you're safe... you're DEAD
wrong!
the film that shocked america!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Graduation
Rosemary's Killer - Greek / UK title
O assassino da Rosa - Portugese title
Forke des Todes - German title
Rosemaryn murhaaja - Finnish title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Scream Greats, Vol. 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror
Make-up (1986)
REFERENCES
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
slashers, gore, stalk and slash, serial killers, teenagers, splatter,
pitchforks, gore, soldiers, throat slittings, showers, shower murders,
twist endings
Last Updated:
12 September, 2009
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