Directed by Paul Lynch • 1980 • Canada
Starring Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens
Ultimate scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis stars in this midnight-movie classic, one of the most popular slashers to follow in the wake of HALLOWEEN’s success. For six years, a group of four teenage friends have been concealing a dark secret: when they were eleven years old, they taunted a young girl until she accidentally fell to her death. Now it’s the night of their high school prom and they’re being stalked by a masked, axe-wielding killer who knows their secret.
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