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· Year: 1981
· Director: Herb Freed
· Writers: Herb Freed, Anne Marisse, David Baughn
· Cast: Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie
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Shortly before her graduation, a sprinter dies on the track, the victim of an errant blood clot. Before the school year is out, members of the track team start dying at the hands of a revenge-driven maniac.
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19
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The killings start really early in this one--not a good sign. We don't have the time to learn the characters' names, much less care about them when they get perforated by various sharp objects. This film even has the guts to ape Psycho and steal music from Vertigo, both during an attempt to make a macabre ending that starts well, but fizzles. There is, however, one item of note here. Remember in Scream, how everyone seemed to share the killer's taste in footwear? Well, everyone in this film seems to have a gray sweatsuit, just like the killer. Unfortunately, despite that, the killer is pretty easy to pick out
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66
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The main reasons for watching this film are its cheesy music, stupid dialogue, and a small appearance by the unheralded eighties scream goddess Linnea Quigley. Other than the aforementioned qualities, this is pretty much a paint-by-numbers slasher, but it's a lot of fun if you're a fan of the genre. Oh, yeah, Vanna White is in it too, as if anyone cared.
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Graduation Day is pure trash with a piggy bank budget, like Friday the 13th, that has more laughs than scares. Anyway, it copies that film, as well as Halloween. A track star dies (apparently from a blood clot) and soon after, members from the team begin to fall victim to the make-up crew, which was supposedly a 14 year old girl. The first killing, a throat slashing, looked like someone poured ketchup on the victim's neck. Bad! The rest of the cast looks like they are making it up as they go along. You have a better chance of making the film better yourself if you grab your video camera and a bunch of friends after picking up the tab at the local bar. But hey, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be wasting my time writing this review if I didn't like the movie in some cheesy way. It's so funny, you have to see it for laughs. I can't believe some studio head gave the final cut a thumbs up. The editing is horrible and the continuity is way off. I could go on and on, but look for Vanna White, yea, that's right, the Wheel of Fortune hottie, and the best scene, with a jock getting killed by a football with a sword through it. Imported cheese at its finest!
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