I fell asleep twice. It was like alot of drawn out "searching scenes" or "killer's POV scenes". The suspense was way too drawn out. Great gore, though, but I'm bummed I blind bought it. :(
3/10
It all seems so...absurd. So fantastic!
What? This is one of the best slashers!
shareHad thrilling time with this great film. Has it all what it needs in this kind of film. Same vein with early Friday and Halloween films.
Ugh I agree Ty! This is probably my least favorite slasher that came out from between 1980-1984.
The Killer kills 6 people. And 2 of them are in the opening. Some revenge that was
The graveyard scene/house searching scenes go nowhere and someone here said it perfect, it was a chore to sit through. I've seen it 3 times and I don't think it will ever click for me. The Carrie rip off ending is cringe inducing too.
Meh all over the place at this one.
The low body count really is inexcusable. They introduced a bunch of characters, and most of them weren't even relevant. Why not kill off the couple in the basement? Why not kill off the old man peeping on them (there was actually two old creepers, and neither one got it). What was the point of the kid in the jail cell? The Prowler is just way too aimless to be a true slasher classic--though it's still miles better than junk like Final Exam.
shareIf Halloween and Friday the 13th are the Citizen Kane and Casablanca of horror films, then The Prowler is Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!
It's just sooooooooooooooooooo boring. I honestly had to struggle to stay awake. There's one thing to build suspense, like what Halloween mastered beautifully, but this.....was very SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
The gore was good and a really good pool death scene; I'll give 'em that. However, it's just not very good.
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I LOVE 80's slashers...and I was bored to tears by this.
Every so often something interesting would happen but then it was back to the same ol' chase scenes and plot holes you could drive a mack truck through.
The killer looked good, but that was about it.
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I just came to say the same thing everyone else has apparently said (lol). Fantastic gore (Savini considers it his best work according to trivia and I think I'd have to agree), a few good chase scenes, but then so many long boring scenes in between.
I could've done without the entire graveyard scene and a huge reduction to Pam running around the dorm in the beginning and the sheriff/Pam looking for the killer later on.
I think what bothered me most was when the movie basically felt like it was on pause. Two moments specifically stick out - when Pam tries to get the window hook unstuck and The Prowler just stands there watching and at the end when the townie shoots The Prowler and Pam looks at him for like a minute before The Prowler finally shoots him. In both those moments I was like "SOMEBODY MOVE ALREADY!"
And as others have said above, I love slow moving horror...just it has to be truly suspenseful when it's slow by having characters act reasonably and creating a real sense of tension with the shots/characters. Acting like you're on pause while waiting for other characters to do their thing isn't really suspenseful or tense...it's just boring.
Thank you! I'm glad someone else noticed! This isn't really a movie; it's a porn video for filler-fetishists.
watched this again for the first time in years. i remembered slow spots but i didn't remember that the movie is 60% FILLER. and that's a generous estimate.
this was one of the most cynical undertakings i've ever seen in my life. i've never seen a film so gratuitously and unimaginatively padded.