If you think you're safe... you're DEAD wrong!
Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
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Character
Unpretentious, earnest, classical in form and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Vicky DawsonPam MacDonald
- Christopher GoutmanMark London
- Lawrence TierneyMaj. Chatham
- Farley GrangerSheriff George Fraser
- Cindy WeintraubLisa
- Lisa DunsheathSherry
- David SederholmCarl
- Bill NunneryHotel Clerk
- Thom BrayBen
- Diane RodeSally
Crew
- Joseph ZitoDirector
- Neal BarberaWriter
- Glenn LeopoldWriter
- João FernandesDirector of Photography
- Richard EinhornOriginal Music Composer
- Joel GoodmanEditor
- Joseph ZitoProducer
- David StreitProducer
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