The tyranist's thoughts
Featuring a young (18 at the most) Jennifer Jason Leigh, this is a pretty straightforward early '80s slasher that shows some of the freshness of slashers in that era. Unlike most of its contemporaries, the slasher in this one is a human psychopath and I have to give them full credit for making him as psycho as possible. He's very disturbing and has perhaps the best phone call scares to come along since Black Christmas. Actually, thinking about it now, they sounded exactly like I would expect a prankster to sound, which is perhaps what makes them all the more creepy.
So someone is killing young ladies. He calls them and then they end up dead. One talking head decides enough is enough and she starts to try to track him down on her own. Of course, she has more success than she should.
Leigh plays the blind and deaf sister, who lost sight and hearing in an incident involving a child molester. Curious. Of course, there's no permanent damage, the losses are purely psychological.
It started out pretty good and degenerated from there. Too much time spent in chase scenes and with the main character sneaking around the serial killer's apartment. I did like that the serial killer didn't stop once he got some attention. Often, these movies have the problem of a death at the beginning and then nothing till the last half hour. Not so here. It runs pretty much straight through.
Check it out if you want. There isn't anything really special about it, but I think early '80s slasher fans might enjoy it some.