Rish Outfield's reviews
First things first: Great title. The movie could be as bad as Halloween 6, but the title is top-notch. The movie itself was not awful, but not particularly great either. The plot was simple (too simple, really): A black-gloved killer murders folks in a ritzy New York apartment building and a couple of detectives investigate.
Mike Conners (also the producer) stars as an old, gruff cop. Anne Archer (future movie star) plays a young, pretty, police woman. Both John Heard and Murray Hamilton appear in short scenes, one each. Overall, it had a strong TV movie feel. I kept expecting to see commercial breaks featuring Mean Joe Green throwing his jersey to the kid, or the old "ancient Chinese secret" Calgon ad. I don't know if that's the camera work or the lighting or sets, but it had that feel. Also, the music felt like it was right out of "Baretta" or "Starsky & Hutch." There were a few lame fake scares but no real ones. Bodies kept turning up in interesting/silly places. For example, one was in a washing machine, waiting to pop out when the door was opened. Another was up in the ceiling of an elevator, waiting to drop down when someone got under it. And still another was waiting inside a doorway for someone to go out into the hall so it could fall on them, of course. How do dead bodies stand up like that? The killer was pretty ubiquitous also, popping out from under beds, closets, hallways, and doorways. We're supposed to suspect the fey, cryptic, Shakespeare-quoting doorman. In fact, at one point, I wrote in my notes "If he's not the killer, there isn't one." I won't give it away, but there did end up being a killer, and it wasn't the doorman. In the end, the film wasn't really deserving of such a title. In fact, I don't think there were any characters who were too scared to scream. Too bad. I like that concept. That's pretty much all I got out of this one. Oh yeah, and Harrison Ford should've done Sum of All Fears.
Note: Although the IMDB claims this film was released in 1985, the copyright was ‘82, and those credits included more than the director and actors.

Total Skulls: 15

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?