The Prowler

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

Main Details

  • Released in 1981
  • Color
  • Running Time: 89 min | UK: 87 min (cut version)
  • Aspect Ratio: (1.85:1)
  • Production Co: Graduation
  • Distribution Co: Sandhurst (USA) | Astral Films (Canada)
  • Directed by Joseph Zito
  • Written by Neal F. Barbera and Glenn Leopold
  • Starring Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger, and Cindy Weintraub
  • Produced by David Streit and Joseph Zito
  • Original Music by Richard Einhorn
  • Cinematography by Raoul Lomas and Joao Fernandes
  • Film Editing by Joel Goodman

Plot Summary

  • An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.

Also Known As

  • Rosemary's Killer (Belgium) (video title) | (Japan) (video title)
  • Assassino da Rosa, O (Portugal)
  • Forke des Todes (West Germany)
  • Rosemaryn murhaaja (Finland) (DVD title)
  • The Graduation (undefined)
  • Morderca Rosemary (Poland)

Taglines

  • It will freeze your blood.
  • The human exterminator.
  • If you think you're safe... you're DEAD wrong!
  • The film that shocked America!
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