While playing in a derelict building, four children accidentally kill a young girl called Robin Hammond (Tammy Bourne) and swear to cover it up. But six years later, as the quartet prepares for their prom night, each receives a menacing phone call from someone who knows their secret.
Jamie Lee Curtis cemented her Scream Queen title with this inventively plotted – (relatively) light on gore – entry in the teenagers-in-jeopardy/stalk-and-slash cycle inaugurated by Halloween (1978) and appropriating the Carrie (1976) high-school setting.
An elongated and suspenseful chase sequence through the campus and the surprise identity of the masked maniac lifts it above average.
Mr Hammond
Leslie Nielsen
Kim
Jamie Lee Curtis
Nick
Casey Stevens
Mrs Hammond
Antoinette Bower
Wendy
Anne-Marie Martin
Alex
Michael Tough
Sykes
Robert Silverman
Vicki
Pita Oliver
Kelly
Mary Beth Rubens
Jude
Joy Thompson
Director
Paul Lynch
