Ah, the old 70s doc/slasher... once a rare collectors item unavailable on dvd for the longest time, thus a coveted title with a sort of biased popularity to it among us genre fans. Does it hold up, though?

From director Charles B. Pierce of Bog Creek fame, this guy seemed to like the documentary approach. I guess it works though. We skip all that boring exposition with a guy simply telling you the less interesting inbetween moments, and sometimes we see the law on his trail. Then we jump into some killer action, and this killer is pretty dope. Bag-headed and very Jason 2 esque, with some angst and zodiac vibes thrown in. He uses musical instruments as weapons, guns, knives, whatever. He stalks people in their cars, homes, wherever. He'll fuck with you a little before he kills you, because why not? I like his heavy breathing in the mask. Pretty effective, probably creepy as hell for the people who saw it back in the 70s.

And I got some vibes of Last House on the Left with the inept cop. Some real clown shit, like the clown cops in Halloween 5 sometimes. I guess it needed some comic relief for those wimps in the audience who couldn't handle those horror scenes.

I also like the part where he barges in the woman's home after shooting her husband dead through the window, then he shoots the woman in the face. She doesn't even die, and he shoots her again I think, and she still doesn't die. She crawls away and ends up surviving. That's some real Serpico shit, getting shot in the face and surviving.

Pretty good flick. I remember thinking the 2014 meta requel was okay, but I haven't seen it in about a decade. Maybe I'll give it a watch, but maybe I'll forget about it for another 10 years. We'll see...