 
A
bunch of students are practicing for
their highschool olympics as they are all
hopeful of becoming top athletes.
One of the students named Annie Rivers
(Lynne Banashek) has her main focus on
the games that her grades are failing and
her parents are almost tempted to pull
her out of the games but she convinces
him to keep her in.
However, she has more to worry about as a
mysterious killer in a hooded raincoat
and sportswear outfit is watching the
athlete's and ends up killing them one
after another at the school with a
javelin thrower.
The school tries to find out why these
students are missing and not realising
that they are being hacked away but Annie
suddenly becomes a prime target.
I found this one
to be a ripoff on other early 80's
highschool slasher flicks like
Prom Night and Graduation
Day.
It shows alot of interesting dark moments
like the killer chasing after a victim in
a highschool hallway at night and
athletes being killed elsewhere like in
the field but other than that this one
was terribly trashy typical 80's cheese
but not at it's worst.
I can see this one possibly inspiring
other low grade T & A trashy golden
turkey slasher flicks though.
The acting is
dated like most cheesy flicks like this
but still is fine to watch them perform
without griping but it's very average.
Sally Kirkland was fine in her
role though with her kind but strange
behavior, especially when her character
reveals who she really is which is. She
was probably the only familiar face in
this film as most of the cast here
remained virtual unknowns.
Lynne Banashek has the right
looks to be in other cheesy horror and
other B-films but her acting isn't over
the top. Not too terrible though but
she's no Jamie Lee Curtis type
material by any means.
Lots of nudity.
A highschool jock takes off his
girlfriends shirt totally bare breasted
A couple take a shower and the girlfriend
is fully breasted
girls are fully nude taking showers and
there's a few butt shots of the guys
Taking a shower too
Theres a girl nude revealing her butt by
having a body rub
There are two girls fully nude with
towels in a sauna's and one of them is
running away naked in the hallways trying
to escape from the killer.
Many people are
stabbed through the chest with a javelin
and of course there's blood involved.
The directing by Michael
Elliott is interesting as he shows
some unique killings with the javelin and
the one I will fondly remember the most
is when an angry athlete has a spear shot
in his chest on an open field and making
the killer mysterious all the way through
till the killer is actually revealed.
The shower scenes look very Slumber
Party Massacre like
A teen swimming in the pool at night
before getting killed is wonderfully shot
and choreographed with the killer
underneath the water.
A nice shot of Robert O'Leary's
character with his reaction when he opens
the changeroom lockers and spots dead
teens stuffed in them.
He made the scene where the killer is
revealed with a twisted secret is also
very memorable almost
borrowed from the 1983 cheesy cult
classic Sleepaway Camp.
He is a little bit wooden with coaching
his actors though.
Shuki Levy is lame
with her keyboard composing making it
sound like that he ripped off music
scores from a Friday the 13th
film and playing it on his keyboard.
He does have some nice dark sounds when a
teen is swimming in the school pool alone
at night as he used it for other dark
scenes too afterwards in the film.
The music score
titled "Take it all the Way"
performed by Levy and Deborah Shelton
which was played during the opening
and ending of this film is excellent
almost promising a good film but what a
disappointment!!!
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