 
A
top highschool track runner named Laura
(Ruth Ann Llorens) dies from a blood clot
just after winning her race.
There is an obnoxious gym teacher by the
name of Coach George Michaels
(Christopher George) who is hard on the
highschool kids attending the olympics
there which was part of the cause of
Laura's death.
Laura's
sister Anne Ramstead (Patch McKenzie) who
returned from the military to attend her
sister's funeral and stays with her
mother Elaine (Beverly Dixon) and her
nasty and abusive alcoholic stepfather
Ronald Corliss (Hal Bokar) to whom she
doesn't see eye to eye with.
Laura talks to her former boyfriend Kevin
(E. Danny Murphy) about Laura and gives
him her graduation present.
She goes to the highschool to find out
why Laura died blaming Michaels for her
death.
Meanwhile, a killer at the highschool wearing a
sweatsuit and a fencing mask is killing
off the track team and the other athletes
one by one until he slaughters them all
with various weapons ever since her
death.
The killer also uses a stop watch to time
their deaths.
Suddenly, Michaels is a possible suspect
on the horrible murders.
This film was very
similar to Prom Night as
it was playing in theatre's the next year
except it's a little cheesier.
It also borrows alot from the early Friday
the 13th films as well but
except at a highschool instead of at a
camp with the slashing moments and all.
This was the year when the slasher boom
was big for films like Friday the
13th Part 2, Halloween
II, Happy Birthday to Me
and My Bloody Valentine.
It is a true 80's slasher film of the
days of disco dancing, roller skating and
the funky clothing and hairstyles.
There are a few scenes that borrows a bit
from Prom Night too.
The acting is
dated but fairly descent for a typical
slasher flick. This does mark a very good
performance by b-horror film and
spaghetti western legend Christopher
George who passed away a few years
after the release of this film as an
obnoxious gym teacher.
Also, we get to see exploited b-horror
film queen Linnea Quigley who
struts her stuff quite well in one of her
first horror films playing a trashy
teenage girl named Delores as many fans
adored her in this film.
But wait! There's also Vanna White before
her role as a hostess in Wheel of
Fortune
We also have Fame TV
co-star Bill Hufsey as Tony Fisk
who presents himself terrifically in his
role.
So there are a few familiar faces in this
flick.
E. Danny Murphy does well as the
disturbed Kevin Badger and is quite
creepy in his role.
Hal Bokar as the nasty alcoholic
stepfather of Anne is also very
impressive in his role as you just feel
like hitting him.
There's a brief
breast shot of a teenage girl changing in
the girls gym changing room but her back
is turned.
Linnea's character Delores takes off
her top before she seduces the music
teacher in order to get a good grade as
well as her blouse opens up before she
gets killed
The film is quite
gory although it looks a little fake.
A female teen jogger has her throat slit
in a Friday the 13th
like fashion
A
female teen gymnast gets a sword
tracheotomy whilst shaving her legs in a
sink
A teen male American Football player
impaled on a flying football with a
javelin spike attached
A male teen decapitated with a sword
A female teen decapitated with a sword
A male teen Pole-Volter impaled on bed of
spikes hidden under landing matt which is
one of the best slashing moments and a
male teen impaled on the body of the
Pole-Volter.
Also there is a corpse of a person
sitting in a chair.
Blood pours out of the killers mouth
after he gets killed.
The directing is
okay by Herb Freed who also
co-wrote the film as well as producing
it.
He has good scenes of the killer
attacking people and timing their
killings.
He has good shots of students wandering
the hallways at the highschool and a nice
look at the grad dance with the band Felony
playing and the kids roller skating.
There are many corny dialogue scenes he's
directed as well especially between Michael
Pataki and E.J. Peaker.
Herb also shows a great
hallucination sequence of the killer
towards the end of the film.
The music in this film was
composed by Arthur Kemple and
does an amazing job with it especially
during the opening credits of the film
giving it a perfect sound to that kind of
genre.
He shows neat thumping sounds when a
killing scene is about to occur and then
you hear the screeching effects when the
murder is about to happen like you would
hear in My Bloody Valentine
or of course, Friday the 13th.
He also composed music for well known
motion pictures like in A Cry in
the Wild and The Arrival
plus composed for various
episodes in TV shows like in Diagnosis
Murder, Father Dowling
Mysteries and Falcon
Crest.
Also, during the graduation
party and when Linnea Quigley's
character flees from the killer but gets
killed during that same scene, an
annoying performance by the rock group Felony
was being performed as those were
the days when breakdancing and roller
boogie was the biggest thing back then.
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