The Slayer

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Cardone</div> <div> Screenplay.......J.S. Cardone & William R Ewing     </div> <div> Music............Robert Folk</div> <div> Producer.........William R. Ewing</div> <div> Executive Producer.....Eric Weston</div> <div> Special Effects Make-up Created by Robert Short</div> <bR> <div> Dramatis Personae</div> <div> Kay...........Sarah Kendall</div> <div> Eric..........Frederick Flynn</div> <div> Brooke........Carol Kottenbrook</div> <div> David ........Alan McRae</div> <div> Marsch........Michael Holmes</div> <div> Norman........Sandy Simpson</div> <div> Fisherman.....Paul Gandolfo</div> <div> Kay's Father..Newell Alexander</div> <div> Kay's Mother..Ivy Jones</div> <div> Young Kay.....Jennifer Gaffin</div> <div> Young Eric....Richard van Brakel</div> <div> The Slayer....Carl Kraines</div> <bR> <div> Critique: Despite the unambitious production values, the pace is good with the exception of the search for David. Still, nice make-up and special effects (the decapitation and fishhook scenes are effective in their straightforward way) the chilling scene with the decaying body and the crabs is reminiscent of that in "Jaws" but more graphic. Nice horror movie setting its electrical storm, greenish hue and total isolation. The film boasts a surprisingly good monster and some very impressive shots of eyes and bodies as well as the effective and tragic use of mistaken identity. Perhaps the best thing about this film is the active participation of the audience that it commands. The viewer is forced to evaluate and reevaluate what has happened. Although we generally do not do surprise dream endings of any kind, we have decided to make an exception.</div> <bR> <div> Plot Summary: Kay's nightmare about a thing after her Kate a painter and her enterage, brother Eric, sister-in-law Brooke and husband David, Piper- jet on a deserted island where Kay suffers from dejavu. Weird Mr. Marsh the pilot assure them nobody comes out here this time of year and for some reason many people suffer from dejavu here. Kay sees a theater she painted before Something has been bothering her for some time: her recent work is all based on on her nightmares. What at first didn't look to promising turns out to be a vacation mansion inside and everyone applauds Eric for arranging the house. Regrettably Mr. Marsh returns to warn them of an impending storm (as if his appearance alone were not foreboding enough) and reminds them sometimes things aren't what they appear to be. A plane landing will be impossible as a storm here will come up from all sides. Willie the hermit sits on the beach talking to himself and is bashed to death with an oar, it is clear there is someone else on the deserted island. Eric is critical of Kay's new artistic direction, surrealistic portrayals of her dreams. David is angered by Kay, who is building a wall of depression around her. Brook thinks she should see a psychiatrist. Kay fears that one day she will awake to find her dreams have replaced reality. Wonderful vacation. When Kay's husband David goes to investigate bumps in the night of the storm the fun begins. Although he is missing, Kate had a dream of kissing David's head only to find it's chopped off beside her in bed. She believes something horrible has happened. Kay has other unsettling knowledge of the night before. The flood she announces came through the elevator shaft. Eric searches the spot where David was killed but fails to notice the considerable blood around him. None of his clothes are missing and the theory that he's off exploring is wearing thin and the search begins in earnest. The desperate search for David finally ends in an abandoned theater that Kay recently painted from a nightmare. With this gory discovery, the battle for survival slowly proceeds between the 3 remaining vacationers and whatever decapitated David. Kay is convinced that the key is for her to stay awake and believes that the evil comes through her dreams. Too bad they gave her sleeping pills, despite Brooke's protestations. Eric comes clean with Kay's psychological case history; the dead pet cat (also a victim of dreams) a vague suspicion that the word Queen plays a role in the haunting,as a child and subsequent treatment until age sixteen. Kay now insists she has seen what killed David in a dream and insists it's the same thing that killed her kitten. Eric has come to the inevitable conclusion that Marsh is the killer. Off on three independent searches, Brooke finds a skiff named the Island Queen as the climax finally approaches fast with a fine Chambre du corps mords.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>