One characteristic of this horror classic rarely remarked on is that nothing violent happens in the first half of the film -- it's all atmosphere and buildup.
Any director doing a slasher film at any time from the 1980s to today would feel obliged to provide a murder every 10 minutes, spaced out as regularly as the cumshots in a porn film.
Any director doing a slasher film at any time from the 1980s to today would feel obliged to provide a murder every 10 minutes, spaced out as regularly as the cumshots in a porn film.
