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Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie, Wilford Brimley, Peter Billingsley ... see more see more... , Edward Herrmann , Jack O'Leary , Mary Steelsmith , Gina Christian , Kirk I. Kiskella , Frank J. Cimorelli , J.P.S. Brown , Roy S. Gunsburg , Fred W.S. Newton , Arnold C. Waterman

While traveling across Arizona with his divorced mother and her new boyfriend, a precocious young boy stumbles onto a grisly murder scene, placing the three of them in mortal danger at the hands of a ... read more read more...pair of good-ol'-boy twin psychopaths. It's hard to tell whether the producers of this film decided to "dress up" a standard slasher script with spooky desert vistas and quality actors (including cuddly little Peter Billingsley, who forever endeared himself to viewers of the perennial favorite A Christmas Story), or rather chose to inject gratuitous T&A and gore scenes into an otherwise more sophisticated Hitchcockian thriller to lure the Friday the 13th crowd. Whatever the motivation, the end result is a muddled mishmash of family drama and sleazy dead-teen mayhem that never found an audience. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 27 min.

Directed by: Dick Richards

Release Date: May 7, 1982

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  • July 21, 2007
    A very underrated slasher film. In fact it has been almost forgotten. I saw it once on late night TV and was really shocked at how good it was. If you can find it on VHS get it, it's good.

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