-Overview-

The movie begins with a black-and-white WWII newsreel segment, followed by a close-up of a Dear John letter as it is read aloud by its author, a teenaged girl named Rosemary. The picture tightens on her signature, which is accentuated by a tiny depiction of a rose. The first color bleeds into the film in the form of the redness of the rose.

Avalon Bay, 1945. On the night of her graduation dance, a girl named Rosemary and her date are brutally murdered by a man thought to be Rosemary's former fiancee recently returned
from the war. A single red rose is left in the girl's hand.

Avalon Bay, 1980. The graduation dance is being held again, and a mysterious figure dressed in a soldier's uniform and armed with a pitchfork launches a gory murder spree. A red rose is left with each corpse.

This movie is another collaboration between Joseph Zito and Tom Savini, the men responsible for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. The real stars of the show are Savini's special effects, which are characteristically brutal, while the simplistic story and one-dimensional characters serve merely as window dressing for all the stabbings, impalings, shootings, and decapitations. This is fine entertainment for those gore-hounds who prefer that a movie isn't complicated with pesky secondary considerations such as an intriguing plot or believable characters.
 

-Sound-

Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

-Picture-

Widescreen 1.85:1 / 16:9 (It has been suggested on the internet that The Prowler is not truly widescreen, but that rather they have provided it the illusion of widescreen by placing black bars over the top and bottom of the screen, thereby eliminating even more of the picture than what would be visible in regular full screen format.)

-Special Features-

- Audio Commentary with director Joseph Zito and fx artist Tom Savini
- Tom Savini's Behind-The-Scenes Gore Footage
- Theatrical Trailer
- Poster/Still Gallery

-Packaging-