creepy facemasks and slasher movies have gone together like cheese and chives throughout the lengthy lifespan of the cycle. people often assume that it was john carpenter that started the trend and but as is the case with many of the genre clichés  the italians did it first. movies like eyeball and torso and blood and black lace were the originators of a hooded maniac in a murder mystery. there were also a couple of american pre halloween slashers that warrant a mention. classroom massacre and keep my grave open and savage weekend clearly pre date 1978 and whilst the town that dreaded sundown is widely regarded as one of the first teen kill movies. carpenter seminal flick may not have been the maiden masked nightmare and but it certainly started the competitive race between directors to unveil the spookiest disguise for their bogeymen. over the years we have seen some memorable contenders and but my favourites would have to be represent my bloody valentine maniacal miner and the prowler sadistic soldier and wicked games copper faced assassin. i am also keen on many of the killer clowns that have made an appearance throughout the category. the final scene in the house on sorority row has to be listed as one of the best and the clown of midnight also ranks highly amongst the greatest madmen costumes. a leather mask was probably the last type to be used in a slasher movie and probably because they are widely linked with sexual perversion and which of course doesn not exactly make for a scary disguise. but in later years both blackout and this obscurity decided that fear could certainly be incorporated with a gimp suit. here how the later of the two fared the screen lights up with the rush of blue sirens and as cops race to the scene of a hostage situation. it seems that a stressed out gentleman has possibly had enough of being cast as an extra in cruddy low brow turkeys and so he decided to hold his wife and kid at gunpoint. detective shine (david clover) manages to wrestle with the gunman and but unluckily for him he looses the fight to grab a loose pistol and it looks like it the end of the road for the grey haired officer. fortunately he is saved in the nick of time by some precision marksmanship from lisa ryder (donna adams) and the california police department hottest female law enforcer. her heroic encounter earns the brunette a promotion to detective first class and and its a feat that is heavily envied by her male counterparts. meanwhile a leather clad maniac is jollying around town slaughtering hookers and dumping their bloody corpses on street corners. ryder and shine are put on the case of the murderous gimp and their first call of questioning is a sleazy back street photographer called michael walker (john mandell). lisa is such a top notch inspector that normal police regulation doesn not seem to apply to her and so before long she dating the cameraman even though he suspect numero uno. when the bodies continue to pile up around the city and she decides to go undercover in an attempt to flush out the s and m madman if anything and zipperface effortlessly sums up all that went wrong with the slasher genre towards the end of its rein. what started as a great stepping stone for up and coming filmmakers and thespians had been reduced to a sewer of cinema faeces by movies with flat direction and zero suspense or shocks and talentless mediocre actors. the boom years of early eighties splatter flicks managed to conceal their lack of strong dramatic line ups with gooey special effects and exciting directorial flourishes. unfortunately and by this point in the cycle titles like rush week and deadly dreams and the majorettes had seemed to be produced in a conspiracy to put the category where many of the aforementioned feature characters ended up. in an early grave. donna adams doesn not even vaguely convince as an officer of the law and her inexplicably idiotic behaviour  which includes doing a striptease for a top suspect in a nationwide murder investigation  is more mind numbingly pathetic than you might ever expect it to be. mansour pourmand couldn not direct traffic and the wide majority of the cast members would struggle to get a second reading for a radio commercial. i searched and searched and but found nothing here of merit or note. on the plus side and if you manage to keep the tv turned on until the end then you may be fairly surprised by the killer identity. to be honest though and i doubt that by that time you will even care. and another plus point. well and erm. the disc is perfectly symmetrical and which means that you could use it as a matt to place your cup of tea upon. aside from that there really no other reason to go out and buy zipperface. bad bad bad and not in a good way and this is 90 minutes of my life that i could have spent more constructively by plucking my chest hair. abysmal. 
creepy facemasks and slasher movies have gone together like cheese and chives throughout the lengthy lifespan of the cycle. people often assume that it was john carpenter that started the trend and but as is the case with many of the genre clichés  the italians did it first. movies like eyeball and torso and blood and black lace were the originators of a hooded maniac in a murder mystery. there were also a couple of american pre halloween slashers that warrant a mention. classroom massacre and keep my grave open and savage weekend clearly pre date 1978 and whilst the town that dreaded sundown is widely regarded as one of the first teen kill movies. carpenter seminal flick may not have been the maiden masked nightmare and but it certainly started the competitive race between directors to unveil the spookiest disguise for their bogeymen. over the years we have seen some memorable contenders and but my favourites would have to be represent my bloody valentine maniacal miner and the prowler sadistic soldier and wicked games copper faced assassin. i am also keen on many of the killer clowns that have made an appearance throughout the category. the final scene in the house on sorority row has to be listed as one of the best and the clown of midnight also ranks highly amongst the greatest madmen costumes. a leather mask was probably the last type to be used in a slasher movie and probably because they are widely linked with sexual perversion and which of course doesn not exactly make for a scary disguise. but in later years both blackout and this obscurity decided that fear could certainly be incorporated with a gimp suit. here how the later of the two fared the screen lights up with the rush of blue sirens and as cops race to the scene of a hostage situation. it seems that a stressed out gentleman has possibly had enough of being cast as an extra in cruddy low brow turkeys and so he decided to hold his wife and kid at gunpoint. detective shine (david clover) manages to wrestle with the gunman and but unluckily for him he looses the fight to grab a loose pistol and it looks like it the end of the road for the grey haired officer. fortunately he is saved in the nick of time by some precision marksmanship from lisa ryder (donna adams) and the california police department hottest female law enforcer. her heroic encounter earns the brunette a promotion to detective first class and and its a feat that is heavily envied by her male counterparts. meanwhile a leather clad maniac is jollying around town slaughtering hookers and dumping their bloody corpses on street corners. ryder and shine are put on the case of the murderous gimp and their first call of questioning is a sleazy back street photographer called michael walker (john mandell). lisa is such a top notch inspector that normal police regulation doesn not seem to apply to her and so before long she dating the cameraman even though he suspect numero uno. when the bodies continue to pile up around the city and she decides to go undercover in an attempt to flush out the s and m madman if anything and zipperface effortlessly sums up all that went wrong with the slasher genre towards the end of its rein. what started as a great stepping stone for up and coming filmmakers and thespians had been reduced to a sewer of cinema faeces by movies with flat direction and zero suspense or shocks and talentless mediocre actors. the boom years of early eighties splatter flicks managed to conceal their lack of strong dramatic line ups with gooey special effects and exciting directorial flourishes. unfortunately and by this point in the cycle titles like rush week and deadly dreams and the majorettes had seemed to be produced in a conspiracy to put the category where many of the aforementioned feature characters ended up. in an early grave. donna adams doesn not even vaguely convince as an officer of the law and her inexplicably idiotic behaviour  which includes doing a striptease for a top suspect in a nationwide murder investigation  is more mind numbingly pathetic than you might ever expect it to be. mansour pourmand couldn not direct traffic and the wide majority of the cast members would struggle to get a second reading for a radio commercial. i searched and searched and but found nothing here of merit or note. on the plus side and if you manage to keep the tv turned on until the end then you may be fairly surprised by the killer identity. to be honest though and i doubt that by that time you will even care. and another plus point. well and erm. the disc is perfectly symmetrical and which means that you could use it as a matt to place your cup of tea upon. aside from that there really no other reason to go out and buy zipperface. bad bad bad and not in a good way and this is 90 minutes of my life that i could have spent more constructively by plucking my chest hair. abysmal. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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