Despite its many drawbacks, The Prowler is still a classic of the Slasher Golden Age.
The film was re-released on by in 2001.
A squalid, inhuman setting for a squalid, inhuman creature that only wants to be accepted and loved ā like someone cut the Elephant Man into quarters, melted him down, poured wax over him and then locked his cranky ass in a wicker basket.
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema.
Smiley face loving hooker with a heart of gold, Casey Beverly Bonner , is the sweetest of the bunch and the only one who truly seems to care about Duaneā¦ at least until Belial molests her in her own bed as she sleeps.
The intercourse in most of these scenes is more or less consensualā¦ or at least within the context of the story.