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Virginia "Ginny" Wainwright (Melissa Sue Anderson) is one of the "Top Ten", an exclusive clique of rich kids at the Canadian institution of Crawford Academy. However, what is more noteworthy is the fact that her friends have begun to get killed off - and Ginny thinks that she might be responsible. She's been having blackouts and flashbacks that are linked to a tragic incident in her past.While Leonard Maltin and company consider this to be the absolute lowest point in actor Glenn Ford's career (he plays Ginny's sympathetic psychiatrist) the movie itself is fairly unique for the slasher genre. It plays almost as if it were based on a novel and not written directly for the screen - what I mean is that it is actually more dependent on plot and performances than many a slasher movie. It plods along (it's probably also the longest slasher movie ever made at an hour and fifty-one minutes) and not all of the murders are as gory as you might expect. In fact, until late in the movie, the goriest sequence is actually the one of the operation Ginny had after the accident.It takes some getting used to, and I wouldn't recommend it to rabid slasher fans - no sex, and, like I just said, not as much explicit violence as in other movies of its kind (however, there is one funny moment near the end when a character is killed by a blow to the head with a fireplace poker and an obscenely ridiculous amount of blood splashes over the walls).Anderson is a reasonably sympathetic lead and there are a few familiar faces in the supporting cast.The movie's final twist is amusing - and unexpected - enough to make it somewhat memorable.This can rightly take its place among other Canadian slashers such as "Terror Train", "Prom Night", and "My Bloody Valentine".Produced by Canadian producers John Dunning and Andre Link, who also ushered in the first major Canadian horror movie, David Cronenberg's movie "Shivers" (a.k.a. "They Came From Within").7/10
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