The last film from Ken Hughes is a perfectly adequate, accomplished slasher movie. It lacks the delirious grandeur of the nuttier entries in this genre.
There's a bit of feminism in the movie - female producer and writer - with talks about how women have been persecuted. Rachel Ward is in it and has star factor.
There's a bit too much of stock cop Leonard Mann. There is a lecherous lesbian academic, a lecherous straight male academic. Also some moments of genuine flair - a murder in an aquarium plus a decent homage to the shower scene in Psycho with Ward in a see through bra and some kinky stuff involving red soap.
I don't like slashers, but this had a story and ambition and some fun moments. I'm surprised Hughes didn't direct more after this.
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