Tommy Lee Wallace does good imitation direction of John Carpenter, helped by most scenes shot at night, the isolated north California setting, the wonderful music, and the Carpenter stock company (well, Tom Atkins).
A spooky, unsettling story, with the catchy jingle, injokes for the fans (including watching Halloween), Woody Allen's ahem muse Stacey Nelkin (as a young woman unable to resist hopping in bed with an elder man). The baddies kill a little kid in front of his parents then the parents, a nice nurse is drilled in the head - so it's bleak.
The public didn't like it, which was a shame.
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