USA, 1976
88m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, English
An American horror film directed by David Paulsen. Although shot in 1976, it wasn’t released until 1978.
Plot Summary
Five friends on a trip into the countryside to see a boat being built are stalked by a masked killer.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: David Paulsen
© [not given on screen]
An Upstate production. A David Paulsen film
Executive Producer: John Mason Kirby
Produced by: John Mason Kirby, David Paulsen
Associate Producers: Claude Duvernoy, A. Norman Leigh
Written by: David Paulsen
Director of Photography: Zoli Vidor
Edited by: Jonathan Day, Zion Avrahamian
Music Composed and Conducted by: Dov Seltzer
Sound Engineer: Rick Waddell
Fight Supervisor: Rae Chapin
Cast
Christopher Allport (Nicky)
James Doerr (Robert Fathwood)
David Gale (Mac Macauley)
Devin Goldenberg (Jay Alsop)
Marilyn Hamlin (Marie Sales Pettis)
Kathleen Heaney (Shirley Sales)
Jeffrey David Pomerantz (Greg Pettis)
William Sanderson (Otis)
Yancy Butler (little girl)
Adam Hirsch (Jeremy)
Don Plumley (pool player)
Ben Simon (lumberman)
Geraldine Chapin (woman at bar)
Rae Chapin (lumberman)
Claude Paulsen (waitress at bar)
Robert T. Henderson (bartender)
Alternative Titles
El asesino tras la máscara – Spain
A Hora do Calafrio – Brazil
Ihanet – Turkey
The Killer Behind the Mask – working title
Killer hinter der Maske – West Germany
Salvaje fin de semana – Mexico, Peru
Ena Savvatokyriako gemato erota – Greece
The Upstate Murders
Un Week-end Infernal(French, subtitle) – Canada
Дикий уик-энд – Russia
세비지 위크엔드 – South Korea
Links
Extracts included in
The Film Lost to Time (2024)
The Secret in the Stone (1999)
Trailer Trauma (2016)
References
Periodicals
- Écran Fantastique no.6 (1978) p.25 – note
- Screen International no.139 (20 May 1978) p.6 – note
- Screen International no.184 (7 April 1979) p.59
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.46 no.545 (June 1979) pp.127-128
- Variety 16 March 1983 p.20
Books
- Film Review 1981-1982 by F. Maurice Speed p.166 – review
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.497
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.413
- Horror Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir pp.574-575 – credits, synopsis, review
- The Pocket Essential Slasher Movies by Mark Whitehead p.86
- Screen World 1984 volume 35 by John Willis pp.104 – credits
- Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers by Matthew Edwards pp.39-53
