Educational Institutions in Horror Film

Description

The 1981 film The Prowler opens with newsreel film from World War II of the British liner Queen Mary bringing successful American soldiers home to start their after-war lives. The scene movements to a 1945 secondary school graduation move. Two youthful lovers leave the move to locate a private second. Their tryst is hindered by a figure in battle boots who, upset about having got a “Dear John” letter from the youngster while at war and making some troublesome memories straightening out to his life in a period of harmony, mercilessly kills the pair with a pitchfork. The film pushes the scene ahead to the furthest limit of the school year in 1980.