Voorhees on the altar.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was notable for its almost 15-minute pre-credits sequVoorhees on the altar.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was notable for its almost 15-minute pre-credits sequence.It was also typical of the slasher horror genre gathering strength in the early 1980s, with attractive actors, some nudity, and lots of bloody killings.After an overhead shot of a downtown New York street scene at 5 pm, the camera dollies down to the street level of the busy office/business district at the close of work.Karen is positioned upright in the glass sarcophagus.Poelzig explains that she had died of pneumonia two years after the war and he had embalmed her to preserve her corpse after her death - the daughter had also died.However, one look upward and she becomes uneasy as she sees ominous, menacing swarms of seagulls beginning o darken the sky.Detail
