Graduation Day (or Red Herring High)
After the success of both Halloween and Friday the 13th, a ton of slashers came out that were based around life events, be it an actual holiday or something personal. One of the most successful was this 1981 film. I had never ever seen this one, and after seeing how big of a hit it was in 1981 (made on a budget of $250,000 it grossed $23.9 million) I decided to see why it was a hit. The plot starts out immediately in the opening credits: a rising track star is pushed to the point of death at a track meet by her coach. Two months later, we cut to the day before what would have been her graduation day. Her older sister, now in the Navy, comes home from being stationed in Guam to accept a special award on her sister's behalf. As she arrives, the members of her sister's track team start to die. All in the course of the same day. Is this sister home to actually get revenge on what happened to her sister? Maybe...or maybe it's the coach, who has been fired from his ...