Directed by Bob Clark Starring Olivia Hussey, Kier Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon Budget: $620,000 Box Office: 4.50M
Concept
This Canadian cult classic takes homage to the 'babysitter and the murderer upstairs' urban legend and takes inspiration from real life murders in Montreal. This film has an unknown man clamber into the attic of a sorority house, and then begins calling the landline telephone downstairs. Our protagonist Jess, a young woman at the sorority house is increasingly disturbed by the calls, and has been naming the unknown man 'the moaner'.
The moaner calls, and all the girls gather around the phone when Jess notifies them, as the moaner begins moaning, screaming, laughing and telling perverted things to the young women. When provoked by one of the girls he stops his act and calmly says 'I'm going to kill you'.
Soon several girls go missing, and now Jess is stuck at the frontline with an unknown enemy she doesn't know. The police try helping her and each call can become a life or death situation, seeing as the killer is so frightfully near.
Review
This became a cult classic over the years and is accredited to being an early slasher, possibly the earliest slasher film created. It is also known this film did become one of the first to have an antagonist who we the audience do not know. It is hidden by another first... as in you do not see the killer, you do not know the killer, you do not know of his motivations except for the fact he is just the bad guy murdering young women.
Instead from POV you see everything the murderer sees, putting you into the shoes of the psycho killer, again this is before John Carpenter's classic Halloween arrived and had the infamous POV murdering opening.
This film is nothing horror fanatics or even overly casual fans haven't seen or at least heard of, it is a cult classic after all, but nonetheless in the general public eye and horror's beginners this truly is a horror gem that needs earthing up.
Directed by Bob Clark 
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