creepy facemasks and slasher movie have go together like cheese and chive throughout the lengthy lifespan of the cycle . people often assume that it be john carpenter that start the trend and but as be the case with many of the genre clichés the italian do it first . movie like eyeball and torso and blood and black lace be the originator of a hooded maniac in a murder mystery . there be also a couple of american pre halloween slasher that warrant a mention . classroom massacre and keep my grave open and savage weekend clearly pre date 1978 and whilst the town that dread sundown be widely regard a one of the first teen kill movie . carpenter seminal flick may not have be the maiden mask nightmare and but it certainly start the competitive race between director to unveil the spooky disguise for their bogeyman . over the year we have see some memorable contender and but my favourite would have to be represent my bloody valentine maniacal miner and the prowler sadistic soldier and wicked game copper face assassin . i be also keen on many of the killer clown that have make an appearance throughout the category . the final scene in the house on sorority row have to be list a one of the best and the clown of midnight also rank highly amongst the great madman costume . a leather mask be probably the last type to be use in a slasher movie and probably because they be widely link with sexual perversion and which of course doesn not exactly make for a scary disguise . but in late year both blackout and this obscurity decide that fear could certainly be incorporate with a gimp suit . here how the later of the two fare the screen light up with the rush of blue siren and a cop race to the scene of a hostage situation . it seem that a stress out gentleman have possibly have enough of be cast a an extra in cruddy low brow turkey and so he decide to hold his wife and kid at gunpoint . detective shine ( david clover ) manage to wrestle with the gunman and but unluckily for him he loose the fight to grab a loose pistol and it look like it the end of the road for the grey haired officer . fortunately he be save in the nick of time by some precision marksmanship from lisa ryder ( donna adam ) and the california police department hot female law enforcer . her heroic encounter earn the brunette a promotion to detective first class and and it a feat that be heavily envy by her male counterpart . meanwhile a leather clad maniac be jolly around town slaughter hooker and dump their bloody corpses on street corner . ryder and shine be put on the case of the murderous gimp and their first call of question be a sleazy back street photographer call michael walker ( john mandell ) . lisa be such a top notch inspector that normal police regulation doesn not seem to apply to her and so before long she date the cameraman even though he suspect numero uno . when the body continue to pile up around the city and she decide to go undercover in an attempt to flush out the s and m madman if anything and zipperface effortlessly sum up all that go wrong with the slasher genre towards the end of it rein . what start a a great stepping stone for up and come filmmaker and thespian have be reduce to a sewer of cinema faeces by movie with flat direction and zero suspense or shock and talentless mediocre actor . the boom year of early eighty splatter flick manage to conceal their lack of strong dramatic line ups with gooey special effect and excite directorial flourish . unfortunately and by this point in the cycle title like rush week and deadly dream and the majorette have seem to be produce in a conspiracy to put the category where many of the aforementioned feature character end up . in an early grave . donna adam doesn not even vaguely convince a an officer of the law and her inexplicably idiotic behaviour which include do a striptease for a top suspect in a nationwide murder investigation be more mind numbingly pathetic than you might ever expect it to be . mansour pourmand couldn not direct traffic and the wide majority of the cast member would struggle to get a second reading for a radio commercial . i search and search and but find nothing here of merit or note . on the plus side and if you manage to keep the tv turn on until the end then you may be fairly surprise by the killer identity . to be honest though and i doubt that by that time you will even care . and another plus point . well and erm . the disc be perfectly symmetrical and which mean that you could use it a a matt to place your cup of tea upon . aside from that there really no other reason to go out and buy zipperface . bad bad bad and not in a good way and this be 90 minute of my life that i could have spend more constructively by pluck my chest hair . abysmal .