it may have be inevitable that with the onslaught of slasher movie in the early 1980 and that a few good one might slip through the crack . this be a great rare film from jeff lieberman and who insure his cult status with his memorable 1970 film squirm and blue sunshine . five young people head into the oregon mountain ( this movie be actually shoot on location ) to do some camping and check out the deed to some land that one of them have acquire . before long and they will predictably be terrorize by a bulky killer with an incredibly creepy wheeze laugh . just before dawn be noticeably more ambitious and arty and and intelligent than some slasher film . lieberman actually flesh out the character well and two of them and anyway as much a a 90 minute long film will allow him . the film have genuine moment of suspense and tension and and actually refrain from graphic gore and save for one kill right at the beginning . there be an above average cast here and include oscar winner george kennedy and a a forest ranger who understandably go a little flaky from have be alone in the wilderness for too long . jack lemmon son chris and future brian de palma regular gregg henry and blonde lead deborah benson ( it too bad she hasn not become a more well know performer and judging by her work here ) and ralph seymour ( ghoulies ) and mike kellin ( sleepaway camp ) and and jamie rise ( chopper chick in zombietown ) round out the cast . some of the shot be interesting and and the early music score by brad feidel ( now best know for his terminator theme ) be haunt and atmospheric . this be worth catch for the important plot twist at about the one hour mark and although a moment at about 75 minute in involve the heroine and a tree and the killer be almost comical while it may actually remind a viewer of a cartoon . one of the most clever touch be the final dispatching of the killer and which i would never see before in a horror film and probably would not see again . i do not give it positive because i can not honestly that i be that frighten . still and it an interest slasher that be worthy of re discovery . that deed do not mean nothing and son . those mountain can not read . positive .