Graduation Day 1981 123movies

Watch: Graduation Day 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura’s sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura’s strange boyfriend Kevin..
Plot: A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.
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Ratings:

	4.8/10 Votes: 4,289
	57% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 77 Popularity: 5.215 | TMDB

Reviews:

**_Schlocky 1981 high school slasher, but entertaining_**

After a high school girl falls dead from a blood clot during a 200-meter race, members of the track team are slain one-by-one. Patch Mackenzie plays the dead student’s sister, returning from the military, while Christopher George plays the harsh coach. E. Danny Murphy is on hand as the girl’s grieving boyfriend.

“Graduation Day” (1981) is a cheap slasher that only cost $250,000. The high school setting is great for the genre, but “Prom Night” (1980) beat it to the theaters by 9.5 months whereas the parody “Student Bodies” (1981) debuted a few months after “Graduation Day.” Although not technically slashers, high school horror flicks “Carrie” (1976) and “Christine” (1983) are cut from the same cloth in spirit. The difference is that those films had considerable budgets while “Graduation Day” is decidedly low-rent; and it shows.

Another issue is that the creators couldn’t make up their minds if this was going to be a serious slasher or a campy parody. So they walked the balance beam between the two and it’s an off-kilter vibe. But I got used to it and enjoyed the movie for what it is, a schlocky early 80’s high school slasher.

There are a several highlights on the female front, including Linnea Quigley (Dolores), Karen Abbott (Joanne) and Denise Cheshire (gymnast Sally). Even Vanna White shows up (Doris).

The movie is overlong at 1 hour, 37 minutes, which is a tad too long to sustain a cut-rate fun slasher.

Likewise, seven and a half minutes was probably a little too lengthy for the live performance of the song “Gangster Rock” by Felony, but it is a driving hard rock ditty and the sequence perks up the film. Besides, the movie kept switching between the live song/roller skating to the slayings in the nearby woods. Thus it’s assumed that the song either ran more around 5 minutes or the band simply did a longer rendition for the live setting, possibly because it was their local hit.

Unfortunately, the lead singer, Jeffrey Scott Spry, committed suicide in March, 1992. Remember this: Once you’re dead, you’re dead for a looong time.

The film was shot at La Cañada High School, La Cañada Flintridge, California, and nearby Pasadena (houses).

GRADE: C+

_**Fun low-rent slasher schlock from the early-80s**_

GRADE: C+

Predictable
To be honest I was very disappointed with this movie, I was hoping for something a little better. I was willing to dismiss all the bad reviews and watched this movie anyway It’s admittedly better than the 1984 turkey Fatal Games, which had a similar plot about gymnastic athlete students killed in a high school but fact is that the first real memorable and successful high school slasher flick was the one making fun of them all – Scream in 1996.

The major problem with this movie is the lack of characterization. You often just throw in some good-looking teens in a group and most of them doesn’t have their first line until their big moment, that is such dramatic dialogue like “Hello?” or “Who’s there?” You get the drill. In this one it’s not clear who’s the hero or heroine until the last 20 minutes or so. And when it comes to the suspects, they get less screen time than the victims. When the killer’s identity is revealed it’s just a big “So?”

But there were a few characters that I found enjoyable in this movie like Linnea Quigley who has a small role in this movie but has fun with it, and the main heroine Anne (Patch MacKensie) which at first was kinda boring until she performs kung fu on the killer towards the end which was brill, and the Principil and the Secretary sub plot was enjoyable too.

The murders are OK but nothing specialSo, this isn’t very good but is still fair if very forgettable entertainment. It gets going though for some moments in the climax even if all intentions of scares are ruined by the fact that it’s played in broad daylight.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min), 1 hr 33 min (93 min) (Australia), 1 hr 32 min (92 min) (UK)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Herb Freed
Writer Anne Marisse, Herb Freed, David Baughn
Actors Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm