It really doesn't look like Illinois does it? Sorry, just had to say that, it's where I'm from and all...

...but still, leaves on the ground and green leaves in the trees. Not at all Illinois, probably because it was a low budget film, but it works. It gives it a very, I don't know, Nightmare on Elm Street surreal feel? And I think, if memory serves this is the start of the virgins survive sex is punished horror-slasher staple.

Anyway, it's one of my oldest and dearest friends favorite slasher films and I can see why.

It is most atmospheric. It is the one that has the most paranoid and bone chilling feel to it.

It really is the ultimate slasher film, it's even better than my favorite...but that's neither here nor there.

The fact is, this is the film that defines the slasher genre of horror and has often been imitated but has yet to be replicated. It is, in short, a masterpiece in its genre.