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An actor in this film claimed that he recorded several of his lines while standing on his head to make his voice sound more unhinged. This film intercuts the discovery of a smashed piano with shots of a man frantically navigating a maze of phone lines. Conversations about a potential sequel to this film between its director and John Carpenter had a direct influence on Halloween, which came out just four years later. In this film, a glass unicorn figurine is used to kill a character played by (*) Margot Kidder. At the very beginning of this film, a POV shot captures a figure climbing the lattice panel on the side of a house and entering the attic, where he later makes a series of disturbing phone calls to the inhabitants, including the Olivia Hussey-played final girl Jess. Bob Clark directed, For 10 points, (10[1])what early Canadian slasher film about a series of murders in a sorority house? ■END■

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