Graduation Day for the Class of 2009


Today I graduate with a masters in English and to celebrate I'm presenting a video smorgasbord from the 80s Slasher flick Graduation Day (1981). After the success of slashers like Halloween and Friday the 13th, Hollywood cranked out a slasher film for just about every holiday and milestone there was, including Mother's Day (1980) and birthdays (Happy Birthday to Me).

Graduation Day follows this trend and chronicles the grisly murders of a high school track team by a killer in a fencing mask. The list of suspects is long and with only seven days until graduation, will they discover the killer in time? Graduating from high school has never been so deadly...

Graduation Day also features the lovely Vana White, who played a frightened teenage victim years before she would turn letters on Wheel of Fortune.







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  1. AnonymousDecember 18, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    Love love love this movie. So painfully bad its good. The foot chase at the end(with the final girl in high heels)is epic.

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