Brand new factory sealed dvd is presented completely uncut and uncensored since its initial playdates. After those early theatrical showings, several cuts were made to secure an 'R' rating for its wider release.

The film opens with a 1945 prologue, set at the Avalon Bay graduation dance. Three months after sending her beau a "Dear John" letter, young Rosemary and her new boyfriend sneak off from the proceedings for a little necking at The Point. Not long after they start, a figure wearing army fatigues brutally kills the lovers with a pitchfork.

The story picks up 35 years later, amidst preperations for the first grad dance since the tragedy. Deputy Mark London has to hold down the fort when Sheriff Fraser (Farley Granger) decides to go on his anual fishing trip, in spite of the festivities and the fact that a murderous felon from a nearby town are on the loose.

A killer (sporting the same get-up as his predecessor) begins to prey upon the students and staff, and almost manages to slay Mark's virginal girlfriend, Pam (Vicky Dawson). While the dance continues on, the two sleuth around trying to apprehend the attacker, who has also taken the time to violate Rosemary's grave.

Special effects makeup master Tom Savini will leave you suitably impressed and repulsed with his uncut gory setpieces of a memorably nasty shower murder, a bayonet through the head, and a graphic shotgun blast. Director Joseph Zito ('Friday 13th: final chapter') maintains a gloomy, suspenseful atmosphere in the stalking sequences.