only scream in terror as he walks out, leaving her to die. Colt goes home, where he devises one last plan to kill Deborah. He breaks a beer bottle underneath his arm, wounding himself badly. Gary and Deborah have an ambulance sent to Sheila's house. Still alive, but badly wounded, she is rushed to the hospital. Gary accompanies the police to Colt's apartment, where they discover the photos of his previous victims, as well as Deborah and Sheila's. They also learn that the wounded Hawker has been taken to County General. Sheila is taken into the emergency room and Colt is wheeled in. After being bandaged and medicated, he sneaks away to find Deborah and attacks her. She flees to an elevator. In the basement, she goes into a radiography room, finding a helpless Sheila, all alone, waiting for X-rays. Realizing she must lure Colt away to protect Sheila, Deborah leaves and deliberately gives her location away. Colt approaches the curtain she is hiding behind and Deborah stabs him with a switchblade, killing him. Sheila is wheeled to safety while Gary comforts Deborah. Cast Production Filming took place in the fall of 1980 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, under the working title The Fright. The budget was approximately $6 million. Filming completed in late October 1980. Release The film was released theatrically in the United States by 20th Century Fox on May 28, 1982. Censorship In the United Kingdom, the film was subject to censorship, and had one minute of footage excised for its theatrical release. It was subsequently classified as a "video nasty" by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), though the video print of the film remains the same as the censored theatrical cut. Critical response Reviews from critics were very negative. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "an especially clumsy, overwrought example of slash-and-hack melodrama ... The laughs here are not intentional." Variety wrote that the film, "though artless, is terror-crammed and bloody enough to appeal to the raunchy circuit trade." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave it half a star out of four and called it "yet another depressing sickie-with-knife-chasing-women picture." He found it "shocking and depressing" that Grant and Shatner appeared in it, asking, "Do these people really need a paycheck that badly?" Many critics commented on the film's portrayal of violence against women: Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles