United States

• The Hunters
• Blood Song

The music of death haunted her life and drove her to the edge of madness

After brutally murdering an attendant, a deranged mental patient flees into the night. His only possession is a carved wooden flute. Not far away, in a nightmarish vision, a high school student sees the murder and the escape — and hears the killer playing a weird and mournful tune on his flute. That tune haunts her in the days that follow: whenever she hears the sound, which no one else can hear, the killer is committing another murder. Donna Wilkes plays the terrorised student, Marion Hauser, who finally encounters the killer in the act of burying a victim and is herself pursued. What follows leads the girl to the very brink of insanity in a paralysing climax to the film.