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Graduation Day

Graduation Day

1981Movie⏱️ 1h 36mR
HorrorMysteryThriller
4.8
IMDB Rating
5,836 votes

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.

Director
Herb Freed
Writers
Anne Marisse, Herb Freed, David Baughn
Stars
Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy
Release Date
May 1, 1981
Language
English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast

Christopher George
Christopher George
as Coach George Michaels
Patch Mackenzie
Patch Mackenzie
as Anne Ramstead
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E. Danny Murphy
as Kevin
E.J. Peaker
E.J. Peaker
as Blondie
Michael Pataki
Michael Pataki
as Guglione
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Richard Balin
as Roberts
Carmen Argenziano
Carmen Argenziano
as Halliday
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Beverly Dixon
as Elaine Ramstead
Virgil Frye
Virgil Frye
as MacGregor
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Hal Bokar
as Ronald Corliss

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
La Cañada High School - 4463 Oak Grove Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA
Production
Baughn/Freed Productions

🏷️ Keywords

track and fieldfemale nuditypole vaultmurderslasher

🎯 Categories

Slasher HorrorWhodunnitHorrorMysteryThriller

⭐ Featured Review

"They're Animals! I Swear, They Get Worse From Year To Year!"...
by Dethcharm2018-09-11

"GRADUATION DAY starts off at a high school track and field competition, where a runner named Laura Ramstead (Ruth Ann Llorens) drops dead after winning a race. Soon thereafter, a mysterious figure is hunting down and killing the school athletes. At the same time, Laura's older sister, Ann (Patch Mackenzie) arrives in town for the titular event. Could there be some other reason for her return? As for other possible suspects, there's an entire school of red herrings to choose from. Especially, the explosive, overbearing coach Matthews (Christopher George), who yells his lungs out at e..."

💡 Did You Know?

The blonde girl in the number 46 track jersey was cut out of the film as much as possible due to being fired for refusing to fulfill the nudity requirements. Linnea Quigley was hired to replace her, and in a 2004 interview talked about her big break: "I got Graduation Day by going in and having to act scared. This other girl had already been cast as Dolores, but once she got on the set she refused to show her breasts, so they called me and I was scared too, but I wanted to do the film so badly, and back then it was like a huge no no to refuse to do nudity, so I guess I got lucky." It wasn't her first time to do nude scenes though as she had already been fully nude in previous films, including one where she played a 15-year old girl (she was 21 at the time) who danced naked during a movie audition.

📖 Synopsis

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.