..We live in Claustrophobia, a land of steel and concrete, trapped by dark waters.There is no escape, nor do we want it.We""ve come to thrive on it and each other.You can""t get the adrenalin pumpin"" without the terror, good people...I love this town."All the future places of gruesome stalkings in NYC by the hockey-masked killer were foreshadowed:downtown with gangbang membersthe sewer (a manhole cover with steam emanating)the alley with street-gang thugsthe barrel of slimy waterthe dinerthe subway and its long escalatorand drug-addicts in another alleyA modern houseboat, namedLady Drifter, sailed peacefully by the run-down Crystal Lake campground, with onboard teenaged lovers - two seniors from Lakeview High School:Jimmy Miller (Todd Shaffer)Suzi Donaldson (Tiffany Paulsen)The two had sailed there to join their graduation cruise to the "seductive city" - graduation day was the 13th of the month.The barriers would be down, you see, between the real and the unreal.And the dead might be looking in to sit by our fires of turf.Halloween.The festival of Samhain.The last great one took place 3,000 years ago, when the hills ran red with the blood of animals and children.Along the way, they encountered bearded inventor Philos (Bernard Hill) in his lab, who claimed he had an expensive formula for a "magic powder" (i.Plot SynopsisThe film begins abruptly with a long interior shot of an airport terminal, where returning-from-overseas serviceman Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) lugs his belongings and crosses a map of America on the floor.