]The film""s screenplay, by first-time scripter Bruce Robinson, was adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winningNY Timesreporter Sydney Schanberg""sThe Death and Life of Dith PranfromThe NY Times Magazine.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $1.8 million, and box-office gross receipts of $25.5 million (domestic).This slasher film came late in the year 1984, after both other competing franchisesHalloweenandFriday the 13thhad been launched.The urgently-told, highly-stylized story was Wilder""s third film afterThe Major and the Minor (1942)andFive Graves to Cairo (1943)."" You may select any two team members, but it is essential that the third team member be Nyah Nordoff-Hall.