La Mort en récompense

Original title: Graduation Day

1981
R
1h 36m

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Slasher Horror Whodunnit Horror Mystery Thriller

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.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.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.

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4.8/10

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Trivia
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.

Goofs
Laura's jersey number repeatedly changes between 45 and 40 during the opening sequence.

Quotes
Guglione: Who are you? What do you want?
Halliday: Inspector Halliday. Police.
Guglione: Halliday? Police?
[Halliday nods]
Guglione: You don't look Irish.
Halliday: I'm Lebanese.
Guglione: You look Italian.
Halliday: You look Lebanese.

Crazy credits
After the final credits, the killer is shown holding the stopwatch he uses to time his murders.

Alternate versions
Australian version runs eight minutes longer than the U.S. release. This version was briefly released in the U.S. as a director's cut.

Connections
Featured in Night Screams (1987)

Soundtracks
Gangster Rock
by Jeff Spry, Joe Spry & Doug Burlison
Performed by Felony (uncredited)

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Featured review

4/10

For 80s Slasher Completists Only

Pretty lame and awful slasher about someone killing the members of a high school track team after their star runner dies during a meet.

Christopher George gives a hilariously over-the-top performance as the track team's coach. I don't think ANYONE has ever taken track and field as seriously as Chris does here - not even in the Olympics. It's a typically divine CG performance, and if you are a fan of the man/the legend, you should run right out and grab a copy.

But we watch slashers for the murders (you know it's true), not the performances, and Graduation Day fails to deliver on most counts (there is one really good kill). True horror only comes during a performance by the band "Felony". Never heard of 'em? Watch Graduation Day and find out why.