Taglines: Every girl is frightened the night before her wedding, but this time… there’s good reason.
He Knows You’re Alone movie storyline. A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is too late. Meanwhile, the bride has to figure out if it is all in her imagination or not, aided by her ex-boyfriend…
He Knows You’re Alone (also known as Blood Wedding) is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Armand Mastroianni, written by Scott Parker, and starring Caitlin O’Heaney, Don Scardino and Paul Gleason. The plot follows a soon-to-be bride who is stalked by a killer the weekend before her wedding.
Shot in Staten Island, New York in 1979, He Knows You’re Alone has been credited as one of the first horror films inspired by the success of 1978’s Halloween and shares a number of similarities with the previous hit. It also features a then-unknown Tom Hanks in his feature film debut.
About the Story
A young bride is murdered on her wedding day by the man she rejected for her current fiancé Len Gamble, a police detective. Several years later, a bride-to-be is stabbed to death in a movie theater with a dagger on Long Island while her friend sits beside her. The killer, Ray Carlton, flees into the night.
The next morning, the killer arrives by bus at Staten Island, where he sees from a distance university student Amy Jensen (Caitlin O’Heaney). Amy is preparing for her wedding, and she sees off her husband-to-be Phil and his two friends who leave town for a bachelor party the weekend before the wedding.
After attending a ballet class with her friends Nancy and Joyce, the three run into their psychology professor Carl (James Rebhorn), with whom Joyce is having an affair. Amy leaves to go to a dress fitting, stopping to get ice cream on the way, where she notices a man following her. She is startled by Marvin (Don Scardino), her ex-boyfriend, outside the ice cream shop on a break from his job at the local morgue.
She then goes to the dress shop for her fitting, and as she leaves, the dressmaker is stabbed to death with scissors by the man who was following her. Later that night, Nancy and Joyce surprise Amy at her home with a small bachelorette party. Her parents are gone for the weekend, leaving Amy in charge of her kid sister. Joyce leaves the party for Carl’s house, where the two begin to have sex…when the power inexplicably goes out. Carl goes to check on the electrical box, and when he returns he is stabbed to death by the killer with a chef’s knife after finding Joyce’s lifeless body in the bed.
He Knows You’re Alone (1980)
Directed by: Armand Mastroianni
Starring: Don Scardino, Caitlin O’Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, James Rebhorn, Tom Hanks, Dana Barron, Patsy Pease
Screenplay by: Scott Parker
Cinematography by: Gerald Feil
Film Editing by: George T. Norris
Art Direction by: Susan Kaufman
Music by: Alexander Peskanov, Mark Peskanov
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists
Nelease Date: August 29, 1980
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