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This is the opening sequence to Armand Mastrioianni's 1980 "Halloween"-inspired slasher movie "He Knows You're Alone". 17 years after this film was released, Wes Craven almost virtually recreated this opening sequence shot for shot in his 1997 film, "Scream 2".

The movie opens with a parked car in a wooded area with the windows fogged up. Two teenagers, Tricia (Debbie Novak) and Don (perennial horror movie victim Russell Todd) are in the back seat making out when a noise from outside stops the makeout session. Tricia is freaked out thinking that her boyfriend is outside lurking, but Don reassures her that all is well. The makeout session resumes when the snap of a branch kills the mood, much to Don's annoyance. He gets out of the car to investigate and threatens to "break the neck" of Tricia's man if he was the one who caused it. Tricia gets nervous while sitting in the car alone and locks it. She calls out to Don, but he doesn't answer. She then is unnerved by the slow tapping on the car's window. Grabbing a flashlight, she gets out of the car to investigate Don's disappearance. As she rounds the car, Tricia shines her light toward the back and is greeted by the sight of Don hanging upside down from a tree with his throat slashed. (Russell Todd reenacted this same kill for his character's death in the 1981 slasher "Friday The 13th Part 2"). Tricia is then horrified and confronted by the sight of a masked killer with a scythe and gives chase. It is found that tapping sound on the window was from Don's ring as he hung from the tree).

The scene then pans out to a screen in a movie theater, which makes the viewer realize that the scene just displayed was a horror movie, making this a movie within a movie. A disgusted movie patron named Marie (Robin Tilghman) tells her friend Ruthie (Robin Lamont) that she "can't take this anymore" and excuses herself to the bathroom. Ruthie could care less because she's all into the movie.

Marie then descends a staircase and goes into the ladies bathroom in the theater, where she brushes her hair and admires her engagement ring, obviously giving away to the viewer that she is getting ready to be married. Marie then enters a stall to use the bathroom and begins to relax after the horror on the screen she just witnessed.

Just then, Marie's relaxation is shattered by the sound of footsteps in the bathroom, which begins to freak her out. She hurriedly finishes up in the bathroom, rushes out, almost bowls over another patron, and zooms back up the stairs to the movie.

When she takes her place back next to Ruthie, who wonders where she disappeared off to, Marie meekly replies that she she thinks someone is following her and begs to leave the movie. Ruthie will have none of that and tries to calm her down. Marie's fears are rightfully proven when a creepy patron named Ray Carlton (Tom Rolfing) sits directly behind her. She then again appeals to Ruthie to leave but she shushes her.

At that moment, back in the movie, Tricia has spent the night barricaded in a barn after her night of terror. Little does she know, the killer has tracked her there. Back in the theater, the tension is palpable as Marie becomes entirely too scared as she's getting into the movie. Ray slowly begins to remove a knife from his coat and aim it toward Marie's back.

In the horror movie, as she is exiting the barn, Tricia comes face to face with the killer as he begins to murder her on screen. At that exact second, Ray takes his opportunity and jams the knife through the back of Marie's seat and into her spine. Marie lets out a powerful scream before her face becomes wide eyed and frozen in terror. After a few moments of letting the knife do it's work, Ray takes the knife out and puts it back in his coat and slips out undetected, while a lifeless Marie slumps over onto Ruthie's shoulder.

After the murders on and off screen, Ruthie asks Marie if she still wants to go home and notices her slumped over not moving. As she tries to pick her up, she notices blood on her fingers. It then becomes quite clear what happened to her friend and she screams in terror..........

While this movie was among many of the frequent ripoffs of "Halloween", this well-executed scene makes "He Knows You're Alone" one of the better ones.