This has to be the weakest ever first-entry in a long-running franchise

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize how much of a PSYCHO homage this winds up being. In my defense I probably haven’t seen this in a decade or longer. So funny that a shameless cash-grab HALLOWEEN knockoff also steals its ending from something equally iconic! 

The reveal is essentially “look, it’s a reverse PSYCHO!” (mom pretending to be her dead son rather than a son pretending to be his dead mother) as the Manfredini score blares sounding exactly like Bernard Hermann’s iconic score for PSYCHO. 

That kinda rocks! I love that. It’s so funny that this spawned a slasher franchise that has nothing to do with that element, the coolest thing about this one, and even here  it doesn’t get much mileage out of it.