Ed-Shullivan If you were not aware of it, this was Tom Hanks very first film where he received a film ending credit. I guess a lot of future stars made their debut in a low budget stinker of a wannabe horror film. In this film the director, Armand Mastroianni, just would not relent in his attempt to build up suspense and then continually let us down with a simple "oh, you have got to be kidding! Again?" The young and attractive actress Caitlin O'Heaney who plays the bride to be Amy Jensen believes she has a stalker following her and her friends and recent acquaintances are being murdered one by one by her unknown stalker which we get a few glimpses of, but who is he?I honestly felt as if I was sitting on my royal throne constipated, waiting for something to happen, and as my suspense is displaced with discomfort waiting for a long overdue bowel movement suddenly I hear a little plop and realize the plop results in nothing more than the size of a peanut which has caused so much discomfort. In the case of "He Knows You're Alone" the agony continues throughout the 94 minutes (much longer than my discomfort waiting for a BM) and then the end of the film FINALLY comes and I ask myself "you have got to be kidding?!!!"Don't waste your time seeing Tom Hanks in his film debut, he was much more impressive four (4) years later in director Ron Howard's 1984's film Splash.

Wizard-8 It's kind of hard to believe that Metro Goldwyn Mayer, even in 1980, would get involved with a slasher movie. But MGM was really on the skids around this time, so maybe they thought they good grab some of that box office gold the slasher movie genre was generating then. I don't know if the movie made a profit or not, but I imagine that audiences who saw the movie back then were quite disappointed. It's fairly well produced for this genre, and director Armand Mastroianni does occasionally during the stalk/slash sequences put in a little zing. But the movie for the most part is surprisingly boring. Part of the reason for that is that there is little of the essential staples found in other examples of the genre, namely gore and sexual elements. But a larger reason is that the movie is relentlessly padded. Scene after scene goes by that moves the (thin) plot little to no advance at all. The characters are also bland and uninteresting, especially the antagonist, who is given almost no personality at all. The icing on the cake is that the antagonist's fate at the end is left kind of unexplained. While some viewers may find the movie of some interest to see an early role by Tom Hanks, I much preferred seeing an early role by Steve James of the "American Ninja" franchise instead.

heniekb Totally average and very chaotic slasher movie. However I feel a sentiment to eighties movies and often find them more entertaining than an average modern cinema.I think especially the ending would work better if we had a closer look at the killer or at least at Phil, a groom to be. Instead we get some insights of the detective chasing the guy and a friend dating a character played by Tom Hanks among many other subplots.I watched it only because i am checking movies released in 1980. Same evening i saw Prom Night & The Island. Prom Night holds up much better.It was Tom Hanks first role in a movie, so for this reason i wanted to check it out as well. Actually James Rebhorn made a more interesting appearance, his character is memorable and real fun to watch.

Jonas Skjøtt There is not much to say about this 'slasher flick', and there is not much to get exited about either... the only thing I founded a little bit exiting, was the appearance by Tom Hanks (his first film debut), actually why didn't he get more screen time, it would have been much more fun to look at him, than this sorry pierce of slasher cinema.This slasher movie, as many others, looks a lot like that successful movie called 'Halloween', not that I'm disappointed over that, because how can you, half of the slasher movies out there is a cheap knockoff of 'Halloween', but what i am disappointed about is the lack of creativeness in the soundtrack department... Ohhh boy, Alexander Peskanov & Mark Peskanov (the composers of this movie) have done a very cheap trick, they have copied John Carpenter's 'Halloween Theme', and good, it is not... it's BAD! And by the hand, what this slasher really need, is more gore and violence, you never get that wonderful feeling of B-movie trashiness, when you see the actual kills, after-all we only see these kind of movies, because we love to see how cheap and violent they can look, and this movie never shows that, the only "remotely violent thing" we get to see, is the killer waving with his knife in the air, and some blood dripping from the dead person (not even a single flesh wound)... it never gets more boring than that, expect for the talking scenes! There is many good slasher movies out there, so for the sake of horror-goodness... don't ever look at this loser of a movie!