An Egyptian king of nature must kill his newborn baby in order to keep the title for another year. He'll have to knock off a few teens in this mid-80's sleepy slasher - Appointment with Fear
In the middle of the day, a woman is followed by a man in a white van and then stabbed to death with a few bystanders around that witness the incident. Just before she dies, the woman gives her small baby to one of our main characters Heather and tells her to take care of it and keep it safe. Police officer Kowalski knows who the man who did it, but the problem is that the same man was locked away in a psychiatric hospital and all drugged up when the killing happened. There is mention of astral projection and the ability make things happen in the world despite not physically being there to do it (out of body actions).
We see the man in the white van following around the films heroine Carol and the other teenage bystanders from the murder earlier in the day (plus some of their friends). It appears that the man is trying to kill his baby because of an Egyptian power that makes him king of nature for another year if he can accomplish the murder. The remainder of the film is the man following the teens up to a large house party they are having in order to kill the baby that Heather took at the beginning.
Let's be real, Appointment with Fear is not a very good movie at all technically speaking. The quality of this movie is terrible when it comes to editing. We get strange voiceovers that don't match the actual voice of the actor who is talking. Plus there are a few times you can catch a shadow of the director or camera person in the frame. The actual plot and storyline with the astral projection serial killer is not terrible, but isn't used as much as it could have been which makes it overall super weak. There was not one standout in the acting department that was anywhere close to competent except for maybe Douglas Rowe as Sgt. Kowalski.
I did want to give this movie a rating of 4 at least, because it didn't start all that bad for a lacklustre 80's slasher. But an hour in, you at least expect SOMETHING to have happened to push the story along and to see more murders. Well none of that happens and the movie just kind of falls into a complete mess category for me.
3/10
