This Canadian slasher had serious production problems resulting in the original director quitting and filming only resuming after some time, with the conflicting visions that caused the initial problem never resolved. So even by the standards of giallos, which it resembles (more than a Friday 13th-style teen slasher), the premise, plot and character writing seem to be missing whole pieces of whatever might have lent the basic concept credibility.
The first part with Eggar as an actress who commits herself to an asylum as research feels truncated. Then we abruptly move to a sort of casting-couch audition at a rural home for the movie role thought she had, and which now a bunch of other performers are competing for. They include a standup comic, a dancer, and a figure skater; it doesn't help that none of these actors seem to actually be able to do the thing that is meant to define them. (The figure skater actress at least gets a body double for longshots, but the "dancer" has no such luck.) Their deaths are routinely, often bloodlessly handled (one or two even occur offscreen), the lack of suspense underlined in a way by the film's surface gloss--it's better shot than most such movies, but the fairly slick visuals aren't actually atmospheric in a way apt for a horror much of a guilty pleasure.
The first part with Eggar as an actress who commits herself to an asylum as research feels truncated. Then we abruptly move to a sort of casting-couch audition at a rural home for the movie role thought she had, and which now a bunch of other performers are competing for. They include a standup comic, a dancer, and a figure skater; it doesn't help that none of these actors seem to actually be able to do the thing that is meant to define them. (The figure skater actress at least gets a body double for longshots, but the "dancer" has no such luck.) Their deaths are routinely, often bloodlessly handled (one or two even occur offscreen), the lack of suspense underlined in a way by the film's surface gloss--it's better shot than most such movies, but the fairly slick visuals aren't actually atmospheric in a way apt for a horror much of a guilty pleasure.