Graduation Day was made during the period affectionately known as The Golden Age of the Slasher Movie. It is one of many high school set slasher movies but what marks this one out is that it has an unknown killer murdering the school's athletes. Kills include a fencing sword through the neck, throat slash, decapitation and most inventively a pole vaulter landing on a bed of spikes. The budget was low and the special effects do look cheap but if you like a bit of gore then they are fun. The identity of the psycho is not revealed until the end, there are several red herrings and it's fun trying to figure out who it is though the reveal is pretty obvious. In addition to some gore we get the obligatory female (topless) nudity, horror Scream Queen Linnea Quigley wastes no time is removing her top! School horrors often feature a creepy caretaker, here we get a creepy campus cop instead. The movie has plenty of 1980's cheese and the "teens" look like they are well into their 20's. A new wave band called Felony perform a very catchy song as the prom, students naturally roller skate around the dance floor. I used to own the British pre cert VHS, this found itself classed as a Section 3 Video Nasty and could be seized. What ridiculous times they were but now it is thankfully available on Blu-ray from 88 Films, picture is good though the sound suffers. On pure technical merit I would rate this 6/10 at best but I love these old slasher movies, it's fun and enjoyable hence my 7/10.