The ultimate 80s slasher–Linnea Quigley, Billy Hufsey, Felony…and even Vanna White

Been watching a bunch of my older horror DVDs in honor of it being Halloween month. I popped in the 1981 slasher Graduation Day last night. As the credits began, I relished so many of the names coming up on the screen. If you were making an 80s horror movie that needed T&A, you called on Linnea Quigley (best known for her dance on the tombstone in Return of the Living Dead). Yes, before she began flipping letters, Vanna White had a small role in this film. The band Felony, who had a minor new wave hit with the song “The Fanatic”, appears in this film in all their glammed up glory, awash in classic Dario Argento-style lighting of reds and blues. And Billy Hufsey, who would join the cast of the television series Fame in its third season, plays Linnea’s boyfriend. Best of all? Billy breaks out the exact moves he would do 3 years later on Fame while dancing as Felony rocks on in the background under the Argento-esque lighting while Linnea watches from the sidelines. Now THAT is a film clip that needs to go into an 80s time capsule.