this movie was excellent, you can definately see the influence it had on Halloween (it was made in 1974, ie five years earlier)..

and then of course Halloween influenced Friday the 13th.. Scream yadayada..

it managed to be really moody and tense whilst saving the slashing to the end. You dont even see the villian until then, you just hear his creepy voice on the phone. It's a film version of the old 'stalker in the house' urban legend, but its really well done, I doubt the remake will be as good (judging by all the bad ones etc TCM, Psycho 2000 etc etc), but then Final Destination wasnt bad at all so hears hoping..