Cameron was originally a horror director, and the first three movies he did were horror movies (Piranha 2, The Terminator, Aliens) until he switched to sci-fi action and then drama. The movie is a typical almost by the books 80's horror, and was recently described as a techno take on 1978's "Halloween". We again witness a relentless Mike Myers character after a teenage girl. With boyfriend type on her side and "Psycho"-like music, "The Terminator" was everything horror movies were at that point. A fad was starting to pick up with some kind of inhuman killer in a big city. The great thing about the movie was that Arnold wasn't known yet, so he didn't have any tag on him. He was simply the face of the mysteriouswellFor the most part, the movie keeps us in question. We don't know what's going on yet. All we know is that there's a killer in LA who kills the women alphabetically from the phone book, dubbed "Phone Book Killer" by the press. And here we have another common horror movie trace - two cops that are on the case of the killer, Lieutenant Traxler and Detective Vulkovich. Like Det. Ray Cameron in "Night Of The Creeps" and Det.Frank McCrae in "Maniac Cop"After seeing the news, teenage waitress Sarah realizes that she is the next person in the phone book after the recently killed woman. Meanwhile her roommate Ginger is murdered at their apartment right after (as usual in horrors) having sex with her boyfriend. Her death is