FilmRPsychological Slasher Sci-Fi Horror

Blind Date1984

Name: Blind Date
Genre: Psychological, Slasher, Sci-Fi Horror
Released: 1984-03-15
Rating: 5.1

“You won't be coming home alone.”

Directed by Nico Mastorakis

5.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 4.8TMDB 4.3

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Year

1984

Runtime

106 min

Box Office

🏆 1 win total

The premise

A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath.

Horror Vault's take

A man struck by mysterious psychosomatic blindness becomes the unlikely focal point of a police investigation when a methodical serial killer begins targeting young women across the city. Fitted with an experimental computer-aided vision system, he navigates a world that looks nothing like it used to — and may be the only one who can stop the predator. This Greek-American thriller blends early-80s tech anxiety with a cat-and-mouse tension that keeps the screws tightening throughout. The unusual premise elevates it beyond a standard slasher, making the hero's compromised perception as much a source of dread as the killer himself.

Content: Violence Against Women, Depictions Of Surgical Harm, Mild Gore