JUST BEFORE DAWN (1980)
- "Megan, have you seen my glasses?"

     ...In this scene two of the teens are kissing- intentionally trying to tease the girls prankster boyfriend, who they think is watching them, but who is in-fact already dead. The boy, who has misplaced his glasses, watches with bemusement over the girl’s shoulder as a blurred, lumbering shape emerges from the bushes and shambles towards them. Not only until the killer is actually almost upon them does the boy realise it is not his errant brother and, by then, it is too late. He falls to the floor, a machete messily protruding from his stomach....

   
   

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