YMMV / Eyes of a Stranger

• Awesome Music: Richard Einhorn's suspenseful score, which can spiritually be seen as an early prototype along with the composer's other orchestral horror film works to the horror film scores of Christopher Young (who's very first score released a year after this film, The Dorm That Dripped Blood, bares a striking resemblance to Einhorn's horror genre work) and Marco Beltrami's Scream and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
• Complete Monster: Stanley Herbert, known informally as the "Phone Freak," is a sickening combination of a Serial Killer and a Serial Rapist. Stanley's modus operandi is to harass and taunt women he targets over the telephone, before he assaults and ultimately rapes and kills them. Having already claimed three victims and made himself known as a feared psychopath around Miami, Stanley brutally murders and rapes several more women over the course of the film, having no compunction over killing anyone near the proximity of his murders to ensure a lack of witnesses. Stanley targets reporter Jane Harris due to her identifying him as the Phone Freak; to avenge himself and to spite Jane, Stanley breaks into her apartment, strangles her dog, and cruelly attempts to rape Tracy, Jane's blind sister, simply because she happened to be on the premises. Perverted, remorseless, and ultimately low enough to try and violate those helpless against him, Stanley is one of the most horrendous killers to ever grace 80's slasher media.
• Follow the Leader: The film began as a simple thriller picture, but the rise in popularity of the slasher genre prompted the filmmakers to add more gore.