Harpoon (film)

Harpoon is a 1985 slasher horror film written and directed by Joseph A. Harding and starring Fredrick Nordal as the harpoon-wielding killer known as the Fisherman. The film launched a franchise, consisting of nine films and a remake. Nordal has portrayed the Fisherman in all nine films except for the remake, Harpoon (2008 film) where the Fisherman was portrayed by Garrett Endun. The film is followed by 1986's Harpoon II: Fisherman's Revenge, 1988's Harpoon III: Back To The Cove, 1990's Harpoon Chapter IV, 1991's Harpoon: Cove of Blood, 1993's Harpoon: Aquaphobia, 1994's Harpoon: Rebirth of Evil, 1996's Harpoon: The New Beginning, 1998's Harpoon: All In The Family, 2000's Harpoon: Summer of Blood, and 2002's Harpoon: The Final Chapter, as well as the 2008 remake of the original film.

The film follows a group of people on vacation at the notoriously haunted Harpoon's Cove, where they are terrorized and killed by the Fisherman, a killer wielding a harpoon and dressed in a fisherman's hat, a mask with only two large eyeholes, and a raincoat, all in black. At the same time the Harpoon's Cove chief of police Sheriff Bill Nottingham tries to uncover the killer and stop him.