Appointment with Fear, also known as Deadly Presence, is a 1985 American horror film directed by Ramsey Thomas for Moustapha Akkad and Moviestore Entertainment.

Kowalski later finds out the killer is in solitary confinement in the state mental facility but is somehow leaving his body in spirit and is under an Ancient Egyptian curse which gives him a need to kill his son to be "King of the Forest" for another year.

Carol, a friend of Heather with a love of recording sounds, spots the white van following her in her pickup truck and becomes suspicious.

The killer learns of his son's whereabouts and unknown initially to Carol, kills another of her friends and an old vagrant who lives in the back of her truck at the house.

The killer is then seen leaving the house with the baby in his arms and is confronted by Carol with a shot gun and orders him to give up the child.