reoccuring nightmares

[melzworld]

Hey all, I am trying to find/watch a movie as an adult that gave me reoccuring nightmares as a child.

I was around 7 or so, in the early-mid 80s and my dad's rule was watch what I'm watching or go to bed... needless to say I say a lot of horror/kung fu movies.  This one stuck out and just one scene but I'd like to see it again as an adult for some closure 

scene:
A woman is walking down a staircase, like inside an apartment lobby or something and the railing is open, like cast iron.  A figure, I believe to be another women in one of those clear masks (see through but like makeup drawn in) stabs her through the bars of the stair case...

Any horror buffs familiar with this scene?

[Rev. Powell]

I don't remember that exact scene but there was a mask like that in ALICE SWEET ALICE.

[retrorussell]

That's gotta be it.  I remember a scene just like that.