PLEDGE NIGHT

THE STORY: The Phi Epsilon Frat house used to be owned by another fraternity in the 60's. But when they accidently killed a pledge during 'hell week' their charter was revoked. Now it the present the new pledges are going through the rituals of initiation. The mother of one pledge, Larry Bonner, tries to talk him out of joining the fraternity by telling him of the tragedy in the sixties and that the boy who died was an old boyfriend. Larry still wants to join. One of senior frat guys goes nuts over the weekend though and starts killing his 'brothers'. Its revealed that he is possessed by the spirit of the guy that was killed in the sixties. The spirit manages to wipe out almost everyone else in the house, but when it comes to Larry, it just tells him it only wanted to protect him. (Get it? Its Larry's pop!)

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:

1.) The pledges have to tie a corn cob to their privates so girls can pull on it. There is absolutely nothing in the known universe that could entice me to put my weiner in danger.

2.) The scariest thing about this movie is that halfway through it theres still no visible plot.

3.) When the ghost comes to kill the pledges, one of them, Cagle, the obligatory 'going-to-die' black character wants to fight it. Now, theres no question that this is a supernatural being and it looks pretty much like a rotting corpse...why would anyone want to fight it instead of run?

4.) Somehow the doors are magically locked and no one can get out...basically because no one thought of jumping through a window!

NUDITY AND SEX: limited nudity.

HUH?: Wendy freezes the ghost with a fire extinguisher. I couldn't believe it was that easy either.

After the ghost is momentarily incapicitated Larry tells Wendy to wait in the house while he goes to get the police. now, we all know that in horror movies this means the killer gets one last shot at killing the heroine, but even so, isn't it kind of stupid to want to stay in the house with the ten or so dead bodies? Why not take wendy with him?

THE TALLY: The first half of this movie is like the rejected script for Animal House. Theres all kinds of college hijinks but none of them are funny or amusing. Its a waste of film, because once the movnster attacks it picks up. If the movie concentrated on the supernatural part of the story earlier on it would have been a great movie! As it is, I have to give it a 2 devil head rating. It could have been way better.