THE STORY: Normally, slasher movies are great for a good laugh. Very few of them try to be serious mysteries. The eighties spawned a ton of cheap slasher flicks, and most of them are pure crap. Sure, they're fun to watch because they're so bad but that doesn't make them good movies. Because of the success of Scream in the 90's there's have been several new slasher movies, like I know what did last Summer, I still know what you did last Summer and Urban Legends. One of these days I'll review those three movies...because quite frankly I thought they all sucked. (Except for Scream. But the others....dog doo....Especially Urban Legends) This movie, Rush Week, sucked too. It was made in 1989 and it did something most movies can't...it really, really, really pissed me off.

Toni Daniels is a bright young journalism major in college. She's been assigned to write a story on Rush Week for the campus paper. While doing so she inadvertently hears another student tell the dean, Grail, that her roommate didn't come home last night. (Gasp) Toni decides that the missing student may be a big story for her. I'm not going to go on with this, because after the first 25 minutes or so the likely suspects for the killer are so obvious the entire movie was superfluous. Its either-

JEFF- Jeff is a complete asshole. He's also the love interest of Toni. Which made watching this an even suckier experience as Jeff is utterly unlikable. He could be the killer because his ex-girlfriend from last school year was found dead and slashed to ribbons in the science building. Could Jeff have gone over the deep end and be secretly killing students? It seems so. Every time before someone gets killed Jeff goes for a walk.

DEAN GRAIL- The dean constantly remarks about the low morals and hedonistic behavior of the fraternities. He may be the one killing the students....Jeff's dead girlfriend was his daughter! Is the Dean exacting revenge on other women on campus of low morals?

ARNOLD-Is the big greasy cook in the cafeteria. He's been paying girls off to take pictures of them nude in the science building. He's not a nice fellow either. So he could be the killer. Every time he pays the girls he gives them a $100.00 bill with a red axe drawn on it. The killer has been using an axe.

Just on the off chance that anyone reading this can even find this movie and rents it I'm not going to tell you who the killer is right here. You oughtta be able to guess with the scant information above anyway. If you scroll all the way down to the end of this page the identity is there. See if you can guess who it is. This movie is largely a waste of time. We don't actually get to see the kills, just the killer dressed in a black robe and a monster mask swinging his axe. None of the characters are interesting or even likable. Toni wasn't very interesting and she pissed me off when she decided she loved Jeff. He was a real prick.

Best Lines: "I already know who you are. You're a walking ego."- Toni to Jeff when he introduces himself. She was right too. But Toni herself is a walking idiot....I don't see what she sees in Jeff.

1.) Wouldn't you tell the police or campus security first before reporting a missing roommate to the dean? Add to that the girl hasn't been missing too long.

2.) 15 minutes into this movie and I actually hate all of the characters. This movie is trying to portray Jeff and his frat buddies as 'cool' when really they're a bunch of assholes. They even put the finger from a cadaver in a guy's food. Y'know, in Animal House or even Revenge of the Nerds, college hijinks are funny...in this movie they will make you hate these people.

3.) Here's a hint ladies---its not erotic or romantic to bring up your boyfriends dead, murdered ex-girlfriend.

4.) Egad, Toni is stupid! She's not even prepared to do the snooping she does. She breaks into Arnolds house seconds before he comes home. she drops her license and has to hide in the bathroom. BEGIN SARCASM MODE-(That was great place to hide! *snicker* Arnold would NEVER go into the bathroom when he first gets home!) -END SARCASM MODE. Arnold almost catches her so she has to throw the shower curtain over him and run away. It doesn't matter if he sees her...she left her license on the floor.

5.) During the end of the movie, Toni evades the killer and runs away...into the basement boiler room! Why do people do that? She could have left the building! What an idiot. I was shouting "Please kill her NOW!"

NUDITY AND SEX: Yes, but the joy of nude boobs couldn't save this flick.

HUH?: In order to send a message to Toni in the science building her friend Jonelle turns on Jeff's PC and punches some keys...the computers in the science building boot up! how can she turn on other computers from someone's PC in a dorm?

I have another HUH? but it'll have to go after the spoiler identity...just scroll all the way down.

THE TALLY: This movie wasn't scary, it wasn't suspenseful and the characters were really unlikable. Don't waste the time renting this...Pledge Night was no masterpiece but it was better than this.

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The killer was of course the Dean. They could have made it interesting but no, it was simply because his daughter was posing in Arnold's nude photos.

HUH?: After the Dean is killed the police congratulate Jeff as the new Dean. Jeff? He's a student! Is this a klingon college? You move up by killing your superiors? What baffles me is that this line would even be in the film. were they trying to make the movie seem more implausible in the last 30 seconds?