October Horror Challenge 2022 #6: "Pledge Night"

This movie came out in 1990 (or 1988 if you ask IMDB) and it follows the slasher pattern to a T: someone dies horribly, years later said dead person gets revenge on those who killed him, bodies pile up and a fun time is had by all who watch the madness. I've never seen this movie, but I like slashers, so I expected that I would like it when Shudder informed me of its existence. I try to watch as many slashers as I possibly can because I usually dig them, so I was excited to check this one out. So how does it hold up?

Back in 1960, a fraternity hazing prank goes horribly wrong and a hippie winds up dead. The fraternity is forced off campus in shame for what they've done. Thirty years later, another fraternity is about to celebrate pledge night once again, which seriously pisses off the spirit of the guy who died thirty years ago, so he decides to exact revenge, and before you know it, bodies are piling up left and right. Can those left alive stop the killings before it's too late?

Anthrax did the music for this movie, so the whole thing is driven by good metal music, which is a nice touch. There's not much to say about this one, either. It's the typical hack-and-slash gorefest, though it does throw in a few creative touches, like death by eggbeater. Plus there's some confusion surrounding who is doing the killings because the first few killings are done by one guy, and then the main killer shows up to dispatch the rest, so I don't know if he was supposed to have possessed the first guy or that guy just went crazy and did some of the killings because he thought he'd help out (how thoughtful of him) but either way, there's some fun gore here, some nudity, and some incredibly useless cops who refuse to take a 911 call seriously. It also ends really abruptly like, huh? What just happened? And there's a third act "twist" that doesn't really make much sense, but I guess I shouldn't have been expectling sense from this movie to begin with. All in all not the worst slasher flick I've seen, so it's worth checking out if you're a fan of slashers.