Sorority pledge Daphne Zuniga and some of her fellow wannabe sisters are forced to spend the night in the mall her father owns. The problem is though that there's a maniac on the loose in the place, they're locked in, and everyone's getting killed off.

Throw in a completely unnecessary plot angle (that takes up the first two thirds of the movie almost) that has Zuniga suffering from nightmares and one of her professors attempts to help figure out their meaning and you have this slasher flick that's completely bearable, but nothing at all special.

Sure, it gets points for trying to blend two types of horror movies into one and there's a few alright deaths (a pretty good axe in the head and one effectively brutal stabbing scene), but the problem is that this just moves a bit too leisurely for my liking, the blending of ideas feels uneasy for the most part, and there's simply not enough going on for a good portion of the movie.

Things certainly pick-up in the finale and there's an okay, if completely "out of left field", twist; but as these things go there's better out there.

Zuniga would go on to be a cast member of schlocky TV series Melrose Place, a bunch of episodes which just so happen to be written by the writer of this, Charles Pratt, Jr. (Chris Hartley, 12/1/04)

Directed By: Larry Stewart.
Written By: Charles Pratt, Jr..

Starring: Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, James Read.