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1989 - 96m.

It's a frat comedy, it's a young romance film, it's a...who am I kidding, this is just another stereotypical slasher flick.

This time out college reporter Pamela Ludwig is looking into the disappearance of some co-eds while a masked man with a really big-ass axe is stalking around chopping up even more.

Typical by-the-book stuff is as usual predictable and ends with a fake-looking decapitation but it does have a few okay stalking scenes and has the appeal of an appearance of the rock band The Dickies (known to genre fans for doing the theme to Killer Klowns From Outer Space). But what we have here is a complete clone of various others of its type and while it is bearable it's pretty tedious and offers nothing original.

Proves how generic it is in the following scenes: the much too over-used "I'm hiding from the killer and a big insect is crawling over me, I hope I don't scream" and a slow-motion stabbing in the finale that resembles the decaptation at the end of Friday The 13th.

Directed By: Bob Bralver.
Written By: Michael W. Leighton, Russell V. Manzatt.

Starring: Pamela Ludwig, Dean Hamilton, Kathleen Kinmont, Greg Allman.