I picked this up cheap on Blu-ray, knew nothing about it, popped the disc into the player and expected just another high school slasher. And it is a high school slasher but this one is certainly different. The film starts off as a rather slow frat boy comedy, beer, pranks and boobs, played out by wooden actors sporting mullets. Then, finally, it turns into a horror movie, one of the guys is insane, but then the killer is revealed as former student Sid, who died in 20 years previously in an initiation ceremony gone horribly wrong. The writers obviously took "inspiration" for the hideous Sid from Freddy Krueger, however Freddy was fun to watch, Sid is not. There is a lot of gratuitous female topless nudity, on the gore front some of the killings are inventive but not terribly gory. For me the grossest scene had one of the pledges have a large, juicy worm put into his mouth, yuck! Anthrax supplied the sound track, probably the best thing about this silly and quite boring film. A film called Pledge (2018) is better.
Review of Pledge Night
