Pledge Night (1988)
7/10
A madcap, magisterially moronic, heavy mental murder mosh!
23 October 2022
Filthier than a syrup-soaked cockroach, more fragrant than an anchovies-smeared banana, and cheesier than a Limburger smoothie, this boorishly unsubtle frathouse freakshow gorily remains a gleefully goofy, creepily chucklesome, sleazily snuffing screwball slasher! Paul Ziller's oft derided 'Pledge Night' is a madcap, magisterially moronic, blood-hazed, heavy mental murder mosh, wherein we observe the vengefully teen-thrashing return of 60s pizza-faced party pooper, Sid, while this heroically hateful Deadhead isn't the most memorably maladjusted mayhem maker in slasher movie history, Sid's deffo the most metal, dude!! Favouring crude fratboy pranks over technically proficient stalk N' Slash, Pledge Night's bawdy, fitfully funny, gore gag heavy, spank happy B-Horror buffoonery occasionally misses the mark. All that being said, when all this lurid National Lampoonery gruesomely hits the sweet spot it makes for a pretty righteous splatter-fest, and, at the very least, Paul Ziller's divisively dunderheaded 90s Schlock rocker 'Pledge Night' has something to offend everyone!!! - 'On this fateful night the skeezer-shunting, plasma-plastered pledges of Phi Up are about to discover just how vicious Sid could be!!!' - 'Paul Ziller's sleazily scattershot blood-spiller is a terminally toxic, thrash-tastic terror flick!'
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