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Hazing, The (2004) Our Score: 6/10
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Summary:
Best friends are hard to keep...
Alive. |
I turned this movie on, laying in bed, curled up in my covers, all set
for a B movie with bad story, bad characters, bad acting, bad
effects... but I was pleasantly surprised. Even if the main villain
seems to have stolen his character from Michael Keaton's BeetleJuice,
it pays out in the end. This movie, obviously pays homage to the Evil
Dead series with Bruce Campbell, even so much as to cameo a black and
white photo pinup of Campbell in one great death scene.
On the offset it begins as a scavenger hunt and scare on a Halloween,
when a joint hazing for a sorority and fraternity leads a group of
young men and women to steal a bunch of random junk, and spend the
night at a abandoned house, once owned by the man who murdered his wife
and her lover when he walked in on her having an affair; leaving them
in a bit of a mess.
But, when one of the artifacts they need to steal is a spell book
belonging to one of their professors, who is engrossed in centuries old
black magic, all hell breaks lose, as we set the stage for madness,
mayhem, and murder fun :) The characters were somewhat reminiscent of
the old Wax Museum remake of Vincent Price's original, but that's an
homage I can live with.
