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Страх (2004) Online
Original Title :
The Hazing
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Horror
Year :
2004
Directror :
Rolfe Kanefsky
Cast :
Brad Dourif,Brooke Burke,Nectar Rose
Writer :
Rolfe Kanefsky
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 27min
Rating :
5.6/10

A teacher unlocks an ancient evil and uses his newfound powers to kill off his students one by one.

Страх (2004) Online

The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they're hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick... or none of them will make it through the hellish night of The Hazing!
Cast overview, first billed only:
Brad Dourif Brad Dourif - Professor Kapps
Brooke Burke Brooke Burke - Jill
Nectar Rose Nectar Rose - Delia
Philip Andrew Philip Andrew - Doug
Tiffany Shepis Tiffany Shepis - Marsha
Jeremy Maxwell Jeremy Maxwell - Roy
Parry Shen Parry Shen - Tim
David Tom David Tom - Jacob
Charmaine De Grate Charmaine De Grate - Justine (as Charmaine DeGrate)
Jeff LeBeau Jeff LeBeau - Doctor
Robert Donavan Robert Donavan - Police Detective
Mary Rings Mary Rings - Nurse #1
E.P. McKnight E.P. McKnight - Nurse #2
Tess Hall Tess Hall - Mannequin Voice (voice)
Berry Thomas Berry Thomas - Mr. Hackford

When the characters first get their fancy dress costumes, there's a song playing in the background called "Little Blue Dogs" which is a spoof of the 1970s song "Little Green Bag" by George Baker Selection.

Originally scripted as a sequel to the film Hell Night (1981).


User reviews

ZEr0

ZEr0

This surprisingly good low-budget Rolfe Kanefsky horror film is generally predictable but still manages 87 minutes of great fun and entertainment. I don't understand any of the negative comments as "The Hazing" would serve nicely as a "good" example for film students looking to get the maximum effect out of a tiny budget while avoiding the pitfalls of similar examples of the horror genre.

Taking much of its premise from "The Evil Dead" (including some actual references to Bruce Campbell), "The Hazing" slightly amps up "Evil Deads" subtle self-parodying style. Which means a slight increase in fun/humor and a slight decrease in suspense/horror. Not that there is anything wrong with that as Kanefsky manages this trade-off to the advantage of his more relaxed film. It should also appeal to fans of "Night of the Demons" and both versions of "The House on Haunted Hill".

The story involves the standard overage group of fraternity and sorority pledges forced to spend the night in a haunted house. Fortunately the atmospheric low lighting serves to generally hide the physical casting age issue.

A hint to the many clueless directors and cinematographers out there: note how Kanefsky recognized the damage that low lighting can do to his sexploitation elements. He has the female leads dress in a tight silver super-heroine costume and a white Playboy bunny outfit, which are thankfully visible even when the characters are standing in the shadows.

Brad Dourif (Billy from "One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest") does a convincing job as one of their professors, a nut case who seeks to open the gates of hell. Nector Rose (Delia) gives a nice performance as a not-quite-the airhead-she-seems blonde sorority chick. Tiffany Shepis (Marsha) fills out the super-heroine costume quite nicely and appears to be having a lot of fun as a character who must alternate between being normal and being possessed by the professor. The rest of the cast is serviceable in undemanding roles.

Make-up and effects are not elaborate but are quite effective. Technical elements (production design, cinematography, and editing) are all first rate.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
thrust

thrust

When I first saw this movie I really didn't expect much, just another cheesy low budget gore movie that sucked, though those are the movies I love most. But this film was actually above average and an homage to old 80's horror flicks like THE EVIL DEAD, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, and many more. It also has some great comedy, the "demon" makes some pretty funny jokes, and the characters are also interesting. The acting is also good, with Brad Dourif (Child's Play) and Tiffany Shepis (Tromeo And Juliet, Citizen Toxie, Scarecrow). Also has some nice nudity, and creative gore, including an excellent scene involving a tongue and sex. If you are a fan of 80's movies of demonic possession, and gore movies, check this out, it is a very pleasant surprise and one of the better new movies I have seen. Just watch for a good time.
MEGA FREEDY

MEGA FREEDY

In a Halloween night, five students participates of a scavenger hunt trying to join the sorority Sigma Si and Delta Pi. They are divided in two groups, and one of them has to steal an ancient book of magic from their weird Professor Kapps (Brad Dourif). Doug Leary (Phillip Andrew) and Marsha Glazer (Tiffany Shepis) break in the professor's house while he is performing a satanic ritual with a student he has just sacrificed, and Kapps attack the students, but accidentally is impaled by a spear. Marsha and Doug leaves the house and brings his staff and his book of incantation to destroy the evidences and drive to an abandoned house, where the two groups have to stay until the next morning. Meanwhile, two seniors students from the frat house have prepared pranks in the house to scare the sorority pledges. But the evil spirit of Professor Kapps possesses Doug, slashing the group of students that have to fight to survive.

"The Hazing" was a good surprise. I was expecting a bad horror movie, but actually it is good and funny, and entertains. Even the gore scenes are hilarious, and in spite of not having exceptional performances, the cast is nice. There are many beautiful women naked, gore, and lots of humor, following the pattern of 1986 "House", "Vamp", "Frankenhooker", "Idle Hands", "Evil Dead" and many other flicks. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Jovens Amaldiçoados" ("Cursed Youngsters")
Fordrellador

Fordrellador

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.
Gralsa

Gralsa

Have always been a fan of Brad Dourif. He's used well here, even though he's not in much of the film. tiffany shepis puts in a good performance, adding to her rep as a nouveau scream queen. the director made a nice entry into the horror canon, even with the demonic mumbo-jumbo. shepis and nectar rose are well used and an fine form. The combination of space suite and bunny outfit stole every scene they were in. The cunnilingus scene was handled fairly well, too. Some of the effects were hit and miss- the cheap effects looked like cheap FX. However, the acting, shot selection, and lighting were really well done- helped elevate the film to the level of a decent horror film. A nice effort all around. This is nothing we haven't seen before- but was very well done and not a total waste of time, which says a lot. Good job to everyone involved.
Heraly

Heraly

I saw this not too long ago.. It's just your average typical comedy horror which mostly takes place inside the house, where weird things can happen.. With Brad Dourif playing the Mad Professor Kapps.. I'm sure mostly a lot of viewers will notice this guy is either a genius at his work, or he's totally insane! Well, hats down to the actors Nectar Rose, Tiffany Shepis and Parry Chen who kept me viewing this thing until the end..

But to sum it up.. It was worth a watch. I suppose anyone can watch this on a rainy day..

But for director Rolfe Kanefsky, he did his bit by making the film enjoyable as possible.. If he didn't, I would've stopped the film halfway and call it a day.. Nice try, Rolfe! Keep up the good work! An average 7 out of 10!
Perongafa

Perongafa

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

College kids. Scavenger hunts. Haunted Houses. Evil spirits. A girl in a bunny outfit killing and maiming. This movie has everything! "The Hazing" is my kind of flick. It's gory fun.

The comparisons to other horror movies are obvious and inevitable. "Evil Dead" and "Night of the Demons" spring to mind. Speaking of springing, check out the blonde in the bunny outfit and her sex scene with Dr. Tongue. I'm not going to lie to you. I live for scenes like that.

"The Hazing" does a good job of mixing the comedy with the blood and guts. This mixture usually doesn't work but this movie pulls it off. I had a good time.
Unde

Unde

This is one of those movies that was made solely for the reason of entertaining the audience. It is rare in this day in age to see a film that isn't trying to convince you to vote a certain way or to see the evil of something. The goal of this film is to have fun watching it. The film stars Tiffany Sheppis, Perry Shen, and Nectar Rose as part of group of college kids pledging the best fraternity and sorority on campus. They are sent on a scavenger hunt and to spend the night in a haunted mansion. One of the uber bright kids decides to steal a dark magic book from genre vet Brad Dourif and things go down hill from there. Great makeup effects with just a touch of CGI the film keeps you watching, cringing, and laughing, with you wondering which one you should be doing. Great fun and must have for any Tiffany Sheppis or Brad Dourif fans.
Umdwyn

Umdwyn

A group of college students are sent on a scavenger hunt on Halloween night to find and retrieve several things as part of an initiation into a college fraternity. One of the items they have to find is a Necronomicon- type of book from one of their teachers, that can unlock some kind of doorway to hell, or something like that. Two of them think that they have accidentally killed the teacher, but he's taken to a local hospital and put on life support and kept alive. His spirit (I think) returns and tricks one of the students into reading the book and opening the gates of hell, and starts killing the rest of them. Sound familiar? Teach's body has to die before he can possess someone new though. Then after being shot by a cop at the hospital seven times from a six shooter, he manages to say 'Thank you'? Then tries to possess and kill all of the college students at his house that night responsible for his death, or near death.

Despite the derivative way this sounds, it's actually kind of a fun little movie, Tiffany Shepis and a couple of other hot girls only help matters, but it's uneven and can't quiet decide if it wants to be a horror movie or a satire, or just another rip off. The fact that it is so derivative obviously doesn't help, as it borrows heavily from Evil Dead and the remake of House on Haunted Hill: a scene here looks a little too much like the lockdown scene and its aftermath from that movie, and the old record player left over from the 1930s in this film looks really familiar too. This movie starts slowly, then gets good, then starts to fizzle away, and goes on once scene too long. The effects run the gamut from being surprisingly good to really tacky (a girl turned into a life-sized plastic doll?) but if you've ever wanted to see a girl attacked by a demonically possessed four foot long tongue, this is the movie for you then.

It's good overall, better than one might expect, but it could have been so much better. The theme song 'Do the Zombie Dance' sounds like they were either drunk or intentionally trying to sound stupid for some reason.
Fegelv

Fegelv

Exactly what you would expect from a B-Movie. Deritive, gratuitous nudity, boring in parts, ridiculous gore and cheesy special-effects. Of course it could have been better, better acted (defintly) better written, directed, etc. But then I guess it wouldn't have been a B movie. The actors pretty much sucked, in fact this pretty much seemed like an episode of buffy the vampire slayer or something except with a lot of blood, profanity and nudity.

Tiffany Shepis must be singled out. She absolutely is the scream queen of the new millennium. Not that acting really matters in these movies, but she was better than any of the other actors. She's also smokin hot, in that plastic jump suit thing she wore for the whole movie - wow! Her posterior is absolutely stunning in that outfit, I mean it every single time she turns around you can help but check her out. And near then end of the film the viewer is rewarded with seeing her completely nekked.

So if your a looser b-movie horror buff (like myself), check this out. If not, you should probably avoid at all costs.
Still In Mind

Still In Mind

I liked this movie. It reminded me a lot of Night of the Demons. Most of the cast was great, with the exception of Brooke Burke, she was cast in a role that gave her nothing to do, but Parry Shen was easily the worst, he disappointed me, I've seen him in other films and usually he is good, here he seemed out of place, uncomfortable in this genre.

I wish one of the guys would have shown some skin as the girls did, I'm not a lesbian but wow Tiffany Shepis, what an awesome figure you have.

I thought it was funny, not scary, just a good movie. My favorite scene has to be when Nectar Rose and Jeremy Maxwell were in bed, it was funny and the scene with the most blood in the entire movie.
Monn

Monn

I watched this movie despite many warnings, and I have to say that I am glad that I did. I picked it up to begin with because I was a fan of cheesy horror, and 'The Hazing' more than satisfied my need for blood.

The story itself is cliché, a couple of teens stay overnight in a haunted house in order to gain entrance into a fraternity/sorority, right after an interesting scavenger hunt. The action starts from there, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Great performances by Tiffany Shepis and Brad Douriff keeps you on your toes during this hilarious adventure with many good laughs and a refreshing feel to the entire genre. Jeremy Maxwell keeps the pace with his great sense of humor, and even the music isn't as annoying as I had expected it to be.

All in all, I recommend this to anyone who loves movies like Evil Dead, Dead/Alive, or Demon Wind.
Gadar

Gadar

...it's not horrible either. I don't think the writer/director was trying to make a classic, he was trying to make an homage to the low-budget horror flicks of the early 80's, and I think he succeeded for the most part. The females are all beautiful (although the nudity is fairly minimal), the deaths are all bloody, the effects are serviceable at best, and the acting ranges from cringe-inducing to barely passable. Brooke Burke fans will be disappointed, but Tiffany Shepis fans should be in awe of her spacesuit. The movie aims low, and therefore hits its mark. Turn off your brain and enjoy the movie for what it's worth. We watched this and "Flesh of the Beast" back-to-back, and relative to that crap, this is Citizen Kane.
skriper

skriper

Like my title says: EVERYTHING a cheesy horror flick SHOULD be! I had GREAT FUN watching this movie. The set-up is believable enough. The actors all feel like actors, not a bunch of film students trying to act. No academy award performances, but no "so over the top you crinch" moments, either. The movie keeps a good sense of humor through-out. Plenty of blood (and to humorous levels at times). Effects are nicely done. Nector Rose as Delia is an absolute JOY - easily stealing the show (and there's a GREAT topless scene with her). Tiffany Shepis as Marsha spends most of the movie in Spandex - looking great for an actor described in her bio as "voluptuous." Best of all, after spending all that time tracing her curves through that skin-tight costume, the viewer is rewarded with a nice shot of her without the costume.

This is the kind of movie that keeps me watching cheesy horror flicks!
Arar

Arar

This movie can best be described as Perfectly Acceptable Entertainment. I could rip this thing to shreds if I wanted to, but criticizing a film like this for not being very good is like yelling at your dog because he doesn't play the piano. Your dog doesn't know how to play the piano and doesn't want to learn. The Hazing never wants or tries to be more than a momentary distraction and it succeeds at that very modest ambition.

After opening up with what appears to be a heavy metal music video from the 1980s about a magic book that might as well have "Not The Necronomicon" engraved on its cover, the story gets going with the creepy looking Professor Kapps (Brad Dourif) killing one of his students for a nefarious, sorcerous purpose. It then shifts over to 5 young people being sent out on a co-ed, fraternity/sorority initiation scavenger hunt. There's handsome but dickish Doug (Philip Andrew), horny Roy (Jeremy Maxwell), shy Tim (Parry Shen), beautiful bimbo Delia (Nectar Rose) and the smart and bitchy but still hot Marsha (Tiffany Shepis). They have to get a bunch of stuff and then spend the night in a allegedly haunted house to pass their initiation, with the heads of the fraternity and sorority planning to scare the crap out of them Scooby-Doo style.

It turns out the "Not The Necronomicon" magic book is on the scavenger hunt list, so Doug and Marsha decide to break into Professor Kapps house and steal it. They end up killing him but decide to not let that spoil anything, so they just grab the book and head to the supposedly haunted house. However, Kapps actually wanted someone to kill him so he could…okay, that stuff doesn't make any sense. It's just a pretense for Kapps to become an evil spirit and spend the rest of the movie tormenting and trying to kill the 5 kids and Jacob and Justine (David Tom and Charmaine DeGrate), the heads of the fraternity and sorority.

This movie couldn't have been more obviously inspired by Sam Rami's Evil Dead films if the writer/director had walked into a scene in the middle of The Hazing and read a 3 page speech of admiration for Rami. Unfortunately, Rolfe Kanefsky isn't close to being as talented or skilled as Rami and his story doesn't work very hard at being either genuinely scary or legitimately funny. It manages, however, to be just enough of each to be worthwhile if you're into the whole horror-comedy genre.

The parts of this film are definitely better than the whole. The computerized effects are cruddy, but the physical effects, props and make-up are pretty good. The direction is basic but unobjectionable and the plot, such as there is, keeps moving at a decent clip. There are a couple of points in the script where Kanefsky all but sends up a flare to tell the audience "Look! I'm doing something different!" but while his creative writing shtick isn't very good, it's not aggressively bad and it's over and forgotten fairly quickly.

The acting is as good as you can expect out of this sort of movie and maybe a bit better. Brooke Burke does look like she's still reading off a teleprompter at the E channel, David Tom has the douchebag knob turned up to 11 for Jacob and there's a stretch where Philip Andrew is apparently doing Freddy Kruger as if he were portrayed by Jim Carrey, but overall the performances in The Hazing are relatively enjoyable. Nectar Rose is clearly the most appealing out of the bunch, and not just because she's very pretty and takes her top off. She has to make a big shift in Delia's character at one point in the story and she pulls it off. Tiffany Shepis also makes Marsha likably tough and gets naked as well.

The Hazing is what it is. If you've got high standards or at least think you have high standards for the horror-comedy genre, you could make fun of this movie for not being very good. My standards may be low, but I thought it was a bit better than okay. I know that doesn't appear to be a ringing endorsement but considering all the stinking pieces of cinematic excrement sitting on video store shelves across the world…making a film that's a bit better than okay is something to be proud of. Not too proud, though.
Paster

Paster

It should tell you something about this movie that one of the characters holds up an autographed photo of Bruce Campbell. It lets you know that if you end up not liking the movie you took it too seriously, because the filmmakers are just trying to have some fun. It's supposed to be over the top and full of irony.

Well, just because a director lets us know he is winking at us doesn't mean he gets a free pass. Luckily, The Hazing ends up being more watchable than not. I had to skip forward through some of the predictable, tedious parts, but I got the gist.

Three guys and two girls are pledging for a fraternity and a sorority (only five kids for a joint pledge? Maybe it's a mid-start semester?). The guy running the fraternity has to be the least convincing alpha-male since Leave It To Beaver went off the air. The pledges have to spend the night in a haunted house, which the frat boy rigged with gags to make them jump. If a fake skeleton popping up out of a trunk is enough to get you to run out of a house, you might be a member of the Brady Bunch.

During the initiation, one of the pledges broke into the house of a professor to steal a spell book. The professor is accidentally wounded on a rhino horn, I guess, and goes into a coma which allows him to project himself onto the astral plane and convince one of the frat pledges to open the gateway to hell. Then he possess them one at a time and ruins the evening for everyone. After a couple characters die, the prof is sent back to hell and the gateway is closed.

This movie was entertaining enough to keep me watching to end (as long as I was able to skip ahead, as I mentioned). It wasn't actually funny or well written, but it looked good enough. The most disturbing thing about it was that the evil professor did kind of look like someone who might end up on an episode of 20/20 for having a torture dungeon in his basement. It isn't as clever as the movies it wants to be like (Scream, Evil Dead), but I guess not many are. Seek it out if it is your goal to see every movie in which an evil spirit jumps from body to body.
Dawncrusher

Dawncrusher

The script was VERY weak w/o enough character arcs to make you care one bit about the characters or what happens to them. The script is way too talky and not enough gore or action to even call it slow paced. The story gets to the point that you just want everyone to shut up and die as quickly as possible so you don't have to listen to them talk this very muted, stiff dialogue. On a technical note, the music mix is way to high and makes it hard to understand what is being said most times. Then again, this could be called a blessing. Overall, this same story could have better been told in a short film w/ a running time under 30 minutes. The obvious "in your face" homages to Sam Raimi and "Evil Dead" would have been good had they been more subtle, but here they seem more like a bald faced rip off. C'mon, this kind of 35mm budget and THIS is the best that could be done? Still, the cinematography, lighting design and shots were very well done indeed.
ℓo√ﻉ

ℓo√ﻉ

I suppose I can detect the intended beats for laughter, but this movie plays more like the worst movie ever than a smart satire of horror movies like Scary Movie (2001) or Scream (1996). How can I describe what I just witnessed. Well, it was like they took all the horror movie clichés and dialed them up to 99, put the girls in gaudy costumes and had them say dumb stuff, hired Brad Dourif (Child's Play) to be a creepy scientist who has some kind of faux Necronomicon and some other weird stuff happens. OK, I was half paying attention. This was dreadful. There was nothing discernibly funny about it and I wished I was somewhere else. Unfortunately, I can't unsee this movie, or I absolutely would. 1/10.
olgasmile

olgasmile

Watching THE HAZING for the first time, I mainly found it very enjoyable, it has a very simple storyline and some scenes I found... well ... Check the scene involving a demonically possessed tongue and give your own opinion. Also a huge plus for this film, being that it is a B movie, it has decent characters, normally this kind of film or at least the B movie slashers, has so many lame and dull characters it makes the movie so boring you can chew the sofa, but this film has great characters and great character development, for a B movie As for director Rolfe Kanefsky, it seems he mainly put together a movie that was mainly fun and entertaining, and that doesn't take itself seriously at all, and he probably didn't intend on making it a crowd pleaser, he purees made a movie he wanted make and had fun with it in the process, I look forward to more of his projects in the future, he did a good job with a modest budget and has every reason to be proud.

6 out of 10
Mr.Savik

Mr.Savik

~Spoiler~

After viewing Rolfe Kanefsky's debut feature, There's Nothing Out There, I was not impressed and never cared to view another one of his efforts. But, and this is a big but, he has cast the amazing Tiffany Shepis in his next few features and I feel obligated to see them. Needless to say, The Hazing is leaps and bounds better than his first movie. It's an homage to the 80's horror scene and it's very silly. It's a mix of Night of the Demons and Hell Night with the spoofy sensibilities of Mike Mendez' The Convent. The plot is straight out of any 80's flick: Plegde hopefuls must spend the night in a haunted house while the spirit of Brad Dourif seeks to possess their bodies. Brad Dourif is always nice to see, but he isn't given much to do here. Thankfully, the powers that be here hired young actors who are good at their craft. I've already mentioned Shepis, without her presence I wouldn't be writing this review. Equally good are Nectar Rose, Parry Shen, Jeremy Maxwell, and Philip Andrew. It's a rare thing to have a talented young cast in a DTV film like this. Brooke Burke also has a very small cameo, so I hope you're not renting the movie for her. As I mentioned earlier, the movie is very silly and I think that hinders my enjoyment of it. The spoofy quality is just not my thing. But it was a lot of fun and I can't fault it for that. If you're looking for some check-your-brain-at-the-door entertainment, you might want to give The Hazing a spin.
Fecage

Fecage

Mindless slasher flick that accomplishes it's mission: entertain. We got plenty of hot women (Brooke Burke, Tiffany Shepis!), death scenes, and a cool setting. That's enough for a B-movie that airs on Cinemax at late night.

The plot is somehow a rip-off "The Evil Dead" and "The Fear 2" but has it's own ideas. Also, it reminded me of "Popcorn". Anyways, the acting is not the best but the characters are symphatetic. Tiffany Shepis steals the show and carries the whole movie on her back. She's gorgeous. What a hot body... The rest of the cast is just okay. I wonder how Brad Dourif was convinced to make this movie. The director does whet he can. THe movie is eye for the candy mainly because of it's use of colors mixed with dark settings.

The death scenes aren't inventive or gory but still were a nice try.

The things to watch in "The Hazing": Brooke Burke's brief appearance. She wears the shortest mini skirt she found! She looked totally hot in that scene. Tifanny Shepi's butt is also something to check out. And the "Evil Dead" references. That's it. This movie isn't that bad. It deserves a watch only if you have nothing better to do.
Anarus

Anarus

OK, movies are designed for different types of people. If a critic gives a movie a bad review, we all think the movie is a bad movie too. But what people don't know, critics are people too with their own tastes. Well, in my own opinion, try this movie out to see if you like it. Not everyone wants onions on their burgers; I happen to be one of those types that does. Here's a great idea for anyone to pick up! How about a review section that reviews critics: A Critic's Critique. Then we can read what others think about what the critic has said so we can make up our own minds more efficiently. OK, enough with telling everyone to have an open mind. On to my review of the movie. First of all, more nudity. Second of all, the nudity already in it was great. I give a star for trying to get the main actresses naked. I give a star for the tongue lashing scene (not enough tentacle action going on in movies... someone please make some American versions of these hentai movies out there)

a. I read an interview with Rolfe Kanefsky saying that Nectar Rose didn't agree to doing a nude scene with the tongue. I think if you're going to show any nudity, you do it all the way or don't do it anyway. And if you don't do it, get another actress that will. Sorry Nectar, but the world is full of other girls who will do more with less money. I give a star for having Brad Dourif in the movie. I give a star for having Brooke Burke in the movie. I subtract a star for Brooke not doing a nude scene. I give a star for excellent cinematography (hope I spelled that right) I give a star for breaking boundaries.

a. I love to see movies take genres and push them over the edge. This movie does that with the Hell Night type feel and mashing it with the Evil Dead possession. On top of that, the whole story revolves around taking stereotypes and making them into real people that I see everyday on my way to work. (excellent script job)

SOMEONE!! PLEASE!! Rolfe Kanefsky is ready for you to invest a little money in. He says he's got A type budget scripts. Please take a look, because I can't wait to see what he puts out next.
Akinozuru

Akinozuru

The master of cheap erotic horror, Rolfe Kanefsky, finally makes a movie that doesn't go straight to the Playboy Channel. "The Hazing" borrows heavily from everything that came before it from Nightmare on Elm Street to Evil Dead, but still manages to do it with enough humor to make it watchable... just barely. The characters are cardboard, the dialogue is wooden, the story is paper-thin and the actors couldn't act their way out of a grocery bag. Put that all together and you have a pulpy ball of mulch for a movie. Sometimes, when I'm bored, I like to eat paper. Watching this movie is a lot like that. Chew on it for 90 minutes and you're left with a weird taste in your mouth and no nutritional value.
Rivik

Rivik

A group of college kids wish to join a sorority/fraternity, but must gather a list of items and hole up in the usual scary house where brutal murders took place. One of the items is this demonic book held in the house of a creepy professor named Kapps(Brad Dourif..an inspired choice if I might say so)who has taken up a hobby of collecting victims he murders. Well, as two of the students, Marsha & Doug(Tiffany Shpis & Philip Andrew)attempt to steal the book, Kapps catches them. In the act of trying to kill the two thieves, Marsha accidentally "horns" Kapps through the chest. As Kapps lies close to death in the hospital, the students converge on the creepy estate not knowing that Kapps' evil spirit would be allowed access to Doug's body when the idiot reads a passage from the book that will allow him to remain roaming on a balanced plain between life and death. Anyway, all this is set-up so that the demonic force can kill a bunch of college kids in various weird ways with the usual one-liners being tossed after each life is taken. One kid, in particular, gets his head chopped off by a detour sign thanks to Doug's possessor Kapps who seems to have an uncanny ability to work magic such as turning one girl into a mannequin(I kid you not). There's a gateway open in the basement and Kapps will need someone in there after his body dies. There is a septor with a skull that can be used as a weapon to defeat Kapps if used properly.

A silly premise doesn't take itself at all seriously. The cast is here to poke fun at themselves(most play on their stereotypes such as the delicious Nectar Rose, dressed in a bunny outfit who seems to be bubble-headed, but it's all an act to bed a lust-interest), especially Parry Shen as a supposed nerd who has to correct others that he is not that stereotypical virginal video-game geek. Shepis and Rose both show their impressive cleavage and the film is rife with disgusting gore. Very reminiscent of NIGHT OF THE DEMONS.
Made-with-Love

Made-with-Love

Wow, I just watched this movie last night for the first time and I must say it's not at all what I had expected. My girlfriend wanted a "scary movie" (Tremors scared her badly) so i figured i'd get a real scary movie and she'd get scared and be real close. About 30 minutes into the movie, She's laughing so hard she couldn't quit. I was rather disappointed in myself because I am known for getting horrific movies to watch, not the scary comedy. Now I have to take it back and try again. Shes terrified of werewolves so i'm aiming towards The Silver Bullet by Stephen Sing, i don't know yet. It most certainly will not be another walk by pick. Mabey I'll get a new one, saw, or one of them other scary movies.