Frat brothers and Sorority sisters prove to be claw fodder for a serial killer dressed in the basketball team's bear mascot suit. See, at DeWitt college a few decades ago a dude killed a girl after he got jealous and said dude apparently just broke out of a mental hospital. So now Lynn (Julie Montgomery of REVENGE OF THE NERDS) has to deal with a killer and a cheating boyfriend. Thankfully, security guard MacVey (Hal Holbrook...no really, Hal Holbrook!) is on the case and it has special meaning to him as it was his daughter killed years prior.
This is a pretty tame slasher entry. Originally shot in 82, it didn't see release until 1984 and it sorely lacks the requirements of the genre at the time (remember this was going up against heavy hitters like Friday THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER). Even worse, the main characters are so annoying that you want the killer to off them. The attempt at mystery is a bust as you'll guess the killer when they say a key line and then disappear for a majority of the running time. The oddest thing about this is seeing freakin' Hal Holbrook here. His stuff was obviously shot solo and quickly as he appears with no other major characters in the same frame, but they manage to space his character out over the entire movie. I would love to hear how he got involved in this. Hal's son David - who is a dead ringer for Hal except chunkier - has a larger role as one of the suspects.
This is a pretty tame slasher entry. Originally shot in 82, it didn't see release until 1984 and it sorely lacks the requirements of the genre at the time (remember this was going up against heavy hitters like Friday THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER). Even worse, the main characters are so annoying that you want the killer to off them. The attempt at mystery is a bust as you'll guess the killer when they say a key line and then disappear for a majority of the running time. The oddest thing about this is seeing freakin' Hal Holbrook here. His stuff was obviously shot solo and quickly as he appears with no other major characters in the same frame, but they manage to space his character out over the entire movie. I would love to hear how he got involved in this. Hal's son David - who is a dead ringer for Hal except chunkier - has a larger role as one of the suspects.