Rush Week

Customer Reviews:

Bob Bralver's Rush Week.......2002-06-05

Dude! Somebody's, like, killing nubile young co-eds and the only one who can solve the murders is a cutie-pie spunky young college newspaper reporter! Dude!

"Rush Week" is yet another in a long line of uninspired slasher films. A young transfer student must write a fluff piece about rush week. She falls for the president of a wild fraternity, who also happens to be our main suspect in the murders. Young women are being hacked open with a giant axe just after posing nude for photographs taken by the cafeteria cook (and ours would just put extra cheese on the pizza). The women are disappearing all over, and of course the final frat party has a Halloween theme, just to throw in more red herrings than you can shake a severed head at. The party scenes feature so many poor local bands trying to make the most of their big cinematic break, I wanted to hunt down the party committee chair and off him with an axe. The way too long finale takes place in "the science building," apparently fictional colleges do not name their buildings after former university presidents. The real killer is revealed (big duh), reporter and frat boy live happily ever after.

On the positive, we do have the nude co-eds. I appreciate the female form as much as the next horror film reviewer, and it is on display here. There are bare male butts, but they are usually mooning people (oh, those crazy frats).

On the negative, the film piles on so much evidence that the frat president is the killer, you can pretty much guarantee he is not. He takes long midnight walks alone, has vicious mood swings, and goes to rescue spunky reporter in the finale wearing the exact same hood and robes as the killer. Is the killer the cafeteria cook? No, he just takes the nude pictures, he does not seem the killer type. Is the killer the biology gofer named Mort who skulks around the university's only cadaver? No, this minor suspect disappears half way through the film! Is the killer the spunky reporter's advisor, Gregg Allman? No, he has two scenes that last slightly longer than his marriage to Cher, and he proves he should not quit the classic rock county fair tour to start doing Shakespeare. Is the killer the dumb-named Dean of Students Grail? I was hoping his murdered daughter's name was Holly Grail, but no such luck. He is the only adult who is preoccupied with all the sin going on during rush week...hmmm...

The final nail in the coffin, as it were, is that we never see the nudie models killed. Sure, the maniac comes in and swings an axe, but no blood and no bodies! The whereabouts of the bodies is never discussed. The crime scene has just three drops of blood, the killer must be a neat freak. The only murders onscreen occur in the finale, and now we find out where the special effects budget went. In desperation on the film makers' part, the killer even jumps up to attack again after everyone figures he is dead. Like most Hollywood films set on campus, no one ever goes to class, they just party. I did that my sophomore year... and ended up being a fifth year senior since I only brought out six credits worth of passing grades. Then again, I wasn't going to the screenwriters' fantasy university in this film.

"Rush Week" is no rush, and very weak. I do not recommend it.

This is rated (R) for physical violence, gore, some profanity, strong female nudity, some male nudity, and sexual content.

Rush Week ! A week of parties and murders........2000-07-10

Frat parties and outrageous pranks are happening all over Tambers College. Toni is a newly transferred journalism student, searching for a big story. But when a college girl who poses for a mysterious photographer turns up missing, Toni finds the story she's been waiting for. As more girls turn up missing jeff, the president of the Beta Delta fraternity starts acting strange. Soon toni recieves an anonymous warning to let the matter go. In the finale toni discovers the killer and gets her story.

Romantic Comedy 3-Pack (You've Got Mail / The Wedding Singer / Two Weeks Notice)

Average customer rating:

Romantic Comedy 3-Pack (You've Got Mail / The Wedding Singer / Two Weeks Notice)
Starring: Tom Hanks , Meg Ryan , Greg Kinnear , Parker Posey , and Jean Stapleton
Director: Nora Ephron , Frank Coraci , and Marc Lawrence (II)
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

Comedy | Boxed Sets | Stores | DVD | Video

( R ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
ASIN: B000765HXM
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Average customer rating:

Dissapointing for a cheesy movie
another boobie classic
cool combo
Demons make the best lovers!
Are translucent cheerleaders jumping across my TV screen?

Rush Week/Fraternity Demon
Starring: Pamela Ludwig , Dean Hamilton , Roy Thinnes , Donald Grant , and Courtney Gebhart
Director: Bob Bralver , and C.B. Rubin
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Horror | Genres | DVD | Video

DVDs Under $14.99 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

All Deals | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

( R ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
ASIN: 6305252742
Release Date: 1998-12-14

Customer Reviews:

Dissapointing for a cheesy movie.......2001-07-05

I got this DVD based on the fact it was a combination of a cheesy horror movie, cheesy porno, cheesy college movie, and cheesy metal movie all wrapped into one. However, it fell a bit short of my cheesiness expectations.

First off, despite it has "Demon," in the title, it is in no way a thriller or horror movie in any way. Maybe I was jumping to conclusions when reading reviews about it, but I was hoping to see some cheesy murder scenes.

Secondly, throughout the entire movie, you only see like 2-3 girls naked, which is really dissapointing since the main premise of this film was to be an adult movie of some sort. What's worse is that the demon isn't very hot (she's like 30-40 years old), and one of the actresses has a stunt double in the scene she is naked! I mean, they couldn't find an actress willing to show both her face and body in the same B movie???

I did like how terribly they potrayed a Greek system at a college. I don't know if they were that stupid, or if they just wanted to make this movie even cheesier. They didn't know how to draw an Upsilon or Sigma, and you can tell from a distance that they taped "Sigma Upsilon Chi" over an actually fraternity composite's name in the background. Also, the interrivally between jocks and nerds in the fraternity was hilarious (how that could ever happen in a real fraternity, I don't know). Finally, the party scene with the cheesy metal band was most excellent on my cheesiness scale.

If you're looking for a cheesy movie to make fun of, there are plenty better ones out there than this one. But, if you're in a frat like me, and are still really intrigued, this can be a fairly entertaining movie to watch with your bros.

another boobie classic.......2000-08-03

...bad acting and bad plot. I LOVED IT! a great movie to getyour college friends over and drink a 30 pack to. fraternity demon will keep you laughing and choking on your beer.

cool combo.......2000-07-10

Well in this combo you get Rush Week and Fraturnity Demon. In rush week a killer is on the loose and is killing off college girls at Tambers College. As more girls turn up missing toni, a student reporter starts to search for the killer and trys to get her big story. Soon she falls for jeff, the president of the Beta Delta Beta fraternity who starts acting strange as more girls turn up missing. Will toni find out who the killer is or will her story get her killed? As for fraternity Demond the movie is about a demon temptress who comes to our world, and is searching for a man to have sex constantly for all eternity. There is a fight between all these frat guys to be the stud who gets lucky with this sexy demon. Lots of fun and cool rock music.

Demons make the best lovers!.......2000-01-12

Well,well,well...what do we have here? A demon temptress who comes to our world to choose a man who will be forced to have sex with her constantly for all eternity? Where does the line start? Apparently there's a problem with this plan because the guys fight tooth and nail not to get lucky with this special vixen. But none of that matters because there is a ROCK band in this. A really cool rock band. They play rock and roll. I need to know who this band is and where can I get a t-shirt. One star was taken away because they didn't show enough of the band.

Are translucent cheerleaders jumping across my TV screen?.......1998-11-23

This film, which marks scene changes by having a transluscent cheerleader jump across the screen, is so bad it is funny. The storyline so pathetic...but it gave a lot of laughs to the group of people I saw it with!

DVD:

DVD

DVD