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Boring

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I first saw this in the late 80s on a VHS. Revisited it recently on a DVD. Plot - four college students are taken off to run-down mansion and are given the task of spending the night in the creepy old mansion. The house has a dark past, twelve years prior, the owner of the mansion had killed his wife and children except for one who disappeared. The movie is very slow. The first kill happens aft a long time n the tension is nada. As slashers go this is particularly tedious, the kills are bland and badly shot. There is zero nudity in spite of being directed by a porn director. We do get to see some cleavage of the overweight Linda blair dressed in a Santa claus dress. Her chubby cheeks were a total turn off man. One couple keep beating around the bush about sex. They seem to be half dressed in bed for hours but nothing happens. The emphasis on atmosphere is a good point in this film. The house is creepy and the story just offbeat enough to be unsettling. The scene in the tunnels were creepy for those times. Recommended only for 80s slasher fans.

Once a year at a specific college the fraternity known as Alpha Sigma Rho hosts an initiation for their new pledges which consists of them spending the night in an abandoned mansion called Garth Manor. Supposedly, a crazed man named Andrew Garth murdered most of his family and then committed suicide. However, of the five family members only three bodies were found. The implication then is that at least one of the family members is still alive and residing somewhere in Garth Manor. Of course, nobody takes this seriously and because of that the four pledges by the names of "Marti Gaines" (Linda Blair), "Seth" (Vincent Van Patten), "Jeff Reed" (Peter Barton) and "Denise Dunsmore" (Suki Goodwin) are locked up inside the estate of Garth Manor until dawn. To further add to their discomfort, the president of Alpha Sigma Rho by the name of "Peter Bennett" (Kevin Brophy) has devised all sorts of tricks which he and some fellow fraternity members plan to use to scare them as much as possible. What nobody counts on is a demented and deformed member of the Garth family still living in the manor with homicidal intentions toward everyone on the estate. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a passable 80's slasher film which started off well enough but seemed to lose its focus around the half-way point. Although it might sound strange to say about a slasher film, there was just too much violence during this particular time and as a result it became almost tedious. Be that as it may, it still wasn't too bad as far as slasher films go and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

Linda Blair, Peter Barton, Vincent Van Patten, Suki Goodwin and Kevin Brophy star in this 1981 horror film. Blair (The Exorcist) plays college student, Marti who pledges a sister sorority of Alpha Sigma Rho. She and 3 others are forced to spend the night in a deserted house, Garth Manor where murders occurred 12 years prior. Soon, Marti and the others become terrorized by a mysterious killer who may be a surviving member of the family. Barton (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter) plays Jeff, a boy who Marti finds romance with, Van Patten plays Seth, Goodwin plays Marti's friend, Denise and Brophy plays Peter, President of the Alpha Sigma Rho frat. This isn't a bad film and Blair is good in it. If you like horror/slasher flicks, give this one a try.

Linda Blair stars as one of four college pledges who must spend the night in the creepy old mansion(reputed to be haunted, with a murderous history) in order to join the sorority and fraternity. Seniors plan to pull pranks on them for fun, but discover to their dismay that "reputed" turns out to mean "factual"...Surprisingly effective thriller may not be original, but has good performances and direction, which create characters you come to care about, and a genuinely spooky atmosphere, especially when it moves underground. Scary and (reasonably) smart, this one stands out from the usual "slashers" of the period, and results are above average, with a memorable ending.