The Hazing
The Hazing
| 06 March 2004 (USA)
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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!

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Orla Zuniga

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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Aryana

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Kayden

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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Billy Ollie

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Ben Parker

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.

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Coventry

Sometimes a thoroughly unoriginal horror film is referred to as a total rip-off or blatant imitation and sometimes it's called a genuine throwback or a homage. I guess all depends on how entertaining the film was and how obviously it mentions its sources of inspiration. "The Hazing", for instance, is a successful new horror flick because it's unpretentious and good old-fashioned straightforward splatter fun. The plot is a mixture between the 80's classics "The Evil Dead" and "Night of the Demons", and sprinkled with some flashes of gratuitous nudity, you're almost guaranteed to have a winner! During a fraternity scavenger hunt, a couple of students need to steal a rare book in the house of a deranged murderous professor with an obsession for demonology. They accidentally kill the professor, but he returns by possessing one of the students during the second part of their initiation ritual: spending the night in a reputedly haunted house. Trapped inside the house on Halloween's Eve, the students will have to distinguish the actual demon attacks from all the fake stuff that was put there to scare them. As you can tell, this is completely derivative and clichéd guff you've seen a hundred times before already, and yet you won't regret watching "The Hazing" for a single second. Rolfe Kanefsky delivers a screenplay that is fast-paced and doesn't take itself overly serious. The lead characters are you're your usual stereotypes - or perhaps just act like stereotypes to make their lives easier, like the blond bimbo – and there's a lot of variation in the gore & splatter. "The Hazing" contains chainsaw action (another homage to "The Evil Dead"), axe-decapitations, giant darts and near-suffocation by a humongous tongue! There are also some slightly more sophisticated moments of authentic suspense, like when one poor girl is slowly transforming into a human mannequin doll. That always struck me as genuinely horrific. Last but not least, "The Hazing" benefices from the lovely naked bodies of Nectar Rose and the exquisite Tiffany Shepis. Brad Dourif overacts wondrously as the maniacal professor.

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trevorsomerset

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.

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Claudio Carvalho

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")

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