Splatter University
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Movie Reviews of Splatter University
Movie Review: nice and bloody
Summary: 3 Stars
Splatter University is one of those so bad it's good school slasher movies. The movie really doesn't have much going for it with the acting and directing, but it has blood and lots of it. The movie is cheesy, and some of the acting was so friggen bad that it was hilarious. The cast was full of nice looking girls, but not much in the bar ass department. Aw, shucks. The movie also did a great job with introducing some great potential killers, but for some reason, for me, the real killer made himself obvious. With that being said, I still thought the ending of the movie was great, even though the heroine was killed.
When you think of school slasher movies, you usually think of a lot of bare t n' a, sadly this movie didn't have very much of that (but it did have a lot of teases). Some of the camera work was really shaky and overall bad, the directing and editing really lacked as well, but in a very weird way, it added a lot to the cheesiness of the movie. The killer, in my opinion, even though they tried to introduce other potential killers, was very obvious. But, perhaps that was intentional. I also really disliked that the would be heroine Julie (Francine Forbes), the leading lady of the film, get's killed in the climax of the movie. She was the cutest cast member, and the one I was rooting for!
I loved this movie. It wasn't as cheesy as the Slumber Party/Sorority House Massacre movies, as well done as Slaughter and Hell High, or as funny as Return To Horror High, but it was great. The movie had a lot of blood, (intentional and unintentional) humor, chicks, bad hair-do's, bad acting and everything else you would want in a cheesy drive-in-style movie. I would highly recommend this for fans of the above listed movies, and of course to gore hounds. The movie had a lot of that, and it was very well done (for the era), which can be a rarity. One other thing that confused me was that the DVD cover had photos of two deaths on the back, both of which are not in the movie. Weird
Movie Review: Splatter U Now!
Summary: 3 Stars
I know that a lot of people hate this film, I mean, there are a lot of things to hate it for, but I keep going back to it to watch it. Maybe it's the overall cheese factor with this film. It's really not that good but it's one of those movies that I like to watch again and again.
The plot, what little there is, is about murders happening on a school campus. Let's look at the good and bad as far as I see it:
Pro's:
1. Good gore effects
2. Horrendous acting and dialogue (it's seriously laughable, at least I did)
Con's:
Everything else. Seriously, this movie was shot on 16mm then blown up to 35mm. It has no redeeming value and is a slow mover but the gore is entertaining. The mistakes are left in, it's like they could only do one take even if an actor screwed up their lines.
I don't love this movie but if I'm heading off to bed from time to time I like to pop it in. It's a stupid, insipid flick but I still like it!
Movie Review: Not Bad--a campy drive - in type horror flick
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie wasn't bad. It's just about a psycho who escapes a mental institution and kills primarily women at a catholic univeristy.
The movie moves along quite nice, but doesn't really get into the reason behind the why this psycho kills poeple--guess cuase he's just plan nuts!!
I like the grainy ealy 80's look of the film and the clothes and hair are laughable--what's more laughable is that this flick must have been on a real tight budget--for days and nights go by and many of the characters wear the same clothes everyday!!! The gore is typical for the time it was filmed, stabbings, throats slashed and lots of fake blood everywhere....
If you like old type B / Drive In Flicks and can get it cheap, it's worth picking up to watch occasionally with some popcorn.
Movie Review: I love amazon and the US for having such a variety of DVDs.
Summary: 3 Stars
Glad to have bought it. I love old slasher flicks and its great to have such a large selection to choose from.Movie Review: Terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
This is my first one star review and I don't like giving them but I could honestly find no redeeming qualities or reasons why I would want to view "Splatter University" ever again. I am a die-hard slasher movie fan but there is just nothing fun or interesting going on in this film.
The minimal plot concerns a series of murders of young female students at a small Catholic university and a new teacher (Francine Forbes) who begins to get her suspicions as to the identity of the killer. There are a lot of scenes of her teaching in the classroom to overaged students who are supposed to be funny but aren't, along with the occasional murder and then more talk.
"Splatter University" came out in 1984, often considered the final year of the original slasher movie cycle and I believe it was movies like this one that brought about the demise of the genre at the time.
In many ways, this film is actually very tame as compared to its more explicit slasher brethren and therefore is at least not terribly offensive but offers nothing new to make it more watchable. You just get your occasional, very basic and very cheap stabbing (though I'll acknowledge that one or two of the throat slittings and bloody corpses that are left behind are marginally impressive) and there is not even any female nudity to behold. This alone I could accept but there is also scarcely a pretty girl to view in the whole thing, so most of these actors you wouldn't want to see fully unclothed anyway. Now that's something I just can't do without in a slasher movie -- I need the cast to at least be attractive enough for me to want to watch.
Don't be fooled by the cool title and movie poster/DVD cover. Even at only 78 minutes, this one is dull and consists mostly of talk in classrooms and bad acting from unappealing non-actors and therefore seems a lot longer. Thus there is not even any chance of a "so bad it's good" vibe. I'm so glad I didn't pay more for this and with the asking price for some copies of the DVD on the internet today, I hope this review will urge you not to waste your hard earned money on this. For examples of equally low budget movies that got it right, view "Pieces" or "Slaughter High" instead. Sorry to disagree with other reviewers here but I just didn't like this film.