Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Scarecrow-88 Bizarre slasher really enters wtf? territory an hour in and just goes bonkers the rest of the way. When Pledge Night first starts it is basically a lengthy week-long humiliating hazing for a group of pledge students hoping to get into a fraternity. After about five minutes with these jerks who are "brothers" of their fraternity, I was hoping a psychopath, perhaps nuts because of a hazing gone awry, would start hacking them to bits with an ax. It takes a prolonged period of despicable hazing for the film to finally allow the spirit of a dead victim of a hazing gone terribly wrong (acid was used in a bathtub joke resulting in a massively burned face, screaming, and ultimately death) to break from the body of a manic-laughing fraternity brother (burst, break, split out of, tear free from a human body, whatever you want to call it) before the film is even remotely entertaining. Unless you enjoy embarrassing hazing games played on idiots who are willing to eat (among other things) cherries just picked up on blocks of ice by the crack of their asses and suffer degradation after degradation just to belong to a group of obnoxious morons who got into college thanks to having parents with money, then the first hour of Pledge Night will probably bore/tire you. Then the killer, with nasty burn make-up, dressed as a rock group roadie, "exits" a fraternity brother and commences in his slaughter. Why does he insist on not only butchering frat brothers but pledges also? Oh, he explains to the film's hero…he just wants to help them! Shot on an obvious shoe-string, with a bulk of the movie's budget probably on the prosthetics and make-up grue showing up at the end during the kill-scenes and on the killer, this Rutger University set slasher does have that screws-loose feel to it that should gain a cult following. I think the characters suffer from severe stupidity and the storyline is all over the place, so the wretchedness of the material and all that Pledge Night entails will appeal to fans of rancid cinema. "Acid Sid", the funny nickname given to the psycho, cracks wise when he twists a head all the way around, strangles a victim with his Abdulla oblongata(!), or jams someone's face in his open stomach wound (!), with Pledge Night seeming to take Freddy/Nightmare on Elm Street as its inspiration. On bong or beer night, Pledge Night might be fun viewing, but I was on my way to snoozing before the randomness of Sid appears totally sending this movie off the rails on the crazy train. The soundtrack is mostly blaring Anthrax rock tunes and the girls in the film look like they were hired off the street. Bad movie lovers will dig this turd, me thinks.

horrorcritic A frat house is attacked by the ghost of a pledge that was accidently killed years ago during a prank on pledge night. Never has homosexual undertones ran so rampant in a slasher film. The guys are given spankings throughout, forced to particpate in all kinds of sadomaschtic activity, wear jockstraps, and have various objects put up their anus. Anyway, back to the film's merits, which it doesn't have any of. It doesn't have scares, the humor falls flat and despite attempts to be creative with the murder sequences, the lackluster direction stops them from working.

pizowell Pledge Night was a horror movie night selection for me and my friends. We expected a college campus horror flick, which it is and that part sucks. The first part was a hilarious, entertaining riot. It ruled!!!! up until the point it became a lame slasher flick with an uncool killer and a terrible end. How could the director let this laugh riot turn into a crap fest. It was the most amusing college phrat flick I've ever seen and ranks up there with Animal House. It had awesome dialogue and those wacky pranks rocked, but when you see the hand come up out of the toilet part stop the movie and let that be the end. You and your friends will thank me, if not they may beat the living crap out of you and you'll deserve it if you read my warning and didn't listen. Pledge Night was a good idea that could have been a great comedy about the lengths one goes through to become a member of a fraternity, but fell way short in its attempt to copy all other slasher flicks, I applaud its originality and humor in the first half.

bigpappa1--2 A frat house, during hell week, is attacked by a pledge that died in a hazing accident more than twenty years ago. Though there is some creative effects and deaths, this isn't as much fun or enjoyable as other slasher films. This film was made by people who used to make porno's and had to be cut to avoid an X. Another complaint- too much male nudity and not enough naked girls. 4.5 out of 10.