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I am always on the lookout for cheap horror dvds. With the many Dollar Generals and Family Dollars in my area sometimes being amazing places to find stuff for cheap. But stuff balances out. Sure I have found cheap blu rays/dvds over the last 4 years at the nearby DG,but I have also found stuff like Pledges.....
2 years ago it was late October and I was looking for something new to watch. Dug thru the few cheap dvd bins they had scattered all over the store. Saw the above cover,saw it was Not Rated and 77 minutes. "Hey this might be good." Then saw the price sticker ....$7. That is high for a DTV horror at DG. Still bought it.Got home and somehow this dvd ended up behind my work desk, and was just found a few weeks ago.
Look at that cover. You just know you are gonna get a cheap but bloody slasher from that cover. And cheerleaders. And yea it is cheap and it has cheerleaders.....
A bunch of college kids are stipped to their underwear,tied up and blindfolded. Then dropped off in the woods for Hell Week. Now this looking like a slasher and the premise so far you expect a bunch of nudity. You don't get that.I am still not sure if the lady from the cover is in this movie or not. A killer is out in the woods along with some other college jackasses.
This is horrid. Too much is promised and never given. The acting is bottom of the barrel. The FX work is ok for a cheap budget but still aint worth a crap. And that 77 minutes feels more like 140 minutes.
How come so many modern directors can't make a simple entertaining slasher? For every good one like Hatchet you get 10 bads ones like Pledges. This movie is almost as bad as Vampeggedon or Z.O.M.B.I.E.S.
Avoid this shit unless you somehow have a passion for shitty modern cheap budget slashers with deceptive covers.
Pledges gets a F+
