31 Days of Horror 2023 Day 05 Pledge Night(1988)

                              

TITLE-Pledge Night

SOURCE-Shudder

It was late October last year and I was wanting a horror film to watch. Wanted something I had never seen and was looking through the various movies on Shudder. Saw Pledge Night and took a chance.

As soon as in the credits I saw tha Anthrax had provided all the music I knew I was in for a good movie.

A Frat is doing hell week. A group of guys are pledging. One of the FRat brothers is acting like he is crazy,even stabbing another brother during dinner with a steak knife.  What the other Frat brothers don't know is the crazy brother is actually possessed by the ghost of Acid Sid. A pledge who was accidentlly killed in the early 70s. This pledge is played by Joey Belladonna,former lead singer of Anthrax. 

First half of the movie is Frat guys hazing the pledges. Making them pick up cherries with their asses off blocks of ice. Making the pledges think they  are eating turds or worms and other gross stuff. Then one pledge is taking a shit and out of the toilet comes ACID SID. Who the creators of the film wanted to become a slasher icon like Freddy. Cause Acid Sid looks like a hippie version of Freddy.

The second half is the pledges trapped in the frat house fighting off Acid Sid. Good gross deaths. One where Sid pulls out his own spine and chokes a pledge with it is great.

Reading up on the film it was made extremely cheap in 88. Sat  on the shelf until a limited DTV release in 1990. And in the early 2000s started developing a reputation online as a "forgotten slasher". It is fun. And worth seeing if you have Shudder. But I am not gonna pay the 25 to 30 bucks the Blu ray costs.

Pledge Night gets a B-.