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      Rush Week

      R 1989 1h 34m Horror List
      Reviews 12% Audience Score 50+ Ratings A student journalist risks her head when she picks up the trail of the ax-wielding maniac terrorizing her campus. Read More Read Less

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      Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com There's some genuine moviemaking hustle going on in "Rush Week," which isn't the norm for this type of entertainment, giving it a little extra emphasis while it manages horror formula. Rated: B+ Aug 12, 2021 Full Review Tracy Allen PopHorror.com Rush Week is rather generic slasher slasher fair. May 8, 2021 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Oct 13, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A decent slasher flick, but to be totally honest, I can't remember much of it. So while there's some satisfying elements that will satiate genre fans, it's ultimately fairly forgettable. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/30/21 Full Review Audience Member Toni Daniels doesn't want to write the same college newspaper stories as everyone else at Tambler College. Luckily for her — or maybe not — there's been a series of on-campus disappearances and at least one murder, all connected to Rush Week (and that one murder connected to a nude modeling session inside the science building that had to be for the infamous "foreign investors"). Rush Week came way late to the slasher boom and as such has been forgotten. Leave it to the maniacs at Vinegar Syndrome to find it, fix it up and then explain to us just why it has merit. One of the joys of this movie is that it springs major music surprises on you, like The Dickies showing up and a random Gregg Allman cameo as a character named Cosmo Kincaid. There's also some star power with Roy Thinnes as Dean Grail and Kathleen Kinmont, who was in Bride of the Re-Animator and Halloween 4 as Kelly Meeker, makes an appearance. This movie straddles the line of giallo and slasher, not for any artistic merit, but for the m.o. of its killer, who wants to purify the college of all of the sinful women who keep taking nude modeling jobs and posing in the buff in lecture halls. What Have They Done with Your Daughters? Director Bob Bralver is mostly known for his stunt work, but he's directed plenty of TV — The A-Team, Riptide, Knight Rider — and also made American Ninja 5 and Midnight. You may be forgiven if you think that this resembles a TV movie, as it's relatively bloodless, but it replaces any viscera with more nude flesh than several films — if that's your thing. I mean, you're reading our site so it probably is. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a great film but I must admit that I liked it's cheesy production values and over-the-top direction style. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Sometimes you may think, when you've seen one slasher set during a fraternity rush week, you've seen them all but it's really not true! Pledge Night, Night of the Creeps and Rush Week are all very enjoyable! I think they just help the slasher genre embrace and embody the 80s (early 90s for Pledge Night). Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty awful but if you have actively chosen to watch it then you will be expecting that and therefore you can relax and enjoy it for what it is. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A student journalist risks her head when she picks up the trail of the ax-wielding maniac terrorizing her campus.
      Director
      Bob Bralver
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 34m
      Sound Mix
      Surround