Anthrax were always the most playful of thrash metal's 'big four', so it wasn't a big surprise for me to find that supernatural slasher flick Pledge Night, in which Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna has a blink-and-miss-it cameo, is far from serious. In fact, the first 40 minutes or so comprises almost entirely of juvenile hell week pranks perpetrated on new pledges by the brothers of the Phi-Epsilon fraternity there's no horror whatsoever!
Hippie Sid (Anthrax lead singer Joey Belladonna in a memorable cameo) gets fatally burned up in a bathtub full of acid when a frat prank goes awry back in the late 1960's. Twenty years later the vengeful and disfigured spirit of Sid (Will Kempe in funky burn makeup) returns from the beyond to bump off various members of the fraternity responsible for his untimely death.
Six young men pledge Phi Upsilon Nu (Phi U for short). During their hell/pledge week, a demonic form of a pledge from the past (Joey Belladonna -Anthrax) goes on a killing spree.
If you didn't get enough of hazing gone wrong in Slaughter High, good news.Way back in the 1960s, Sidney Scheider was one of the pledges who got hazed, having to bathe in cornflakes, coffee and vinegar, but someone replaced the water with pure acid - which of course didn't eat the pipes or tub - and Sidney died a melty death.
I'm not sure what you guys were expecting. It is rather dull, I'll give you that but I suggest you watch Blood Lake to appreciate this.
In 1968, a young hippie frat pledge was killed in a hazing mishap, burned to death in a tub of muric acid. Two decades later, his demonic corpse returns to the frathouse during "Hell Week"(wherein hazing rituals take place).
I simply couldn't resist picking this one up, mainly because it's the only movie ever starring ex-Anthrax vocalist Joey Belladonna. And, as I expected, you can't really tell if he can act or not, cause he's only in it for like 2 minutes.
This movie is definitely a case of its so bad its good. Coming into this film I expected it to be your stereotypical movie about frats with hazing etc etc and some humor mixed in.
What we have here is another entirely redundant and ineptly processed 80's fraternity-slasher that isn't worth watching at all. Okay, I say it isn't worth watching, but somehow I always end up tracking them down because they usually feature at least some good killing sequences and/or a nice trivia-element.
