| COVER REVIEW: Region 1 DVD Cover Art |
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This is a pretty cheesy cover art but it suits the movie quite well. As a slasher cover it's a good seller, a screaming cheerleader (there are no cheerleaders in this movie) and a psycho with a knife. It's worth noting the images on the back of the DVD cover are not in the movie. |
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| On the plus side we get some decent gore, slashes necks, stabbings on tits and crotches, a cool slashed up back and lots of bloody aftermaths. While the acting is mostly bad I did think Francine Forbes did quite well as the female lead and she's damn sexy, I don’t know if she was a good actress or if everyone else was just awful. |
| There is quite a bit of unintentional humour as well like when the killer is chasing one girl and holding himself at the same time. Also some dialog was priceless, I love how the Dean at the University asks Julie “what’s troubling you lately?“ the day after she found her best friend dead. Then there is the hilarious fashion trends, quite a sight to see. I enjoyed the ending as well, it was different to most slasher movies, if only it had been apart of a better movie. Also at about 78 minutes the movie is mercifully short, thankfully they didn’t try to pad it out any longer. |
| Overall I really can’t recommend this movie to any one. Sure it has some pluses but far to many bad points. You’ ll get a few laughs out of it but for such a short movie, it mostly just drags on and on. It’s got no real plot and I really don’t mind basic plots just as long as the movie manages to entertain but for the most part Splatter University fails even at that. |
| The directing shows some potential but it’s still doesn’t work. The director tries to give some frights but they don’t seem to work. The suspense is very much lacking as well, there are about one or two good build ups for the deaths but the rest are just flat build ups. |
| The acting isn’t very good, almost everyone stinks the place up. Then there is the awful dialog which doesn’t really help matters much. The movie can’t decide if it wants to be a comedy or a horror movie, it clumsily goes from one genre to another. When it’s trying to be a comedy it’s just awful, when it’s trying to be a horror, it’s quite funny. |
| REVIEW: |
| Splatter University is another mess that somehow got a DVD release. Hello, Just Before Dawn is calling out for one! Anyway Splatter University is pretty slow and hard to get into. The plot is your basic escaped loon who knocks off Co Eds left and right. |