The Hazing (2004) User Reviews

Good and Funny Horror Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 29 November 2006]

In a Halloween night, five students participates of a scavenger hunt trying to join the sorority Sigma Si and Delta Pi. They are divided in two groups, and one of them has to steal an ancient book of magic from their weird Professor Kapps (Brad Dourif). Doug Leary (Phillip Andrew) and Marsha Glazer (Tiffany Shepis) break in the professor's house while he is performing a satanic ritual with a student he has just sacrificed, and Kapps attack the students, but accidentally is impaled by a spear. Marsha and Doug leaves the house and brings his staff and his book of incantation to destroy the evidences and drive to an abandoned house, where the two groups have to stay until the next morning. Meanwhile, two seniors students from the frat house have prepared pranks in the house to scare the sorority pledges. But the evil spirit of Professor Kapps possesses Doug, slashing the group of students that have to fight to survive.

"The Hazing" was a good surprise. I was expecting a bad horror movie, but actually it is good and funny, and entertains. Even the gore scenes are hilarious, and in spite of not having exceptional performances, the cast is nice. There are many beautiful women naked, gore, and lots of humor, following the pattern of 1986 "House", "Vamp", "Frankenhooker", "Idle Hands", "Evil Dead" and many other flicks. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Jovens Amaldiçoados" ("Cursed Youngsters")

Best friends are hard to keep... Alive.

[jmbwithcats · 6/10 · 28 January 2008]

I turned this movie on, laying in bed, curled up in my covers, all set for a B movie with bad story, bad characters, bad acting, bad effects... but I was pleasantly surprised. Even if the main villain seems to have stolen his character from Michael Keaton's BeetleJuice, it pays out in the end. This movie, obviously pays homage to the Evil Dead series with Bruce Campbell, even so much as to cameo a black and white photo pinup of Campbell in one great death scene.

On the offset it begins as a scavenger hunt and scare on a Halloween, when a joint hazing for a sorority and fraternity leads a group of young men and women to steal a bunch of random junk, and spend the night at a abandoned house, once owned by the man who murdered his wife and her lover when he walked in on her having an affair; leaving them in a bit of a mess.

But, when one of the artifacts they need to steal is a spell book belonging to one of their professors, who is engrossed in centuries old black magic, all hell breaks lose, as we set the stage for madness, mayhem, and murder fun :) The characters were somewhat reminiscent of the old Wax Museum remake of Vincent Price's original, but that's an homage I can live with.

Perfectly Acceptable Entertainment

[MBunge · 5/10 · 3 September 2010]

This movie can best be described as Perfectly Acceptable Entertainment. I could rip this thing to shreds if I wanted to, but criticizing a film like this for not being very good is like yelling at your dog because he doesn't play the piano. Your dog doesn't know how to play the piano and doesn't want to learn. The Hazing never wants or tries to be more than a momentary distraction and it succeeds at that very modest ambition.

After opening up with what appears to be a heavy metal music video from the 1980s about a magic book that might as well have "Not The Necronomicon" engraved on its cover, the story gets going with the creepy looking Professor Kapps (Brad Dourif) killing one of his students for a nefarious, sorcerous purpose. It then shifts over to 5 young people being sent out on a co-ed, fraternity/sorority initiation scavenger hunt. There's handsome but dickish Doug (Philip Andrew), horny Roy (Jeremy Maxwell), shy Tim (Parry Shen), beautiful bimbo Delia (Nectar Rose) and the smart and bitchy but still hot Marsha (Tiffany Shepis). They have to get a bunch of stuff and then spend the night in a allegedly haunted house to pass their initiation, with the heads of the fraternity and sorority planning to scare the crap out of them Scooby-Doo style.

It turns out the "Not The Necronomicon" magic book is on the scavenger hunt list, so Doug and Marsha decide to break into Professor Kapps house and steal it. They end up killing him but decide to not let that spoil anything, so they just grab the book and head to the supposedly haunted house. However, Kapps actually wanted someone to kill him so he could…okay, that stuff doesn't make any sense. It's just a pretense for Kapps to become an evil spirit and spend the rest of the movie tormenting and trying to kill the 5 kids and Jacob and Justine (David Tom and Charmaine DeGrate), the heads of the fraternity and sorority.

This movie couldn't have been more obviously inspired by Sam Rami's Evil Dead films if the writer/director had walked into a scene in the middle of The Hazing and read a 3 page speech of admiration for Rami. Unfortunately, Rolfe Kanefsky isn't close to being as talented or skilled as Rami and his story doesn't work very hard at being either genuinely scary or legitimately funny. It manages, however, to be just enough of each to be worthwhile if you're into the whole horror-comedy genre.

The parts of this film are definitely better than the whole. The computerized effects are cruddy, but the physical effects, props and make-up are pretty good. The direction is basic but unobjectionable and the plot, such as there is, keeps moving at a decent clip. There are a couple of points in the script where Kanefsky all but sends up a flare to tell the audience "Look! I'm doing something different!" but while his creative writing shtick isn't very good, it's not aggressively bad and it's over and forgotten fairly quickly.

The acting is as good as you can expect out of this sort of movie and maybe a bit better. Brooke Burke does look like she's still reading off a teleprompter at the E channel, David Tom has the douchebag knob turned up to 11 for Jacob and there's a stretch where Philip Andrew is apparently doing Freddy Kruger as if he were portrayed by Jim Carrey, but overall the performances in The Hazing are relatively enjoyable. Nectar Rose is clearly the most appealing out of the bunch, and not just because she's very pretty and takes her top off. She has to make a big shift in Delia's character at one point in the story and she pulls it off. Tiffany Shepis also makes Marsha likably tough and gets naked as well.

The Hazing is what it is. If you've got high standards or at least think you have high standards for the horror-comedy genre, you could make fun of this movie for not being very good. My standards may be low, but I thought it was a bit better than okay. I know that doesn't appear to be a ringing endorsement but considering all the stinking pieces of cinematic excrement sitting on video store shelves across the world…making a film that's a bit better than okay is something to be proud of. Not too proud, though.

Faster Bunny Girl! Kill! Kill!

[Dr. Gore · 5 December 2004]

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

College kids. Scavenger hunts. Haunted Houses. Evil spirits. A girl in a bunny outfit killing and maiming. This movie has everything! "The Hazing" is my kind of flick. It's gory fun.

The comparisons to other horror movies are obvious and inevitable. "Evil Dead" and "Night of the Demons" spring to mind. Speaking of springing, check out the blonde in the bunny outfit and her sex scene with Dr. Tongue. I'm not going to lie to you. I live for scenes like that.

"The Hazing" does a good job of mixing the comedy with the blood and guts. This mixture usually doesn't work but this movie pulls it off. I had a good time.

THE Definition of a B-Movie

[Horrorible_Horror_Films · 4/10 · 22 August 2006]

Exactly what you would expect from a B-Movie. Deritive, gratuitous nudity, boring in parts, ridiculous gore and cheesy special-effects. Of course it could have been better, better acted (defintly) better written, directed, etc. But then I guess it wouldn't have been a B movie. The actors pretty much sucked, in fact this pretty much seemed like an episode of buffy the vampire slayer or something except with a lot of blood, profanity and nudity.

Tiffany Shepis must be singled out. She absolutely is the scream queen of the new millennium. Not that acting really matters in these movies, but she was better than any of the other actors. She's also smokin hot, in that plastic jump suit thing she wore for the whole movie - wow! Her posterior is absolutely stunning in that outfit, I mean it every single time she turns around you can help but check her out. And near then end of the film the viewer is rewarded with seeing her completely nekked.

So if your a looser b-movie horror buff (like myself), check this out. If not, you should probably avoid at all costs.

Recommended-Gets a Lot Out of a Modest Budget

[aimless-46 · 7/10 · 18 March 2006]

This surprisingly good low-budget Rolfe Kanefsky horror film is generally predictable but still manages 87 minutes of great fun and entertainment. I don't understand any of the negative comments as "The Hazing" would serve nicely as a "good" example for film students looking to get the maximum effect out of a tiny budget while avoiding the pitfalls of similar examples of the horror genre.

Taking much of its premise from "The Evil Dead" (including some actual references to Bruce Campbell), "The Hazing" slightly amps up "Evil Deads" subtle self-parodying style. Which means a slight increase in fun/humor and a slight decrease in suspense/horror. Not that there is anything wrong with that as Kanefsky manages this trade-off to the advantage of his more relaxed film. It should also appeal to fans of "Night of the Demons" and both versions of "The House on Haunted Hill".

The story involves the standard overage group of fraternity and sorority pledges forced to spend the night in a haunted house. Fortunately the atmospheric low lighting serves to generally hide the physical casting age issue.

A hint to the many clueless directors and cinematographers out there: note how Kanefsky recognized the damage that low lighting can do to his sexploitation elements. He has the female leads dress in a tight silver super-heroine costume and a white Playboy bunny outfit, which are thankfully visible even when the characters are standing in the shadows.

Brad Dourif (Billy from "One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest") does a convincing job as one of their professors, a nut case who seeks to open the gates of hell. Nector Rose (Delia) gives a nice performance as a not-quite-the airhead-she-seems blonde sorority chick. Tiffany Shepis (Marsha) fills out the super-heroine costume quite nicely and appears to be having a lot of fun as a character who must alternate between being normal and being possessed by the professor. The rest of the cast is serviceable in undemanding roles.

Make-up and effects are not elaborate but are quite effective. Technical elements (production design, cinematography, and editing) are all first rate.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Horror Comedy without the Comedy

[jfgibson73 · 3/10 · 15 May 2010]

It should tell you something about this movie that one of the characters holds up an autographed photo of Bruce Campbell. It lets you know that if you end up not liking the movie you took it too seriously, because the filmmakers are just trying to have some fun. It's supposed to be over the top and full of irony.

Well, just because a director lets us know he is winking at us doesn't mean he gets a free pass. Luckily, The Hazing ends up being more watchable than not. I had to skip forward through some of the predictable, tedious parts, but I got the gist.

Three guys and two girls are pledging for a fraternity and a sorority (only five kids for a joint pledge? Maybe it's a mid-start semester?). The guy running the fraternity has to be the least convincing alpha-male since Leave It To Beaver went off the air. The pledges have to spend the night in a haunted house, which the frat boy rigged with gags to make them jump. If a fake skeleton popping up out of a trunk is enough to get you to run out of a house, you might be a member of the Brady Bunch.

During the initiation, one of the pledges broke into the house of a professor to steal a spell book. The professor is accidentally wounded on a rhino horn, I guess, and goes into a coma which allows him to project himself onto the astral plane and convince one of the frat pledges to open the gateway to hell. Then he possess them one at a time and ruins the evening for everyone. After a couple characters die, the prof is sent back to hell and the gateway is closed.

This movie was entertaining enough to keep me watching to end (as long as I was able to skip ahead, as I mentioned). It wasn't actually funny or well written, but it looked good enough. The most disturbing thing about it was that the evil professor did kind of look like someone who might end up on an episode of 20/20 for having a torture dungeon in his basement. It isn't as clever as the movies it wants to be like (Scream, Evil Dead), but I guess not many are. Seek it out if it is your goal to see every movie in which an evil spirit jumps from body to body.

A heck of a fun movie!

[whammy666 · 7/10 · 18 May 2006]

When I first saw this movie I really didn't expect much, just another cheesy low budget gore movie that sucked, though those are the movies I love most. But this film was actually above average and an homage to old 80's horror flicks like THE EVIL DEAD, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, and many more. It also has some great comedy, the "demon" makes some pretty funny jokes, and the characters are also interesting. The acting is also good, with Brad Dourif (Child's Play) and Tiffany Shepis (Tromeo And Juliet, Citizen Toxie, Scarecrow). Also has some nice nudity, and creative gore, including an excellent scene involving a tongue and sex. If you are a fan of 80's movies of demonic possession, and gore movies, check this out, it is a very pleasant surprise and one of the better new movies I have seen. Just watch for a good time.

Awesome Cinematography, Creative Shots, but...

[JawsOne · 1/10 · 16 September 2004]

The script was VERY weak w/o enough character arcs to make you care one bit about the characters or what happens to them. The script is way too talky and not enough gore or action to even call it slow paced. The story gets to the point that you just want everyone to shut up and die as quickly as possible so you don't have to listen to them talk this very muted, stiff dialogue. On a technical note, the music mix is way to high and makes it hard to understand what is being said most times. Then again, this could be called a blessing. Overall, this same story could have better been told in a short film w/ a running time under 30 minutes. The obvious "in your face" homages to Sam Raimi and "Evil Dead" would have been good had they been more subtle, but here they seem more like a bald faced rip off. C'mon, this kind of 35mm budget and THIS is the best that could be done? Still, the cinematography, lighting design and shots were very well done indeed.

OK! It was worth a watch..

[smiley-32 · 7/10 · 16 October 2005]

I saw this not too long ago.. It's just your average typical comedy horror which mostly takes place inside the house, where weird things can happen.. With Brad Dourif playing the Mad Professor Kapps.. I'm sure mostly a lot of viewers will notice this guy is either a genius at his work, or he's totally insane! Well, hats down to the actors Nectar Rose, Tiffany Shepis and Parry Chen who kept me viewing this thing until the end..

But to sum it up.. It was worth a watch. I suppose anyone can watch this on a rainy day..

But for director Rolfe Kanefsky, he did his bit by making the film enjoyable as possible.. If he didn't, I would've stopped the film halfway and call it a day.. Nice try, Rolfe! Keep up the good work! An average 7 out of 10!

Hazy Mulch

[ghoulieguru · 2/10 · 1 December 2004]

The master of cheap erotic horror, Rolfe Kanefsky, finally makes a movie that doesn't go straight to the Playboy Channel. "The Hazing" borrows heavily from everything that came before it from Nightmare on Elm Street to Evil Dead, but still manages to do it with enough humor to make it watchable... just barely. The characters are cardboard, the dialogue is wooden, the story is paper-thin and the actors couldn't act their way out of a grocery bag. Put that all together and you have a pulpy ball of mulch for a movie. Sometimes, when I'm bored, I like to eat paper. Watching this movie is a lot like that. Chew on it for 90 minutes and you're left with a weird taste in your mouth and no nutritional value.

Everything a cheesy horror flick SHOULD be!

[kezopster · 8/10 · 5 September 2011]

Like my title says: EVERYTHING a cheesy horror flick SHOULD be! I had GREAT FUN watching this movie. The set-up is believable enough. The actors all feel like actors, not a bunch of film students trying to act. No academy award performances, but no "so over the top you crinch" moments, either. The movie keeps a good sense of humor through-out. Plenty of blood (and to humorous levels at times). Effects are nicely done. Nector Rose as Delia is an absolute JOY - easily stealing the show (and there's a GREAT topless scene with her). Tiffany Shepis as Marsha spends most of the movie in Spandex - looking great for an actor described in her bio as "voluptuous." Best of all, after spending all that time tracing her curves through that skin-tight costume, the viewer is rewarded with a nice shot of her without the costume.

This is the kind of movie that keeps me watching cheesy horror flicks!

If you've ever wanted to see a girl attacked by a demonically possessed four foot long tongue, this is the movie for you

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 6/10 · 6 December 2005]

A group of college students are sent on a scavenger hunt on Halloween night to find and retrieve several things as part of an initiation into a college fraternity. One of the items they have to find is a Necronomicon- type of book from one of their teachers, that can unlock some kind of doorway to hell, or something like that. Two of them think that they have accidentally killed the teacher, but he's taken to a local hospital and put on life support and kept alive. His spirit (I think) returns and tricks one of the students into reading the book and opening the gates of hell, and starts killing the rest of them. Sound familiar? Teach's body has to die before he can possess someone new though. Then after being shot by a cop at the hospital seven times from a six shooter, he manages to say 'Thank you'? Then tries to possess and kill all of the college students at his house that night responsible for his death, or near death.

Despite the derivative way this sounds, it's actually kind of a fun little movie, Tiffany Shepis and a couple of other hot girls only help matters, but it's uneven and can't quiet decide if it wants to be a horror movie or a satire, or just another rip off. The fact that it is so derivative obviously doesn't help, as it borrows heavily from Evil Dead and the remake of House on Haunted Hill: a scene here looks a little too much like the lockdown scene and its aftermath from that movie, and the old record player left over from the 1930s in this film looks really familiar too. This movie starts slowly, then gets good, then starts to fizzle away, and goes on once scene too long. The effects run the gamut from being surprisingly good to really tacky (a girl turned into a life-sized plastic doll?) but if you've ever wanted to see a girl attacked by a demonically possessed four foot long tongue, this is the movie for you then.

It's good overall, better than one might expect, but it could have been so much better. The theme song 'Do the Zombie Dance' sounds like they were either drunk or intentionally trying to sound stupid for some reason.

Mixed Conclusions

[HalGuentert · 4/10 · 8 January 2005]

I saw this movie primarily to see Brooke Burke (as Jill), who I had meet briefly in LA at a modeling trade show, in her first feature film. I was hoping to see more of her, but thought she did very well acting her role. Since she is such a beautiful and poised TV host, and model, it was not surprising. I was left wondering why she was killed, and what happened as a result. Maybe I just missed it.

I wasn't really sure about the genre of this movie, and although I liked the actors I felt like it was for a college audience. I tried to keep an open mind considering horror wasn't my favorite genre, but felt like I had outgrown the gags. It seemed to drag out in some places, leave you guessing in some places about what powers the evil professor had, and, like a lot of other films had an unsatisfying ending.

Having written a couple of scripts, I know a lot of this is difficult and may come down to personal opinions, how many movies you have seen & studied, and those you relate with at a point in time.

In a nutshell, I found it interesting, but not a satisfying plot and ending for me. If Jill (Brooke Burke) would have returned through the portal in the end and kicked everyone's ass that would be a satisfying ending and would earn a higher rating.

not half bad

[jbarker71 · 2 November 2004]

Have always been a fan of Brad Dourif. He's used well here, even though he's not in much of the film. tiffany shepis puts in a good performance, adding to her rep as a nouveau scream queen. the director made a nice entry into the horror canon, even with the demonic mumbo-jumbo. shepis and nectar rose are well used and an fine form. The combination of space suite and bunny outfit stole every scene they were in. The cunnilingus scene was handled fairly well, too. Some of the effects were hit and miss- the cheap effects looked like cheap FX. However, the acting, shot selection, and lighting were really well done- helped elevate the film to the level of a decent horror film. A nice effort all around. This is nothing we haven't seen before- but was very well done and not a total waste of time, which says a lot. Good job to everyone involved.

truly awful

[alamara208 · 2/10 · 12 June 2005]

i cannot believe i wasted 80 minutes of my life watching this terrible film i kept hoping it was going to get better by the end but boy was I wrong. The plot was abysmal , the acting was extremely poor and the special effects were awful. Not even the 2 beautiful girls could revive my interest in this boring and bloody mess. However i cannot lie ,some of the lines in this film were quite memorable such as when the Asian boy says '' i lost my virginity to the babysitter so f**** stereotypes ''

please do not waste your time with this crash unless u are prepared or want to have a good laugh .. maybe that way u can watch it to rip this movie with some mates

Frat house slasher influenced by "The Evil Dead" featuring Tiffany Shepis and Nectar Rose

[Wuchakk · 6/10 · 11 May 2019]

During a hazing on Halloween, seven college students get trapped in a Fraternity house with an unholy book that attracts the spirit of a crazy professor who threatens to possess them. Can any of them make it out alive?

"The Hazing" (2004), retitled "Dead Scared," is a low-budget slasher with an amusing edge. It borrows from the first two "Evil Dead" flicks and is just as good or better. One of the highlights is brunette Tiffany Shepis as Marsha and blonde Nectar Rose as Delia, the former in a shining silver bodysuit and the latter in a playboy bunny costume. It was wise on the director's part to clothe them in this manner as they can be clearly observed even in the dim light of the creepy frat house. Horror directors take note.

The movie runs 1 hour, 27 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles.

GRADE: B-

Awful

[Fizzwizz · 1/10 · 30 March 2005]

This was truly dreadful! It had a terrible storyline, was poorly acted, and was like an amateur remake of evil dead but not nearly as good.

It took all my tenacity to make it through this one, it's a good job I didn't have to visit the toilet else I doubt I would have come back! This one makes Hammer House of Horror look like a big screen Hollywood epic.

The only value to this movie was the never ending supply of beautiful women. Not a bad one among them!

If you want to letch with your friends after a night on the beer then this one's for you ... else avoid it like the plague!

Silly, Stupid, A Lot of Fun

[CMRKeyboadist · 7/10 · 8 May 2006]

I bought this movie on a whim at a local video store. It cost me roughly $3 and was actually worth my time. Although, this movie has no surprises it does still keep you interested all the way through.

It is pledge week on campus and a group of pledges have to run around town causing all sorts of mischief dressed in various costumes (Halloween). But when 2 of the pledges steal an ancient book from a crazy professor (Brad Dourif) all hell brakes loose. They accidentally impale the professor and stay the night in a rumored haunted house. This is where the rest of the movie takes place.

Brad Dourif is hysterical in this movie. He puts on a ridiculous British accent and actually plays his part quite well. The rest of the actors do a fairly decent job also. This movie obviously gained many ideas from classic horror films and they even have a quick frame picture of Bruce Campbell with his named signed. The gore in the movie was fairly decent, but unfortunately, the cover of the movie never seems to happen. I kept expecting to see the girl in the bunny outfit go crazy with a chainsaw, but it never happened. Oh well... Still, this was a fun, campy little movie and I give it a 7/10.

Unfortunately I can't unsee this movie, or I absolutely would.

[Ben_Cheshire · 1/10 · 31 July 2015]

I suppose I can detect the intended beats for laughter, but this movie plays more like the worst movie ever than a smart satire of horror movies like Scary Movie (2001) or Scream (1996). How can I describe what I just witnessed. Well, it was like they took all the horror movie clichés and dialed them up to 99, put the girls in gaudy costumes and had them say dumb stuff, hired Brad Dourif (Child's Play) to be a creepy scientist who has some kind of faux Necronomicon and some other weird stuff happens. OK, I was half paying attention. This was dreadful. There was nothing discernibly funny about it and I wished I was somewhere else. Unfortunately, I can't unsee this movie, or I absolutely would. 1/10.

Mainly just light, fun and entertaining.

[jhpstrydom · 6/10 · 12 December 2007]

Watching THE HAZING for the first time, I mainly found it very enjoyable, it has a very simple storyline and some scenes I found... well ... Check the scene involving a demonically possessed tongue and give your own opinion. Also a huge plus for this film, being that it is a B movie, it has decent characters, normally this kind of film or at least the B movie slashers, has so many lame and dull characters it makes the movie so boring you can chew the sofa, but this film has great characters and great character development, for a B movie As for director Rolfe Kanefsky, it seems he mainly put together a movie that was mainly fun and entertaining, and that doesn't take itself seriously at all, and he probably didn't intend on making it a crowd pleaser, he purees made a movie he wanted make and had fun with it in the process, I look forward to more of his projects in the future, he did a good job with a modest budget and has every reason to be proud.

6 out of 10

Well, at least it still has Brad Dourif in it.

[Boba_Fett1138 · 4/10 · 31 January 2012]

Nothing to see here people. Just another movie in which a bunch of teenagers are getting killed, inside a haunted house. No, the movie already isn't very original to begin with but it also does little good on its own. It has not good horror or gore in it, no good acting, not a good story at all and also totally fails to entertain as a comedy.

Really, I don't get why someone would enjoy watching a movie like this. It's just one more of those cheap sort of productions, that lack in every department and are basically all alike.

It's really a movie that allows lots of random stuff to happen. Most of the horror related stuff happening in this movie doesn't really even make sense in the context of the story. It's just put in for the sake of it and to make this a horror, in which a bunch of annoying teenagers can get to die in.

You would think that the comedy would add to the entertainment value of this movie but in fact it really doesn't, simply because the movie never becomes fun or funny enough. Some more creativity wouldn't had harmed this movie.

No, also horror fans will mostly likely not enjoy this. It doesn't has scares in it really and only features some stuff we all have seen before already and we have seen all done way better as well. So don't expect a movie with scares or any tension in it, or even some decent gore for that matter.

The characters really aren't likable enough to ever care for and it of course does not help much that they are being played by some awful actors. Seriously, it's no coincidence most of the careers. of the actors from this movie, have dried up already. Sure, it still has Brad Dourif in it but you could tell he probably was on the set for about 7 days, collected his paycheck and got out as fast as he could. He is hardly in the movie at all really, even though he plays the main villain of the movie. It's a character that however spends most of the time off screen. That was also a complaint I had about this movie; it didn't really had a good and clearly visible, threat/main villain in it.

No, it's really not the worst modern genre attempt but it still is a pretty bad movie to watch.

4/10

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A Fun Film

[tcoll32 · 10/10 · 24 June 2009]

This is one of those movies that was made solely for the reason of entertaining the audience. It is rare in this day in age to see a film that isn't trying to convince you to vote a certain way or to see the evil of something. The goal of this film is to have fun watching it. The film stars Tiffany Sheppis, Perry Shen, and Nectar Rose as part of group of college kids pledging the best fraternity and sorority on campus. They are sent on a scavenger hunt and to spend the night in a haunted mansion. One of the uber bright kids decides to steal a dark magic book from genre vet Brad Dourif and things go down hill from there. Great makeup effects with just a touch of CGI the film keeps you watching, cringing, and laughing, with you wondering which one you should be doing. Great fun and must have for any Tiffany Sheppis or Brad Dourif fans.

The Hazing

[Scarecrow-88 · 6/10 · 18 March 2007]

A group of college kids wish to join a sorority/fraternity, but must gather a list of items and hole up in the usual scary house where brutal murders took place. One of the items is this demonic book held in the house of a creepy professor named Kapps(Brad Dourif..an inspired choice if I might say so)who has taken up a hobby of collecting victims he murders. Well, as two of the students, Marsha & Doug(Tiffany Shpis & Philip Andrew)attempt to steal the book, Kapps catches them. In the act of trying to kill the two thieves, Marsha accidentally "horns" Kapps through the chest. As Kapps lies close to death in the hospital, the students converge on the creepy estate not knowing that Kapps' evil spirit would be allowed access to Doug's body when the idiot reads a passage from the book that will allow him to remain roaming on a balanced plain between life and death. Anyway, all this is set-up so that the demonic force can kill a bunch of college kids in various weird ways with the usual one-liners being tossed after each life is taken. One kid, in particular, gets his head chopped off by a detour sign thanks to Doug's possessor Kapps who seems to have an uncanny ability to work magic such as turning one girl into a mannequin(I kid you not). There's a gateway open in the basement and Kapps will need someone in there after his body dies. There is a septor with a skull that can be used as a weapon to defeat Kapps if used properly.

A silly premise doesn't take itself at all seriously. The cast is here to poke fun at themselves(most play on their stereotypes such as the delicious Nectar Rose, dressed in a bunny outfit who seems to be bubble-headed, but it's all an act to bed a lust-interest), especially Parry Shen as a supposed nerd who has to correct others that he is not that stereotypical virginal video-game geek. Shepis and Rose both show their impressive cleavage and the film is rife with disgusting gore. Very reminiscent of NIGHT OF THE DEMONS.

Good, mindless "Evil Demons" fun

[Coventry · 5/10 · 22 August 2010]

Sometimes a thoroughly unoriginal horror film is referred to as a total rip-off or blatant imitation and sometimes it's called a genuine throwback or a homage. I guess all depends on how entertaining the film was and how obviously it mentions its sources of inspiration. "The Hazing", for instance, is a successful new horror flick because it's unpretentious and good old-fashioned straightforward splatter fun. The plot is a mixture between the 80's classics "The Evil Dead" and "Night of the Demons", and sprinkled with some flashes of gratuitous nudity, you're almost guaranteed to have a winner! During a fraternity scavenger hunt, a couple of students need to steal a rare book in the house of a deranged murderous professor with an obsession for demonology. They accidentally kill the professor, but he returns by possessing one of the students during the second part of their initiation ritual: spending the night in a reputedly haunted house. Trapped inside the house on Halloween's Eve, the students will have to distinguish the actual demon attacks from all the fake stuff that was put there to scare them. As you can tell, this is completely derivative and clichéd guff you've seen a hundred times before already, and yet you won't regret watching "The Hazing" for a single second. Rolfe Kanefsky delivers a screenplay that is fast-paced and doesn't take itself overly serious. The lead characters are you're your usual stereotypes - or perhaps just act like stereotypes to make their lives easier, like the blond bimbo – and there's a lot of variation in the gore & splatter. "The Hazing" contains chainsaw action (another homage to "The Evil Dead"), axe-decapitations, giant darts and near-suffocation by a humongous tongue! There are also some slightly more sophisticated moments of authentic suspense, like when one poor girl is slowly transforming into a human mannequin doll. That always struck me as genuinely horrific. Last but not least, "The Hazing" benefices from the lovely naked bodies of Nectar Rose and the exquisite Tiffany Shepis. Brad Dourif overacts wondrously as the maniacal professor.