The Hazing

The Hazing (2004): This movie contains Brooke Burke’s film debut for fans of that E channel/centerfold star. Even though she is headlined, don’t expect to see her last very long in this moderately amusing horror film by Rolf Kanevsky. While definitely a low budget dead teen category movie, it does have a good group of actor/victims and some actual character development, though that’s kept pretty well out of the main line of plot development. This is kind of an Evil Dead, meets the Exorcist, meets Hell Night, meets…..just about every other low budget horror movie plot. A group of frat and sorority pledges have to go on a scavenger hunt and then stay in a haunted house for the night in order to be accepted into their houses. I realize this has been done in about umpty-seven other movies but this one is above average for the genre. One pair of scavengers break into a professor’s house to get some ‘stuff’ and find out he’s a murderer and a devil worshipper, accidentally kill him (so they think) am make off with his ‘Evil Dead’ type book of spells and a magic staff. The young group contains manly men and hotly women. In fact the skintight silver jumpsuit the brunette lead wears for the whole movie is worth the price of admission alone. In keeping with traditional values for this type of movie, the two female leads manage to extricate themselves from their costumes on occasion and there is also a lot of cast depopulation going on. You will have to keep your sense of humor about you because the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously and that is underscored by some of the lyrics in the background music. One lyric goes “Spin you head around like Linda Blair!”
The teens eventually fight back and a few almost escape when more ghosts attack as the movie ends. Not bad for a low budget, seriously overused plot line, semi-comic horror film. You could do worse for a weekend rental. The movie is rate R for: several attacks of nudity, axes galore, gallons of red sauce, horn puncturing, extreme involuntary tongue extension, and definitely for the silver astronaut jump suit worn by the brunette lead.