Rush Week (1989)
Directed by Bob Bralver
An 80s slasher movie that somehow I was unaware of until just this year? Idk how that even happens but here we are. I guess with that generic of a title it is bound to happen.
Rush Week is about a girl named Toni transfers to a new college where girls are disappearing. She is a journalist student and investigates the disappearances. Of course there’s a guy in a mask taking them out, happens. The plot is generic, the title is generic, the killer looks like he got the outfit from Spirit Halloween, generic. Is there anything about this movie that stands out from the pack? Not really. I do have to mention that Kathleen Kinmont is topless in this, so the complete tease in Halloween 4 that I got when I was 14 was finally fulfilled. Also Gregg Allman is in this, why? Your guess is as good as mine, and shit I don’t even remember seeing him in it. I tended to get distracted a fair amount during this movie. One other person of mention is Dominick Brascia as Peeper, aka Joey the fat slow kid from Friday the 13th V that gets axed by Vick over a candy bar. A freakin candy bar, my lord.
The special effects aren’t anything special because the kills aren’t anything special either. There isn’t a whole lot of creativity here, it is a cookie cutter genre flick that tries nothing new. Most of the movie is just pranks, like this is a teen college sex comedy or something. Think Revenge of the Nerds or Animal House meets bad slasher. As far as college slashers go, there are a few I’d watch before this. Sorority House Massacre is one that surprised the hell out of me for how decent it was.
Was this great? Hell no, it was boring! Was it the worst slasher I’ve ever seen? Not by a long shot. That speaks more on the quality of say 70% of the genre than the quality of this movie. This is not a good movie. Will I watch this again? Probably not, but for a one time watch I could’ve done much worse and have. I give this a D, while it is bad, it is better than many I’ve seen before.
