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Splatter University is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Richard W. HainesPlot.
A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then stealing his uniform. Three years later, a teacher is working late and gets stabbed and killed by the same patient after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late professor's replacement and a new group of students have to deal with a new batch of killings.
It takes a few minutes into the flim before we meet the class of Splatter University. In typical slasher fashion, we start at a mental institution at some unspecified time, where our psychopath makes an escape. Then we jump to three years later, where said maniac kills a professor at a local university; then we jump ahead yet again to the next semester (I was having flashbacks to the humorous opening of Student Bodies at this point). Here, what passes for main characters enter the scene: a bunch of typical (read: obnoxious) students, and a new teacher, Julie Parker, who will be teaching Sociology 101. Of course, she and her students are about to get a crash course in murder when the killings start back up again.
If you’ve ever enrolled at any other university where slashing was on the syllabus, then you’ve pretty much already seen Splatter University. It doesn’t really do much to separate itself and contains all of the pitfalls of innumerous slashers. I think I’ve run out of clever ways to describe these, but you know the drill--the acting is not the best for one thing). Of course, that isn’t why you’re here, so rest assured that there’s a decent amount of bloodshed and even more silly and pointless antics from the cast. It’s a pretty large cast, too--in fact, I’m pretty sure we’re introduced to two entirely different groups of friends during the course of events. Each has its assortment of assholes, promiscuous women, and one "good" girl. There’s one guy named Wolf because he doesn’t shave and because (you guessed it) he goes around howling like a wolf. The movie could have used more outrageous and memorable characters like him. The film does manage to do some things with the fates of these characters that’s sort of surprising and helps to separate it a bit.
By “fate,” I refer to the way they’re dispatched. There’s not really a wide assortment of hack and slash to be found, as everyone is just cut up with a knife; still, the effects are grisly enough, and the students spill their guts both figuratively and literally. Expect buckets of blood to substitute for actual suspense because the film isn’t too concerned with atmosphere or real scares. There is kind of a fun sequence at a drive-in, where the film gets a little meta--there’s a horror movie playing as a real-life one is playing out, of course. Honestly, though, the film’s scariest scenes for me were in the classroom, where our heroine, Judy, has to face the horrors of uncooperative students and observations by her superiors. I’ve been there and done that, so I couldn’t blame her if she wanted to go psycho herself on them all.
There is a mystery to be solved here (other than why it took 4 writers to come up with this script)--just who is the mad man (or woman) flunking these students in fatal fashion? As a “whodunit” slasher, it throws out the expected clues and red herrings to throw you off the scent. The film does have the courtesy of not cheating for its ultimate reveal; it does require a huge leap in logic (but most slashers do), but it’s kind of cool and leads to at one neat visual. The climax also manages another twist that you really won’t see coming if you’re used to slashers; it doesn’t help the film to overcome its numerous flaws, but it’s probably something that will stick out, especially now that we’re so used to the “rules” that accompany these slashers. The end also comes swiftly because the film clocks in right under 80 minutes; this is a boon because it still manages to drag a little early when it makes the mistake of making us hang out with a bunch of idiots instead of just killing them off.
That’s what we came for, after all, and Splatter University does at least deliver that, eventually. Just don’t expect much more from it, which is probably the number one rule to live by with this class of slashers flims. Cast[edit]
Forbes Riley (as Francine Forbes) as Julie Parker
Ric Randig as Mark Hammond
Dick Biel as Father Janson
Kathy LaCommare as Kathy Lacommare
Laura Gold as Cynthia scenes with students were filmed the next year to increase the running time.
The filmmakers were originally told they would have two weeks to shoot at Mercy College, but the school cut their time by a week, so many members of the crew wound up sleeping in the classrooms to ensure the film was finished. When students returned to school, they were alarmed to find crew members cleaning up fake blood. Directed by
Richard W. Haines
Produced by
Richard W. Haines
Miljan Peter Ilich
Screenplay by
Michael Cunningham
Richard W. Haines
John Elias Michalakis (as John Michaels)
Story by
Michael Cunningham
Richard W. Haines
John Elias Michalakis (as John Michaels)
Starring
Forbes Riley (as Francine Forbes)
Ric Randig
Dick Biel
Kathy LaCommare (as Kathy Lacommare)
Laura Gold
Music by
Christopher Burke (as Chris Burke)
Cinematography
Jim Grib
Edited by
Richard W. Haines
Production
company
Aquafilm Release date
July 13, 1984
Running time
78 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$50,00
A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then stealing his uniform. Three years later, a teacher is working late and gets stabbed and killed by the same patient after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late professor's replacement and a new group of students have to deal with a new batch of killings.
It takes a few minutes into the flim before we meet the class of Splatter University. In typical slasher fashion, we start at a mental institution at some unspecified time, where our psychopath makes an escape. Then we jump to three years later, where said maniac kills a professor at a local university; then we jump ahead yet again to the next semester (I was having flashbacks to the humorous opening of Student Bodies at this point). Here, what passes for main characters enter the scene: a bunch of typical (read: obnoxious) students, and a new teacher, Julie Parker, who will be teaching Sociology 101. Of course, she and her students are about to get a crash course in murder when the killings start back up again.
If you’ve ever enrolled at any other university where slashing was on the syllabus, then you’ve pretty much already seen Splatter University. It doesn’t really do much to separate itself and contains all of the pitfalls of innumerous slashers. I think I’ve run out of clever ways to describe these, but you know the drill--the acting is not the best for one thing). Of course, that isn’t why you’re here, so rest assured that there’s a decent amount of bloodshed and even more silly and pointless antics from the cast. It’s a pretty large cast, too--in fact, I’m pretty sure we’re introduced to two entirely different groups of friends during the course of events. Each has its assortment of assholes, promiscuous women, and one "good" girl. There’s one guy named Wolf because he doesn’t shave and because (you guessed it) he goes around howling like a wolf. The movie could have used more outrageous and memorable characters like him. The film does manage to do some things with the fates of these characters that’s sort of surprising and helps to separate it a bit.
By “fate,” I refer to the way they’re dispatched. There’s not really a wide assortment of hack and slash to be found, as everyone is just cut up with a knife; still, the effects are grisly enough, and the students spill their guts both figuratively and literally. Expect buckets of blood to substitute for actual suspense because the film isn’t too concerned with atmosphere or real scares. There is kind of a fun sequence at a drive-in, where the film gets a little meta--there’s a horror movie playing as a real-life one is playing out, of course. Honestly, though, the film’s scariest scenes for me were in the classroom, where our heroine, Judy, has to face the horrors of uncooperative students and observations by her superiors. I’ve been there and done that, so I couldn’t blame her if she wanted to go psycho herself on them all.
There is a mystery to be solved here (other than why it took 4 writers to come up with this script)--just who is the mad man (or woman) flunking these students in fatal fashion? As a “whodunit” slasher, it throws out the expected clues and red herrings to throw you off the scent. The film does have the courtesy of not cheating for its ultimate reveal; it does require a huge leap in logic (but most slashers do), but it’s kind of cool and leads to at one neat visual. The climax also manages another twist that you really won’t see coming if you’re used to slashers; it doesn’t help the film to overcome its numerous flaws, but it’s probably something that will stick out, especially now that we’re so used to the “rules” that accompany these slashers. The end also comes swiftly because the film clocks in right under 80 minutes; this is a boon because it still manages to drag a little early when it makes the mistake of making us hang out with a bunch of idiots instead of just killing them off.
That’s what we came for, after all, and Splatter University does at least deliver that, eventually. Just don’t expect much more from it, which is probably the number one rule to live by with this class of slashers flims. Cast[edit]
Forbes Riley (as Francine Forbes) as Julie Parker
Ric Randig as Mark Hammond
Dick Biel as Father Janson
Kathy LaCommare as Kathy Lacommare
Laura Gold as Cynthia scenes with students were filmed the next year to increase the running time.
The filmmakers were originally told they would have two weeks to shoot at Mercy College, but the school cut their time by a week, so many members of the crew wound up sleeping in the classrooms to ensure the film was finished. When students returned to school, they were alarmed to find crew members cleaning up fake blood. Directed by
Richard W. Haines
Produced by
Richard W. Haines
Miljan Peter Ilich
Screenplay by
Michael Cunningham
Richard W. Haines
John Elias Michalakis (as John Michaels)
Story by
Michael Cunningham
Richard W. Haines
John Elias Michalakis (as John Michaels)
Starring
Forbes Riley (as Francine Forbes)
Ric Randig
Dick Biel
Kathy LaCommare (as Kathy Lacommare)
Laura Gold
Music by
Christopher Burke (as Chris Burke)
Cinematography
Jim Grib
Edited by
Richard W. Haines
Production
company
Aquafilm Release date
July 13, 1984
Running time
78 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$50,00