Filmed at Rutgers University, the direct-to-video horror throwaway PLEDGE NIGHT spends most of its time chronicling elaborate torments endured by college dunderheads seeking entry into Phi Epsilon Nu fraternity.
The Phi Eps run their hazing like a boot camp designed by the Marquis de Sade, and the cameras record minute after minute of psychological and physical abuse--a lot of it involving the ingestion of fecal matter, some counterfeit, some genuine. After a while one almost believes the filmmakers are
striving to make a statement, about warped values, about fascism, about Greeks. But noooo! On the final night of "hell week," the angry ghost of a former pledge...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins