Rush week is when fraternities and sororities recruit new students: the guys at Gamma Alpha Epsilon take this matter very seriously, which makes them an obvious target for the wild boys of Beta Delta Beta, who enjoy playing juvenile pranks whenever they aren't partying. Assigned to report on the tradition is ambitious journalism student Toni Daniels (Pamela Ludwig),who sniffs out a much better story when several young women on the campus go missing...

An attempt at blending Porky's style humour with slasher horror, Rush Week fails on both counts: the comedy is cringe-worthy, the Beta Delta Beta guys being a thoroughly unlikable bunch of douchebags whose idea of a good time is to ruin everyone else's fun (their supposedly funny tomfoolery includes sabotaging a bicycle race and tricking a hooker into sleeping with a corpse!); even more disappointing is the scary stuff, which is frustratingly 'dry', the action cutting away whenever the films killer, wearing an old man rubber mask and hooded robe, gets choppy with his axe.

Thankfully, director Bob Bralver loads his film with big breasted girls who are only too happy to strip for the camera, which helps the time pass less painfully. If only the gore had been as plentiful as the boobs...

4.5/10, generously rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

Toni Daniels doesn't want to write the same college newspaper stories as everyone else at Tambler College. Luckily for her - or maybe not - there's been a series of on-campus disappearances and at least one murder, all connected to Rush Week (and that one murder connected to a nude modeling session inside the science building that had to be for the infamous "foreign investors").

Rush Week came way late to the slasher boom and as such has been forgotten. Leave it to the maniacs at Vinegar Syndrome to find it, fix it up and then explain to us just why it has merit. One of the joys of this movie is that it springs major music surprises on you, like The Dickies showing up and a random Gregg Allman cameo as a character named Cosmo Kincaid.

There's also some star power with Roy Thinnes as Dean Grail and Kathleen Kinmont, who was in Bride of the Re-Animator and Halloween 4 as Kelly Meeker, makes an appearance.

This movie straddles the line of giallo and slasher, not for any artistic merit, but for the m.o. Of its killer, who wants to purify the college of all of the sinful women who keep taking nude modeling jobs and posing in the buff in lecture halls. What Have They Done with Your Daughters?

Director Bob Bralver is mostly known for his stunt work, but he's directed plenty of TV - The A-Team, Riptide, Knight Rider - and also made American Ninja 5 and Midnight. You may be forgiven if you think that this resembles a TV movie, as it's relatively bloodless, but it replaces any viscera with more nude flesh than several films - if that's your thing. I mean, you're reading our site so it probably is.

"Rush Week" is an aggressively pointless movie. It's a "slasher" film, but barely qualifies as such. The body count is surprisingly low, and the death scenes shot as though the filmmakers wanted to get them out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible. There is hardly any violence in the movie at all: it all happens off screen.

The movie is set in and around a college, and most of the run time is dedicated to showing the uninvolving antics of two frat houses, one dedicated to respectability, the other the typical party-animal type. Neither ever do anything interesting.

You'd think that a feature length movie would be able to actually manage a character or two. You know, someone you remember for something. Anything. Not in "Rush Week". It has the guy from "Zapped Again", who actually did a pretty good job of carrying that movie. In this one, he isn't given anything to do. Neither is anyone else.

The movie is occasionally enlivened by some pretty impressive topless nudity, so I have to give it that, but you could get the same thrill looking at an old Playboy for a few seconds. Further, Gregg Allman (of the Allman Brothers Band) is in it, in a completely bizarre cameo as a hippy professor.

I'm not sure what the bigger mystery around "Rush Week" is: How did they get Gregg Allman to star in this dreck, or why was it made in the first place?