Splatter University (1984)

User Rating:

2.2/10   

Director:

Richard W. Haines

Writers:

Michael Cunningham (story)
Richard W. Haines (story)

Release Date:

13 July 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

Where the school colors are blood red!

Plot:

A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then a University professor after he makes his way to the local college...

Plot Keywords:

College | University | Student | Drive In | Slasher

Cast

Forbes Riley	...	Julie Parker (as Francine Forbes)
Ric Randig	...	Mark Hammond
Dick Biel	...	Father Janson / Daniel Grayham
Kathy LaCommare	...	Cathy Hunter (as Kathy Lacommare)
Laura Gold	...	Cynthia
Ken Gerson	...	Tom Scavelli
Sal Lumetta	...	Wolf
Clifford Warren	...	Classroom Wise Guy
Noel Stilphen	...	Margaret
Mary Ellen David	...	Mrs. Bloom
Jane Doniger Reibel	...	Mrs. Huner
Dan Eaton	...	Father Williams
John Elias Michalakis	...	John (as John Michaels)
George Seminara	...	Tony
Joanna Mihalakis	...	Doreen

Also Known As:

Campus Killings (UK) (cut version)

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | USA:R | West Germany:(Banned)

Company:

Aquifilm

Goofs:

Continuity: The graffiti the teacher writes on the bathroom stall was already there in a previous shot.

Quotes:

Super: The other tenants have been complaining about the front door being left open. I don't really blame them, with all the kooks running around killing people they don't even know. You know it seems to me if you are going to kill someone you at least know them real well

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Scream 2 (1997)

if only the director had gone to Splatter University!

Really, really bad slasher movie. A psychotic person escapes from an asylum. Three years later he kills a sociology professor, end of scene. One semester yesterday later (hey, that's what the title card said) a new sociology professor is at the school. She makes friends with another female sociology professor who works there, and starts dating another professor. The students are all bored, as are we.

There are a number of title cards indicating how much time has passed. Scenes are pretty short, and cut to different characters somewhere else, making for little progression of any kind. A lot of scenes involve characters walking and talking, or sitting and talking, and serve little purpose. Despite the passage of time, many of the characters are always wearing the same clothing. Sometimes the unclear passage of time means when we see a body for the second time, we ask ourselves: how long has that body been there? And also, at least one of the dead people don't seem to have been missed by others.

The killer manages to kill one person by stabbing her in the breast, another by stabbing him in the crotch, and another by slicing her forehead. Is his knife poisoned or something?

The video box cover has a cheerleader: there aren't any in the movie. The rear cover has a photo of someone in a graduation cap and gown menacing a group of women in a dorm room. The central redhead in the photo is in the movie, but nobody ever wears such an outfit, and there is no such scene. The killer is strictly one-on-one.