Frat House Massacre - Horror Spot DVD Review

Frat House Massacre - Horror Spot DVD Review

By Jose

Plot:

Set in the late 70s, this gritty and twisted film taps the physical and mental underpinnings of the meaning of the word "brother" in a way reminiscent of the best of late 70s grindhouse and early 80s slashers.

Cast:

Rane Jameson (Bobby), Chris Prangley (Sean), Jon Fleming (Mark), Niki Rubin (Diana), Ryan Ross (Drater), Lisa DiCicco (Erica), Adam Simon (Moose), Andrew Giordano (Tim), Bethany Taylor (Wendy), Michael Galante (Michael)

Review:

I like cheesy horror. I also like seeing old horror movies from the 80’s and 70’s. Hell we got some great and iconic movies and characters from those films. But many of them were cheesy and low budget. Still enjoyable and fun though. And that is what is key. Are they enjoyable and fun. With that said, Frat House Massacre was entertaining to me.


A movie from 2008 made to feel like a grindhouse - slasher film from the 70’s and 80’s. With success. I felt like I threw on some long lost movie from that time period. It had gore, blood, good looking victims, cheesy dialogue, nudity, etc. Everything you would expect from a horror movie
from back in the day.

So we start out with Sean coming back home for a break from college to visit his step mother and just graduated little brother Bobby. Bobby wants nothing to do with him and heads out with some friends. Later on that night the stepmother tells Sean that there was an accident and Bobby was hurt. Weeks later we see that Bobby is in a coma and Sean is second guessing heading back to college. He goes back but it seems things have changed in his frat house. We see a frat pledge abduction and then soon see a frat initiation. A rather brutal one at that too. Poor guy stripped almost naked and tied up and paddled violently. He is deemed a brother by president of Delta Iota Epsilon Mark. Everyone except Mark, Drater, Tim, and Moose stay behind. The pledge is untied and we see how brutal the frat can be. Mark forces the guy to slice his wrist and then has his neck sliced open.


Later on Sean is second guessing his frat position and soon finds himself being hazed by his own frat brothers. They end up killing him. But not really, you see it seems his spirit woke up his brother Bobby and seems to have given him a second life.


The following year Bobby is off to the same college as his brother Sean, who everyone thinks is missing. He vows to get revenge and eventually ends up joining the same fraternity. After more brutal and violent hazing from the fraternity group, more killings and plenty of drug use, Booby reveals that he is really Sean. Or at least the spirit of Sean who took over his brothers body.
Also someone is targeting the frat brothers one by one. Killing them off and causing suspicion and paranoia within the killer frat. We also find out that Bobby’s roommate and brother to Mark, was responsible for the car crash that killed Bobby’s friends and put him in a coma. At the end of the movie, the big disco party, the massacre takes place. Blood left and right, gore here and there, some beatings thrown in, and a bit of torture, and a couple of twists too. Seems that Bobby had some help in Diana, who also wanted revenge on the frat. She helped Bobby to kill off the frat brothers. Then she turns around and kills Bobby. Since he is really Sean and he was once part of the fraternity. Interesting that all this time we were watching Sean/Bobby be the main character when all along it was Diana.


The actors all did really well playing the part of college age kids from the 70’s, all were pretty believable. And cheesy too haha. You are not going to get Oscar caliber acting here. Nudity. Yes a horror movie that gives us nudity finally. Even if it was a little bit it was most welcome. I am not trying to sound perverted or anything but nudity was a big part of horror in the 80’s and 70’s. Mainly because you knew that the horny teens or college kids were always the first to die, while the virgins lived. So you get naked you ended up dead. We get some titties and even a vag shot. Oh and surprise we get some guy ass too. Even some hints of balls and hand covering cock shots. Barley covering too. I saw some shaft you dirty boys haha. Now one thing that was delivered en masse was gore. We got plenty of blood and kills. Plenty of stabs and cuts. Blood splatters and even some pigs eating humans. Glass in the eye to neck stabs. Even car splitting death. Guts hanging out and some chemical burns.

Final Thoughts:

Frat House Massacre is not a great movie. But is it enjoyable and fun. That is exactly what I want to see in a movie. I want to be entertained and I want to have fun. Be it action, thriller, drama, horror, or otherwise. When the credits rolls I want to put the DVD away without throwing it against the wall or walking out the theater wanting to punch someone or myself. Frat House Massacre did what it was meant to. Be a decent homage to the classic movies while adding in some new things here and there. It also reminded me that horror movies need to get their shit together and return to their roots. Give me nudity and not just from the girls either, I want to see man ass and dick as much as I want to see girl tits and pussy. Give something for guys and for girls to see too. Stop being sexist. Give me gore and blood and crazy deaths and not so crazy deaths. There is nothing wrong with a kitchen knife stabbing or an axe or machete or a chainsaw.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

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