Good start, but then it gets ruined

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An unexpected nice little surprise, this one. "Corpses" (2004) was the only movie I previously saw from director Rolfe Kanefsky. Even though it was a real low-budget horror-spoof, not so good on many levels, I still got a nice kick out of it. To my surprise "The Hazing" not only looks a lot better, but it's actually about three times better as a movie on all levels! Just mix together "Evil Dead" and the "Night Of The Demons" trilogy with a bit of sorority shenanigans, and you pretty much get "The Hazing". Less original than those movies perhaps, but still a fresh & spirited companion piece and one can certainly have as much fun with it. Oh, and for those who didn't know already, Tiffany Shepis really packs two extremely hot natural goodies. "The Hazing" is plain fun low budget horror entertainment. A bit of a party flick, really. The right stuff to warm & loosen up your audience on a movie night before proceeding to more serious stuff.

It should tell you something about this movie that one of the characters holds up an autographed photo of Bruce Campbell. It lets you know that if you end up not liking the movie you took it too seriously, because the filmmakers are just trying to have some fun. It's supposed to be over the top and full of irony.Well, just because a director lets us know he is winking at us doesn't mean he gets a free pass. Luckily, The Hazing ends up being more watchable than not. I had to skip forward through some of the predictable, tedious parts, but I got the gist.Three guys and two girls are pledging for a fraternity and a sorority (only five kids for a joint pledge? Maybe it's a mid-start semester?). The guy running the fraternity has to be the least convincing alpha-male since Leave It To Beaver went off the air. The pledges have to spend the night in a haunted house, which the frat boy rigged with gags to make them jump. If a fake skeleton popping up out of a trunk is enough to get you to run out of a house, you might be a member of the Brady Bunch.During the initiation, one of the pledges broke into the house of a professor to steal a spell book. The professor is accidentally wounded on a rhino horn, I guess, and goes into a coma which allows him to project himself onto the astral plane and convince one of the frat pledges to open the gateway to hell. Then he possess them one at a time and ruins the evening for everyone. After a couple characters die, the prof is sent back to hell and the gateway is closed.This movie was entertaining enough to keep me watching to end (as long as I was able to skip ahead, as I mentioned). It wasn't actually funny or well written, but it looked good enough. The most disturbing thing about it was that the evil professor did kind of look like someone who might end up on an episode of 20/20 for having a torture dungeon in his basement. It isn't as clever as the movies it wants to be like (Scream, Evil Dead), but I guess not many are. Seek it out if it is your goal to see every movie in which an evil spirit jumps from body to body.

I've enjoyed Rolfe Kanefsky's work in the past. Generally he takes what little he's given, and has always come through with an entertaining end product that delivers the goods. This I believe is his most expensive film to date, and features two of my favorites Tiffany Shepis and Horror Icon Brad Dourif. Dourif is excellent as the scenery chewing villain and Tiffany is hilarious in what is arguably her best role yet. The cgi might seem a tad cheesy in a couple parts, but it really just adds to the charm of the film. Everything you could want in a tongue in cheek horror party film is here including the blood and babes', and a nude scene by Tiffany. Watch for a hilarious scene when Tiffany gets possessed by Dourif's character. If you enjoy this film other fun horror/ comedy films you might enjoy are Soulkeeper, Shock-O-Rama, and Rolfe's other genre films.

I found "The Hazing" to be an enjoyable film, and I really appreciated the director's subtle references to the Evil Dead series- an arrow being shot at a Bruce Campbell poster, for example. The director really seemed to have a sense of humor about the whole thing, and it just wouldn't be an A- film without the inclusion of Jeff Fahey, Brad Douriff or Malcolm McDowell. Douriff did a good enough job, as the psychotic professor. It also reminded me of "Demon Knight" in some parts- where the demon talks people into their own deaths. Really enjoyable, but I don't know how "scary" it really was. The leads were good and I really liked the "blonde bimbo" change. Very cool!