Monday, July 25, 2011

Splatter University (1984)

When Julie Parker is hired to teach, Father Jansen tells her that there was a murder in her classroom and she is replacing the victim. Julie is unnerved, but accepts the job as she can't afford to refuse it.

Her students are unresponsive and uninterested in her lectures. She befriends a female teacher and starts dating Mark, another teacher at the school.

Soon the killer is on the loose again and Mark is a suspect as he dated the previous victim. When Julie asks him about her, he says he barely knew her. Suspicious.

I don't like when films start with a story, then via a caption on screen we are alerted that it is years later. This one is bizarre in that after the first scene where a dangerous patient escapes from the psycho ward, there are three captions in short succession. The captions are:
  1. "Three years later - St. Tristans University" (after the psycho escapes)
  2. "Next Semester, Yesterday" - Huh? (after the teacher is killed)
  3. "Three Weeks Later" (after the new teacher is hired)
That's just weird. Another movie with a twist ending that you may or may not see coming.

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