Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The story here is simple enough: on a college campus, coeds find their good-hearted fun, in the form of a scavenger hunt, hampered by the activities of a brutal killer who has murdered the basketball team's mascot, appropriated his goofy bear costume, and is using it to escape detection while slaughtering the participants. To add to that, there's a melodramatic sub plot about the killing of campus security head Jim MacVey's (Hal Holbrook) daughter once upon a time, which is going to prove to be important to the story later. Name actor Holbrook is clearly slumming here, and looks rather weary; his appearance certainly must have something to do with the fact that his son David is also in the movie playing the pivotal role of Mike Prior, a volatile athlete. But it is great novelty to see him here, and it's a treat to see the other adult actors, lovely Rutanya Alda as Barney (!), and her husband Richard Bright as the detective who shows up on the scene. Other familiar faces include some slasher alumni: Lauren-Marie Taylor ("Friday the 13th Part 2") and Carrick Glenn ("The Burning"), and of course ravishing lead Julia Montgomery was Betty Childs in "Revenge of the Nerds". The problem that this viewer has with this movie is that it gets a little tiresome after a while. Yes, it does have some things going for it: the addition of a scavenger hunt helps to create a somewhat playful approach, as well as the bear costume (it is a hoot to see a slasher villain wearing something like this), the soundtrack features golden oldies like "Summer in the City" and "Do You Believe in Magic", and the killer's weapon of choice automatically calls to mind the glove made famous by Freddy in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" two years later. There is some atmosphere and suspense and a little bit of gore. However, in order to get to this movie's good stuff, one has to sit through a lot of dopey comedy & tomfoolery, and emphasis on character relationships before the pacing picks up at all. The beginning is pretty good, but the ending, once our psycho's identity is revealed, is fairly abrupt and not altogether satisfying. At least the calls that this person places to both campus DJ Kaiser (Larry Mintz) and MacVey are good for major amusement. Underwhelming overall, but does have its moments here and there. Five out of 10.

Got this movie on a three pack of films called bloody schoolgirls which also featured One Dark Night and Blood Sisters. The only one of them that was good was One Dark Night, both Blood Sisters and this one were boring and almost unwatchable. This one sort of goes all over the place, the basic thing to know is some dudes have just won a basketball game and a there is a bunch of girls dumping some guys for other guys and guys cheating on their girlfriends, you have idiots for comic relief and there is an awesome scavenger hunt! The killer should have simply put a nuclear device in the middle of the campus, detonated it and they could have spared us from having to watch all these random scenes and very underdeveloped characters. Seriously, it was so hard to watch this film simply because the characters were so bland and I had a hard time telling people apart. I thought when the two dumb dudes came into the party one leading one by the chain that they were the two idiots that were introduced in a previous scene acting kind of different. Then everyone is cheating and you start to wonder who are they cheating on, is not that the guy's girlfriend, no wait that is the girl he was hitting on at the party. In all this confusing mess we have a killer in a bear suit killing the students, mainly the female ones. You also have guy who is very angry at being dumped that he says things that if this were real life and not a movie would mean that more than likely he should have been the killer, but this is a movie so his scene automatically disqualified him as the killer. No, in films like these it is always the least likely suspect and when we learn of the killer here we know they have to have ties to the person who hung himself at the start of the film. The film does feature Hal Holbrook, who looks very disinterested in the whole affair and we have the most anticlimactic showdown ever in a film of this sort at the end as the film kind of whimpers and scurries away.

I had this one sitting on my to-watch pile, but every time I grabbed it. I ended up putting it back favouring something else. Finally I gotta round to watching it last night and ended up thinking while amusingly odd, it didn't really rock my boat and its focus on college melodramatics really made sure the stalk-n-slash elements took a back seat. It really does take quite awhile before it eventually kicks into gear… but in a way it's short-lived. While it wasn't terrible, it didn't deliver the goods… well just not enough of it. A killer murders the college mascot and steals the bear costume as they go about murdering the girls who are taking part in an all-night scavenger hunt held by the campus radio-station. Campus security officer Mac begins to get the feeling something isn't quite right, especially when he gets a strange phone call from someone who claims to be the guy who killed his daughter on these grounds many years ago. Rather a copy-and-paste low-budget 80s Canadian campus slasher outing, that typically sets up its red herrings, harbouring motivations, teenage shenanigans and the likable heroine/s. Although not that distinguishable the performances are believably natural by its young cast, especially the buoyant Julia Montgomery and James Carroll. Adding some class is Hal Halbrook as security officer Mac, but he did look rather weary by his turn. A lot of time is spent with the characters being teenagers, as the thin narrative aimlessly moves around before going on to set-up its vicious shock moments. There's a raw and seedy side to it, but at the same time it can be strangely goofy with its playfulness. From the soap opera dramas, to the homicidal killer bear spouting out sadistic hatred towards women and then the police interrogation sequences. The novelty of the killer in the bear costume is the most original aspect, as it goes on their own little scavenger hunt using its claws which are made of blades to cuddle then hack-up their victim. Then calling the radio station providing its own cryptic clues. As for the revelation to who's behind it, well that comes from left field in a rather unfocused manner and its final freeze frame shot is twisted. Even the campus setting is a perfect place for the carnage to occur, but it's the moodily unhinged music score that sets up its fairly uncanny presence. Solid handling, but slow and silly."You almost scared the hell out of me".

This film is an odd little piece of horror history. It stars Hal Holbrook (Creepshow), Rutanya Alda (Mommie Dearest)and Julia Montgomery (Revenge of the Nerds) and features a murderer wearing a dancing bear costume. The murder sequences are goofy but then again so is the entire film. Like a train wreck, you will not be able to take your eyes off of it and the bizarre musical score and odd sense of humor make this a fun little horror gem to have around the house. The film centers around a series of murders taking place on a college campus during their annual "scavenger hunt"...and just when you think you know who the murderer is, the film springs the classic horror movie "surprise" twist ending on you that makes you scratch your head and say "Huh?" This is an excellent "party" film since you really don't have to pay all that much attention to it. Recommended for fans of the "slasher film" genre.