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What a beautiful movie!

Charming and brutal

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

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.

In a Halloween night, five students participates of a scavenger hunt trying to join the sorority Sigma Si and Delta Pi. They are divided in two groups, and one of them has to steal an ancient book of magic from their weird Professor Kapps (Brad Dourif). Doug Leary (Phillip Andrew) and Marsha Glazer (Tiffany Shepis) break in the professor's house while he is performing a satanic ritual with a student he has just sacrificed, and Kapps attack the students, but accidentally is impaled by a spear. Marsha and Doug leaves the house and brings his staff and his book of incantation to destroy the evidences and drive to an abandoned house, where the two groups have to stay until the next morning. Meanwhile, two seniors students from the frat house have prepared pranks in the house to scare the sorority pledges. But the evil spirit of Professor Kapps possesses Doug, slashing the group of students that have to fight to survive."The Hazing" was a good surprise. I was expecting a bad horror movie, but actually it is good and funny, and entertains. Even the gore scenes are hilarious, and in spite of not having exceptional performances, the cast is nice. There are many beautiful women naked, gore, and lots of humor, following the pattern of 1986 "House", "Vamp", "Frankenhooker", "Idle Hands", "Evil Dead" and many other flicks. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Jovens Amaldiçoados" ("Cursed Youngsters")

I was utterly taken aback by how much I enjoyed this movie. My friends and I didn't go in expecting very much, but instead found a couple of nice twists and good laughs.The plot, such as it was, was pretty inconsequential. The set-up, that this is a sorority/fraternity hazing is pretty lame and calls to mind the utterly retarded "Death Tunnel." Add in the crazy murderous professor, and it looks like another journey into "Sisterhood" territory.However, as soon as the movie gets past this thin set-up, it demonstrates a fondness for its characters and a genuine desire to be funny. It doesn't hurt that the performances are top notch, and that the women are absolutely gorgeous.The movie plays by the rules-- you still know who is going to die and when. But this movie still manages to make it entertaining to watch, and in the age of low budget digital video trash fests that take themselves seriously, this puts "The Hazing" head and shoulders above the competition.Sequel, please.

When I first saw this movie I really didn't expect much, just another cheesy low budget gore movie that sucked, though those are the movies I love most. But this film was actually above average and an homage to old 80's horror flicks like THE EVIL DEAD, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, and many more. It also has some great comedy, the "demon" makes some pretty funny jokes, and the characters are also interesting. The acting is also good, with Brad Dourif (Child's Play) and Tiffany Shepis (Tromeo And Juliet, Citizen Toxie, Scarecrow). Also has some nice nudity, and creative gore, including an excellent scene involving a tongue and sex. If you are a fan of 80's movies of demonic possession, and gore movies, check this out, it is a very pleasant surprise and one of the better new movies I have seen. Just watch for a good time.