Murder University

One of the best yet . I am a abet horror movie fan, but this one was extra special. I know the locations and being a Resident of Exeter I was was impressed by the use of our towns rescue. Lenny you did a great job, and I told your mother so.The use of RIO as the back drop was great. Kenny is one of the best screen writers I have had the pleasure of see his work,I hope his career goes on, and into higher places. All horror buffs should see the film, it is the type that makes one want to see more works of this caliber. Murder university is a must see. It is hard to write ten lines about the film, but all in all every part of it keeps you wanting more. I hope that the writer and cast will work together on many more in that they all make as great must see picture. So keep looking and making these films .

Its not often in life when you can bring a group of 8 people aged 22 to 56 to a movie who all leave a theatre loving it. But it happened opening night for the amazingly strong film MURDER UNIVERSITY. Captivating from start to finish the film blew out any expectations based on its modest budget from the minute it started. From the gripping intro to the opening credits city shot, to the soundtrack which leaves you wanting to hear the "Murder U" song when you left. The viewer was clearly transported into the world of the director Richard Griffin and writer Lenny Scwartz and the masterpiece they created. This movie cleverly combines horror, surprisingly great special effects, wit, humor and amazing performance by leads Jamie Dufault and Samantha Acampora, Michael Thurber and the rest of the cast. I was totally impressed by the writing of Lennie Schwartz. The film not only had depth and imagination but rolled along at a great pace to an incredibly strong and unexpected closing sequence which was one of the best scenes (with a little added special film effect) that I have seen in horror in years. Will see this film again!!!!

In the 80s, 4 kids go to an empty college building. They start talking about murders that took place there. Suddenly they start getting killed. The surprise killer is revealed. But then someone knocks on the door. It's another masked killed who ends up killing everyone.

Some months later a smart but socially awkward kid start college there. He's bullied by some jerks and befriends his roommate. But then the killings on campus and off campus start. At some point the kid is about to fall victim to the killers but instead they only injure him. That draws the attention of a detective who has been tracing killings on campus for years. He thinks all these deaths over the years are connected and he even suspects the kid's involved. Instead the kid offers to help in the investigation since no one else believes the cop. For some reason the cop offers up his daughter to help the kid get more involved in the college scene and investigate on their own. Soon enough they are again in the middle of he killings.

Eventually we learn who the killers are and why they kill, as well as why they let the kid live. It has to do with his father. He was on campus as well decades ago. There are some surprises as well.

There's a lot to like in Murder University. Despite the low budget, it's relatively well done. There's a good story here. It's confidently directed. It's not shy about nudity. For some reason all the killings involve cool decapitations. The acting by the main star and the main villain is very good.

On the other hand, the production also overreached. With a low budget you can't do everything you envisioned well. The 80s theme, while a tribute to 80s slashers, doesn't work, neither does the awful synth pop music. Unfortunately all horror is supposed to happen at night by some law I guess, but when you don't have adequate equipment it's not recommended. There's too much darkness here. Acting by everyone else but the two actors mentioned above isn't convincing. I suspect that most of these people are horror fan-volunteers so it's understandable. The final 30 minutes, when things usually pick up in horror movies, are completely dull here. Even though things are revealed, most of the time is taken up by long speeches instead of action.

Overall, this is a good very good effort by a talented crew but it doesn't satisfy.

Got the chance to see this on the big screen. Laugh out loud funny moments, "ew"-out-loud blood-and-gore with some interesting twists and turns. Every horror movie has to have boobs, memorable one-liners, and some shocking-scary moments. Murder University delivers on the expectations. The acting is just a plus. Jamie Dufault is easy to like as Josh, just a normal guy on campus. Even the featured characters who don't have much screen time are memorable. If you're a fan of the B-movie horror genre, this film will not disappoint you. the body count and laugh count will satisfy a fan of 80's style horror flicks. It brings me back to my childhood when I used to watch horror movies with my dad without my mom's permission. The nudity, the slashing and the blood...All stuff I wasn't supposed to see but couldn't stop watching.

It's 1983, and at Greensboro University, students are turning up all over campus with their heads chopped off. Freshman Josh Greene (Jamie Dufault) and cop's daughter Meg (Samantha Acampora) endeavour to solve the mystery behind the grisly slayings, uncovering a Satanic death cult that has been at work within the confines of the college for decades.

Murder University, from indie horror director Richard Griffin, is an homage to the cheesier teen slashers of the 1980s—those that featured dumb characters, diabolical dialogue, dreadful rock music, and painful comedy along with the expected gore and nudity. If you've seen such lame examples as Cutting Class, Doom Asylum or Slaughter High, you'll get the idea.

Quite why anyone would want to make a movie that imitates some of the weakest examples of the genre, I'm not really sure, but to his credit Griffin gets many of the ingredients spot on—the characters are incredibly irritating, the plot is suitably preposterous, and the gore is largely unconvincing and repetitive (mostly be-headings by axe). Griffin also meets his quota of gratuitous T&A, but with some of the least appealing women to ever grace a stalk 'n' slash movie, many of whom are clearly no stranger to the biscuit tin, this does little to improve matters.

I rate Murder University a disappointing 3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for one very unexpected death (always a nice touch) and that OTT kill where the guy has the top of his head lopped off, his brains spilling out of his skull like a runny yolk from a boiled egg.