Rush Week

Rush Week is a 1989 American slasher film directed by Bob Bralver and starring Pamela Ludwig, Dean Hamilton, and Roy Thinnes.[3] Its plot follows a sorority coed investigating a series of underreported missing persons cases on her college campus.

Not to be confused with rush week.
1991 video poster
Directed byBob Bralver
Produced byMichael W. Leighton
Written by
  • Russell V. Manzatt
  • Michael W. Leighton
Starring
Music byJoel and Mariel Hamilton
CinematographyJeff Mart
Edited by
  • Jeffrey Reiner
  • Ned Truslow
Production
company
Noble Entertainment[1]
Distributed by
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Cast
  • Pamela Ludwig as Toni Daniels
  • Dean Hamilton as Jeff Jacobs
  • Roy Thinnes as Dean Grail
  • Donald Grant as Byron Rogers
  • Courtney Gebhart as Jonelle Watson
  • John Donovan as Arnold Krangen
  • David Denney as Greg Ochs
  • Todd Eric Andrews as Harvan
  • Laura Burkett as Rebecca Winters
  • Jay Pickett as Parker
  • Edward Rayden as Ichabod
  • Mark Clayman as Gordo
  • Toni Lee as Alma
  • Kathleen Kinmont as Julie Anne McGuffin
  • Heidi Holicker as Sarah
  • Gregg Allman as Cosmo Kincald

Release

Rush Week was released on home video in 1991 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment.[2]

Critical response

A review in the Variety television and film guide called Rush Week a "slasher film long on pretty girls and short on gore. It's a belated direct-to-vid release. Durable if cornball format has coeds being killed on a college campus during the frats' annual rush week ceremonies... Bralver seems more intent on satisfying voyeurs."[2]

Michael Weldon in The Psychotronic Video Guide (1996) called the film "another stupid, boring teen/horror movie."[4] In his book Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies (2004), film historian Jim Harper noted: "Although running several years too late to catch the slasher craze, Rush Week is a fairly honorable attempt to rehash the past."[5]

References
  1. Singer 2001, p. 59.
  2. Variety Staff. "Rush Week". Variety Television Reviews 1991–1992. n.p.: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-824-03796-3 – via Google Books.
  3. "Rush Week (1988)". British Film Institute. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  4. Weldon 1996, p. 477.
  5. Harper 2004, p. 147.

Works cited
  • Harper, Jim (2004). Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies. United Kingdom: Critical Vision. ISBN 978-1-900-48639-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Singer, Michael (2001). Film Directors. Lone Eagle Pub. ISBN 978-1-580-65030-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Weldon, Michael (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-13149-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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