A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.
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George E. Mather | ... | Lewis B. Moffitt (as George Mather) |
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Austin Green | ... | Carl |
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Esther Furst | ... | Betty Crawford |
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Norman Ollestad | ... | Lew's Roommate |
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Lomax Study | ... | Professor Rayburn |
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Pamela Raymond | ... | Alice Lund |
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Jerry Zinnamon | ... | (as Jerry Zin) |
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Joseph Conway | ... | R.J. Dobson |
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June Smaney | ... | Rag Doll Milford |
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Med student Lewis Moffitt harbours a secret fear of the dark stemming from a traumatic childhood incident involving a corpse. Nonetheless, he pretends to be unaffected during the first autopsy witnessed by his class, and generally affects an attitude of fearlessness. This, however, inspires his would-be frat brothers to conceive a particularly morbid initiation ritual -- one which will, inevitably, go horribly awry. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
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psychotronic film | medical student | initiation | autopsy | fear of the dark |Certificate:
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Country:
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February 1962 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Кольцо террора See more »Company Credits
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R.J. Dobson: Good evening friends. Let me invite you for a stroll down graveyard lane, where beauty and love abide. And in death, we are born into eternal life.
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This movie was parodied in season 2 episode 6 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. See more »Goofs
When Lewis has a bad dream, he awakes to see his roommate standing over the bed. As he discusses his dream, his pajama top repeatedly opens and closes as the camera angle changes. See more »Quotes
[first lines]R.J. Dobson: Good evening friends. Let me invite you for a stroll down graveyard lane, where beauty and love abide. And in death, we are born into eternal life.
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I'm going to give this three stars just because it is a rare chance to see what has completely disappeared from this earth - the B film made by the small independent making largely drive-in fare with players so anonymous that you wonder why they bothered giving them names in the film different from their actual names. Actually, I think the credits didn't bother after all.
The borrowing from Ed Wood I speak of is an intro - that really drags by the way to the tune of five minutes- and and outro given by a mortuary custodian who recites some stream of consciousness dialogue accompanied by him searching for his cat among the headstones - it reminded me of Criswell in Plan Nine From Outer Space. The custodian finds the cat near the headstone of Lewis Moffett, who died at age 22 according to the engraving. Then starts the flashback of what led to Lewis' demise.
Lewis was a medical student who showed no fear, even when fear would be a reasonable reaction. His fellow students take notice, and the medical student fraternity to which he is pledging (medical student fraternity???) comes up with a hazing device that is sure to reveal if Lewis is just faking it or really is fearless.
The medical students are not just old - but so mixed in age you'd think someone would notice. They seem to range from 20 to 40 years of age. Their girlfriends are always nagging them about their studies getting in the way of their fun, and there is a very long and lame section about a frat party, a beauty contest, the world's ugliest cupid (in diapers), and tons of footage of overweight students overeating. There is an autopsy, oddly performed at night, where apparently the morgue stripped the John Doe corpse naked but left his gold ring on his finger! I thought the black and white cinematography, score, and atmosphere were quite good and set the right mood for a horror film. What the filmed lacked was a decent script with good dialogue, pacing, and acting. The most natural performance was turned in by Puma, the mortuary director's cat. Watch out for that cat, by the way, he actually plays a relevant part in the plot.