college and high school and fraternity and sorority have be the most popular stalking ground for maniacal madman since the slasher cycle first become a popular cinema culture throughout the late seventy . even backwoods cabin and campsite have ride shotgun to the amount of massacre that have take place on campus since halloween categorise the genre a a cult horror category . from early entry like to all a good night right up until the big budget schlock of title like urban legend or school out and there usually always be a campus slasher lurk somewhere in the pipeline . despite be pick up by troma the titan of b movie badness splatter university be heavily pan upon release and never really find an audience . even notorious hack and slash website like hysteria life have write off richard haines splatter yarn a one of the bad of the early eighty boom . i always approach criticised movie optimistically because there often the chance than a few bad review can be unfairly contagious like a dose of the flu and which crowd the judgement of certain author . it begin in traditional fashion at the place where any maniac worth his salt emerges . yep you guess it an insane asylum . it seem that one of the inmate have decide that he unhappy with the level of service at the institution and therefore he look to take his business elsewhere . the unseen nut job make his break after stab an unfortunate orderly where the sun certainly doesn not shine . he obviously favour the dress sense of the murder worker and so he take the liberty of borrow his uniform and blood stain trouser and all . three year later and we transfer to st trinians college and an educational establishment that be control by catholic priest . a teacher be busy after hour mark her student work when all of a sudden there a knock at the door . before she have a chance to find out what the unseen visitor want and he stab her in the chest with a kitchen knife and she fall to the floor in a bloody heap . this of course mean that there a vacancy at the university and so be introduce to julie parker ( francine forbes ) and the lovable replacement for the recently depart lecturer . it seem that her arrival have inadvertently give the resident maniac all the motivation that he need to go on a no hold bar slaughter thon . before long student and teacher alike be drop like fly to the camera shy menace a he stalk the corridor and local area arm with an exceptionally large blade . suspicious suspect abound and but can professor parker solve the mystery of the campus murderer before she become just another statistic . i be not precisely sure how many version of this movie be available . the uk alter video be release under the alias of campus killing and but the u copy that i own state that it the complete unedited edition and which could mean that there be a censored print float about somewhere . i would be fairly surprised if that be the case a splatter university certainly isn not a gore delicious a the hyperbole packaging would lead you to believe . one or two litre of corn syrup certainly do not stand up to gore hound scrutiny when compare to the like of blood rage or piece and so in this instance the movie be somewhat over hype . one thing that many critic have fail to mention be the charming lead performance from francine forbes and who end up carry the entire picture on her shoulder throughout the 79 minute run time . despite amateurish direction from richard haines she still unveil some magnificent potential that should have lead to the chance of another stab at serious act under a more accomplished helmer . unfortunately that possibility never come and and bottom of the barrel bomb like death ring and splitz certainly do not help to nurture a talent that could have improve dramatically under the right scholarship . the rest of the cast member be par for the course of movie obscurity and especially the wooden plank teenager who for some strange reason act like they be audition for a remake of grease or the wanderer . the bog standard point and shoot direction couldn not have help to build much confidence in the project and the fact that the few sign of potential be undermine by the clumsy handling of the script writer leave the feature effectively unredeemable . perhaps the only claim of originality to be find in haines slasher be the brave attempt for the contrasting conclusion . let just say that it not a final that i be expect to witness in a movie that be so typical of the cycle . at one point in the runtime and one of the teen say and man that parker bore me to tear well the same can be say for splatter university and which never lift the pace above slow motion . with that say though and francine forbes make for a delectable scream queen and undoubtedly one that i would have pay to watch again in a similar role . so that pretty much sum up this un troma tising ride . slow paced and shoddy but still strangely allure while you would have to be especially forgive to give it a chance .