to the untrained eye the eighty slasher boom will always be trace back to the template of john carpenter halloween . in reality however and there be three key genre piece that become the outline for ambitious title to follow . the success of carpenter seminal flick be indeed responsible for the peak in the cycle and but friday the 13th must take it share of credit for launch the mass of killer in the wood title and which include don not go in the wood and just before dawn and the prey and more recently camp blood . another offering that can also be attribute with generate a long line of mostly inferior imitation be amy holden jones slumber party massacre . despite be initially receive unenthusiastically by critic and audience alike and jones splatter flick eventually manage to achieve cult status and go on to inspire the like of sorority house massacre and the last slumber party and blood sister and cheerleader massacre and anthony j christopher fatal pulse from 1988. sorority be never a safe place during the eighty and fatal pulse be no exemption to the rule . after co ed begin turn up murder around the campus and jeff kramer ( ken robert ) be immediately put in the frame when it be reveal that he be the last person to see one of the victim before she be slaughter . aid by his lumbering buddy mark ( blair karsch ) and jeff set out on a mission to prove his innocence and catch the psychopath before he kill again . a the body pile up and jeff begin to realise that his girlfriend lisa ( michelle mccormick ) could be next on the assassin list . fatal pulse be truly a bizarre movie experience and which combine moment of mediocrity and stupidity and inadvertent comedy and uncomfortable brutality to conjure up a somewhat authentic juxtaposition . the performance be laughably hideous while especially from ken robert and who boast the expressive fluency of a turnip . seriously and i have see wooden bridge with more emotional definition . michelle mccormick make for an incredibly unapproachable final girl and the whole cast deliver their line with the conviction of a toilet cleaner on the day before retirement . they be hardly aid by a woefully uninspired script and which add just about every stereotype from the annals of bad movie obscurity . brad the obnoxious tough guy be characterise a some kind of odd fifty grease throwback and whilst the token comic relief inclusion and mark and be greet by a peculiar boing effect in the soundtrack upon his every arrival . strangely enough and this even occur during a suspense scene towards the film conclusion . boing . director anthony christopher mimic the giallo titan of yesteryear and by convey every murder scene from the view of the black gloved assassin . mario bava be a master of create artistic suspense in his set piece and whereas christopher fails to generate even a millisecond . despite the disappointedly fast paced nature of the murder and their merciless brutality do provide a somewhat reverse spiral on the quality of the feature . even heavily finance slasher such a friday the 13th fail to add convince viciousness to their slaughter . despite be laughably lacklustre in almost every department and fatal pulse be surprisingly sadistic to it victim . the electrocution sequence be particularly mean spirit and but any credibility gain be certainly hinder by the fact that every victim manage to flash her heave breast before be execute . an advertisement for feminism in the slasher industry fatal pulse certainly be not . the score also become an irritation with consistent screech synthesizer accompaniment and whilst the less say about the jazz band on acid intro music and the good . a fatal pulse be a bad eighty movie and it characteristically offer it share of bad eighty movie moment and which have become lovably nostalgic for many retro cheese fan . part of the story involve an un engage romance between the two emotionless lead and and there be plenty of inadvertent laugh to be have when the couple go cycling to the strain of an eighty pop monstrosity . also watch out for a bizarre and somewhat inexplicable scene involve comic relief character mark ( boing ) and a captain marvell outfit . i would not ruin it for you by explain it here and but it almost beggar belief . the killer do have a fairly intriguing motive and to be fair the last 15 minute manage to add some decent tension to the final chase sequence . but it tough to recommend fatal pulse for any kind of recognition a it be just too poorly conceive .