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Sometimes you have to debate whether it's really worth it writing a review of a very bad movie - given that you wasted an extraordinary amount of your valuable time already, watching and tentatively investing in a movie... Yet here I am.

Without ever really seeing the "demon"... without even giving us some semblance of an underlying "lore"... and without any kind of "reveal" of anything at the end, this is a glossy insult to everyone's intelligence.

Influencers become possessed for no good reason. There is some suggestion of child abuse?? There is no obvious linkage of what happened in the first five minutes to the motivations of the demon. Revenge? What did these influencers do to you?

Sometimes you sit through a slow boring tedious no-action senseless-killing movie to see whether the movie can at all be salvaged by the reveal or payoff at the end while you keep checking the "time remaining". Such was the case here. Nothing resolved. The "backstory" of the room was simply implied from about 2 sentences. That's it.

I would tell you "don't waste your time" with this movie...but if you're reading this, I suspect, like me, you've already seen the movie and want some validation from our community that this was in fact a piece of trash.

Mark Rosman makes his directorial debut in this much better than expected 80's teen slasher movie. Rosman served as an assistant director for Brian DePalma's Home Movies in 1980. DePalma's Blow Out was released the following year in 1981. And this film was released the following year in 1982.

The film, as has been noted by many film scholars, has the look and feel of DePalma's films of that era - as well as many of the Italian slasher movies that era.

And if you think this was some low-budget slop, think again. The movie boasts a score by The London Philharmonic Orchestra - and it added greatly to the film's appeal. They don't perform for just "any" movie.

Considered "derivative" in our current era, the film emerged at a time when horror franchises were just taking form and plot points were still relatively fresh. Despite the fact that the film borrows a central plot point from Les Diaboliques, the film leaves you guessing throughout the movie. I will admit, though, that the movie, by today's standards, ended seemingly incomplete.

Without any gratuitous sex or gore to speak of, the film effectively delivers equal amounts of suspense and brief gore violence.

Already on several "best of" lists of all time, the film is arguably one of the best if not THE best sorority murder genre movie of all time.