The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse

Also titled "The Campus Corpse" This is a twisted ending flick that weaves you through one great frustration to the next as these current "college students" don't seem to have a reasonable brain between them. As some one once said "All's well that ends well!"

In the mean time you may wonder if the authorities would notice multiple snow shoe tracks leading from a road to a body that died naturally on the trail. I absolutely love these movies and appreciate a little ineptness here and there.

I'm glad the folks at IMDb were able to decipher what genre this film falls into. I had a suspicion it was trying to be a comedy, but since it also seems to want to be a dark and solemn melodrama I wasn't sure. For a comedy it is amazingly bereft of even the slightest venture into the realms of humour - right up until the ridiculous "twist" ending, which confirms what an utter waste of time the whole movie actually is. It is hard to describe just how amateurish THE HAZING really is. Did anyone involved in this film have any idea at all what they were supposed to be doing? Actually worth watching so that you can stare at the screen in slack-jawed disbelief at how terrible it is.

I thought this movie was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it a lot. In fact I thought it was one of the best movies I ever saw. My advice is to watch this movie and decide for yourself. I doubt the first reviewer who put this movie down got the point of the movie. It's kind of a two level dialogs. It can be looked at in different ways. Maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much. Also it reminded me of myself when I was young. In fact I thought it was very realistic, on one level, but on another level it was totally absurd. It's not the kind of movie you see everyday. So keep an open mind. This movie is different. It kept me in suspense the whole time, and when it was over, I felt fulfilled. Isn't that what we go to a movie for? Keep in mind that I was young (in my early twenties) when I saw this movie. I'm 43 now, I think perhaps it's a young person's movie. But I think I'd still enjoy it. But if I was about 18 years old I think maybe I'd enjoy it more.

I am a fan of going back and watching older movies. This title appeared in my video store under the HORROR section. To my disappointment it is not a horror movie at all and far from being a comedy, which is the category IMDB gives to this movie. I suggest not even wasting an hour on watching this movie.

Although the movie takes place at an "Ivy League" college, it was in fact shot entirely in Northern Arizona, mostly at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in the fall of 1976. I was involved in the theater department there, and most of the extras in the film are then-members of the theater department.

There is an absolutely ludicrous scene in this film (if you know your Arizona geography) that shows several cast members riding bikes from the college to a creek. We NAU'ers know that the campus and said creek (Actually Oak Creek Canyon) are about 35 miles apart, and while the trip there is all downhill, it would be literally IMPOSSIBLE to ride a bike back UP that same road!