Terror at Baxter U

USA 2003
produced by
Jeff Burton, Bill Vincent for IndieHorror.com, BV Productions
directed by Jeff Burton
starring Bill Vincent, Ryan Gaffke, Kimmi Voight, Erik F.Hill, Katrina Novak, Janet Lockwood, Krista Akmon, Rick Kunzi, Rob Blankenhorn, Tom Ultz, Amy VandenBerghe, Johanna Lixey, Phillip Van Wagoner, Suzanne DiBiazio, Josh Dasen, Matt Bertram, Greg Teachout, Paul Larry, Steve Rachman, Kirk Easterbrook, Mark Koonter, Gregory Baker, Derek Johnson, Jerry Pruitt, Brian Kopinski, Chris Sample
written by Bill Vincent, music by Jeff Burton, special effects by Jeff Burton, Josh Dasen, Tom Ultz

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Several murders happen at Baxter U and the victims all seem to be students of Professor Moxley's (Bill Vincent) anthropology class. For police detective Klinger (Rob Blankenhorn) it's soon clear that Jason (Ryan Gaffke) is the culprit, just because his father was suspected of (but never convicted for) a killing some 25 years back - and that's even thoughJason has an alibi and no motive.

When the student count of Moxey's class is down to five, they - Jason, Jill (Kimmi Voight), Chet (Erik F.Hill), Alice (Katrina Novak) and the asshole of the group Marty (Rick Kunzi) - decide to team up with their professor and take investigatins nto their own hands ... and they soon find a culprit too, the Chupacabra, seemingly summoned by professor Dregstone (Janet Lockwood), Moxey's main adversary on the campus. But going against Dregstone proves to be a dangerous task, Marty is killed off, Alice is seriously injured by trigger happy detective Klinger, later Klinger even shoots Moxey dead by accident, but finally, down in Baxter U's basement, Jason and Jill can track down professor Dregstone and eliminate her - and the horror's over, right?

Wrong, because actually, professor Moxey was behind the whole Chupacabra thing, and now with his main adversary, Dregstone gone, and with Chet by his side, it will be an easy task for him to kill the only two kids left standing, Jason and Jill.

A competently made low budget teen-horror flick that's just a little too indecisive about into which direction to go to really work: On one hand it's your typical highschool flick with all the annoying clichés left intact, but on the other hand it's got plenty of comic scenes, and some of which are actually funny too. However, comedy and highschool mainstays seem to be standing in the way of one another, and if you add a horror story to that that's not too original on its own, you are not left with a total mess but with a definetly less than perfect film - and the idea to make one of the film's main characters, Jason, a stammerer does not help one bit either.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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