Pledge

Name: Pledge
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: January 11, 2019
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Aaron Dalla Villa, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Erica Boozer, Jean-Louis Droulers, Jesse Pimentel

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: January 11, 2019 | NR

Starring: Aaron Dalla Villa, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Erica Boozer, Jean-Louis Droulers, Jesse Pimentel, Joe Gallagher, Melanie Rothman, Phillip Andre Botello, Zachery Byrd, Zack Weiner

Summary: Three friends get the chance to live the college dream when they’re invited to join an elite fraternity—but first they’ll have to survive the hazing from hell. Freshman social misfits Ethan (Phillip Andre Botello), David (Zack Weiner), and Justin (Zachery Byrd) are desperate to improve their terminally uncool reputations by pledging one ofThree friends get the chance to live the college dream when they’re invited to join an elite fraternity—but first they’ll have to survive the hazing from hell. Freshman social misfits Ethan (Phillip Andre Botello), David (Zack Weiner), and Justin (Zachery Byrd) are desperate to improve their terminally uncool reputations by pledging one of their university’s prestigious Greek houses. When every frat on campus turns them down, they are unexpectedly recruited by a shadowy social club offering them access to an exclusive world of raging parties, eligible coeds, and VIP social status. The catch? A sadistic initiation ritual that goes from depraved to deadly over the course of 48 booze- and blood-soaked hours. [IFC Midnight]… Expand

Director: Daniel Robbins

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: NR

Runtime: 77 min

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Norman Gidney

Jan 7, 2019

The surprise is the remarkable script from screenwriter (Zack Weiner) and the sharp-eyed direction from Daniel Robbins who work to take an idea we have seen a million times before and turn out something new and fiercely entertaining. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jan 24, 2019

This third feature for director Daniel Robbins is no delicate flower of cinematic art, but a lean and mean shocker that tells its tale of collegiate hazing run amuck with brute efficiency. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 7, 2019

Pledge is a bloody, nervy and lean thriller about “hazing” taken to its logical extreme. If you’re OK with torturing somebody so that the “shared experience” will “bond” you to your “brothers,” maybe there’s a little sociopath in you, Pledge. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Jan 7, 2019

It’s not that every film has to achieve some grand epiphany, but Touch Me Not is not nearly as satisfying as the primal act it’s obsessed with. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jan 10, 2019

If you like your torture movies tight, twisty and decently executed, then Pledge is for you. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jan 16, 2019

The characters and premise of Pledge are over-the-top, but the movie understands that — whether comedy or horror — all these stories are really about a desperate yearning for belonging. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 9, 2019

While some thriller addicts may embrace the resulting misanthropic action, others may find their minds wandering — to the many real-life cases of fraternity hazing, gang-rape and run-of-the-mill antisocial behavior that inspire deeper feelings of dread than this unconvincing outing. Read full review

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Lionel_Joseph

Jan 24, 2019

You know I truly went into this movie expecting something decent and you know what I got? Utter garbage of the lowest quality. Just to sum it up quickly I will say that every last character in this movie is just god awful and left me hoping that, by the end, not one of them was leftYou know I truly went into this movie expecting something decent and you know what I got? Utter garbage of the lowest quality. Just to sum it up quickly I will say that every last character in this movie is just god awful and left me hoping that, by the end, not one of them was left standing. It is ridiculously predictable and even the more violent and grotesque scenes did nothing new or shocking whatsoever. The only redeeming quality about this movie is the fact that it crushes nicely under the weight of a semi-truck tire after being chucked onto the freeway. Absolutely avoid this movie at all costs for gods sake. We as viewers should not have to tolerate such garbage and need to speak up against poor levels of creativity, character development and story in our films. I truly look forward to seeing both the writer and director of this movie never work in film again unless they decide to come together once more to document themselves putting their heads into wood chippers on camera. At least than I could say they filmed something with a purpose!… Expand

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