Cinema of the Damned
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Primal Rage
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 92m · Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.
Rush Week
›1989 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · Pamela Ludwig, Dean Hamilton, Roy Thinnes
An ambitious young journalist working for her college newspaper becomes intrigued by the recent string of disappearances of several female students, which she believes to be connected to an on-campus murder that happened the previous year during the college's raucous Rush Week.
All-American Murder
›1991 · Horror, Mystery, Romance · 94m · Christopher Walken, Charlie Schlatter, Josie Bissett
Artie Logan is the new guy on Campus. Suddenly, he meets Tally Fuller: the most popular and beautiful girl at Fairfield college and she finally agrees to go on a date with him. But that night she is brutally killed by a blowtorch-wielding maniac and Artie is wrongfully arrested. Despite protests from other Police officers, detective P.J. Decker believes Artie's story and gives him 24 hours to track down the real killer.
Teacher's Pet
›R2000 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Jsu Garcia, Katherine Kendall
Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students who get in the way of her obsession with her former high school teacher Sam Deckner now teaching at the college.
Hellmaster
›1992 · Horror · 96m · John Saxon, David Emge, Amy Raasch
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers
Splatter University
›R1984 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 77m · Forbes Riley, Ric Randig, Dick Biel
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
The Row
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Lala Kent, Mia Rose Frampton, Randy Couture
A killer stalks and terrorizes a group of sorority girls on a college campus.
Leeches!
›R2003 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson, Stacey Nelson
When a crop of doped-up athletes from the Lakecrest College swim team dive into the campus lake to blow off some steam, the bloodsucking leeches below the surface undergo a stunning transformation. After ingesting small amounts of the swimmers' steroid-laced blood, the slimy creatures grow to unusual sizes and set out to sink their teeth into an unsuspecting student population.