Entertaining one-off slasher entry

Due to a clerical error a New York mental institution accidentally releases a criminally insane mass-murderer. He'd been incarcerated for 17 years after a series of murders at a sorority house. The institution tries to cover up its mistake, but the crusading Dr Joan Gilmore (Belinda Montgomery) journeys to the sorority house, thinking the killer will return there and resume killing. Sure enough, sorority girls start getting bumped-off, and with the local police being completely inept, it's down to Dr Gilmore and a local journalist to try to prevent more deaths and if possible recapture the escaped patient.

There are actually about 15 kills in this. Within the first ten minutes we get a girl camper with an axe in the back, and a sorority girl's head clamped in a vice and, well, you can probably guess. Later we get nail-gun deaths, prolonged scalding steam in the face, a pretty inventive beheading, and more. The effects are better than a lot of these movies and it's well-shot. Belinda Montgomery is good. Sydney Lassick is entertaining as the can't-be-bothered Sheriff. Most of the rest of the cast are pretty young things who do what pretty young things do in these movies (i.e. run, scream, and die). There's a moderate amount of nudity and a fair bit of gore. Fun watch. 7/10.