Pledge (2018)

Three socially underdeveloped, awkward fellows have just started college and are trying to be accepted as 'pledges' in any fraternity that will pity them enough to accept them.
After being rejected everywhere else, one house, a long way off campus, seems willing to let them try out for membership.
Predictably enough, the fraternity they're trying out for is a little more sinister than the initial introduction would suggest.

To British eyes, well mine at least, the whole fraternity thing seems like utter bollocks that only a wanker would want to be part of. Rather than the boisterous, party-centric funhouses they're so often portrayed as in films, they're social comfort blankets where affluent brats live their entire college experience immersed in the company of their peer groups and social equals. Fucking babies.

Of course we all want friends and support, but friendship doesn't come with a membership card and matching blazers.

Anyway, that said, the three main cast members are believable, likable innocents and that's where the film succeeds more than we expected. As sympathetic characters, we actually want them to make it when things start getting a bit murdery.

Yeah, not too bad.

7/10