Dead Man on Campus (1998)

Release date: 1998-08-21
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Alan Cohn
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, MTV Productions, Pacific Western
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 6.1/10
Length: 1h 36min

Storyline

Josh, (Scott) a college student on a scholarship, gets taught the about crazy nightlife of being in college by his unreliable roommate Cooper (Gosselaar) and fails his midterms due to being unprepared. With Cooper's father no longer willing to pay his son's way through college, and Josh needing to keep up his grades or risk losing his scholarship, the two learn of a hidden clause in the school's rules that basically says "if your roommate commits suicide, you get straight A's." Since neither are willing to do so, they instead decide to invite a suicidal colleague in. - and push him over the edge.

Plot Keywords

surprise ending, gay slur, gay, gravestone, graveyard, gunshot wound, lesbian, lesbian slur, male nudity, mother son relationship, nightmare, paranoia, pill popping, pipe smoking, gay joke, father son relationship, fraternity, hit in the crotch, blender, autopsy

Short Review

It's all handled so poorly that it comes off as more ghoulish than anything else, although those who find the word "bong" instantly entertaining and are easily distracted by the presence of flickering images may be amused.