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  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 17 m

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 ...

Directed By: Daniel Robbins

Written By: Zack Weiner

  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 17 m

Pledge

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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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 ...

Directed By: Daniel Robbins

Written By: Zack Weiner

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
54
57% Positive
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
54
57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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70
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.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Norman Gidney FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 10, 2019
If you like your torture movies tight, twisty and decently executed, then Pledge is for you.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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5.6
29% Positive
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43% Mixed
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29% Negative
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User Score
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29% Positive
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43% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Production Company BoulderLight Pictures, Stag Pictures
Release Date Jan 11, 2019
Duration 1 h 17 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Few get in. None get out.
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Awards

Screamfest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Horrorant Film Festival 'Fright Nights'
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
UK Film Review Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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