Slasher College Roadtrip series

FiSlasher College Roadtrip is an American horror film franchise that consists of nine slasher films, three novels, and a comic. The franchise focuses on the serial killer Bullethead, who remains nameless until the fifth film and his murder spree. The character's back story is revealed in the eigth film, that he was born to another mass murderer and his fearful wife. Bullethead's mother was killed by his father, whereupon the killer's face was mutilated by his father's shaving blade when he was six. The caretaker that appears and is killed in the first film, Jack, is later revealed to be Bullethead's uncle, who he killed because he felt he had abandoned the killer's mother, his sister.

The original film was released in 1997, followed by seven sequels (Slasher College Roadtrip II: Homecoming in 1999, Slasher College Roadtrip III: Death Thrill in 2000, Slasher College IV: Blood Lake in 2002, Slasher College V: Bulletproof in 2004, Slasher College Roadtrip VI in 2006, Slasher College Roadtrip VII: New Moon Rising in 2008, and the prequel Slasher College Roadtrip VIII: Resurrection in 2009. The first film was directed by Robert MacNamara, and he directed them up until the fifth film, whereupon he handed it to director Michael Johannson. Critics regarded Johannson for lambasting the series, and MacNamara returned to direct the prequel.

Overview
In the original, the story revolves around a bunch of college students heading to Las Vegas, whereupon their car breaks down and they are forced to take refuge at an abandoned shack, the family home of Bullethead. While passing through Texas, the group's van breaks down and they seek refuge in an old shack run by the caretaker Jack. He welcomes them to stay the night, and says there's a small town nearby. Ben, adamant about leaving and believing Jack is a sick creep, heads for the town while the others stay behind. He finds an abandoned gas station and searches around for fuel. He climbs through a crack on the roof into the dark interior, where he scrambles for a torch. After he finds some fuel, he grabs a packet of condoms for his girlfriend, Jenni, then leaves out the front door. As he is leaving he notices a truck that he did'nt see before. He goes over to investigate, but stops when he spots a figure standing nearby. It appears to be a male, and steps forward slowly. Ben, fearing for his life, starts stepping back fast. The man lunges forward and impales Ben through the chest with a machete, impaling him also onto a gas tank. Ben, still alive, screams for help as oil leaks onto him. The killer pulls out his machete and then as he reaches the other side of the road hurtles a match across to the gas station, incinerating Ben and the gas station. He leaves, with the flaming inferno behind him. Back at the shack, Jenni begins to worry about him, and calls his cell repeatedly. She is calmed down by Chelsea and Lisa, meanwhile Dan and Mike search the house for supplies. After Jack says there's an old car outisde the house that may work, they head outside as the sun sets. Mike helps Dan get through into the car, before he notices the man who killed Ben standing nearby. He runs, leaving Dan to be trapped in the car and later impaled through the head with the machete. Mike runs, but the killer puruses and slices off his legs before impaling him onto the hood of the car, leaving his machete. Jenni, still traumatised by the dissapearance of Ben, goes into the upstairs bathroom as everyone goes to bed. She gets out of the shower and steps in front of the mirror to do her hair. She notices the bathroom door slide open, and screams as the killer enters. With a meat cleaver he stabs her through the back of the head and lets her fell into the bathtub, where her blood seeps into the plug hole. Chelsea wakes up a few minutes later, noticing Jenni hasn't come back. She looks for her in the bathroom, and when she sees her tries to scream before the killer ambushes her and covers her mouth with his hand. He then proceeds to crush her skull against the bathroom basin, before sneaking outside. Jack, the caretaker, is doing his evening route when he spots the killer, fresh from killing Chelsea. He tries to run, seemingly recognising the killer, before he catches up to Jack and decapitates him with the meat cleaver. The next day the survivors (Lisa and Brett) wake up, suprised and frightened to notice there is no one else in the house. After finding Chelsea and Jenni's bodies in the bathroom, Brett devises a plan to escape. When they lure the killer to the kitchen of the house, he chases them with the meat cleaver. Using Lisa a bait, the killer falls for the trap and tries to kill her. Meanwhile Brett ambushes him and impales him through the chest with a kitchen knife. The killer supposedly dies, and the two survivors leave traumatised, finding Jack's old car.

In the second film, Brett, one of the survivors from the Texas incident, returns to Massachussetts University, taking another year of courses. Meanwhile Lisa has left the area entirely, and now lives in Las Angeles. Brett has finally escaped the murder of his friends in the first film, and hangs out with his girlfriend Brittany, friends Jon, Leroy, Kyle and Trixie. Other characters include the campus coach Mr. Channing, the local jock Brenton, who is secretly sleeping with Brittany, and Lisa's friends Katy and Brodie, and her boyfriend Troy.

After a sucessful football match that night, Coach Channing rounds up the team (consisting of both Brett and Brenton) and congratulates them. After dismissing them he does a routine check, where he sees a figure in the showers. Thinking its a student left behind, he goes in and tells them he needs to lock. The figure turns, and Channing cowers, stepping back slowly. With the shower still running, the killer grabs the shower pump and breaks it, spraying water all over the ground. Channing demands that the man leave, whereupon he impales the coach through the neck with the pump. Channing staggers back, until he falls to his death onto the tiles, and the water on the ground turns the colour of blood. The killer leaves the gymnasium and heads to the cafeteria section of the campus. After saying goodbye to Brett, Brittany secretly visits Brenton's room whereupon they have sex. After, Brenton stays in his room while Brittany goes to the cafeteria to get some food. She enters after noticing the door ajar, and mistakes the killer for the the cafeteria manager. She asks him if he has any food left, when he turns around. She notices that he is not the manager and tries to run, before the killer grabs her from behind and throws her against the wall. Brittany begins to sob for mercy, whereupon the killer grabs her head in his hand and presses her face into the fryer, burning it severely. He pulls her out, and she clutches her burnt face. She screams, unable to see and tries to get up, when the killer throws her forward and impales her against a loose bit of metal. Meanwhile Brett's friend Trixie bursts out of his room, with a bong in his hand and completely high. He stumbles around the corridors, when he notices the killer. Unaware, he runs over to him and says hello. The killer grunts, and then stabs him through the skull with a small knife. Trixie, awaking from his highness, freezes in terror, before he dies. The killer continues on his rampage, killing several other students with various objects (trophies, glass) before he reaches Brenton's room. Brenton, having sex with another girl, tells him to go away when he knocks on the door. The killer then bursts in, and the girl tries to run whereupon he stabs her in the gut. Brenton yells in annoyance, and gets out of the bed completely naked. He starts ranting at the killer, who stares at him, before smashing his skull in with one of his football trophies. Leaving the room he dissapears down a corridor.

The next day teachers are weary of their students after Channing and several others were murdered. At lunch, Jon, who still believes Trixie is alive, goes looking for him. The killer lures him by hanging Trixie's body off a ledge, whereupon Jon runs upstairs to help his friend. The killer then ambushes him. Jon runs, and the killer pursues. As he catches up Jon screams for help, but the killer simply lunges forward and slices his throat. Dumping his body, the killer notices a classroom occupied by a class, of which both Brett and his friend Kyle are attending. After class they part ways and the killer stalks Kyle to his next lesson, before grabbing him and dragging him into a closet, whereupon he breaks his neck. Brett notices that he is not at a party later that night, and begins to suspect something. He calls Lisa and asks her to come to the university. After they united with his friend Leroy and her friends Katy and Brodie, along with her boyfriend Troy, the group devise a plan and believe that the killer from the first film is out for revenge.

After setting up a trap which uses Lisa as bait, the killer is lured out. But the trap goes wrong, and Troy tries to save her when the killer attacks, only to be crushed by the elevator doors. The killer then chases Brodie, who aggravates him, while Lisa stands in the elevator as it descends. The killer catches Brodie and using a school ceremonial spear, impales him and lifts him in the air, before throwing the spear aside. Noticing Leroy and Brett running away, he proceeds to follow them. Katy hides in a nearby bathroom, but the killer finds her and stabs her to death in a cubicle. He then catches Leroy, stabbing him through the heart with a machete. Brett runs downstairs and finds Lisa as she exits the elevator, whereupon they are ambushed by the killer again. Lisa runs, and Brett notices an abandoned motorbike. He climbs on, and takes the spear used to kill Brodie. As Lisa runs, he charges the killer with the spear, but is fatally stabbed with the machete, and flies through the air. He succeeds in impaling the killer with the spear, but also dies. Lisa stands in shock, traumatised even more, as authroities arrive.

In the third film, which features none of the characters from the predecessing films, Amber Truscott and her friends (Casey, Leo, Paul, Jerri, Sarah, and her boyfriend Joel) all visit a local amusement park to ride the new attraction, Terror Train 3D. After purchasing tickets, Amber agrees to stay behind with Sarah, who is too scared to go on the ride. Casey and her boyfriend Leo decide to not go on the first run either, and stay with Amber and Sarah, Joel also agrees to stay behind. Paul and Jerri enter the ride with excitement, and as they climb on the audience catches a glimpse of the killer in the background. The ride starts, and the boys witness a few cheap thrills. As they enter the rollercoaster point of the ride, Jerri leans out and is suddenly sliced in half by a thin flat blade that flies foward. Paul screams in terror, and tries to move away from Jerri's body. He survives the rest of the ride, whereupon an automated voice thanks him. Standing to leave, the coach starts up again and he is driven forward, his skull impaled on a decorational spike. Convinced the ride must be good and that Jerri and Paul are riding it over and over again, Leo decides to go on the ride next, and leaves Casey and the others. After the line appears too big, he heads to the toliets. The killer then ambush him, and stabs him to death, probably after realising he did'nt go on the ride. He is the first to be physically killed by the killer, as the Terror Train was malfunctioned by the killer.

Back at the centre of the park, Amber, Sarah, and Casey decide to go looking for the others. Amber says they should go into a cheap haunted house, so the other two agree. While inside the killer ambushes Sarah, and smashes her face into one of the many mirrors, and then stabs her with a shard of glass. When Casey goes looking for her he kills her also, slicing her throat. Amber tries to find them, and after she hears Casey's dying screams she tries to run out of the haunted house. The killer ambushes her, whereupon she attacks him with a fire hydrant and beats him unconscious. As she leaves the haunted house she screams for help. The final scene shows her being admitted into a mental asylum.