EPISODE

7. House of Horror

Les Whilton is the president of a college fraternity. He decides to scare three pledges by daring them to spend a night in a haunted house. He and some of his friends have set up the place to look like it's haunted. Along for the ride is a group of sorority sisters. When everyone else turns up missing, everyone turns to Whilton. Whilton goes into the house alone and he gets a big surprise.

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Arling, Henderson, and Waters ( Wil Wheaton, Jason London, and Keith Coogan ) are three pledges of a fraternity on probation who are bullied into submission by sadistic pledge master Les Wilton ( Kevin Dillon ). As the final part of their initiation, the trio are challenged to get to the top floor of the Cougher House, an abandoned house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a murderer with a hacking cough. However, when two of the pledges fail to return, Les decides to head up to the top floor of the house in order to look for them himself, only to learn that a local sorority harbors a sinister secret involving the house. Also starring Meredith Salenger as Mona.

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