The monsters on campus aren’t quite as scary as those in Black Christmas or Sorority Row, but they’re nonetheless an insidious presence in Master, as discriminatory remnants at a tony longtime girl…
, hasn’t been heard from since it showed at Toronto last year. Most of the cast and crew on the new feature were women and exteriors were shot at Vassar College, a former all-female school that very closely resembles the establishment where the action takes place, here dubbed Ancaster College.
Jasmine Moore is a typically upbeat and excited freshman, as well she might be except for the fact that she’s been assigned to the “haunted” room, which has a notorious history of suicides, beginning with that of the first Black female ever admitted to the school years earlier. For reasons of her own, literature professor Liv Beckman has it out for Jasmine and fails her in class, which predictably sends the student’s morale plummeting.
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