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· Year: 1987
· Director: Bill Froehlich
· Writer: Bill Froehlich, Mark Lisson, Dana Escalante, Greg H. Sims
· Cast: Vince Edwards, Brendan Hughes
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· There is no movie called Horror High, and this is not a sequel to it.
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Five years ago, Crippen High School was the site of several grisly murders. Now, a group of filmmakers using that now-abandoned high school to make a movie about those murders find that the original killer may never have left.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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29
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 2.5 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 1.25 -GORE |
| 4.0 -HUMOR |
| 0.5 -SCARES |
| 2.5 -TENSION |
By telling the movie in flashbacks and by including a twist ending, Return to Horror High tried to separate itself from the mass of eighties slasher films. Unfortunately, it doesn't stray far. Horror High really has no idea whether it wants to be funny or serious, and neither it does well, alternating humor in bad taste with nasty, gratuitous violence. And neither "funny" nor "serious" seem to cover a weird sex scene in which some concurrent welding appears to be considered a quasi-erotic event. The movie has potential victims instead of characters spouting dialogue that at times makes little sense given the situation they're in. George Clooney fans may want to watch it for his appearance, but they'll get off easy--he exits, stage left, about ten minutes into the movie.
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