Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

meddlecore An old gang of highschool bullies- responsible for a humiliating series of pranks-gone-wrong that saw the school nerd get horribly disfigured in a fire- are invited back to town for their ten year highschool reunion.However, it seems like they are the ones getting pranked this time...because when they show up, the whole place is locked down, and there is no one to be seen.They manage to break in, but can't break their way back out...and now they're dropping one by one...What starts off like a low budget Breakfast Club ripoff...quickly takes a twisted turn in the direction of American Horror Story: Cult.There are some great kills in this! While they are lacking in the gore and special effects departments, they make up for it with sheer cleverness and imagination.The whole thing seems to be a bit of an homage to Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse...as there is an identical kill. Not to mention, they are confined to a house- laden with boobytraps- from which they cannot escape...as they are picked off one by one...more or less the same concept.However, this film has a triple twist at the end- which switches things up a bit, and sets itself up for a sequel (that never came to fruition).Originally, it was supposed to be called April Fool's Day- but Fred Walton's film beat them to the punch, so they were forced to rename it.however, this cult gem- from first time filmmakers George Dugdale, Mark Ezra & Peter Litten- is wonderfully twisted! Despite the (at times sketchy) American accents...this is a British feature...that feels a lot like a Frank Hennenlotter flick.6 out of 10.

utgard14 Routine '80s slasher about a group of people gathering for a high school reunion and being killed off one by one. This is one of many slashers with the same premise: nerdy outcast is bullied and usually disfigured by assholes but comes back years later for revenge. The only "star" in the movie is Caroline Munro. She was 36 at the time, which makes her playing a teenager in early scenes a hoot. The production's pretty cheap but I do enjoy the location shooting, one of the primary selling points of '70s & '80s slasher films. The score is by Harry Manfredini of Friday the 13th fame. He reuses some of that memorable score here. But the best part of his new score is this Sanford & Son-ish bit of music that seems more at home in a comedy than a horror movie. It gives the movie an extra bit of quirkiness that I liked. There's also a comically bad heavy metal theme song. It's not a terrible movie of its type but very predictable. It helps that it doesn't take itself seriously.

Aaron1375 Watched this film on a collection with some other horror movies. Not like the collections where you get 50 public domain horror films, the ones on here are a bit more mainstream. They are not all that great mind you...just more mainstream. This one is the second film I have viewed in this collection. Last year I watched "The Unholy" which is also on this collection. Yes, I said last year...I am very behind on my movies and video games at the moment thanks to a stint on third shift at work. Well this one had some good kills, but unfortunately, it makes a whole lot of mistakes and these mistakes doom this film to being just another bad, but tolerable to watch horror film. Happens all the time, I think I am going to watch a horror film that is going to be pretty good, but then it goes in a wrong direction or something.The story starts with a bunch of high school kids pulling a very cruel series of pranks on a nerdy guy. Of course, this was par for the course in those days, as there was not a multitude of anti-bullying movements back then. Things were a lot rougher, but these days bullying consists of calling a pretty girl various names and thus it generates more outrage. Basically, popular kids could dish it out, but these days are proving they cannot take a much weaker bullying. Back on topic, well the nerd gets scarred and we flash years later where the obnoxious friends are going to their class reunion where they find a deserted school and no other students other than themselves (all the ones in on the prank). Soon, someone is stalking them...could it be Marty, the kid they not only humiliated, but also disfigured? Yes...basically the most obvious killer ever.The film tries to be funny, but for the most part the comedy did not really work for me. With about 15 or 20 minutes left in this one they seemed to ditch any attempts at comedy...they also didn't seem to know how to end their film. The only saving grace of this one are a few good kills. About 40 minutes into this one I was wondering if there were going to be any kills as no one had died yet, but finally the kills come fast and furious. To fast and furious as we are left with one girl all too quickly considering we were 40 minutes in before we had kill number one! The highlights both involve acid and both are nasty. A pretty good lawnmower death too, but it could have been messier.The film has enough in it to prevent a person from being bored. It is entertaining in a way, just tried to be too clever in parts and not clever enough in other parts. A nice couple of kills just cannot save this one as Marty roams the halls of his old high school to get his revenge as they just do not seem to know how to end a horror film from a certain point in time up till now. The best ending to a horror film I think I have seen is in Vincent Price's, "House On Haunted Hill". It ended in a satisfactory way, it did not try to confuse a person or say, "It was all a dream." Which to me is more like, "Screw you...this is the only thing we could come up with."

steadysam This is a largely unknown slasher film but if you are a true slasher geek you probably would've heard of this one. The plot is that Marty Rantzen, a high school nerd, gets picked on by a group of jocks and girls. One of their pranks go wrong resulting with nitric acid burning Marty's face. 5 years later all the bullies are invited to a school reunion at their old school. When they get inside the school the bullies are killed off one by one by Marty, who sent the invitations and is out for revenge. Now some of the acting is pretty bad and most of the actors in this film have had very little film roles (Except for Caroline Munro). The music is also a bit repetitive but enjoyable. However, Simon Scuddamore's role as Marty is great and he looked like he had a lot of fun with his role. Sadly, this was Simon's only film role as he committed suicide right after the film was made. But overall Slaughter High is a pretty good horror movie and it is worth watching.