MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Isbel
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
jamdifo
Despite all the bad acting and dumb decisions by the actors, somehow I sat thru this. I mean, who goes to a school closed down (funny how none of the alumni had any clue their high school has been closed for 5 years), shocked that the school is closed and still party. Here are some classic bad decisions: Guy tears out his stomach, it explodes spraying a woman in blood. The rest, as they should, freak out and try to get out of the school. Not the woman who got sprayed in blood. She not only has to wash off the blood, she has to strip down and take a bath to wash off all the blood. The sink just wouldn't do. Guess what happened to her.A number of people have already been murdered and they know about it. But yet 2 people just can't resist each other and have to have sex. They are so loud, everybody hears it. I've heard of strong sex drives, but this is ridiculous. Wasn't too hard for the killer to find them.Then you have the mechanic. He can fix the tractor so they can get out of the school (no one is strong enough to break a window). So rather than everyone stay together while he fixes it, lets leave him alone so the killer can do his thing. Again, they know a killer is in the school.The killer just killed everybody I know, so when I knock him down with a baseball bat, I'll just drop the bat and run. Oh yeah, I'm lucky enough to knock the killer down again, but this time I'll leave him a better weapon, a javelin. You think she made it? Constantly, people going off on their own, rather than staying in a group. Plus the killer wears a jester mask that has bells on it. Yet he can constantly sneak up on people without them hearing him.I could go on and on. The one thing this movie got right was the casting of the nerd. Its unfortunate that his life was cut short in real life.This is definitely a movie you need to watch with a few beers in you. The movie will make you feel like a genius.
Uriah43
This movie begins with a nerd named "Marty" (Simon Scuddamore) being maliciously pranked by several students at his local high school. Yet when they are caught and subsequently punished, rather than being contrite and apologetic, two of them decide to continue their harassment of him. Unfortunately, their joke goes much too far and as a result Marty is hurt and seriously disfigured because of it. Years later they go to their 10th high school reunion and soon discover what it feels like to be on the other end of a bad joke gone wrong--and Marty has no sense of humor. Now rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this movie turned out to be pretty much what I expected in that it followed the standard format for slasher films produced during this period. Unfortunately, unlike some of the earlier films of this type, it suffers from a rather predictable plot and weak ending. To it's credit, however, it certainly benefits from the presence the beautiful Caroline Munro (as "Carol") and to a lesser extent that of Josephine Scandi (as "Shirley"). Even so, that simply wasn't enough for me to rate this film any higher than I have. Slightly below average.
gridoon2018
Another high-school-prank-gone-wrong-disfigured-victim-seeks-revenge slasher movie from the 1980s. If you can put up with a horribly amateurish first half hour, this one has a few decent moments and a couple of fairly gruesome and imaginative kills. It also has instances of head-slapping stupidity, such as Caroline Munro knocking down the killer with a baseball bat and then dropping it beside him and running away (!), of the fact that all the characters can quite easily leave the school building as one of them demonstrates but never even try to. Speaking of Munro, she is surprisingly convincing playing a teenager despite being 37 (!) at the time, but this was a big career comedown for her - she was in a James Bond movie less than a decade earlier, for crying out loud. One amusing line: "if a caretaker takes care of the place, a janitor....janits?" ** out of 4,.
videorama-759-859391
I guess one of the standout attractions to this shoddy horror is English movie goddess, Caroline Munro. Horrors like this were more admired or fun in their time. The acting in this film was very bad, save for Marty (this one film actor and humanitarian, suiciding just after), the coach, and the loud bully, passable, who sabotaged a chemical experiment, which went horribly wrong for it's creator/geek, Marty. Before this, a real low down (stereotypical) prank was pulled on Marty, in the girl's locker room, where he was coaxed into a sexual liason with Munro, before being photographed naked, then having his head shoved down a toilet. Personally these were the most heartless bullies/jocks/cheerleaders, I've ever seen and couldn't wait for their demises, as years later, they receive a secret invitation by (guess who) to a high school reunion. Here, Marty, disguised in a leprechaun mask, kills them off, some in uniquely clever ways, the first victim, dying a shocking death, in front of his peers. I felt no mercy for these dickhead victims at all, as they all got what they deserve, where now in the 21s't millennium, bullying as got worse. If you can remember the bullies blamed Marty when getting caught, during the locker room/sex prank, which for them was ground to teach Marty a lesson, with that backfiring chemistry explosion, which saw Marty, disfigured. What are you serious? They should of not of pulled that prior locker room prank, in the first place. SH is a crummy, awfully shot and acted film, some exterior shots of total blackness, where we lose the actors, briefly. I did like how one scene you thought was real, which cut to years later, with Munro having a bad dream. It's really sickening how people can just move on, from their dastardly deeds, with no conscience, though bad actions sometimes have fatal consequences. What really sucked was the way the film ended, as if it was all premeditated by the bandaged Marty, burning with fury. A stupid ending for a number of reasons. I really wanted Marty's revenge to be real.
