Return to Horror High (1987)

Sick Product of a Sick System

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

To make a horror comedy is a laudable ambition. And it can be done successfully. But for every American Werewolf In London or Scream, there are a dozen Return To Horror Highs.First, this film isn't funny. At all. In any respect.Second, the horror plot is absolutely generic, but that's OK. What is not OK is that so much of it is so very badly executed. If you do a horror comedy, you have to play the horror straight. Here, you have two or three nice performances, and a bunch of very bad ones (not least of which is the baddie, who delivers what must be one of the worst performances ever committed to celluloid. And I have the horrible feeling that it was the performance which was demanded of him.This is a poor film. Not even the novelty of a young George Clooney is enough to save it. Avoid it.

there was this little gem.it's a horror spoof,and it worked for me.i found it amusing.there were some great one liners in the film.Scream owes a fair debt to this movie,as does the Scary Movie franchise.you may not laugh yourself into a stupor,but you'll probably chuckle a lot.i'm actually very surprised at the low rating(3.8)this movie has on this site.i would rate it much higher.people complain about the bad acting,but i think that was intentional.for me,i had a good time watching it and wood watch it again.incidentally,it's not a sequel to the 1974 movie Horror High.in fact it has nothing to do with that movie at all.for me,Return to Horror High is a 6/10

In 1981, Student Bodies proved that there wasn't much mileage in spoofing a genre that was already turning to self-parody in order to survive, but that didn't stop studios from churning out one weak parody after another. Wacko (1982), Pandemonium (1982), Slaughter High (1986), Cutting Class (1989), and following the second wave of slashers in the 90s, Scary Movie (2000), Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000) and Club Dread (2004): just a few prime examples of unimaginative, low-brow humour at its worst.Return to Horror High (1987) tries to be a little different, with a plot that uses a movie-within-a-movie scenario, flashbacks and nightmares to add a touch of interest, but when all is said and done, it's just another lame, relatively laugh-free spoof. The cast ham it up terribly (given the script, do they really have any other option?), the gore is disappointing (lots of blood, but nothing really gruesome), and the twist ending totally absurd; genuinely amusing moments can be counted on the fingers of one hand.Watch if you really want to see Marcia from the Brady Bunch rubbing blood over her chest or a pre-fame George Clooney sporting a Hasselhoff hairdo, but don't say you haven't been warned.2.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 3 for the gratuitous female locker room scene.

Fake gore, but fun to look at. In 1982, Crippen High was the scene of vicious and brutal murders; and the killer was never captured. Time has past and a movie crew goes back to make a horror flick depicting the gruesome events in the actual halls of the abandoned school. Before filming is wrapped, it becomes apparent that they are not alone. Are the new murders scripted? Are the new murders even real? This movie is actually interesting; a fun watch with a group of friends. The cast may remind you of an episode of Love Boat; featured are: Alex Rocco, George Clooney, Maureen McCormick, Scott Jacoby, Lori Lethin, Phiip McKeon, Vince Edwards and Richard Brestoff.