School's Out (1999)
A group of seniors decide to have a party in their school on graduation night. Unfortunately an uninvited guest with a pair of scissors crashes the party and it isn’t long before the bodies begin to pile up.
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Best movie of this year hands down!
best movie i've ever seen.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Above-average German import slasher that is much better than most of the American slashers that have flooded the screens in the past years. Impressively executed and well acted - and unjustifiably underregarded by most of the viewers in this forum who seem to be prejudiced against German horror films. Why some people think this is slow or dull remains a mystery. If slow means that it does not meet the expectations of viewers used to a maniacal cutting style that tears the story and the characters out of proportion then this film is slow. Hoewever, me and my friends relished a good scare while watching the movie and were very satisfied with the pace and thrill. Be afraid. Be very afraid!!!
Out here in the US, this film is called SCHOOL'S OUT. When I rented it, I had no idea that it was a German movie. And when I started it, I knew something was wrong. The dubbing on this tape is very poorly done. Why the hell didn't they just subtitle the damn thing? By the end of the first hour, things have finally picked up, and then we are merely confused. But, by the end of this tripe, everything explains itself. SCHOOL'S OUT gets 3/5 because it was so poorly dubbed.
First i saw Robert Sigl's Cultmovie LAURIN. I was very impressed. When i read (in 1999) he made a Scream-like TV Movie with a bunch of Soapstars i was a little shocked. BUT... i think School's Out looks more like Soavi's STAGEFRIGHT than Scream and other Films like that.The acting of Katharina Wackernagel or Sandra Leonhard was very good.Also the Camera-work looks nice...a little bit like the Argento movies. A very very good TV movie....much better than most Big Cinema Baddies.
There is not much to say about this extremely boring, badly acted and ridiculously dull German slasher. It's a blatant rip-off of the similarly stupid films "I Know What You Did Last summer" and "Urban Legend", only that "Schrei..." manages to make the two American movies look almost acceptable (but almost only!). The German TV-version - which is two minutes cut compared to the US-video release entitled "School's Out" - even lacks the necessary drops of blood! Don't bother yourself with watching this mess; it's not worth the time. 1 out of 10.