I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Just what I expected

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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.

(22%) If almost all slasher flicks are B-movies, then this is without doubt a C-movie. And this lets the audience know strait away that the quality is going to be as rock-bottom as the tiny budget will allow with super cheapo 80's synth rock from the very start. Which is at least nice of the makers to be so open about the movie's limitations so early on. The plot itself manages to be both stick thin and broken at the same time, as the reunion at the slashing end of the "story" takes place at the now derelict school. Why travel miles to have a party there? It's run-down, dirty, dark, and very likely dangerous. How stupid are these people? But then again one of the party goers gets blood on her after some guy's gut explodes for reasons not really clear (although it is the best part of the film) so she strips off and takes a bath. Have a guess if she lives or dies because of it. This really isn't worth a look except for maybe big slasher movie fans who can see past 27 year old men and women playing high school students, terrible lighting, bad writing, and awful performances.

Slaughter High is one of those 80s slasher films that has a cult fan- base who are determined to convince the rest of us that it's a misunderstood classic. It simply isn't. Regardless of if the awful acting and jovial tone is actually meant to be of parody nature, the film is just dull from start to finish, even repugnant in its tacky simplicity.Plot basically finds a group of unlikable high schoolers, led by Caroline Munro who is in reality in her mid 30s and older than some of the teachers at the school, prank bullying the school nerd Marty Rantzen (Simon Scuddamore) on April fools Day, to the point where he inevitably ends up in a horrific accident. Fast forward a few years and the said group of unlikable characters have gone back to the school for a reunion, only to find the school derelict and that someone is intent on killing them one by one...Yee Haw! Jester's "Not" Dead.What follows is the standard formula as each one of the group is offed, cue much shrieking, some blood, some bickering and some insultingly dumb decisions taken by members of the group. The derelict school setting should be frightening, but it isn't, the English location shoot is obvious and nullifies the weak attempt at being an American horror, while the dialogue is just awful. Forget tension or suspense, those are horror attributes sorely lacking here.The Jester mask donned by the vengeful killer has impact, and yes some of the "kills" are at least inventive for the time film was made. But it's hard to care about bad actors playing bad characters when you are not sure if you are meant to be laughing or not! It's a bad film, one that has been lent a macabre interest value as poor Simon Scuddamore committed suicide shortly after the film was wrapped. A sad postscript for sure, for what is just a sad exercise in horror film making. 3/10

A group of popular students play a cruel prank on a shy nerd resulting in a terrible accident. Years later a reunion is held where each of the students face a stalker killer who may be the same nerd out for revenge...The thing about this movie is that it comes as no surprise who the killer is right from the moment we see him with his glasses on.When he is revealed, there is one kid wearing a jester mask for no reason, I wonder what he will wear at the reunion? After the accident, we cut forward to an abandoned place where these guys have been invited,a dn lots of their trinkets have been found.It's a mixed bag of kids, one is 35 and one now resides on Emmerdale.It's a fun movie though, quite gory for a movie like this, and what makes the movie more macabre is the fact that the actor who played Marty, Simon Scuddamore, took his own life soon after completing this.Acting is okay, and although the ending is bizarre (it reminded me of Thriller) it's a welcome entry into the stalk and slash genre.Hopefully this won't be remade...