Slaughter High

Plot synopsis:
At Doddsville County High School, Carol (Caroline Munro) leaves the geek Marty (Simon Scuddamore) down the hallway, both laughing about doing it. She leads Marty to the girls locker room as, unbeknownst to Marty, a group of people follow. Marty goes into a shower stall and undressed, and Carol lets the people inside the room. The curtain is thrown aside and they yell "April Fools!" The crowed mocks the half-naked Marty. The coach appears and tells all of them, except Marty, to go to the gym and "suit up". While they are working out, one of the students, Stella (Donna Yeager) is angry and blames Marty for this collective punishment they are now receiving. Carl (John Segal) and Ted (Michael Saffran) stop by Marty's locker and to show him that there are no hard feelings toward him, give him a joint to smoke.Working alone in chemistry class, Marty decides to light up and smoke the joint. He immediately gets sick and goes to the locker room to throw up. In the gym, Skip (Carmine Iannaccone) throws a brick through a window and feigns that it came from the outside to get away from the coach still punishing them. Skip goes to the deserted chemistry room, adds some white powder to a container, and walks away back to the gym. Marty returns when the liquid in the container pops and a fire starts. He tries to turn off the gas, and a bottle of nitric acid falls and splashes on his face. Marty is taken away on a stretcher into an ambulance. As Carol approaches Marty on the stretcher to apologize, he grabs her by the neck. She screams and wakes up in bed.It is suddenly 10 years later, Carol, now a rich and successful actress, gets a phone call from Manny her agent who tries to convince her to appear in another movie. Susan (Sally Cross) visits Carol and tells her that the she recently engaged and will try to make it for the class reunion later.It is the day before April 1, and Skip is driving his car through the countryside. He stops for a hitchhiker and it is Nancy (Kelly Baker) one of his old classmates also on her way to the reunion. When Skip tries to start his car again, it refuses to start. But two other former classmates, Joe (Gary Martin) and Stella, pass by and Joe tows Skips broken down car to the school. Everyone arrives at the closed down school, with Frank arriving last on his motorbike. Night falls, and it is only this small group of friends whom have arrived at their closed-down school. Joe and Skip walk around to the back to get inside the boarded up building. As it begins to rain, the rest of the group forces their way in through the front door. The find Skip and Joe inside and the group looks around the school, eventually coming to a classroom with a 'Welcome Back' sign, school photographs, alcohol and their old lockers. Shriley points out Martys old locker, and they find a rat inside. They also find Martys old yearbook and look though it. Skip talks about Marty's six months of plastic surgery for the accident and the fact that he flipped out.Meanwhile, someone wearing a jesters mask (the same one that Skip wore during the shower prank) is lurking in the halls. The group begins to smoke some marijuana, and Carol shows off her more expensive cocaine. Nancy decides to go to the bathroom and Carol joins her. They are both scared by Skip and Frank who scare them for kicks. The two guys run out and have a run-in with Digby, the old janitor, who asks them what are they doing here. When Skip mentions the reunion, Digby tells them that he hasn't heard of any reunion, and tells them that the building will be knocked down soon, but allows them to take a last look around if they want. After Digby walks on, the jester mask wearing person jumps out and shoves Digbys head into a hook and nails his hand to a door.Nancy plays a joke on Skip and pours a drink down his pants. Carl tells Ted to show everyone how to "sink a beer" and Ted demonstrates. Suddenly, Ted gets sick, his stomach pops wide open and some of his innards are exposed. The "beer" is actually a lethal acid. Everyone screams and runs away except Shirley who stands in shock with some of Teds blood splashed onto her face.When the group sees that the door will not open and one of the windows gives Nancy a shock, Carl kicks the fencing, takes Carols car keys, and crawls out telling them that he will go for help. Carl gets to Carols car and when he tries to start it, the jester-masked killer rises from the back seat and shoves a steel pole through the seat and out of Carls chest. Back in the school building, Shirley goes to the locker room and gets in a tub to wash off the blood she has on her. When she turns on the fauset for water, acid fills the tub instead and she screams. Several people run in and find Shirley's skeleton in the tub. Carol realizes and screams out "Marty's come back!"Susan arrives at the school, and Skip fruitless tries to get her to leave. She walks in through the front door which is unlocked and sees a life-size picture of Marty at the end of the hallway. Hands punch through and grab her. The survivors convene, and Frank says that he saw a tractor earlier. Frank, Skip, and Joe begin to work on getting the tractor started with the hope of plowing through the doors.While Frank and Skip leave Joe alone to work on the tractor, Stells flirts with Frank and says she wished she was with him instead of Joe. The killer visits Joe while he is under the tracker and kicks the jack away. Joe holds the tractor up and the killer starts the machine and cuts Joes arm with a pocket knife , letting the running blades do the rest. The killer then goes to Stella and Frank during their time of intimacy, hooks up cables to the bed they are on, and electrocutes both of them. Nancy goes to check on Joe and finding him dead, and runs off to tell Skip and Carol. They also find Stella and Frank dead and Skip screams out into the hallways for Marty to show himself. Nancy becomes upset, blaming Skip and Carol for everything that has led to Marty's accident, and Carol calms her down.Morning comes, a sleeping Skip awakes, goes into the hallway and is grabbed. Carol asks Nancy where Skip is. Carol explains that if Marty is behind all this, they just have to wait until April 1 which ends at noon which is the time Marty is disfigured and they only need one hour. The two women leave the room.Skip wakes up and find himself hanging from a rope. He tries to shake himself free until the rope comes loose and he falls. Carol and Nancy look around and realize that all the dead bodies are gone. The hear a noise and walk into a room with a video playing of the shower prank. Nancy sees her photograph marked out in a nearby yearbook and she runs. She manages to get through a window and outside only to fall into a pit of dirty water. Unable to swim, Nancy tries to use a metal pipe to pull herself up, and the killer knocks her back in and leaves. Back in the building, Carol finds Digby dead and hides in the girls locker room and hears a noise. She finds blood in one of the toilets and she flushes it, only to have it overflow. She picks up a baseball bat and hits the killer when he enters the locker room.Carol runs into the auditorium and hides onstage. A javelin is shoved through the curtain, nearly missing her. From hiding she hears footsteps and swings a hatchet, hitting Skip in the face, accidentally killing him. The killer then punches through the glass, grabbing her. Carol pushes the killer back through the glass and he lands on the gym floor. Carol relaxes and sees that it is noon. But Marty stands up, picks up the javelin and chases Carol back into the girls locker room. He sees Carol hiding in the same shower stall where this all happened and pulls aside the curtain. Marty then, reveals his horribly scared face for the first time. Marty laughs and impales Carol through the stomach to the wall with the Javelin, killing her. Marty yells, "I showed ya!"With his revenge against all those who caused his disfigurement over, Marty relaxes until he begins to hear voices calling his name. Marty sees all of the dead people he killed rising up and coming after him chanting his name over and over again as they chase and corner him in the auditorium.Marty screams and wakes up in his hospital bed, with bandages all over his face. A nurse comes into his room and tells him to relax for he's had a serious accident just the other day. Apparently the whole reunion event was nothing but a bad dream that Marty had out of wishing revenge against all those who caused his disfigurement. A little later, a doctor responds to an alarm and runs into Marty's hospital room where the nurse stands over him with a syringe. The nurse turns around and it is actually Marty wearing the nurse's uniform while the dead nurse is lying in his bed. Marty shoves the syringe into the doctor's eye killing him too. Marty then pulls off his bandages from his face, and some of his face with it, and escapes from the hospital, vowing to find and kill those who caused his disfigurement.

Tags: dark, cruelty, murder, adult comedy, cult, violence, revenge, sadist

Review:
Disfigured and back for revenge, sporting a Joker/Jester mask (pretty creepy looking, might i add), Marty begins to kill off those teens one by one many years later, after he manages to make them believe that their old abandoned high school is having a reunion.
That being said, it also relies heavily on the standard slasher formula: A group of young men and women get killed one by one gruesomely until the final showdown.The reason why "Slaughter High" stands above most movies in its genre is that it goes more over-the-top.
Harry Manfredini hasn't so much mimicked his score from Friday the 13th as simply cut and pasted it, which is no real mean feat, but at times it felt as if we were watching a (less competent) sequel instead of a completely different movie.The most macabre thing about Slaughter High, is the fact that actor Simon Scuddamore tragically took his own life soon after it was released.
It turns fatal when he really gets hurt from one of their little pranks.So, its like 10 years later, and the group of friends who hurt Marty start getting High School reunion letters.
How can you honestly hate on a movie where one of the characters finds a beer in an abandoned school, like, 10 or 15 years later and thinks it would be a good idea to drink it?
This film is the epitome of bad 80's slasher films: a decent idea that comes out really bad and rips off good slasher films in the process.Marty, the stereotypical high-school nerd, is horribly disfigured in an accident caused by a prank gone too far.
Now, years later, the pranksters are gathering for a high school reunion where it seems that bloody revenge is about to go down.Slaughter High, as you can tell from its title, isn't a horror film that's meant to be taken seriously.
However, in its own way, the film is sort of funny and enjoyable, and if you can suspend any high expectations, you will enjoy this one, from it's hilarious opening scenes, to the  overly familiar Friday the 13th-esque score by Harry Manfredini, it's a  fun, goofy, gory and demented horror flick worthy of your rental  dollars..
I loved this movie.It is about Marty(Simon Scuddamore)a nerd that all the girls and jocks pick on.Things go too far when a prank backfires and disfigure's Marty's face for life!It's five years later and Marty is back,killing them one by one at an abandoned mansion.I have heard many rumors about Simon Scuddamore,like he committed suicide shortly after SLAUGHTER HIGH was released,he lived in Dayton,Ohio,he was 29 years old when he committed suicide,his stepfather abused him when he was a child(part of why he killed himself)and he was in an asylum.I enjoyed this movie very much,the only thing I don't like about it is when they tricked Marty into getting naked at the beginning of the movie.JACOB YOUNG.
Saw this film years ago on video and found a cheap copy of it recently.Yeah i know they're not exactly the right age for the parts they're playing and of course most of the cast can't disguise their British accents but i still like it for a laugh!Some of the murder scenes are inventive though how did he know they'd end up on the bed or taking a bath???!!!!Ending is a bit strange and sorry to hear about the suicide of the guy who played Marty.Otherwise an enjoyable film not to be taken seriously!.
Henry Manfredini's score is pretty terrible but his fans will probably enjoy it.Ultimately contributing to "Slaughter High's" atmosphere of nastiness is that Simon Scuddamore, the actor playing Marty, committed suicide from a drug overdose not long after filming wrapped.
This all goes well with a theme song that is a hilariously pose of heavy metal thrash accompanied by maniacal laughter and a voice shrieking "I'll get you." With that being said, Slaughter High really isn't a very good slasher flick, but it does have a bad cheesy entertainment value to it.
After attending their high-school reunion, a group of friends learn the entire evening was planned as a ruse by a former classmate to seek revenge on them for a prank gone wrong and must find a way to stop the deadly rampage.This here turned out to be quite the enjoyable and fun cheesy slasher effort.
Still, there's still plenty of worthwhile elements throughout this with their being a lot of rather impressive horror sequences including the initial motivation for the rampage being a disastrous experiment gone wrong complete with the exploding school equipment and scarring acid that provides the motivations for one of the greatest ever masks in the genre with the old-man/jester-hat combo that works deliciously well in evoking the type of atmosphere warranted for the film and help highlight the finale wonderfully as the madly-ringing jester bells and held-aloft javelin through the school's hallways rival the best chase scenes in any classic slasher.
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!
Slaughter High will never win points for originality, characterization, acting, or really anything that makes a so-called "great film", but if you turn off your brain for 90 minutes, you'll find a lot to like.The plot is your typical "abused teenager stages fake high school reunion to lure his classmates into a death trap" kinda thing, but the death scenes are surprisingly creative and delivered with a certain amount of panache.
These have to be some of the oldest looking high schoolers I've ever seen.Despite its goofy premise and performances, there's an aura of mean spiritedness that hangs over the film like a dark cloud, which helps give birth to some spooky and haunting moments here and there.Slasher and b-movie fans will find a lot to love..
Slaughter High is my favorate horror movie.My quest to find out why Simon Scuddamore commited suicide shortly after Slaughter High's release may never be succesful,but I thought he did a great job and if it were'nt for him the movie would not have been as good.The movie stars Caroline Munro and has three directors,and is shot in London.It opens up with Carol,a sexy high school girl leading nerdy Marty Rantzen into the girl's locker room having him thinking they are about to have sex.It is a prank to trick Marty into taking all of his clothes off and being photographed.After he is terribly humiliated being seeing naked,there's more to the cruel prank.He gets his hands electricuted and is dumped head first into a toilet.Eventually the coach saves Marty,and the students have to stay after school and do push ups(like that's punishment enough)while Marty is in his lab about to smoke pot,another cruel prank!To make a long story short a nerd gets picked on and comes back from the dead for revenge.I think that covers it pretty well.The ending is weird.Joe Bob Briggs announced Simon's suicide on Monstervision a few years ago,another person that had seen him had written it in his review,that's where I found out about it.
Opening with a routine prologue to establish the killer's motive, and ending with a particularly stupid twist, the film is just about as dumb and predictable as the genre gets, but still manages to be craptabulous fun at times thanks to its cheesy, tongue-in-cheek approach, a handful of inventive deaths involving half-decent gore effects, a smidgeon of gratuitous nudity, and some truly cringe-worthy performances (no, Caroline, you don't look 18 and you can't do a convincing US accent).Munro plays Carol Manning, one of a group of friends invited to a reunion at their now-closed high school, where psychotic nerd Marty Rantzen stalks the corridors plotting revenge for the cruel prank that that left him hideously disfigured.Unaware of the vengeful, jester mask-wearing maniac waiting silently within, the group decide to enter the seemingly deserted school to shelter from an approaching storm.
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.
Other kills make zero sense, such as one that befalls a latecomer, in which the entire set-up is dependent on us believing that when Marty was preparing his cycle of revenge, he had the forethought to enlarge one of his high-school photos (a full body shot, mind you) to poster size and cover a door with it.The silly jester mask Marty wears throughout is by far one of the lamest articles of killer garb you'll find in the genre, and when the film-makers try to use the sound of the jingling aluminum balls on the tips of his crown to summon suspense, this is invariably a lost cause.Much of the music in the film is brazenly lifted from the Friday The 13th franchise (I don't mean it SOUNDS like it, I mean they literally re-used that same music), but the song that adorns the opening credits and repeats several times during the film is an original beast all its own, and it must be heard to be believed.Further supporting my assumption that all of the characters in Slaughter High actually want to be killed, the lone survivor's final showdown with Marty reaches a new high point of idiocy.
In an ill-fated chemistry experiment, the jocks and bullies decided to play a little nasty trick on him...Ten years later, disfigured nerd Marty has set up a pseudo high school reunion party, attracting several of his former tormentors.
In any event, I found myself paying more attention at this stage in the film, possibly because it finally seemed like something interesting was happening-and it was, though I'm not quite sure what, or why.Overall, "Slaughter High" is a bit of a bricolage slasher flick that, though amusing at times, doesn't seem to know what it wants or what it's doing.
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..
It stars Caroline Munro, from both Dr. Phibes films (she was his wife that died!), Dracula A.D. 1972, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, The Spy Who Loved Me, Maniac, and Faceless.Brought to you by the people behind Don't Open Til Christmas and Pieces, Heres my thoughts on this...It opens on April Fools Day, where a bunch of kids play an elaborate prank on the school nerd- promising him sex in the shower, and giving him public humiliation and a face in the toilet (all while hes naked!).
The movie opens with a flashback to Doddsville County High School on April Fool's Day. A group of students play a prank on class nerd Marty.
Scream queen Caroline Munro gives yet another explanation why she never managed to upstage her Bond Girl outing, whilst the rest of the cast seem content in the knowledge that movie obscurity was waiting behind the curtains invitingly.Perhaps the most macabre thing about Slaughter High, is the fact that actor Simon Scuddamore tragically took his own life soon before the film hit the shelves for release.
Slaughter High starts like any other day at Doddsville County High School where little minx Carol Manning (Caroline Munro) has tricked resident nerd Marty Rantzen (Simon Scuddamore) into the girls locker rooms where she tells him to get undressed in the shower, while doing so Carol's gang of friends come in & give the now naked Marty a big surprise as they film him as they stick his head down the girls toilet in an April fool's day joke.
They all venture inside where they quickly learn they aren't the only ones there as Marty is back & has revenge on his mind...Originally shot under the title April Fool's Day which they changed probably because of another slasher film named April Fool's Day (1986) made the same year this American English co-production is unusual in that it has three credited writers & directors, George Dugdale, Mark Ezra & Peter Litten (after never seeing a film with three credited director's I've now seen two in a week the other being the Jean-Claude Van Damme flick Kickboxer (1989)) & I have to say I really rather liked Slaughter High even though it seems to have a pretty bad reputation.
Five years later Marty invites all the people who hurt him to a high school reunion where he takes his revenge by killing them off one by one.Slaughter High is entertaining and very funny, but does have some flaws, like the people in this are very stupid even for a horror movie, like the part when they realise they're trapped in the school then later on one of the girls runs straight outside and falls into a muddy ditch.
Another part when the girl gets blood on her face and decides to take a bath despite there being a killer on the loose, and another error if the school's been closed down for five years how can it have running water.The acting is actually not that bad it's just a shame that none of the characters are likable.All in all it's a very entertaining and a great time waster..
Years later, the same group of classmates are invited to a high school reunion and they discover that the joke is on them and that Marty is their host who intends on getting the last laugh with deadly revenge.
Aside from some minor things like the actors in the beginning looking way too old to be in high school, throughout the film I kept wondering why no one tried to leave when the murders first started.
**SPOILERS** From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter High starts off with Marty, the school nerd, being lured into the girls locker room by Carol (played seductively by scream great Caroline Munro).
To his horror it turns out that a group of her friends are waiting to play a April fools day joke on him (and on his birthday!!) He eventually gets splattered in the face by a bottle of nitric acid and disfigures his face (still think thats a shocking scene!) Fastforward to five years later, the same group of friends are invited to a high school reunion, where each one gets killed during the night by someone wearing a court jester mask.
"Slaughter High" is a totally ridiculous slasher flick about a high school nerd Marty,who gets pick on all the time by some pranksters.The prank goes wrong and he ends up getting savagely burned.Five years later his tormentors all attend a reunion-just the ten of them of course,and low and behold Marty murders them one after another.British actress Caroline Munro("Maniac")leads the cast as the heroine(who dies anyway!).The acting is completely awful,there's also no suspense at all.Plenty of grotesque death scenes to satisfy the gore-freaks:a guy's stomach explodes,another female victim literally gets an acid bath,a couple having sex in bed get electrocuted,a guy is crushed by a tractor,one girl is drowned,and a doctor gets a hyperdermic needle in the eye.The killer wears a decent and rather creepy jester's mask and the setting(a beautiful old English castle)is really nice.However the dream finale is utterly pathetic.All in all it's true that "Slaughter High" is a piece of garbage,but I enjoyed it.Only for fans of truly bad slasher flicks..
Some aspects of this production are downright ridiculous, like casting the 36-year-old horror starlet Caroline Munro to play a high school prom queen, and the twisted dream-finale will leave even the most undemanding 80's slasher fan nodding his/her head with disapproval.
As you might read, high school nerd Marty takes revenge on his classmates five years after they played a cruel prank on him; they splashed acid on his face.
On a high school reunion Marty makes sure to kill the people responsible for his disfigured face.
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.
Another high-school-prank-gone-wrong-disfigured-victim-seeks-revenge slasher movie from the 1980s.
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.
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.
In recent years, I've become more interested in horror movies, so when I came across a good copy of Slaughter High, I decided it was time to revisit it to see how it held up.The story is about a nerd who gets painfully disfigured when a group of popular kids keep picking on him.