Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Five Back To School Movies...

School sucks...amiright!?! Here's some horror movies set around high school. Every other list I've seen had Carrie, The Craft, The Faculty, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Prom Night...so here's some other ones.

1. Class of Nuke'em High (1986)
A Troma Entertainment cult classic...Tromaville High School is located next to a nuclear power plant...mutant shenanigans occur. The local gang is called 'The Cretins'.
There's a couple of sequels.
It's a Troma movie, and if you know Troma, than you know what to expect.





2. Class of 1984 (1982)
Class of Nuke'em High is basically a spoof of this movie...which is Canadian...and stars Timothy Van Patten, who has gone on to direct; The Sopranos, Homecide: Life on the Street, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Ed, Sex & The City and Boardwalk Empire!
A gang of 'punks' terrorise their high school. The theme song 'We Are The Future' was by Alice Cooper.






3. The Woods (2006)
A little known but pretty good supernatural horror starring Bruce Campbell and Patricia Clarkson.
Set in a private girls school in 1965...weird things are happening...in the woods. Girls are disappearing from their beds in the middle of the night and all that's left is a pile of leaves. What's going on?





Christine (1983 film)
4. Christine (1983)
From the Stephen King book of the same name and directed by the master himself John Carpenter.
Arnie is a nerdy teenager with only one friend, who happens to be a popular jock, his luck seems to change when he buys a rusty old red and white 1957 Plymouth Fury named 'Christine'. As Arnie works on the car, which the radio only plays 1950's rock n roll, he starts to change...once shy and unassuming, he's now cocky and dresses in all black. Christine starts to take revenge on the high school gang that have been bullying Arnie.



5. Battle Royale (2000)
Controversal Japanese cult classic based on a book of the same name by Koushun Takami.
A class of high school students are drugged, fitted with collars and taken a remote island where they are told that they have to try and kill each other over the next three days. This movie is very violent but very emotional at the same time.
It is banned in Germany and has never had full distribution in the U.S.

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