gridoon2018 Another high-school-prank-gone-wrong-disfigured-victim-seeks-revenge slasher movie from the 1980s. If you can put up with a horribly amateurish first half hour, this one has a few decent moments and a couple of fairly gruesome and imaginative kills. It also has instances of head-slapping stupidity, such as Caroline Munro knocking down the killer with a baseball bat and then dropping it beside him and running away (!), of the fact that all the characters can quite easily leave the school building as one of them demonstrates but never even try to. Speaking of Munro, she is surprisingly convincing playing a teenager despite being 37 (!) at the time, but this was a big career comedown for her - she was in a James Bond movie less than a decade earlier, for crying out loud. One amusing line: "if a caretaker takes care of the place, a janitor....janits?" ** out of 4,.

Adam Peters (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.

Spikeopath 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

steadysam This is a largely unknown slasher film but if you are a true slasher geek you probably would've heard of this one. The plot is that Marty Rantzen, a high school nerd, gets picked on by a group of jocks and girls. One of their pranks go wrong resulting with nitric acid burning Marty's face. 5 years later all the bullies are invited to a school reunion at their old school. When they get inside the school the bullies are killed off one by one by Marty, who sent the invitations and is out for revenge. Now some of the acting is pretty bad and most of the actors in this film have had very little film roles (Except for Caroline Munro). The music is also a bit repetitive but enjoyable. However, Simon Scuddamore's role as Marty is great and he looked like he had a lot of fun with his role. Sadly, this was Simon's only film role as he committed suicide right after the film was made. But overall Slaughter High is a pretty good horror movie and it is worth watching.