HORROR HIGH is a very cheap, cheesy, and inadequate horror feature from the team at Crown International Pictures. It's a film that doesn't have a great deal going for it, aside from the relatively unusual (for the time) high school setting, something that would of course become ubiquitous with the advent of the slasher genre and '80s horror in general.
The annoying Pat Cardi plays a usual high school nerd type character who finds himself bullied and put upon by his peers and superiors. Inevitably he injects himself with a super-serum that turns him into a monster of kinds, and he then goes on a killing spree. Basically it's a Jekyll & Hyde story with an American high school setting.
The quality of the print I watched on Talking Pictures TV was truly horrendous, which I suppose does add to the grindhouse experience. HORROR HIGH is quite substandard, with slapdash kill scenes and overacting throughout making it hard to watch at times. The make-up for the monster is truly pathetic. The only thing of interest is seeing Austin Stoker, the cop from ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, playing...you guessed it, a cop. A somewhat unconnected sequel, RETURN TO HORROR HIGH, followed in 1987.
The annoying Pat Cardi plays a usual high school nerd type character who finds himself bullied and put upon by his peers and superiors. Inevitably he injects himself with a super-serum that turns him into a monster of kinds, and he then goes on a killing spree. Basically it's a Jekyll & Hyde story with an American high school setting.
The quality of the print I watched on Talking Pictures TV was truly horrendous, which I suppose does add to the grindhouse experience. HORROR HIGH is quite substandard, with slapdash kill scenes and overacting throughout making it hard to watch at times. The make-up for the monster is truly pathetic. The only thing of interest is seeing Austin Stoker, the cop from ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, playing...you guessed it, a cop. A somewhat unconnected sequel, RETURN TO HORROR HIGH, followed in 1987.