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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaEight people are invited to their alma mater for their 10-year reunion, where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.Eight people are invited to their alma mater for their 10-year reunion, where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.Eight people are invited to their alma mater for their 10-year reunion, where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.
Donna Yeager
- Stella
- (as Donna Yaeger)
Michael Safran
- Ted
- (as Michael Saffran)
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- CuriosidadesWriter/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten later said they were both worried that working on the film might have contributed to Simon Scuddamore's suicide (Scuddamore died of an intentional drug overdose shortly after filming ended). However, at Scuddamore's funeral, his mother told Dugdale and Litten that her son had been dealing with depression and that one of his main sources of joy toward the end of his life was working on the film.
- Erros de gravaçãoIn each sequential or consecutive opening scene involving Marty inside the school lab, it is way obvious that the camera is jostling the shelf containing the nitrite acid. Two times, he is standing away from the shelf, so he cannot possibly bump it. And another time, he is putting the bottle back in its spot, after pouring some into a beaker. However such maneuver would not cause the shelf to simply wiggle or move. And no chemical lab would have a flimsily constructed shelf, holding very dangerous or toxic chemicals.
- Versões alternativasThe original UK Vestron video release was cut by 32 secs by the BBFC to remove shots of nudity and burnt breasts during the acid bath and electrocution killings.
- ConexõesFeatured in Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985)
Avaliação em destaque
Better-than-average slasher flick
"Slaughter High" is, perhaps, the most underrated slasher flick of the 1980s. It is one of the few films in the genre that is enthralling throughout. 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. Marty, the killer, has good reason to hold a grudge against his former classmates. They electrocuted him as he stood naked in a girl's locker room shower, jabbed at his crotch with a javelin, and, to top it off, rigged his science lab experiment so it could disfigure him.
So, the victims in this movie are about as unlikeable as you get. When they reunite years later -- at a high school reunion put on by Marty himself -- you realize they haven't matured all that much. They're a bunch of sociopaths.
It is mind-boggling why they would not wonder why they were the only ones to show up to the reunion, which, by the way, is held at a school that has since fell into disrepair. And who would think it's a good idea to drink beer and liquor found in the abandoned building in a room that happens to have their old lockers -- as well as Marty's -- on display? There are many leaps of faith the viewer needs to take to enjoy this film. The ending makes little or no sense. And the screenwriters have a strange understanding of how April Fool's Day works: The movie claims that pranks are no longer allowed after noon.
In all, the movie is one of the best examples of the slasher genre, despite all of its flaws. It is hard to understand why it hasn't yet found its way to DVD, when so many other run-of-the-mill slasher flicks are graced with special editions.
The reason why "Slaughter High" stands above most movies in its genre is that it goes more over-the-top. Marty, the killer, has good reason to hold a grudge against his former classmates. They electrocuted him as he stood naked in a girl's locker room shower, jabbed at his crotch with a javelin, and, to top it off, rigged his science lab experiment so it could disfigure him.
So, the victims in this movie are about as unlikeable as you get. When they reunite years later -- at a high school reunion put on by Marty himself -- you realize they haven't matured all that much. They're a bunch of sociopaths.
It is mind-boggling why they would not wonder why they were the only ones to show up to the reunion, which, by the way, is held at a school that has since fell into disrepair. And who would think it's a good idea to drink beer and liquor found in the abandoned building in a room that happens to have their old lockers -- as well as Marty's -- on display? There are many leaps of faith the viewer needs to take to enjoy this film. The ending makes little or no sense. And the screenwriters have a strange understanding of how April Fool's Day works: The movie claims that pranks are no longer allowed after noon.
In all, the movie is one of the best examples of the slasher genre, despite all of its flaws. It is hard to understand why it hasn't yet found its way to DVD, when so many other run-of-the-mill slasher flicks are graced with special editions.
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- YellowTapedRobt
- 4 de jul. de 2006
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- April Fool's Day
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- St. Marylebone Grammar School, Westminster, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(interiors of school)
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