On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, I’ll Spend a Decade Plotting to Kill You and Everyone You Love
Few holidays had their reputations altered more severely by the advent of the internet than April Fool’s Day. What was once a niche holiday devoted to optional pranks on your friends devolved into a 24-hour salute to disinformation in which everyone begrudgingly agrees not to believe anything they read for a day while brands amuse themselves with unfunny online gags.
But anyone daydreaming about a simpler...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, I’ll Spend a Decade Plotting to Kill You and Everyone You Love
Few holidays had their reputations altered more severely by the advent of the internet than April Fool’s Day. What was once a niche holiday devoted to optional pranks on your friends devolved into a 24-hour salute to disinformation in which everyone begrudgingly agrees not to believe anything they read for a day while brands amuse themselves with unfunny online gags.
But anyone daydreaming about a simpler...
- 4/6/2024
- by Christian Zilko and Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Oh, ’80s slashers. You come in so many shapes and varieties that I never get tired of you. Take Slaughter High, for example, a slasher movie that was released in 1986 but looks like it was made in 1981. It has three directors. It was shot in the UK by English filmmakers, but passes itself off as an American film taking place in an American high school. The high schoolers all appear to be in their early 30s. It’s entirely placed on April Fool’s Day but couldn’t be called April Fool’s Day (its original title) because there was already a movie coming out called April Fool’s Day. Nothing about Slaughter High makes complete sense, but it’s in this way that the movie distinguishes itself.
Marty Rantzen (Simon Scuddamore) is the school nerd, picked on by just about everyone. Naturally, he’s surprised when Carol, one of...
Marty Rantzen (Simon Scuddamore) is the school nerd, picked on by just about everyone. Naturally, he’s surprised when Carol, one of...
- 11/16/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Slaughter High Starring Caroline Munro Available on Blu-ray October 31st – A Vestron Horror Classic!
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestry Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate.
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate. A high school prank gone wrong comes back to haunt the offenders during their five-year high school reunion. From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter Highincludes all-new special features, including the “Going to Pieces” and “My Days at Doddsville” featurettes, an audio commentary with co-writers/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten, and more! Restored and remastered, the limited-edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series Slaughter High Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97.
Check out this video from Lionsgate about this important Blu-ray release:
There’s horror...
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate. A high school prank gone wrong comes back to haunt the offenders during their five-year high school reunion. From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter Highincludes all-new special features, including the “Going to Pieces” and “My Days at Doddsville” featurettes, an audio commentary with co-writers/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten, and more! Restored and remastered, the limited-edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series Slaughter High Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97.
Check out this video from Lionsgate about this important Blu-ray release:
There’s horror...
- 10/20/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestry Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate.
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate. A high school prank gone wrong comes back to haunt the offenders during their five-year high school reunion. From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter Highincludes all-new special features, including the “Going to Pieces” and “My Days at Doddsville” featurettes, an audio commentary with co-writers/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten, and more! Restored and remastered, the limited-edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series Slaughter High Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97.
Check out this video from Lionsgate about this important Blu-ray release:
There’s horror...
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate. A high school prank gone wrong comes back to haunt the offenders during their five-year high school reunion. From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter Highincludes all-new special features, including the “Going to Pieces” and “My Days at Doddsville” featurettes, an audio commentary with co-writers/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten, and more! Restored and remastered, the limited-edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series Slaughter High Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97.
Check out this video from Lionsgate about this important Blu-ray release:
There’s horror...
- 9/20/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestry Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate.
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate. A high school prank gone wrong comes back to haunt the offenders during their five-year high school reunion. From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter Highincludes all-new special features, including the “Going to Pieces” and “My Days at Doddsville” featurettes, an audio commentary with co-writers/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten, and more! Restored and remastered, the limited-edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series Slaughter High Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97.
Check out this video from Lionsgate about this important Blu-ray release:
There’s horror...
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate. A high school prank gone wrong comes back to haunt the offenders during their five-year high school reunion. From the makers of Friday the 13th, Slaughter Highincludes all-new special features, including the “Going to Pieces” and “My Days at Doddsville” featurettes, an audio commentary with co-writers/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten, and more! Restored and remastered, the limited-edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series Slaughter High Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.97.
Check out this video from Lionsgate about this important Blu-ray release:
There’s horror...
- 8/22/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If you were wondering what the next entry in Lionsgate's Vestron Video Collector's Series would be, then you can now fill in the correct answer on your test score sheets, because Slaughter High is joining the high-def collection this fall (and on a very fitting date, too).
Bloody Disgusting recently reported that the 1986 horror film Slaughter High will be released as the 12th Blu-ray of Lionsgate's Vestron Video Collector's Series. The Blu-ray will hit shelves on October 31st with several new bonus features. Below, you can read additional details and check out the cover art:
Press Release: Surviving high school is murder with the Vestry Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate.
Street Date: 10/31/17
Blu-ray™ Srp: $39.97
Program Description
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High,...
Bloody Disgusting recently reported that the 1986 horror film Slaughter High will be released as the 12th Blu-ray of Lionsgate's Vestron Video Collector's Series. The Blu-ray will hit shelves on October 31st with several new bonus features. Below, you can read additional details and check out the cover art:
Press Release: Surviving high school is murder with the Vestry Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High, arriving for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ uncut on October 31 from Lionsgate.
Street Date: 10/31/17
Blu-ray™ Srp: $39.97
Program Description
Surviving high school is murder with the Vestron Video Collector’s Series’ upcoming release of Slaughter High,...
- 8/22/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The working title for Slaughter High was April Fool’s Day. Too bad another slasher entitled April’s Fool’s Day was already on the way. Producers were forced to change their title to Slaughter High; yet, the thematic “April Fool’s Day” song remained. Thank goodness.
A bullied high school nerd is fatally killed by a prank gone horribly wrong. Or is he? A madman in a jester mask kills off the teenage tormentors responsible.
A then 36-year-old Caroline Munro starred as the movie’s teenage heroine. And you thought everyone on “Beverly Hills, 90210” were too old to play high school kids.
As a tragic footnote, Simon Scuddamore, the actor who played the bullied nerd Marty in this 1986 slasher comedy, committed suicide shortly after the film’s release.
Now that you’re depressed, here’s Slaughter High’s wacky theme song “April Fool’s Day”.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
A bullied high school nerd is fatally killed by a prank gone horribly wrong. Or is he? A madman in a jester mask kills off the teenage tormentors responsible.
A then 36-year-old Caroline Munro starred as the movie’s teenage heroine. And you thought everyone on “Beverly Hills, 90210” were too old to play high school kids.
As a tragic footnote, Simon Scuddamore, the actor who played the bullied nerd Marty in this 1986 slasher comedy, committed suicide shortly after the film’s release.
Now that you’re depressed, here’s Slaughter High’s wacky theme song “April Fool’s Day”.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
- 4/1/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Year: 1986Director: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter LittenCast: Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Donna Yeager, Carmen Iannaccone
A high school geek named Marty is ruthlessly harassed and picked on by the popular kids at the school. One day, a prank involving a science experiment goes terribly wrong, scarring Marty for life. Several years later, each of the students involved in the prank get invitations to a high school reunion, only to all show up and find their old high school was closed down years ago and is now abandoned and in squalid condition. However, the gym is set up for a reunion party, complete with drinks and snacks. Their decision to stay and party proves fatal as they are each murdered in gruesome ways by a killer disguised in a jester's mask. Could it be Marty seeking revenge?
If ever a horror film succeeded simply on its atmosphere and quirkiness alone,...
A high school geek named Marty is ruthlessly harassed and picked on by the popular kids at the school. One day, a prank involving a science experiment goes terribly wrong, scarring Marty for life. Several years later, each of the students involved in the prank get invitations to a high school reunion, only to all show up and find their old high school was closed down years ago and is now abandoned and in squalid condition. However, the gym is set up for a reunion party, complete with drinks and snacks. Their decision to stay and party proves fatal as they are each murdered in gruesome ways by a killer disguised in a jester's mask. Could it be Marty seeking revenge?
If ever a horror film succeeded simply on its atmosphere and quirkiness alone,...
- 3/2/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Troy)
- Fright Meter
Lionsgate Home Entertainment is trotting out the 1986 slasher film Slaughter High on DVD under a new banner: "The Lost Collection: The best movies you totally forgot about." Indeed. The late Simon Scuddamore (who reportedly committed suicide shortly after the film's release) stars as a bullied young man who falls victim to an awful prank. He schemes to get back at his tormentors when he holds a fake high school reunion for them to attend. Soon, bodies begin to drop in grisly ways. The wicked hot Caroline Munro ( Maniac ) also stars. Originally called April Fool's Day (because the reunion was set on April 1st), the film was forced to take Slaughter High because Fred Walton's picture starring Amy Steel beat them to the punch. Look for Slaughter High on DVD...
- 1/22/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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