Slaughter High (1986)

Country of Origin: UK / USA
Year of Production: 1986
Running Times: 88 mins (UK)     90 mins (UK)     95 mins (USA - unrated)
Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Spectacular Trading International a Steve Minasian and Dick Randall production of a George Dugdale  Mark Ezra  Peter Litten film
Produced by: Steve Minasian & Dick Randall

SCRIPT
Written by: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten

DIRECTION
Directed by: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alan Pudney

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Jim Connock

MUSIC
Music: Harry Manfredini

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Craig Berkeley, Alison Hall

CAST
Starring
Caroline Munro (Carol)

With
Simon Scuddamore as Marty (Rantzen)

and
Kelly Baker (Nancy)
Sally Cross (Susan)
Billy Hartman (Frank)
Carmine Iannaccone (Skip Pollack)
Gary Martin (Joe)
Michael Saffran (Ted Harrison)
Josephine Scandi (Shirley)
John Segal (Carl Putney)

and introducing
Donna Yeager (Stella)

Marc Smith (Coach)
Dick Randall (Manny)
Jon Clark (Digby)

A shy young by is horribly disfigured when a high school preank goes wrong. Many years later, his class holds a reunion and his former classmates are picked off one-by-one by a mysterious serial killer.

More unwatchable rubbish from Minasian and Randall, made as a companion piece to the excerable Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1985). This one is laughably set in the States, though being filmed on location in England tends to rob it of a little geographical verisimilitude. The cast too is largerly British, a bunch of largely unknown non-actors making a complete hash of being Friday the 13th style American teens. Admittedly, the cast's attepts at a variety of regional American accents is good for a laugh or two, but really, wasting a couple of hours of your life on this peurile crap just for a few cheap laughs is a seriously dumb idea.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: First Independent Films; Vestron Pictures
Video Distributor: Vestron Video

Australia
Rating: R

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R

Marty majored in cutting classmates.

For murder, Marty gets ten out of ten.

Where the student body is going to pieces.

April Fool's Day - working title
Jolly Killer - Italian title
Le jour des fous - French title
Die Todesparty - West German title

SEE ALSO
Friday the 13th (1980)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Don't Scream It's Only a Movie (1989)

BOOKS

Pocket Essentials: Slasher Movies p.87 (UK)
credits, review (by Mark Whitehead)

schools, gore, acid, slasher, april fool's day, disfigurement, electrocution, serial killers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008