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
Happy (almost) Halloween readers! With October 31st falling on the weekly home entertainment release day, that means we have extra reasons to get excited this Tuesday. Scream Factory has put together two absolutely incredible collector’s edition Blu-rays for George A. Romero’s underrated modern classic Land of the Dead as well as Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, which fans are going to want to add to their own personal collections.
For those of you who may have missed it in theaters, The Dark Tower comes home on Halloween, and Lionsgate has given the cult classic Slaughter High the Vestron Video treatment for their brand new Blu. Blue Underground is also keeping busy this week with a pair of Collector’s Edition sets, too—The Lift and Down—and the complete series of Orphan Black makes its home release bow on Halloween, too.
Other notable Halloween...
For those of you who may have missed it in theaters, The Dark Tower comes home on Halloween, and Lionsgate has given the cult classic Slaughter High the Vestron Video treatment for their brand new Blu. Blue Underground is also keeping busy this week with a pair of Collector’s Edition sets, too—The Lift and Down—and the complete series of Orphan Black makes its home release bow on Halloween, too.
Other notable Halloween...
- 10/31/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- 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
Ever since Lionsgate announced their Vestron Video Collector Series Blu-Ray line up, genre fans hoped that they would finally release the uncut version of Slaughter High. Well fiends, that day is here. Read on for the press release…
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 High includes 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.
Official Synopsis
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 High includes 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.
Official Synopsis
There’s horror...
- 8/22/2017
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
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
Stars: Nathan Nolan, Evie Brodie, Simon Dutton, Louise Houghton, Seth Sinclair | Written and Directed by Mark Ezra
Here we go again. Another found footage movie. This time the premise steals heavily from the grand-daddy of found footage movies, Cannibal Holocaust, in so much that the film purportedly consists of ‘found’ material from the screen writer’s video diary which is viewed after the events… Yeah right.
Apparently based on a true story, You Are Not Alone (aka House Swap) sees a young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge.
Here we go again. Another found footage movie. This time the premise steals heavily from the grand-daddy of found footage movies, Cannibal Holocaust, in so much that the film purportedly consists of ‘found’ material from the screen writer’s video diary which is viewed after the events… Yeah right.
Apparently based on a true story, You Are Not Alone (aka House Swap) sees a young California screenwriter and his composer girlfriend exchange their Echo Park home for a sprawling Tudor mansion near Glastonbury, England, in the hope of finding creative inspiration. Thinking they have the best of the bargain, they soon learn that the house comes with a stalker who seems able to enter through locked doors. Driven beyond endurance by the continual harassment, the screenwriter sets a trap to exact his revenge.
- 8/9/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
This is one of those rare stories that can go either way because it is coming from IMDb. Slaughter High is a 1986 slasher flick written and directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, and Peter Litten. The original story is about eight people being invited to their 10 year reunion at their now closed down high school, where a disfigured former student seeks revenge over a prank gone horribly wrong. Apparently, the remake is set to be released in 2012.…...
- 9/22/2011
- Horrorbid
Arrow Video have released details of their forthcoming DVD release of the highly regarded, but little seen (at least uncut) slasher starring Caroline Munro (Maniac), Slaughter High and Blu-ray release of the former video nasty directed by the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Tobe Hooper, The Funhouse – both of which are released this month.
Slaughter High
DVD release date: 11th July 2011
A gory guilty pleasure from the golden age of the slasher movie genre, Slaughter High comes to DVD completely uncut for the first time in the UK and featuring a host of Special Features that includes audio commentaries by co-writer/co-director Mark Ezra and the film’s star, legendary Scream Queen, Caroline Munro. Co-directed by George Dugdale (Living Doll), Mark Ezra (House Swap; Savage Hearts) and Peter Litten (To Die For; Living Doll) and starring Munro (Maniac) alongside Emmerdale’s very own late Terry Woods, Billy Hartman (Highlander), the film...
Slaughter High
DVD release date: 11th July 2011
A gory guilty pleasure from the golden age of the slasher movie genre, Slaughter High comes to DVD completely uncut for the first time in the UK and featuring a host of Special Features that includes audio commentaries by co-writer/co-director Mark Ezra and the film’s star, legendary Scream Queen, Caroline Munro. Co-directed by George Dugdale (Living Doll), Mark Ezra (House Swap; Savage Hearts) and Peter Litten (To Die For; Living Doll) and starring Munro (Maniac) alongside Emmerdale’s very own late Terry Woods, Billy Hartman (Highlander), the film...
- 7/3/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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
Unless you’re a die-hard slasher completist, it’s understandable if Slaughter High is, as stated on the case of its “Lost Collection” Lionsgate DVD edition, one of those “movies you totally forgot about.” And if you do happen to recall catching it during its very brief theatrical release or via VHS from Vestron back in the day, well, it’s pretty much as goofy as you remember.
This very late-in-coming entry in the 1980s slasher cycle (completed in 1985 but not released till a couple of years later) starts with a protracted prologue in which high-school misfit Marty (Simon Scuddamore in oversized dork glasses) is tormented by his cruel 20- and 30something classmates, until one of their pranks ends with him being horribly burned. Cut to an undisclosed amount of time later, when one of those students, Carol (Caroline Munro), is now an actress turning down a sleazy movie offer from her agent,...
This very late-in-coming entry in the 1980s slasher cycle (completed in 1985 but not released till a couple of years later) starts with a protracted prologue in which high-school misfit Marty (Simon Scuddamore in oversized dork glasses) is tormented by his cruel 20- and 30something classmates, until one of their pranks ends with him being horribly burned. Cut to an undisclosed amount of time later, when one of those students, Carol (Caroline Munro), is now an actress turning down a sleazy movie offer from her agent,...
- 4/3/2009
- Fangoria
Another long-in-limbo vintage slasher opus is rescued from video obscurity as Slaughter High makes its DVDebut April 14 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. It’s part of an eight-disc series called The Lost Collection, described as “The Best Movies You Totally Forgot About.”
Written and directed by the British trio of George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten, 1987’s Slaughter High stars genre veteran Caroline Munro as one of a group of people invited to a reunion at a remote, closed-down school—little knowing they’ve been lured there by a former classmate they once tormented, who soon wreaks bloody revenge on them. Like the other Lost movies (which also include the 1988 comedy My Best Friend Is A Vampire, also marking its first time on disc, and a reissue of the 1990 Exorcist spoof Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair), Slaughter will be accompanied by a pop-up trivia track. Retail price for...
Written and directed by the British trio of George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten, 1987’s Slaughter High stars genre veteran Caroline Munro as one of a group of people invited to a reunion at a remote, closed-down school—little knowing they’ve been lured there by a former classmate they once tormented, who soon wreaks bloody revenge on them. Like the other Lost movies (which also include the 1988 comedy My Best Friend Is A Vampire, also marking its first time on disc, and a reissue of the 1990 Exorcist spoof Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair), Slaughter will be accompanied by a pop-up trivia track. Retail price for...
- 1/22/2009
- Fangoria
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