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How sad is this?

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events -- on location, at the now abandoned school.This film has received some ex post facto praise and recognition for having George Clooney. And while he is quite entertaining in the film, he is also only in it very briefly. This is hardly a showcase of Clooney talent (and good looks).It also has an awfully terrible score. I could look up who did and call him or her out, but you know what... it is best I just let them remain anonymous.But seriously, this is a decent little slasher film. I have seen dozens of slashers. Maybe one hundred slashers... but never saw this one until now. Shame on me. It is far from the worst, and has some decent kills and effects. Plenty of corpses, blood and all the stuff you like in a slasher film.

Return to Horror High is set in the town of Crippen where in 1982 a series of brutal murders were committed at Crippen High School, the killer was never caught. For the past three months a crew of filmmakers have been busy filming a low budget horror film that is based on the Crippen High School murders in the now abandoned school corridors of Crippen High. The police are called to the High School & find several mutilated bodies & only one survivor, the writer Arthur Lyman Kastleman (Richard Brestoff) who tells the tale of how he & the crew were making a horror film only to come to the realisation that a unknown killer has been murdering them one-by-one...Directed by Bill Froehlich & despite the title this is not a sequel to any other film, in fact you could say that it's a sort of crappy low budget forerunner to the self parodying likes of Scream (1996) as Return to Horror High is a film told almost entirely in flashbacks about a film within a film, if that makes sense. The whole narrative & structure of Return to Horror High is quite confusing & becomes annoying, for a start there's this framing device in which the police are rounding up bits of dead bodies while the lone survivor tells his tale of what happened (he also tells the cops things that he couldn't have known or wasn't there to see) so there's are numerous flashbacks & interruptions as the film switches back & forth between the two. Then there's the annoying situation where the majority of the flashbacks focus on a film crew making a horror film so just as a fairly long scene is playing out that you start to get into the director yells 'cut' & it turns out it was part of the film that they were making. While watching Return to Horror High a lot of these sequences felt like flashbacks to the original 1982 incident & it does become extremely irritating as scenes that you invest time in go nowhere & just end with someone yelling 'cut'. At over an hour & a half it's not like Return to Horror High needed padding out either, the character's are poor & the multiple twist endings are laughably bad. Are we really expected to believe an entire squad of cops can't tell any one of up to a dozen dead bodies are in fact still alive? Do any of these cops not know how to check for a pulse? Do any of these cops not find it strange that all these body parts are made from rubber? Are we to believe all these people manage to convince the cops they are dead for several hours? Also who was the killer? If he never killed anyone like the twist ending suggests then how did he get a huge spear through his chest? I honestly can't remember seeing the guy before he pops up at the end, I'm sure he was there someone but I just must have forgotten & I couldn't make any sense of his reasons for the murders or if he was responsible for the earlier 1982 killings or, well actually I think it's best not to try & make sense of the various twist endings (this thing just doesn't know when to quit!) as I think it might drive me insane. Life is too short. Return to Horror High wants to be everything, it wants to be an 80's slasher, it wants to be exploitative, it wants to be a murder mystery & it wants to poke fun at the genre with it's mocking of film crew clichés like the artistic director, the producer only interested in money & the self centered star in interested in becoming famous but it never succeeds in any aspect. It just doesn't work, it's painfully unfunny, the mystery is laughable & ridiculous while none of the killings are seen on screen (with good reason because of the twist ending) so it even lacks in the gore department. Also, if I might ask, what is a secret classroom doing under a real classroom? Does that make sense to anyone? Were they in the habit of building secret classrooms, maybe for students who wanted to be secretly taught?Return to Horror High tries to be funny, it tries too hard & as such just ends up predictable & quite forced. Because of the rubbish twist ending none of the kills are that gory since none of the victims actually died (so why did that guy get sucked down into the sandpit & why was that guy strung up & that large fan rolled towards him or why the lead actor was supposedly killed behind a door since no-one was there to witness any of it anyway & I assume that the so-called victims were in on the plan so what was the point of staging a fake murder when no-one was ever going to see it?) with a few splashed of fake blood, some severed limbs & a cut out heart shoved in some guy's mouth in the films single goriest moment. Return to Horror High is also the only slasher I can remember seeing where someone is killed by a sandpit. There's a fair amount of nudity as several of the girls show off their breasts.Apparently Return to Horror High had a decent budget but did nothing at the box-office when released, the most note worthy aspect of the acting is who turns up in this with Hollywood mega star George Clooney in an early role.Return to Horror High is a mess of concepts & genres that is a chore to watch with several awful twist endings that stretch credibility to the limit & you will have suspend all disbelief to be convinced by them. Not gory, not funny, not scary & definitely not as clever as it likes to think it is.

Return to Horror High (1987) ** (out of 4)Long before SCREAM and SCARY MOVIE we had this slasher/spoof that seems to be hated by pretty much everyone and misunderstood by even more. A movie crew shows up at a high school to film a movie based around the real life murders where of course the real killer was never captured. Soon more bodies begin to pile up but is it connected to the real events or is it just a movie? Just about every review you watch is going to really lay into this film but I didn't find it nearly as bad as its reputation. Yes, it's incredibly stupid but that's somewhat the point as it is making fun of the slasher genre. Do all the jokes work? Of course not but there were some minor good moments that make it a lot better than many of the films it spoofs. I think what does work is how the movie never really lets you know whether you're watching something real or if you just seeing a scene being shot. There were a couple moments that really caught me off guard as I thought I was watching something real but it turned out to be just part of the movie being filmed. This is naturally a cheat but it makes for some cheap fun. Another plus is seeing Marsha Brady (aka Maureen McCormick) playing a nutty cop who feels herself up a few times. There's also some mild charm of seeing a young George Clooney getting butchered in front of our eyes. He certainly doesn't show any signs of being a future Oscar-winner but we all have to start somewhere. There's also quite a bit of blood that got past the MPAA since (I'm guessing) many of the death scenes are done in a spoof way. What doesn't work is that the film runs way too long coming in at 91-minutes and much of the charm begins to wear thin after the first hour. Another problem is that none of the main characters are all that interesting with the exception being the director trying to make a classic film and the producer wanting gore and nudity to make money. Those who hate horror films certainly aren't going to change their minds with this film but fans of the genre can get a few cheap laughs here.

A low-budget movie crew make a trashy slasher film on location at a high school where a series of murders took place five years ago. Pretty soon a mysterious psycho killer starts bumping off cast and crew members left and write. Director/co-writer Bill Froehlich offers a fun behind-the-scenes glimpse at the chaotic shooting of a down'n'dirty cheapie flick, relates the absorbing story in a complex and tricky flashback-ridden manner, delivers plenty of clever and startling film-within-a-film moments, stages the murder set pieces with reasonable brio, and, best of all, makes several spot-on satiric pot shots about pandering to the lowest common denominator (y'know, graphic and gratuitous sex and violence) and the filmmakers' responsibility to produce something of substantial moral value. Moreover, the killer's true identity is a genuine surprise and the fake-out ending is brilliant. The sound acting from the sturdy cast rates as another significant asset, with stand-out contributions from Alex Rocco as cheerfully shameless sleazeball producer Harry Sleerik, Scott Jacoby as pretentious director Josh Forbes, Brendan Hughes as earnest cop hero Steve Blake, Lori Lethin as sweet lead actress Callie Cassidy, Andy Romano as sensitive Principal Castleman, Richard Brestoff as hapless screenwriter Arthur, Vince Edwards as mean, lecherous biology teacher Richard Bimbaum, Maureen McCormick as eager, bumbling, blood-happy Officer Tyler, and Al Fann as merry janitor Amos. A then unknown George Clooney appears briefly as unreliable lead actor Oliver, who gets offed early on in the picture. Stacy Widelitz's slick cinematography boasts some smooth gliding Steadicam work and a surplus of smoky backlighting. Roy Wagner's spirited shuddery score likewise does the trick. An enjoyable and inspired deconstruction of your basic slice'n'dice fare.