Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

meddlecore Holy sh*t...if you only watch one horror this Halloween season...definitely make it this film!!! Class Of 1999 can be described as an amazingly perfect cheesy combination of The Warriors meets Mad Max & Punishment Park- with some Chopping Mall & Terminator on the side. Yes. It is that f*cking epic.Fully automatic gang warfare has broken out in Seattle, around Kennedy High, rendering it a "free fire zone" (meaning that police will not enter it...and there is no law). To counter this anarchic state of affairs, the US government has formed the Educational Department of Defense to step in and intervene with maximum security measures- including android teachers who dole out all manner of corporate punishment. They've also released a number of teenage criminals from jail, directly into the experimental schooling program...where zero tolerance is rule number one.Our protagonist is Cody,leader of the Blackhearts gang, who was offered clemency and released as part of this program. He's pretty reasonable compared to the rest of the punk kids at the school...which leads him to form a romantic relationship with the Principals daughter.After the battledroid teachers murder a couple of his friends, he catches a whiff of what is going on at the school. He tries to warn everybody and bring together rival factions in order to combat these unhuman psychopaths...but he has a hard time convincing them.That is until it becomes glaringly evident...cue the apocalyptic robot-human war.Turns out that these artificial intelligence androids were originally developed for warfare purposes, but then marketed to the government as a surefire way to address the youth and crime in and around America's major cities. And it seems the bots aren't absorbing their educational directives very well.This film is absolutely brilliant. There is not a single thing about this film that doesn't totally rule. It's a true cult classic.For what it is, there is a surprisingly well known cast, including Stacey Keach as the head of the DED program and Malcolm McDowell as the Principal and father of Cody's love interest.The special effects are downright, f*cking amazing. From the fight scenes to the robotic reveals. Everything about this is just awesome.And there are sooooo many great one liners.This is cheese perfected. Up there with Evil Dead 2 and AOD as a masterpiece of cult cinema. Must see.8.5 out of 10.

zetes Mark L. Lester's follow-up to the nutty thriller Class of 1984 outcrazies it by quite a distance. Class of 1999 is a sci-fi thriller set in a high school that has been completely taken over by gangs. The principal (Malcolm McDowell) hires a government contractor (Stacy Keach, sporting bizarre, silver-irised contact lenses and a crazy white hairdo with a rat tail) to replace some of his teachers with cyborgs to keep the students in line. These cyborgs (played by Pam Grier, Patrick Kilpatrick and John P. Ryan) have about the worst programming imaginable. On the first day they beat the students down (Ryan has the film's most memorable scene, administering spankings to two of the students). On the second day they start murdering them. Cory Feldman lookalike Bradley Gregg plays the hero, a boy trying to go straight after serving a prison sentence for gang activity. When the cyborgs start murdering his buddies, he rejoins the gang to take them down. This is pure Velveeta - absolute B movie gold. Ryan is the stand-out of the cast. He's just hilarious as the pipe smoking robo-teacher. Keach has some great moments, too. There's one scene where he eats a banana - no one can not look like an idiot while eating a banana, and the image immediately, before the movie even ended, became my new Facebook avatar. Joshua Miller, so memorable in the vampire flick Near Dark, also appears. So many great moments, lines, hilarious bits of production design. This is one of the all-time great pieces of garbage.

Coventry It was a dreadful Sunday evening. I was in a really bad mood; recovering from a horrible case of weekend hangover with a heavily upset stomach and struggling with a lack of sleep. I put my borrowed copy of "Class of 1999" in the VCR, but was pretty much convinced already there wasn't any movie that would succeed in holding my attention at that point. I was wrong. "Class of 1999" literally re-charged my batteries and managed to make me end my weekend with a huge sardonic grin on my face. Moral of this seemingly irrelevant and pointless personal story: we could ALL use a completely senseless and over-the-top grotesque movie about homicidal robot teachers from time to time! This movie, in spite of being an assembly of recycled ideas and qualifying as utterly dumb, is so much fun and offers such a giant amount of cheesy gore effects that I can't possibly imagine anyone hating it. The premise can't be taken too seriously and there are plentiful of obvious tongue-in-cheek elements (like the deliberately absurd performances from a solid B-movie cast), so the way I figure is that you can't but sit back and enjoy this early 90's hodgepodge of Sci-Fi/horror. The film is listed as a sequel to "Class of 1984", but apart from the futuristic high-school setting and the fact they were both directed by Mark L. Lester, the two have very little in common. I even strongly suspect that the reminiscent "Class of …" title is only there for slick marketing purposes. The original 1982 cult-classic dealt with teachers standing up against the ever increasing power of youthful gangs, but in this film the youthful thugs have to fight for their lives against android teachers! The year's 1999 – duh – and the US pretty much looks like John Carpenter already imagined it in "Escape from NY", meaning certain areas are off-limits for the police and you enter at your own risk. Kennedy High is located in the middle of such an area and it's needless to say that education is the least of their concern. The Razorheads are busy fighting their gang war against the Blackhearts when suddenly three brand new teachers make their entry. We immediately know they are cyborgs, bought by principal Malcolm McDowell from a hi-tech company run by Stacy Keach, but obviously the students don't. Minor little problem is that the robots were initially designed to military purposes, so they tend to confuse discipline with cold-blooded murder. The thugs will have to put their territorial gang conflicts aside for a moment and combine forces against robots with super strength! And one of them is Blaxploitation heroine Pam Grier, so they're screwed! "Class of 1999" is a wondrously bonkers piece of exploitation trash with cartoon-like violence and numerous sequences that look oddly similar to legendary moments of other 80's classics, like "The Terminator" and "Robocop". The cyborg effects are sublime and the dialogs are delightfully banal, but especially the cast is the main reason why this flick has CULT written all over it! Stacy Keach is sublime as the exaggeratedly eccentric robot-father, complete with dyed white hair and goofy contact lenses. Apart from the aforementioned Malcolm McDowell ("A Clockwork Orange") and Pam Grier ("Coffy"), "Class of 1999" also stars familiar cult faces John P. Ryan ("It's Alive"), Patrick Kilpatrick ("Under Siege 2") and Joshua Miller ("River's Edge").

Woodyanders 1999. The bleak near future. Youth gang violence is so bad and out of control at Kennedy High School that earnest principal Miles Langford (nicely played by Malcom McDowell) has evil albino robotics expert Dr. Bob Forrest (a gloriously hammy Stacy Keach) bring in three special and lethal automated battle droid teachers - history teacher Mr. Hardin (a wonderfully sly and spirited portrayal by John P. Ryan), sultry chemistry teacher Mrs. Connors (the always great Pam Grier), and tough gym teacher Mr. Bryles (a perfectly cast Lincoln Lilpatrick) -- to restore order. Problems arise when the teachers revert back to their military programming and start killing off the students. Director Mark L. Lester, working from a colorful and outrageous script by C. Courtney Joyner, really goes to town on the entertainingly campy and ridiculous premise: the constant brisk pace rarely lets up for a minute, the exciting action set pieces are staged with rip-snorting gusto, there are loads of amusingly cheesy one-liners and several moments of pleasingly grisly gore, and Lester completely pulls out all the stops for the delightfully over-the-top explosive climax. The cast likewise have a field day with the blithely absurd material: Bradley Gregg makes for an appealingly brooding hero as surly gang leader Cody Culp, the ravishing Traci Lin gives a charming performance as the sweet Christie Langford, Grier, Kilpatrick, and especially Ryan are all in top form as the deadly terminator teachers, plus there are neat turns by Joshua Miller as Cody's snotty, but loyal younger brother Angel, Darren E. Burrows as twitchy drug addict Sonny, James Medina as nasty rival gang leader Hector, and Jill Gatsy as the scrappy Dawn. Mark Irwin's glossy cinematography gives the picture an impressively polished look. Michael Hoenig's robust, rattling score and the trashy'n'thrashy rock soundtrack both hit the rousing spot. Granted, this film is pretty silly and doesn't possess the raw gritty power of Lester's earlier "Class of 1984," but it's still a great deal of funky-punky comic book fun just the same.