GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

edeighton My thoughts on Horror High-First a few observations and then I will report what I discovered about the History of this film.Observations:* Austin Stoker played Lieutenant Bozeman in this film, Last year in the YT Horror Movie Discussion Group we watched the movie "Ruby" and Austin Stoker played the police officer/brother-in-law in that movie. *Austin Stoker's Lieutenant Bozeman plays the worst game of cat and mouse with the main character, Vernon Potts. His Columbo-style questioning of Vernon leads the viewer to believe that if Stoker's character really suspected Vernon as strongly as the questions he asks seem to indicate, then this case could have been cracked a lot earlier if Lt. Bozeman had just assigned a police officer to track Vernon's whereabouts. * Some people may think that Vernon is a somewhat sympathetic monster. Think again. Why does the whole school start the movie calling Vernon "The Creeper". What did Vernon do prior to this movie to earn that nickname? Vernon was only forced to drink the chemicals once. Every other time thereafter, Vernon willingly drinks the chemical concoction to solve some rather trivial and minor problems in his life with murder. *The janitor, Mr. Griggs, must be a complete idiot. After beating Vernon viciously and then forcing him to drink what could be deadly chemicals, Mr. Griggs tells Vernon that he is going to beat him some more and then take him to the police. Who would the police arrest in that scenario? *Please tell me that somebody else noticed the bushy mustached white police officer angrily twitch his mustache when Lt. Bozeman tells him that he can't "tie up" Coach McCall.Short History of the Movie:*Lots of 50 and late 40 year olds have seen this movie. But many remember the movie being titled with a different name. This movie was popularly shown on late night monster television shows in the early 80's under the title "Twisted Brain". *This movie began production in 1973 during a time when Independent movie productions were becoming popular. This movie was not made by a big Hollywood studio but instead by a company, Horror High Ltd. that was formed by James Graham, the producer of this film. James Graham may have produced this movie soley as a vehicle for his hot girlfriend, Rosie Holotik (plays Robin Jones), to advance her acting career. Rosie was a Playboy cover model in 1972, acted in Horror High in 1973 along with two other B-horror films in 1973 and then never acted again. *This movie seems to provide the same local pride to Irving, Texas (where the movie was filmed) that Pittsburgh feels for "Night of the Living Dead". This movie was filmed exclusively in Irving, Texas during a fast two week shooting schedule. The school used as the setting was a High School for unwed mothers according to a Pat Cardi (Vernon) interview and the actors were not allowed to talk to the students or even look at them for fear of losing the location. *James Graham took advantage of the fact that a lot of professional football players that had went to college in Northern Texas lived in the Irving area. Mean Joe Green, Joe Niland (Coach McCall), Abner Haynes, Calvin Hill (Cleveland Browns RB), Billy Traux, D.D. Lewis, and Craig Morton (Broncos QB in Super Bowl XII) all played characters in this movie. This made filming difficult as fans hung around the sets for autographs. According to Pat Cardi (Vernon), Joe Niland (Coach McCall) would have young Pat Cardi over to his Irving mansion after shooting ended for the day where he had "babes running around the place like hot and cold running water" and young Pat Cardi would get so drunk that it would disrupt shooting the next day. *The movie cost $100,000.00 to make and only made less then $20,000.00 when it was originally released in and around the Dallas area in 1973. James Graham's High Horror Ltd. entered into a distribution agreement with Crown International Pictures and that allowed the movie to travel far and wide so that Variety magazine reported in May of 1974 that it "hit top grosses nationwide". The movie was pushed by Crown International Pictures for the next decade as it was a frequent second feature at drive-ins all the way into the early 80's. One practice employed by Crown International Pictures was to re-release old movies with new titles (Independent producers complain that this was an effort to hide box-office receipts), so this movie was released in different parts of the USA and worldwide with different names: "Kiss the Teacher...Goodbye!", "The Devil's Bible", "The Devil's Beast", "Experiment of the Death Devil's Beast", Werewolf Massacre". *Early promotion for this movie had a Drugsploitation angle. The early tagline for this movie was "Watch Vernon turn on...and then kill". Later once Austin Stoker enjoyed some success in the cult classic "Assault on Precinct 13" the marketing shifted and the tagline became "The man who survived Precinct 13 is Back!" But former child star, Pat Cardi (Vernon), wishes that the movie would have been promoted more along the angle of "I was a teenage Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde", which it never was promoted in that fashion.

Coventry This appears to be another one of those obscure early 70's cult favorites that a lot of people vividly remember as one of many nostalgic late Saturday night flicks that turned them into horror fans for life. Although I'm from a different generation, I'm fascinated by tracking down these movies based solely on the enthusiast reviews of first-hour fans. Sometimes you stumble upon hidden gems like way (for example "Where have all the People Gone") and sometimes you find movies of which you don't understand the fuzz about. "Horror High" is a bit in between; not an undiscovered masterpiece but definitely not a waste of time, neither. It's a fun and light-headed little monster movie with a handful of cool gore effects and even a couple of suspenseful moments. The film is basically a high-school variation on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" – the opening sequences even openly refer to Robert Louis Stevenson's legendary horror story – with a nerdy chemistry whiz kid transforming into an aggressive monster, through drinking a self made potion, and executing bloody revenge against all those who wronged him. Vernon Potts is a typical high school loner who's continuously experimenting in the chemistry room, but further neglects all the other classes. He's the prime target of mockery in school; for the football jocks but also for the sadistic teachers and nasty janitor. When the latter forces Vernon to drink the potion that drove his Guinea Pig Mr. Mumps crazy with aggression, he becomes his vengeful alter ego. Soon the malignant English teacher Mrs. Grindstaff and the corrupt coach McCall will experience Vernon's wrath. "Horror High" is a hugely predictable and sometimes even downright boring, but it undeniably remains a charming and adorably shlocky 70's effort. The trashy low-budget make up effects are tremendously entertaining to watch (imagine yourself faces being pushed into barrels full of acid, fingers being cut off under a paper-guillotine and bodies being spiked through gym shoes) and the unknown lead player Pat Cardi does a fantastic job as the tormented nerd. Halfway through the film, there's a completely irrelevant and pointless interlude in which the film follows around Vernon's estranged father as he's arguing with his new girlfriend and making a business phone call. If anyone can explain the significance of these 10 totally unnecessary padding minutes, please email me!

dbborroughs Nerdy kid with a knack for chemistry makes a potion that turns first his Guinea pig and then himself into a monster ala Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Using it he gets revenge on anyone who has ever wronged him.Perennial drive-in fodder is a half joking, half serious film that manages to be creepy despite itself. All of the characters are caricatures and the whole film plays out like a demented Tales from The Crypt story. the problem is that even though the film hits all the right notes at times, for the most part this is a really bad movie. Everything is poorly done from the acting to the make up to anything else you can think of. And yet the film still manages to be creepy. There are times in this film where there is real tension. Unfortunately other than the odd moment the film is so bad that you really won't want to watch it to the end.For those who grew up with it or bad movie lovers only

secragt Add me to the list of 10-year-olds scared simple by catching this one late night on free TV back in the 70s. My exposure to it was during a sleepover where we all decided to watch the midnight horror movie. Even as a 10 year old, I knew this was a bad movie. Poor acting, a mindless and mean-spirited script, bad grainy cinematography, amateurish direction. AND YET... it did absolutely scare my young self and has stayed with me through the years. The scene where the "manster" does in his coach with cleats accompanied by a blaring rock guitar solo so disturbed me, I avoided listening to loud rock music for a couple years. Definitely one of the more disturbing images seared into my braincells as a child. 3.5 / 10