Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: SLAUGHTER HIGH
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- I review the slasher movie "Slaughter High" (1986), starring Caroline Munro and the world's most middle-aged teenagers. (Originally aired July 11th, 2014)
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I love the idea of a slasher film where the victims basically kill themselves through pure stupidity and the 'killer' gets increasingly pissed off about that. Final scene, the 'killer' throws down their unused machete and walks off in disgust.
Or in the case of Marty, a javelin.
That’s really similar to Tucker And Dale vs Evil but without a killer trying to kill the teens
It would be like a 2 hour version of that really funny geico commercial. You know the one I mean.
And the machete _still_ somehow kills someone.😂
@@LaineMann "Why don't we just get in the running car?"
"By the way, I'm not a virgin, I've got two days till retirement, and here's a picture of my kids... ooh, and I'm also really a BLACK guy!" I lost it then and there!
"Anyway, be right back!"
That ending could be a great concept, a slasher villain haunted by the ghosts/zombies of their victims
Sort of happens in the rarely seen low-budget bonkers film KILLING SPREE.
I feel like that concept has definitely been done before, but I can't remember where...probably "Tales from the Crypt".
Sad that the actor who played Marty commited suicide...... Heartbreaking. RIP Simon Scuddamore
ElectricShark why did he commit suicide?
Well his Death resulted from an apparently intentional drug overdose shortly after filming, But he was dealing with depression, But he had joy in the making of the film!
Nathaniel Gregory well,idk what to say about it,but thx
He did also have a Heroine addiction.
He walked into his suicide?
Despite being a slasher villain, I have to admit that Marty has a nice taste when it comes to sneakers. I mean look at those Adidas that he's wearing.
Ikr finally a slasher with style
I know them boys were cold
Interesting fact; this movie was shot in the UK, filmed at St Marylebone Grammar School in Westminster, London, which had closed in 1981 and thus allowed the production the chance to work uninterrupted. The exterior shots of the school were shot at Holloway (abandoned) Sanatorium in Surrey. Many of the cast were British performers who adopted American accents due to the story being set in the United States.
So let me clear what happens in the ending. Shortly after Marty kills Carol in the shower, he suffers a hallucination where Carol and all his other tormentors terrorize him as ghosts of sorts. This causes his him to pass out and he wakes up in the hospital, where he switches places with the nurse (rather quickly, might I add) before stabbing the doctor in the eye with an air-filled syringe.
Kind of, except I'm pretty sure there had to be a misplaced shot or it was done for a stylistic purpose, where either, the whole thing was a dream, but after he wakes up everything goes as done in the movie (except for the ghost cuz that would be part of the dream), OR it shows how he got out of the hospital in the first place
I had a bully named Mike, so Im right there with you, dude! My Mike died a few years ago; my response to the inevitable, "Wow, it's so sad, have you heard?" was "I hope it hurt." Bullies deserve what they get.
lol i did the same thing, didnt feel bad about that doh
I mean I personally think that people don’t deserve to die for being dickheads as kids, but that was a based response. You shouldn’t ask for sympathy to a kid who was bullied by the person who died. That’s just really mean.
A school with... A bathtub? And a bedroom complete with a nightstand? Was it briefly operated as an inn after it was a school? Yeah. Out of everything in this movie that's what spoiled my suspension of disbelief (until the twist at the end anyway). 😂
Wait, why does the school have a bathtub?!
Why not?
Maybe it was the 80s?
Why do schools have showers?
We had one in junior high.....in the home-ec room this was I. This was in the mid 1990s
I wondered this too o.o
Why would he kill the janitor? I know it's the whole black guy always dies in horror films, but the janitor appeared to be the most kind to Marty.
It's because the janitor informed the coach of the initial prank, which led to the second prank that disfigured Marty. Not saying that he had it coming like the other thirty year-old teens, but he did have an unwitting role in Marty's origin.
@@BulletTooth504 So!! Telling was the RIGHT thing to do and if Marty was mad about that then he's a fucktard like the bullies are
Yeah wtf?
Apparently the bulk of the movie is supposed to take place FIVE years after the opening scene. Maybe it's me, but it looks more like TEN years.
+Gregory House You're too kind. I'd say it's a good 15 years judging by their apparent age :-P
its the ten your anniversary
Then again, you know them ages.
They seem like they're in their 40s. It always seemed to me like they were WAY older.
4:58
Bully mentality of the 80s movies.
Just see Buddy with Arnie from Christine and Henry Bowers with Ben from IT (1990).
They're like "If you weren't so much fun to pick on/torment, I wouldn't have gotten in trouble! You're gonna pay for this!".
Gee, a horror movie about an unpopular teen who is humiliated in the shower, blamed for the detention the tormenters are given, and then he kills them off in all sorts of over the top creative ways. I never heard that one before.
(Holds up a copy of Carrie)
Considering that book, maybe Marty does have evil powers... And maybe his mother was overzealous.
*Holds up copies of Carrie and Terror Train*
Yeah, in broad strokes, it's reminiscent of Carrie, but specifically, it's basically Terror Train directly transposed from a train to a high school. The plot is identical.
It's a very good point, though you can make almost any two things sound similar if you get general enough. Also, the kids in Carrie were markedly less cruel at first; they only piled-on when Carrie was freaking out, which is terrible, but still. These kids actively sought Marty out, when he'd apparently done absolutely nothing to draw their attention in the first place. They were punishing him for existing.
I know you're joking, but I just can't get over how clownishly-cruel that opening bit was. Like, they planned for several different stages of "prank", and created gadgets. How long did they take planning this shit? Isn't that kinda too smart for them? Wouldn't it be more something that maybe Marty could do? It'd be funny if it were nerds pulling it off against jocks that had bullied them, because, aside from the swirlie at the end, it was all brains over brawn.
It's just a real weird movie. So many bizarre choices.
Holds up a copy of Black Rat.
And Japan made this film WORSE. I have no idea how that’s possible
@michaelccozens wasn't their prank also kind of SA in away, like you can't just strip a dude of his clothes without that kind of accusation
you don't seriously think a bunch of bullies are going to admit that getting in trouble for what they did is their own fault, do you? i'm 100% convinced that their logic is "if Marty wasn't always being such a nerd, we never would have gotten busted for having to bully him!"
That's EXACTLY how bullies think.
I should tell Brandon that they were fucking with Marty simply because he existed.
That's usually the case when it comes to bullies
Brandon is a short metal head b movie fan. I guarantee the guy got bullied.
"Holy shit I think Marty might be the killer!!"
I'm still not convinced lol
Joking aside, the advertisements STRAIGHT-UP say that Marty is the Killer.
Why the hell is there a bed in a high school?
and a bathtub? 🛀
Kaiju Addict high schools in the 1980s were more furnished.
Kaiju Addict im gussing the janitor turned caretaker installed them cause he made it his new home
Sick room?
It could be one of those boarding schools
24:15 And everyone watching this video named "Mike" had a heart attack.
The only Mike I know of is Mike Matei from Cinemassacre.
Doctor Zock Mike Nelson?
Doctor Zock I feel personally attacked
Hey man I didn't do nothing
He do'nt care MIKE!! Sleep with your light on.....i hear he's always preceded by the smell of warm maple syrup
Dude, you've become my favorite movie reviewer on TH-cam!
Anyone else wondering how Marty got the acid into the beer can?
Probably turned the can upside down, bored a small hole in it, put the acid in, then sealed it with paraffin wax.
@@ronaldshank7589 wouldn't the others see the wax? I admit I'm not an expert so maybe not.
@@skylermaves7272 I see what you're saying, but, when somebody drinks a beer, are they liable to look under the bottom of the can to see if it's been tampered with? Probably not...just saying.
@@ronaldshank7589 he flipped the can over though and stabbed a hole in it before drinking the beer.
I'd still say it's still Golden Chainsaw worthy if you know what I mean.
I'd never even heard of the "April Fool's Day ends at noon" rule before this review. After 23 years of my life spending the entire April 1st with my guard raised against stupid jokes, it seems like such a rip off to hear that it's supposed to end right when most teens and young adults are fully waking up.
But I guess that's the spirit of April Fool's Day in a nutshell, isn't it? It's a day to celebrate the playful trickster in all of us, and the greatest joke of all is that most of us will be too drowsy to indulge it.
So basically what you're saying is that your life was a lie :/
Or maybe April Fool's ending at noon is a prank on it's own, made by someone who hated being pranked O_O If that's the case, then it's the longest and most successful April Fool's joke ever made O_O *mind blown*
And by embrace the inner prankster, I guess you mean killing off jarringly aged high school students after being disfigured by conveniently placed acid, at least by this movie's logic. This movie sucks, but I like it.
It's a British rule. (This film is British.) Americans prank all day, as depicted in the film that ended up with the April Fool's Day title.
Back when i still bothered with it, i NEVER pranked on April 1st, people expect it, was always randomly done on the two days before and after
I never followed that, I’m from America, the home of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Brandon, you got to review night of the comet!!!!. I can't believe you haven't done this one yet. I am a subscriber and you just got to find time to do this one. You are incredibly funny and you have a talent. Keep up the good work.
Didn't mention that this is a British B horror movie pretending that it was set in the USA even though no one can do an American accent convincingly and it's obviously all filmed in the UK. Still, the UK still had a legitimate B movie industry then which it sadly doesn't have any more (for shame!) Even the attempt to kick start Hammer again failed. But these last gasp of Brit-Horror movies are weird but effective in their own way so nice you did one.
Their accents are mostly ok, especially if they're all British. There is no singular "American" accent after all. It varies wildly by state or even city.
Wow didn't know the actor who played Marty actually killed himself.... so sad.
Simon Scuddamore. 28. Drug overdose. Abusive dad (apparently). Wish I had a chance to meet him. But his death gave me the reason to dress up as him for Halloween.
I'd probably do the same if I were in this movie.
You're right, the characters are dumb. Like every bully in real life. XD
Funny how I just fell in love with Caroline Munroe as a youngster, but due to most german channels cutting the end titles from movies - never learned her name. IT's only now thanks to you and other reviewers that I have re-discovered her.
Another favourite actress of mine is a more well-known one from the nineties - Angelica Bridges. You might remember her from Mortal Kombat Konquest, where she plays a sexy shape-shifting witch, or from Mystery Men, . Baywatch, Black Scorpion and she even played Red Sonja - on the Conan TV series.
Also, LOL, was the caretaker/janitor's skull made out of jello? The killer just effortlessly slides his head into the spike, without even pushing.
Shit, just read the wiki on Angelica. Sounds like that Sheldon Souray NHL-player dude beat the hell out of her and the kids during their marriage. That poor family (except Sheldon, who can burn).
@@michaelccozens Damn, that's terrible. Had no idea she had such a bad marriage. She started singing later.
My kids used to love the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series. And I have to say, it's a quality show. Not just for production value, but the voice acting is top-notch. The scripts are well done. And the messages are good as well. Not cheesy in-your-face morals like other kids' shows. And hell, it's guest-starred a bunch of people. John DeLancie (Q from Star Trek) and Weird Al both have voiced characters, so it's gotten attention. And adding to what Brandon said, the look of the ponies in the '80s was horrifying. Yes, they look more like real horses, but they're just off enough to be terrifying.
Didn't know April Fools ending at noon was a thing.
You could hear some of their voices break into their native dialects..
@@snatchadams69What does that have to do with April fool's ending at noon?
@@MamaMOB Because in the states AFD is an all day thing however, in the U.K. it ends at noon, they were trying to pass this off as an American slasher but their vernacular wasn't American.
@@MamaMOB It's a British thing, they're British, but it's set in the US. April Fools ending at noon is a thing.
the way Caroline's hair looks in the opening is amazing
holy Shit I think Marty mite be the killer
*might
nah really
What a twist! Who could have predicted that?
Gasp! Spoilers!
oh dear... not 2 minutes into the plot and I already hate the main characters. .. I am actually Rooting for the killer..
5:52 No, he has two bricks, one per hand. He throws one through the window and drops the other on the floor
Fair, but that still doesn't excuse the coach being a moron. Did he think the brick came through the window from the outside while somehow pushing the broken glass behind it, so it was also outside?
And why is this gym full of loose bricks? Is that what they use for dodgeball at this school or something? Widespread concussions would explain a lot.
Edit: Looking closely at 5:51, I'm afraid you're wrong. He clearly is holding only one brick in one hand when he makes the throw.
Around a decade ago I stumbled across this movie searching for something to watch and it has become one of my favorite movies ever. Very underrated slasher for a 80’s movie . It’s so bad it’s good
Holy Shit! I think Brandon killed it! The combination of B minus cinema and biting sarcasm makes for the best comedy on the internet. Not only did I laugh like a fool, but our cult leader slyly dealt us a catch-phrase that will stay with us forever. Tai Mingh -- you have mastered the art, grasshopper. Well done, my son.
Why'd he kill the Janitor?
i think marty is racist
He would call the police when he spotted the killer trying to kill one of them.
If he hadn't reported the bathroom prank, then they "teens" wouldn't have incinerated Marty.
BulletTooth504 He did report them to the coach.
ShadowWolfRising The janitor probably picked on Marty too.
When this played on the local Saturday afternoon Thriller Double Feature (on channel 20 Detroit), I knew it had jumped the shark. Before then, they played the Hammer films and other classics.
KRhetor I remember that channel man you remember channel 38
Yup! It's where I saw Frankenstein's Daughter, Wizard of Mars, Escape From Galaxy 3 (aka Starcrash II). They also played a Fellini film once!
Ohhhhhh so this is where the MLP joke mentioned in the Giant Claw review came from! Awesome.
I got to agree, that actress sure is hot.
yup, do you knw any movies of her
Yeah if she were a vacuum cleaner I'd wanna be the dirt she's sucking up
Caroline Munro is a nut buster
The film is British-In the past they used to teach school kids how to do house work correctly, most schools had mock houses set up, april fools day ends at noon because april fools day ends at noon here in the UK.
On the dvd commentary the director says he has no idea what a American high school is like.
Pretty much like what's in the movie. A ton of douchebags and bitches. The popular kids get drunk, high, and well laid. And if they are unlucky their victim becomes an incel that comes after them all. So yeah he actually nailed it.
Then maybe he should have actually asked an American or something? Or set it in the UK.
Thanks for the review. Brandon. Haven't seen the movie, but I think your review was probably more entertaining. One thing though: that scene with the killer in the car reminds me of a classic urban legend: The Killer in the Back Seat, which was also one of the ones used in the very first URBAN LEGENDS movie, the first murder in fact.
Did those middle-aged teens learn NOTHING from Carrie?
I watched this is movie when I was a kid. I thought it was a interesting slasher film with a unique premise. The kills, to me at least, were disturbingly inventive. This was before I had watched other more famous slasher franchises. What threw this movie off for me was the ending...damn it, the ending was nonsensical to me. I lite-
rally was scratching my head. Overall, it was an enjoyable if somewhat cheesy flick.
Somewhere, Mike feels a chill run down his back.
Also kudos for the 'I think MARTY might be the killer!' line which has made its way into my lexicon.
At 5:18 why does the one bully have a letter jacket with a big T when it is called Doddsville County High School? I used to work at a local sports store that sold letter jackets and the patches when I was in high school. It should have a D for Doddsville. My assumption is confirmed at 15:23 when Marty has one in the poster. You can also see he has a different jacket throughout the movie.
Fair point, but nobody said these bullies are especially smart.
R.I.P Simon scuddamore who play Marty in the film.
It's clear to me.
This is the follow-up to Reefer Madness.
Everything happened after he smoked a joint.
24:10 I just ignore the bullys and stop others from being bullied
The guy who played Skippy was a pretty good actor. Also Barry from Emmerdale
Saw this movie when i was like 14, my dad was like, "don't tell your mother."🤣🤣🤣
This soundtrack was really good........when it was in Friday the 13th
Harry Manderfini was the music composer for this movie, 2 of the producers of this movie also produced 1982 slasher film Pieces
It was a decent flick when it comes to 80s slashers. Didn't know that the guy who played Marty committed suicide after the movie was released it makes it creepier guess.
It was before the movie released, as it was stated in the video.
Saw this when I was little. Could never find out what movie it was till today! Thanks for the awesome review!
PMSL, the dirty talking sex scene has to be a joke right? There is no way that was the real dialogue. My god i haven't laughed out loud like that in weeks.
What high school has a bathtub? Showers yes but a freaking tub?
That box set does include Waxwork and Chopping Mall, so I’d say it’s a good trade off.
Marty didn't actually get his revenge since it was all a dream.
I believe Caroline Munro as an actress more than a high school student
I realize that I'm unbelievably late to this video, but that 8 movie box set also included Chopping Mall, the epitome of the "this is what the kids like now-a-days, right?" 80's slasher movies; it deserved a mention.
Honestly, Chopping Mall looks kinda great. I think it's too good to be on that box-set, if only for that sweet-ass "boom-box with built-in synth keyboard" the one guy has.
23:35 - That's the same as the kill in Midnight Express! Gratifying
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14:26 as a teenage boy I'm not complaining about this
Sadly the actor who played Marty (Simon Scuddamore) died by suicide shortly after making this movie...
Apparently all the actual teenagers were lining up for Saved By The Bell auditions!!!🙏👍👻
Anybody else but me want to see this movie remade
me too.
Pedro Sepulveda How can he be Marty when he is dead? Are you high?
Zachary Watson Yeah it needs a remake for sure.
I would love to
It could be done. Plus Caroline Munroe is still alive. And is still hot! OK in a gmilf kind of way.
I find this Simon (the one who played Marty) guy's really fascinating. Shame he commited suicide.
I wonder whether this movie was the cause or the effect of his sucide? Was what he went through in the movie just too much to bear, or did he just want to star in a film like this before he killed himself? We might never know.
WillieManga I read somewhere it had something to do with his dad.
28 years of age. They are old.
@@MrBlueSkyof1607 thanks for commenting; I spotted a 6 year old typo (commuted suicide)
Maybe April Fool's ending at noon is a prank on it's own, made by someone who hated being pranked O_O If that's the case, then it's the longest and most successful April Fool's joke ever made O_O *mind blown*
the same music , from friday the 13 the final chapter
I think it would have been better if the movie ended when Marty was laughing while shouting "April Fools!".
IronPiedmont1996 That is how it should have ended in the first place.
Not ashamed to admit that I love this stupid movie, lol. My mom rented it in the late 80's and I remember being scared shit less watching it with her and my siblings. I was no older than 6 or 7. We rented lots of cheesy slasher films during that time but for whatever reason i never forgot the title, plot or the cover art of the vhs with the skeleton holding the apple. Fast forward to the late 90s, I was a teen looking for scary movies to rent with my best friend for a sleepover. I spotted Slaughter high in blockbuster and rented it, raving to my friend about how scary it was, not thinking that what may be frightening at age 7, just might be laughably bad at age 14! We laughed our asses off at how cheesy and 80's it was, and I felt so embarrassed for hyping it up as scary to my friend. Fast forward to 2011 and something reminded me of it again and I looked everywhere for it on DVD to no avail. Finally just found a site to watch it online and I guess it's the nostalgia, but I actually really enjoyed it the 3rd time. Sure it's ridiculous, has gaping plot holes and bad dialoge but definitely has a spot in my 80s kid heart! Sadly, the actor who played Marty died of suicide before the film was even released. For over a decade now I've been following a memorial page on fb for him, if im not mistaken, it's run by someone who knew him personally.
Marty looked like Two Face
Someday Mike is going to watch this and be like oh fuck
i hope he does
The theme song to this film is awesome. I always wished I could get a full, longer version. That's some lost media for sure!!!
Thankfully it's out on blu ray now
I was thinking that Marty should have kept killing them with his chemistry skills, but then I realized that I couldn't think of any other gruesome kills that weren't explosive poison or acid.
Holy shit marty is the killer XD lol
It also begs the question just how Marty knew exactly when the one guy was going break through the window and end up in the very car Marty was already hiding in.
Maybe cause it's a dream that he can do all this stuff?
Why did he kill the caretaker?!
Also, since when are "caretaker" and "janitor" different jobs?
The janitor saw what was going on, reported it to the coach, and everybody got in trouble....Marty included!
Don't Caretakers have more duties than a typical janitor? Like don't they also double as groundskeepers?
@@jordandehart6905 Yes, you are correct.
"Janitor" tends to imply cleaning an actively-used building, while "caretaker" implies more general maintenance/surveillance of an unused property.
@@ronaldshank7589 Maybe, but that's on the coach, not the janitor.
Look, this movie doesn't even attempt to explain how wimp Marty is suddenly one-handed choke-slamming full-grown adults (the slapped-on "dream" ending doesn't count). I think you're looking for answers that were never, ever there.
Still not sure if Marty is the killer.
I thought Marty was gonna turn into the Toxic Avenger after the prank. Minus the toxicity factor.
Awesome review but I was kind of disappointed you skipped the part where Caroline accidentally kills skip
This is oddly one of my favorite 80s slashers. I saw it on old school "On-Demand" on cable in the late 2000s and at the time I wasn't seeing anyone else talking about this one, but I always found it really fun and cheesy in the best ways.
most of characters
In slaughter high make the characters
in Friday the 13 Movies look smart
Yeah it does feel like a great April fools day Horror movie. 🃏💀🧟♂️
If they would have made the high school scenes set in the 70s then they could have made the actors ages in the "present" time a lot more believable 😂😂
Holy shit! I think Marty might be the killer!!
The actor who played Frank went on to star in a popular UK soap.
Caroline Munro was on my radar since The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (which was probably the only good movie she ever did).
3:05 As a bronie I have to say that joke was funny as hell
Marty looks like he later became Stan the Java Man starring on MAD tv
holy shit....the character killed himself before the movie was even released!?...meaning this guy was actually mentally unstable and playing a mentally unstable killer!??
Waleed Mcclintock or he realized what a shitty movie he was in that showed off his ding dong, and it sent him over the edge.
He O'd on Heroin.
That .... really really sucks about the actor that played Marty.
I think Marty’s cute and deserved his revenge. The ghosts of his victims bit is b.s.
Is it me, or does 17:03,it kinda sounds like jump scare music from Friday the 13th?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Same composer, Harry Manfredini.
Here's a question. Do you remember a high school revenge movie where one guy is tricked into diving into an empty pool and a guy is killed by opening his locker and it explodes? I saw that movie back in 82 or 83 on cable. Do you know the name? If you do, do a review on that one if you haven't already.
Hey what’s the song at 1:31?
I do remember this one. It was more entertaining than a lot of its contemporaries
The Marty having pants continuity error confuses me. Usually when there's a character that suppose to be naked, but you can tell they have a towel on or something, I usually assume that it's because the actor didn't want to actually be naked. Here the actor did get naked and left little for the imagination, so why wasn't he just naked in the first shot too?
Might be for the same reason they isolate other nude shots; to minimize the people on-set and make the actor doing the nudity more comfortable. It's one thing to be naked on film; quite another to be pant-less in front of, like, 50 random crew who are actually physically there with you.
If James covers this movie, who should get the golden chainsaw and dull machete?
i hope James a. janisse from Dead Meat does a kill count on this next year in 2025, he's currently doing The Exorcist movies now
@@DavidRoarty yeah
simon scuddamore was great in slaughter high
Yeah the actor who played Marty was great to bad this was his only movie since killed himself and overdosed on drugs at the age of 28 so sad 😢
Rip Martin actor. Also, Brandon you must to review Darkman