tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post4822743176878733282..comments2024-01-25T05:48:13.938-06:00Comments on Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies: High School Horrors!The Vicar of VHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06832137990485130735noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-45457423611239873272010-03-29T12:02:00.986-05:002010-03-29T12:02:00.986-05:00Nice list! Haven't seen all of them but defini...Nice list! Haven't seen all of them but definitely worth a look!<br /><br />Thanks!Martinhttp://www.zombies-and-horror-movies.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-59129911471809302202009-06-15T09:55:11.252-05:002009-06-15T09:55:11.252-05:00The details of my high school years have become lo...The details of my high school years have become lost to even the most devout practitioners of bonecasting, but in the interest of participation I shall relate a tidbit.<br /><br />My greatest memory from those years involves me kicking a volleyball the length of the basketball court inside the gymnasium, which struck a window near the coaches office, thus shattering it. After the initial panic, and subsequent paddling, I won the affections of a girl whom I had attempted to court on several occasions previously. <br /><br />Some say it was my obvious virility, nay moxie, that won the hand of the fair maiden, but I choose to believe it is because I'm hung like a donkey.The Duke of DVDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04931606833969681610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-6051219847594357862009-06-15T09:37:54.614-05:002009-06-15T09:37:54.614-05:00Eek! Of course I meant Gibby Haynes of the Butthol...Eek! Of course I meant Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, not Gabby Hayes of 40s western character acting fame. I guess the memory really is the second thing you lose with age, right after you lose...ah, dammit...what was that first thing? ;PThe Vicar of VHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832137990485130735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-73895565799789563762009-06-15T09:35:55.883-05:002009-06-15T09:35:55.883-05:00I want to say thank you to my readers for helping ...I want to say thank you to my readers for helping me get up for the reunion with your great movie suggestions and even better high school memories! You'll be happy to know I've survived, I didn't get pantsed, and actually managed to have a passable amount of fun. The girl I had a crush on all 4 years and who broke my heart on no less than 3 occasions during that time didn't show up, so I didn't get to show off my suave black-clad sexiness and make her bitterly regret not having treated me better--not that this was in any way my plan. :S Still, I made it through, and now I can devote my full attention the long slow process of getting old and dying.<br /><br />@T. R Xands--HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME is indeed a glorious mess of a movie, one which I watched for the first time only a couple of years ago. One of the great WTF endings in slasher history, for my money, though not up in the rarefied heights of PIECES. As for your HS experience, wow! The student/teacher vanishings sound particularly intriguing, esp. if they're tied to the goths and blood and adultery. I'll buy a ticket to that movie! <br /><br />@Tower Farm Billy--I don't think I've ever actually sat down to GRADUATION DAY; I had a chance back in the 80s, but when I learned Vanna White didn't get nekkid (did she?) I moved on to something else. As to the more modern HS horrors, the less said the better indeed.<br /><br />@Ezreal--I actually live in Little Rock, Arkansas, which is where the Central High Segregation drama happened back in the 60s (an aunt of mine was actually a student at the time). I don't know if MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH is based on that, but I'll pretend it is. As to 10 vs. 20 yr reunions, I can't speak to the difference as I skipped my 10 yr, but I imagine people were much closer to their HS personalities then than they will be 2 decades down the line. I was surprised last night that everyone was such a grown-up. Also by how few people I actually remembered; I had a small circle of friends.<br /><br />@ThatQuebecGuy--I didn't see the Prom Night remake, but the original was no great shakes anyway, IIRC. Good luck on surviving your last year before the mast. Horror movies will help get you through; it worked for me, anyway. ;)<br /><br />@Jeremy--I really need to add STUDENT BODIES to my permanent collection. I want a BIGFOOT-style documentary on "The Search for The Stick" as an extra, though. Apparently the guy just disappeared, which is odd. I mean, how could a guy like THAT just disappear? I thought for a while he might have changed his name to Gabby Hayes, but the time frames don't mesh.<br /><br />@Al Bruno III--thanks for sharing that unique slice of pain and triumph! At least you got to dance with your crush at the end of the night. I took my aforementioned crush to the junior prom (she agreed only b/c no one else asked her), got one dance at the beginning of the night, had to have her home by 11, and not so much as a peck goodnight. Not that I'm bitter. <br /><br />Thanks again, everybody!The Vicar of VHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832137990485130735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-11719629281656438592009-06-14T15:39:01.313-05:002009-06-14T15:39:01.313-05:00Allow me to share this snapshot of high school wit...Allow me to share this snapshot of high school with you...<br /><br /><br />http://albruno3.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-no-longer-fear-hell-for-i-have-been.htmlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492062472206579391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-74780493194934150872009-06-14T12:25:34.251-05:002009-06-14T12:25:34.251-05:00Bless the good folks at Paramount for finally rele...Bless the good folks at Paramount for finally releasing Student Bodies on DVD! Would that there were extras other than the trailer, but I won't look that gift horse in the mouth.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577869869365520912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-28582671015542280902009-06-13T15:48:50.061-05:002009-06-13T15:48:50.061-05:00The only high school horror movie I ever saw was P...The only high school horror movie I ever saw was Prom Night... the remake. One of the worst movie I've ever seen.<br /><br />Anyways, right now I'm in the process of finishing high school (in Quebec secondary education ends with the eleventh grade) and well, it wasn't so bad. The three first years were pretty boring, the fourth was just crazy in terms of ups and downs and for some reasons (okay they were good reasons) everybody in my promotion thought I was a drug dealer and this last year was fun if not special. Only things left are the exams and the prom, not gonna miss high school one bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-80004738737864479562009-06-13T01:25:16.029-05:002009-06-13T01:25:16.029-05:00Don't forget "Massacre at Central High&qu...Don't forget "Massacre at Central High" and "National Lampoon's Class Reunion". <br /><br />My worst memory of high school is something I did. An article I wrote for the school newspaper got censored, and I went on an immature anti-semitic rant that would have made Mel Gibson turn red. Worse was I didn't believe anything I was saying; I just wanted to to piss people off. Not my proudest moment. The only good thing about my 10-year reunion was I got to finally apologize to some people.<br /><br />My 20-year is next year, and I'm skipping it. Despite me feeling I had an obligation to go to my 10th, I discovered most people hadn't changed (some even had the same hairdos). I don't want to see what's happened 20 years down the line.Eric Wincentsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649164276058469446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-40486218538509906302009-06-12T10:28:52.034-05:002009-06-12T10:28:52.034-05:00Vicar,
Sheesh...this is hard. All my favorites t...Vicar,<br /><br />Sheesh...this is hard. All my favorites take place on extremely unrealistic college campuses. I think you've covered the classics.<br /><br />What about 1981's Graduation Day, which revolves around murders within a high-school track team and features a young Vanna White (and her uncle, Christopher George)?<br /><br />Of course there are some newer, post-Scream slasher set in high schools...but those are generally nauseating and not worth mentioning.<br /><br />As for my own high school experiences...most of them have been blocked out by years of hard drinking.<br /><br />-BillyTower Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01117151684983587816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032450846239938332.post-31363137251954656062009-06-12T10:23:18.145-05:002009-06-12T10:23:18.145-05:00Man, I just realized how few high school horror/sl...Man, I just realized how few high school horror/slasher movies I've seen (or at least that I actually remember) from any decade. Other than Carrie & Slaughter High, I remember seeing Happy Birthday to Me (which was GLORIOUS) not too long ago via FearNet & the original Prom Night (and one of the sequels) when I was young & allowed in Blockbuster.<br /><br />High school was pretty ho-hum up until the second half. I realize now it would make the best action-slasher combo ever. Intrigue! Goths! Mysterious student & teacher vanishings! Blood in the cafeteria! Scandal! Adultery! We even had a film goof one year with a student that was alternatively in & out of a wheel chair at random points in the day. Good times.T. R Xandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12142370339947719352noreply@blogger.com