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Tag Archives: High School
Savage Streets (1984)
It’s difficult to tell if the extremely 80’s exploitation movie Savage Streets (1984) is intended to be a parody of juvenile delinquent flicks and grindhouse rape-revenge sagas. Throughout it seems just a step away from becoming a tasteless Troma comedy. … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Psychotronic
Tagged 80's, Action, High School, John Vernon, Linda Blair, Linnea Quigley, Revenge
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Prom Night (1980)/Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)/Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)/Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil (1992)
Without a doubt one of the strangest of the slasher film cycles is the Prom Night series, which kicks off with a decent, by-the-numbers genre entry, stalls out, unexpectedly resurrects itself, plunges into horror-comedy, and doubles back to slasher while … Continue reading
Posted in Marathon, Theater Caligari
Tagged 80's, 90's, Brock Simpson, Canuxploitation, Cynthia Preston, demons, High School, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Joy Tanner, Leslie Nielsen, Lisa Schrage, Michael Ironside, Nicole de Boer, Possession, Prom Night, Slasher, Wendy Lyon
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The Cheerleaders (1973)
The Cheerleaders (1973) presents a MAD Magazine view of high school, one in which the football players are grunting, primitive horndogs, and the cheerleaders, far from being mere distractions by the bleachers, possess a superhero-like sexual power that proves to … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Psychotronic
Tagged 70's, A Month at the Grindhouse, Cheerleader, Comedy, Football, High School, sexploitation
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