Michael_Elliott Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)** (out of 4) Troma tries to re-capture the magic of THE TOXIC AVENGER but doesn't quite come close. The film takes place at Tromaville High School where several students get contaminated by a nuclear power plant located nearby. Soon these kids are turning into mutants and doing all sorts of perverted and gory things. CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH isn't a good movie but I doubt anyone walking into a Troma movie is expecting one. For the most part the film delivers everything a Troma fan would want but it just doesn't quite reach the levels of the studio's best work, which is of course THE TOXIC AVENGER. That film was released a couple years before this one and you can tell that they basically took the toxic waste from that film, applied it to a high school and ended up with this thing. For the most part the first half of the film is extremely fun as we get the typical group of teenagers doing all sorts of crazy and rude things. I should say these are Troma teens and not your typical teens next door. Once a nuclear joint gets smoked by the virgin lovers (Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton) things start to pick up in the gore department. The monster here certainly isn't scary but I really don't think it was meant to be. Apparently the entire costume was never completed, which explains why we only see its upper half throughout the picture. If you're a fan of gory, over-the-top violence then you're going to get plenty of that here as countless heads are ripped off and various other body parts are fractured and torn apart as well. The performances are exactly what you'd expect from a "C" picture but I will admit that Brady and Brenton at least kept you entertained in the events going on. CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH isn't the work of John Ford but for a low-budget flick from the 80s there are enough campy moments to make it worth watching.

BA_Harrison Your typical 80s Troma film is a trashy low-budget piece of B-movie excess featuring lousy acting, lame humour, comic-book violence, gratuitous nudity, bad music, and even worse fashion; generally, this kind of exceedingly puerile, deliberately crappy nonsense has me cursing the day Lloyd Kauffman was born, but very occasionally I find that the Troma formula actually delivers a pretty good time, as is the case with Class of Nuke 'Em High, which displays just enough manic inventiveness and anarchic energy to ensure that boredom is never an option. Lots of gloopy gore and the impressive sight of lovely Janelle Brady in (and out of) her bikini also go a long way to make this one much easier to endure.Janelle plays Chrissie, one of the students at Tromaville High School, which lies in the shadow of the town's nuclear facility. When Chrissie shares a joint with her boyfriend Warren, unaware that the weed has been grown on the toxic land adjacent to the power plant, she finds herself in a sudden state of arousal leading to some impromptu rumpy pumpy with her more than eager beau. Of course, as everyone knows, unprotected sex while high on radioactive reefer can result in the birth of an ugly slug-baby only a few days later, a creature that can rapidly grow into a massive monster given the right environment—such as a warm basement full of toxic waste, just like the one under Tromaville High!With wee gags, fart gags, a gang of outrageously daft punks, lots of ugly people, a swim-wear frat party, and plenty of surprisingly decent make-up effects (including the monster punching right through a woman's head), this clearly isn't high art, but if you're only going to watch one Troma film in your life, and you cant lay your grubby paws on Poultrygeist or The Toxic Avenger, you might as well make it this.

trashgang Yes I know, it have been taken until now to watch this 24 year old Troma flick. I don't have to say a lot about it, the effects are cheap, the creature is never scary, the score is by some cheap bands and some sounds are clearly done with the hype of the eighties, the Korg M1. For me it's a bit like class of 1984 with some humor in it. The movie is dated but if you are in for a good laugh on a Saturday night when the ladies are gone, then this is a good choice. There is a bit of everything in it, some cheap gore but somehow it works, luckily there is no stop motion what would there this flick into a turkey. It is Troma, and you know what that means.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1986, Class of Nukem' High, An 'animal house; typical 80's teen movie about high school angst and sexual & social foul-ups. The two most repressed teenagers in Tromaville High have sex after being contaminated by nuclear waste seeping into the school's drinking water. Their mutant baby, a nuclear creature attacks and infects all parts of the student body with bloody and grizzly effects on their bodies. The mayhem continues until the town and army comes to the rescue to clear up the problem.*Special Stars- Janelle Brady plays the romantic lead with Gil Brenton playing her boyfriend.*Theme- School drinking fountains can be dangerous to all who use them innocently.*Based on- 'Animal House' and Zombie movies.*Trivia/location/goofs- This is a TROMA film. It has plenty of sex and guts, but not necessary the best story or acting on celluloid. Troma's own Animal House rip-off with a few inane twists of female topless nudity and dope use.*Emotion- A shallow but unintentionally hilarious film. The film has every film cliché' unimaginable due to extreme bad taste and writing of those involved. ONLY good for a rainy afternoon's mindless funnies.