Woodyanders A gang of obnoxious teenagers led by vicious sociopath Dickens (a marvelously odious portrayal by Christopher Stryker) decide to play a cruel prank on uptight biology teacher Miss Brooke Storm (a fine and credible performance by Maureen Mooney). However, when said prank goes awry, Storm exacts a harsh revenge on the kids for messing with her. Director Douglas Grossman, who also co-wrote the clever and blithely nasty script with Leo Evans, relates the mean-spirited premise at a steady pace, maintains a rough gritty tone throughout, generates a good deal of suspense, and delivers a nice smattering of tasty gratuitous female nudity as well as several jolting outbursts of savage violence (the pencil in the head gag rates as the definite gruesome highlight). Moreover, the characters are believably drawn and the plot has a few neat unexpected twists that tweak the standard slasher formula in a crafty and surprising way. The solid acting by the game no-name cast helps a lot: Christopher Cousins as meek jock Jon-Jon, Millie Prezioso as wicked, yet enticing slut Queenie, Jason Brill as gross fat jerk Smiler, Kathryn Rossetter as the sympathetic Coach Sandy Hand, and J.R. Horne as the ramrod Coach Heaton. Steven Fierberg's fairly polished cinematography offers a few pleasingly atmospheric shots. Both the roaring trashy rock soundtrack and the funky-throbbing score by Rich Macary and Chris Hyams hit the right-on pulsating spot. Good warped fun.

indigoazure I thought this film was funny. No worse than any other 80s horror movie. It is what it is. I also thought it was funny that they tried to pass off such old looking talent as high schoolers. I mean that chick looked like she was almost 40! Hahahaha I read on here the teacher who killed as a kid was pregnant during the movie. You could see that in one of the shots when she's out of the shower. Also you could tell they used a body double in the shower too. The skin was more tan and you could see the body double's long pony tail when the teacher had short hair. Also I think the teacher got a bum deal in the movie. I mean why did she have to get killed just because she went crazy. She went crazy for a good reason.

BillyBC (* out of *****) The Blockbuster Video Guide gave this movie three stars -- I'm thinking everyone involved in the Blockbuster franchise must have undergone mentally-corruptive radiation treatments in the '70s. Boy, is this movie stupid! It's your typical cruel prank/revenge/slasher plot, except it looks even cheaper and bored me even more than usual. Some mean (and over-aged) high school kids throw rocks at their mean teacher's house and then sexually molest her, so she jumps out the window. Well, of course she's not dead, and of course there's a traumatic incident from her childhood (she `accidentally' threw a bucktful of mud onto two libidinous motorists, causing them to fly off the bike and impale themselves on wooden stakes in a scene that I assume was supposed to be shocking, but, instead, had me laughing for a good five minutes), and, next thing you know, she's hopping mad and homicidal. Character motivations are weak and absurd, at best, and the plotting is almost transparent in this sick turkey. I loved the scene where the former football star and his friends drive a car onto the field in the middle of a game and intercept a pass while cheesy, triumphant music swells -- were we supposed to feel uplifted here and like this guy or something because he's not quite as cruel and sadistic as the other guy, he's just too much of a coward and a doofus to not go along with him? It stars -- well, really, who cares?Lowlight: Oh dear, so much to choose from.... There's the tacky scene where the teacher's out cold and undressed on her bed and the slutty girl's showing her dopey ex-boyfriend how to properly touch a woman. But, no, let's just stick with the opening scene where the kid throws the mud at the bikers and they lose control and somehow land on those sharp wooden stakes. I'm sure there are even `better' scenes, but I'd have to rent the movie and watch it again to refresh my memory, and I'm just not ready to do that.

servicedevice But that's what i did. We were at the mall, having just come from my orthodontic appointment, and I was supposed to go back to school. However, once the title "Hell High" caught our eye, we had to see it. I remember a goofily inane, low-budget horror movie that featured a scene of a beautiful teacher becoming vocally aroused just taking a shower (because when women soap up their breasts, they are helplessly turned on.) And that's almost all I remember. But I guess I fared better than a friend who, a few years previous, had seen Revenge of the Nerds with his little, old grandmother. And, thinking on it now, I saw Clash of the Titans when I was like eight or something with my grandfather. A chaste shot of a woman leaving a bath was pretty exciting then. Later on, at dinner, my sister yelled out that I had told her there was a "tushie" in the movie. I was mortified. I could hardly deny I had said it, after all, as her knowledge of said tushie was proof enough. A shadow fell over my grandfather's face and not another word was said for a long time. A horrible memory.