Return to Horror High

Return To Horror High (1987)

The Plot: Several years after an infamous string of murders at a high school, a film crew who is making a movie about the events, start seeing its cast and crew start disappearing.

 If you have George Clooney in your movie, is it better to a) kill him off in the first part of the movie or b) realize what you have and use him to his fullest potential? Well, the good folks responsible for Return to Horror High kill him off almost immediately.  In their defense, he wasn't THAT George Clooney yet. Still 7 years away from ER, but only one year after his tour de force in Facts of Life! But still! The boyish good looks, the natural charm, the hair! My God, the hair! it's all here for the taking!  
If you have Clooney with his prime time hair, you use him!

  At least they replaced Clooney with Brendan Hughes. Let me check the IMDB on him......Yes, the Brendan Hughes that starred in...the straight to video release of Howling IV: The Freaks. Well, he also was credited as a werewolf in American Werewolf in London.  Despite that pedigree, he is still no Clooney. 
If you can't get George Clooney, you get Brendan Hughes

  Anyway, the plot is around how the film crew is making a movie about the real life killing spree at a high school. They naturally pick the same high school where the murders took place, you know, to give it that authenticity. You can guess what happens next. The cast and crew start getting murdered including George Clooney and his magnificent hair. We've seen alot of this before especially in the 80's. But it does include such wonderfulness as exploding fake boobs, slkeazy movie producers, death by javelin, and a basement full of mummies, so it's not all bad!
Doesn't everyone have a basement full of mummies?


  I give Return to Horror High 5 exploding fake boobs!

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