Night School
by Ken Hughes
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Actor: Drew Snyder, Joseph R. Sicari, Leonard Mann (II), Nicholas Cairis, Rachel WardDirector: Ken Hughes
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 89 minutes
Release Date: 1993-12-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Night School
Movie Review: You really have to keep your head about you to succeed at this night school
Summary: 2 Stars
Night school: the kids come to get ahead, the teachers come to get some head, and more than a few wind up losing their heads. Let me just caution you not to get too excited about this forgettable slasher film from 1981, though. Yes, we are talking about a girls-only night school full of sexually active young women, and, yes, the killings all end in decapitation. Unfortunately, the girls aren't all that hot, a discrete shower scene is the closest you'll come to seeing any nudity, the only hint of lesbianism is less than erotic, and we never get to see an actual beheading. In other words, Night School is basically as flat as a fritter - especially if you figure out the killer's identity early on (which isn't all that hard to do). Some say Rachel Ward is the film's only saving grace, but she doesn't rate too highly with me. She's OK to look at, but that voice - none for me, thanks.
I'll give the film some props for the opening murder scene, as it at least shows a little ingenuity, but it's all downhill from there. As the decapitations begin to add up, Boston police can only put their finger on one connection: the victims attended night school at Wendell College (well, that and the fact that each of them has her head stashed in water, but the cops can't make heads or tails of that). Since the early victims numbered among the students of anthropology professor Drew Snyder (Vincent Millett), Lt. Judd Austin (Leonard Mann) pays him a call. Snyder can't tell him very much about the girls, but even a dumb cop like Austin eventually figures out that the good professor has been giving private tutoring sessions to a number of his students, including those recently separated from their heads - one big hint is the fact that the guy is living with his young research assistant, Eleanor Adjai (Rachel Ward). That pretty much puts the good professor on the radar screen. Oh, by the way, the randy professor isn't even the biggest pervert on the faculty.
Among the list of those thanked for their services is a wide assortment of purveyors of alcoholic beverages - that actually says quite a lot about this 1981 film, particularly the ending (which, once you think about it, is pretty great - unlike almost everything that came before it). Personally, I think this film could have used a lot more gore. There's one scene in particular that really, really sets up a gruesome shot sure to make many in the audience recoil - then, for some exasperating reason, the filmmakers pull back and once again show us nothing. It makes for a pretty frustrating experience. If you're wondering why Night School hasn't been released on DVD yet, you obviously haven't seen the movie.
Movie Review: a cool slasher flick
Summary: 4 Stars
this movie was cool when i saw it in the 80's and it's still cool now.
ok,there are more bloody,more violent slasher movies from the 80's out there,but this is pretty damn interesting.
it's a shame this movie isn't on dvd.
give it a chance.
Movie Review: Rachel Ward is the highlight
Summary: 2 Stars
[good things]
Rachel Ward is definitely the bright spot of this movie, regardless if we get to see her naked or not, her shower scene really makes the movie watch able, at least up to that point. The director (Ken Hughes) really does a good job, making a marginally good movie out of a dull, lifeless script. The movie has it's fair share of it's Red Herrings, twists and turns. The premise of this movie is great. A school killer, killing students by removing their heads. Sounds good, right? Well, let's say that the script did not carry the story out to it's full potential.
[the bad]
The movie was flat out-- flat. The direction took the movie and made it watchable, but where's the blood? It's a slasher movie. The killer is decapitating it's victims, sounds like it would be bloody right? Even though the story wasn't at all horrible, I just could not get into the whole "professor sleeping with his students" sub-plot. The movie didn't feel like a slasher. So much could have come from this movie if there was more blood, or at least bloodier kills. I am a huge fan of blood, and this movie did not satisfy my craving for it.
[final thoughts]
One of the lost slashers of the early 1980's. Probably a movie that will never see a home on DVD either. The movie isn't bad, but it really has no UMPH... it has nothing to carry the movie except beautiful women, who really don't show anything. Hopefully if the movie is someday released on DVD, a uncut version of this will be released. Until then, the movie is a snoozer and should be left for one of those Sundays to play in the background while you're doing homework.
Movie Review: From the director of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.
Summary: 3 Stars
The title NIGHT SCHOOL is more than just a little misleading, which is very sad cause the school we're talking about is an all girl's night school! Yea! Nudity City here we come! (sigh) Once again I let my imagination run free and once again I'm disappointed with reality. There is no nudity here. There's barely any horror, definitely not enough for this movie to be categorized as a "horror" movie. It's more like a police drama with a few slasher scenes thrown in.
Some of the women attending or working around Wendell College have been turning up with their heads chopped off and it's up to Remington Steele, uh I mean, some cop who's name I forgot to solve the mystery. And solve it he does cause there's really only two suspects.
No nudity, little blood, no gore, no suspense. There's not a lot going for this movie. Slasher completists like myself, have no choice but to watch this film everybody else would be better off watching SCHOOL'S OUT...I never thought I'd hear myself say that!
Movie Review: Rachel Ward nudes scenes well worth the price
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie will never win an academy award, but the nude scenes are worth it. I saw Rachel Ward in "dead men dont wear plaid" with steve martin, smokin hot. this movie has her only nude scenes. reason enough, I think so.
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