FINALLY a movie that knows what it is doing!! before Scary Movie, before  A Haunted House. The year is 1981, and the movie Airplane (1980) was a huge success and the very first spoof movie, following closely after came this beauty! Written and directed by Mickey Rose co-directed by the uncredited Michael Ritchie, this has to be my most favorite “horror movie” ever. Released August 7th, 1981 with a running time of 86 minutes, it made $5,165,432 in the Box office.    

 

     Typical  all-American Lamab High School is plagued with the murders of teens engaging in sexual intercourse! What are these kids thinking, don't they know that sex kills?! Jerry Belson as Richard Brando as The Breather, Kristen Riter as the abstinent Toby, and even “The Stick” Patrick Boone Varnell surprisingly in his first role as Malven the double jointed janitor. But for me, what makes this movie so great is not the fact that its a spoof based off of Halloween, Friday the 13th, or a plain mockery of all slasher movies but the fact that its; overly dramatic, points out all of the obvious things you should worry about in a slasher situation, you get to literally watch the body count rise, and plays off of all the stereo-types! Even the start of movie, believe it or not, starts with the babysitter and a mysterious phone call!!!      

 

 Follow Toby through her horrible journey through high school as so many of her fellow Student Bodies seem to die all around her, and her fight to find out who the real killer is! Was it the wood-shop teacher Mr.Dumpkin (Joe Flood) in the car with the horse head book end, or Principal Peters (Joe Talarowski) in the office with his pants cheese? Will Toby and her accomplice Hardy (Matt Goldsby)  be able to solve this mystery all on their own? Or is it all just a 'Twist' of the screw?

 

~Pluto Manson