"Amazing Stories"
Go to the Head of the Class (1986)

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Writers:

Mick Garris (teleplay) &
Tom McLoughlin (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"Amazing Stories" (1985)

Original Air Date:

21 November 1986 (Season 2, Episode 8)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

In this hour-long episode, a teenage horror buff (Coffey) is so smitten with a sexy classmate (Masterson)...

Plot Keywords:

Curse | Macbeth | Backward Masking Spoof | Back Masking | Strict Teacher

Cast

Billy Beck	...	Caretaker
Tom Bresnahan	...	Cusimano
Scott Coffey	...	Peter Brand
Christopher Lloyd	...	Professor B.O. Beanes
Mary Stuart Masterson	...	Cynthia Simpson

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Trivia:

This episode runs for 60 minutes, as opposed to the usual 30 minutes for the episodes in this series. (See also episode #1.5 "The Mission")

One of my favorite Amazing Stories episode

This was right after I saw "Back to the Future" and I really loved that movie at the time. I wasn't disappointed with this one. Funniest joke in the movie is when Masterson gives Coffey her bag and he falls down from the weight. "What do you have in here? A sledgehammer?" and when they reach the mausoleum, yes she did have one! Men will do things because of the promise of sex. I never forgot that. From Used Cars to Back to the Future, Zemeckis always had wicked humor. I even enjoyed his flawed "Death Becomes Her". In this TV episode, we get to watch concentrated Zemeckis, and the lack of need to put in a happy ending is quite liberating (and more consistent with his brand of naughtiness).