Horror High (1973)
4/10
The paper chopper, One Hundred and One uses. Oops One Hundred and Two!
3 May 2018
I finally left the Hebrew Academy to enter public school in the fall of 1969. Was I finished with my Judaic studies? Of course not! My mother enrolled me in our local synagogue with their beloved cigar smoking principal Judah Klein who stress to my Mom that I have to attend Hebrew school to get Bar-Mitzvah-ed at the terms end in June. To my horror I enrolled in the 7th grade class and low and behold there was a Hebrew Academy teacher with his zit zits (fringes) hanging out of his trousers. "Ruevein, What a surprise!" said the condescending conservative yarmulke ridden zealot. He began to quiz me on basic Judaic laws. I couldn't answer him nor did I care as he humiliated me in front of the whole class claiming my parents wasted there money sending me to a parochial school of higher learning. I watched this Jekyll and Hyde revenge of the nerds movie on my local independent stations in the wee hours of the morning. I just love a good revenge movie where the antagonists get theirs and then some. We focus on a nerdy lonely student Vernon Potts (Pat Cardi) and his Guinea pig Mr. Mumps. You see Vernon is on the verge of scientific greatness. Vernon spends most of his downtime in the high school science lab working on genetic research. Three main Tormentors ambush Vernon from every angle . Vernon's English teacher Miss Grindstaff (Joy Hash) humiliating Vernon in front of the whole class. She asks Vernon how he spends his time and he tells her he working on an experiment. The haughty teacher takes his research paper and proceeds to place it in the paper chopper. Vernon is demoralized as Miss Grindstaff proceeds to chop up his science project which he spent years perfecting. In addition our crabby Instructor tells Vernon and the class that she's giving him a big fat zero. The caustic janitor played by Jeff Alexander who threatens to ambush Vernon's experiments and wants Vernon to clear on out. Vernon also seeks revenge. Finally , (And most High school teens can relate to this), the Gym teacher Coach McCall (John Niland) tormenting poor Vernon. Each scene of revenge is gory but richly deserved in this horror fairy tale. Despite the lackluster camera work, I found this movie to be very entertaining and you begin to fantasize your own personal revenge on educators who have wronged you in the past or present. But please, don't try this at school. You can think bad thoughts but that doesn't me you have to act upon them. No money back guarantee with the paper slicer.
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