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A shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.A shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.A shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.
Joye Hash
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- TriviaThe policeman were played by members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Craig Morton, D.D. Lewis, Bill Truax, and Calvin Hill (father of NBA all-star Grant Hill) were the big name players who appeared.
- Alternate versionsThe original version of "Horror High" was given an R rating by the MPAA. When the film was sold to Crown International, they cut some of the gore effects to make the film suitable for a PG rating. Mark Tenser, then president of Crown International, had additional scenes shot to pad out the run time that featured himself as Vernon's absent father, depicting brief events that have almost no connection to the story and do not feature any of the original actors seen in the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in TJ and the All Night Theatre: Twisted Brain + Blood of Dracula (1980)
- SoundtracksVernon's Theme
Written and Performed by Jerry Coward
Lyrics by Joy Buxton
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It's Pat! Cardi, that is...
Like many impressionable adolescents within late-night or Saturday-afternoon viewing range of WOR (Channel 9) or WPIX (Channel 11) in the mid to late seventies, I developed an early affection for this, the perfect adolescent horror clunker. Yes, the papercutter. Yes, the acid vat. Yes, the cleats. And hell yes... Mister Mumps. Whatever Pat Cardi's shortcomings as an actor, he made a convincing tortured high-school Jeckyll & Hyde. I never found it particularly terrifying except perhaps for that hideous ballad in the background as Vernon rides his bike to school, but it's far more compelling in a (relatively) innocently creepy way than the slicker and more cynically formulaic eighties slasher flicks that followed. Like 'Plan 9' and 'Silent Night, Bloody Night' (both big in the 9/11 universe, and endlessly repeated since the broadcast rights must have been cheap... thank Jah I came of age before the infomercial era), it rightly belongs to the Cinema of Obsession, all the more convincingly when you're 16 and watching it for the fifth time at 2:45am.
There's something to be said for a teen revenge flick that could have plausibly been written and directed by a pimply adolescent.
Reading some of the other comments reminded me that this was also one of the films that made me realize that my early tastes in cult film weren't nearly so obscure as I thought. I remember being flabbergasted as a junior in high school circa 1979 to meet a fairly cute, well-adjusted girl from another school who had seen it three or four times
There's something to be said for a teen revenge flick that could have plausibly been written and directed by a pimply adolescent.
Reading some of the other comments reminded me that this was also one of the films that made me realize that my early tastes in cult film weren't nearly so obscure as I thought. I remember being flabbergasted as a junior in high school circa 1979 to meet a fairly cute, well-adjusted girl from another school who had seen it three or four times
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- Kiss the Teacher... Goodbye!
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- 5400 Vickery at Glencoe, Dallas, Texas, USA(Conversation with Lieutenant Bozeman about lab beaker)
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- $67,000 (estimated)
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