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1988 - 90m.

Known mostly for being the film debut of Brad Pitt (who I'm sure has wiped this from his resume) this is a totally forgettable and lame teen slasher flick.

Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach this has the students and teachers (who are all perverts - since they take turns staring as Schoelen's derrierre) at a high school starting to get killed with all the blame falling on Donovan Leitch as the kid who's just come home from the asylum for apparently killing his father years earlier. Jill Schoelen is the cheerleader heroine, Pitt her annoying jerk of a boyfriend (he offers to compare penis size to her dad!) and Roddy McDowall embarassing himself as a cross-dressing principal.

With no skin and barely any deaths this is one tedious flick that has a really bad "flagpole" moment, fails at its attempt to throw out a "red herring" plot twist, has Martin Mull on hand as weak comic relief (he stumbles home after being shot in the chest with an arrow while hunting) and has one shoddy finale that includes a ridiculous power tools brawl (after which the janitor shows-up to crack a few one-liners).

Directed By: Rospo Pallenberg.
Written By: Steve Slavkin.

Starring: Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall.