"Night School", the 1981 slasher film from the director of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"

I've always wanted to watch this but have never done so. Just watched the trailer and it does look scary. It's coming on cable this week and I've set my DVR to record it.

R1 it's creepy. Perfect viewing for this time of year.

"Slitty Slutty Gang Bang"

I slways get this confused with the Nedra Volz/Clara Peller comedy about driving school, "Moving Violations".

Rachel Ward was dreadful in Against All Odds and you want me to watch her in an earlier film?

I just checked and this is one of those clunkers you have to pay to watch.

aka "Terror Eyes"

its on ok ru

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Trailer.

It's on TCM this coming Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Is it a musical?

I absolutely love the grading card on the poster: "A is for apple; B is for bed; C is for coed; D is for dead; F is for failing to keep your head."

Clever having the screen go red when the first lady is slashed.

It's quite classy for a slasher flick. Pretty slick-looking and resembles a major Hollywood production in a number of ways.

I thought the character of the middle-aged lesbian college administrator—consoling a student who slept with a male professor, only to proceed to inviting her over and fucking her herself—was diabolical.

But the first killing I have to think it would be easy to get off a child's merry-go-round. Sure you might get some bruises when you fly off but still doable.

or roundabout.

R16 true, but if you're flung off a spinning merry-go-round, you'd have trouble booking it from a psychopath with a kukri due to the dizziness. It's a lose-lose situation.

Those Boston streets are narrow.

Carnage Count

You could never ever behead someone with something the size of that knife.

And surely those murder victims could have tried a little harder to resist. They just whimper and stumble about.

[quote]They just whimper and stumble about.

Do they stumble and turn an ankle?

Briefly mentioned in the NYTimes review when it opened as part of a double bill with Student Bodies.

'Student Bodies' just slowly topples over as you watch it, like a stand-up comedian in the act of failing. The film opened Friday at the Embassy 3 and othere theaters on a double bill with 'Night School,' a silly but seriously intended horror film directed by Ken Hughes ('The Small World of Sammy Lee,' 'Cromwell,' 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde,' among others), for whom this is Skid Row. The movie was obviously not cheap to make. It doesn't look bad. It just is bad.

'Night School,' shot entirely in Boston, is a not very scary story about a psychopathic killer who buzzes around picturesque streets on a motorcycle decapitating young women. Among the apparently able actors who are lost within it are Leonard Mann, Drew Snyder and a beauty named Rachel Ward.

What is the meaning of you walking in during one of my lectures?!

Rachel Ward is given a movie star entrance after 16 minutes.

R21 I think a kukri is actually capable of decapitating someone, especially if swung with force. They are heavy and the blades are razor sharp. They were historically used as both a utility blade as well as a weapon for lopping off body parts by the Nepalese during battle.

Oh, those wacky Nepalese.

Rachel Ward's common accent takes all the mystery out of her beauty.

We've all just stepped out of the primal jungle.