Return to Horror High

Return to Horror High (1987)

School spirit has never been this dead.

A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...

Date of release
1987-01-28
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (188)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Director
Bill Froehlich
Collection
Horror High Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Return to Horror High is a 1987 American comedy slasher film written and directed by Bill Froehlich and starring Vince Edwards, Brendan Hughes, Scott Jacoby, Lori Lethin, Philip McKeon, and Alex Rocco. Told in a nonlinear format, the plot follows a film production crew who begin to disappear while shooting a movie based on an unsolved killing spree that occurred in a high school. The film features supporting performances from Al Fann, Panchito Gómez, Richard Brestoff, Maureen McCormick, and George Clooney.

Production

Writer-director Bill Froehlich wrote the screenplay for Return to Horror High over a period of several days. "I just started writing and didn't stop," Froehlich recalled. "It flowed out in just a few days. I wrote late into the night until I couldn't keep my eyes open, only then I would go to sleep. And then I'd wake up early in the morning, fired up to get back into it because the story was running around in my head."

New World Pictures agreed to distribute the film after being impressed by the screenplay, initially offering a budget of $800,000 to help produce the film.

Filming for Return to Horror High took place in Los Angeles, California at Charles Hughes Junior High School in Woodland Hills, and Clark Junior High School in Glendale. The production budget was ultimately $1 million. In order to avoid an X-rating, the scene-within-a-scene sequence in which the biology teacher's heart is dissected had to be pared down in post-production.

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