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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.
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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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A mini-icon of 70s drive-in culture.
Scrawny, but good-natured Vernon(PAT CARDI, in a memorable performance) is a science-minded high school nerd, and an unassuming human target for cruelty who's belittled and abused by nearly everyone he knows(moronic jock schoolmates, choleric teachers, the psycho janitor, etc.). He concocts and ingests a substance which renders him a Jeckyll/Hyde type beast, the more powerful and assertive(and certainly more dangerous)persona emerging sporadically to become the "normal" Vernon's savage avenger. A sharp and suspicious investigator has his eye on Vernon, as does the school beauty queen(because the prettiest girl in school is always in love with the skinny, picked-on science geek. She knows he's gonna be rich some day...)
This bouncy little Crown International Pictures wonder was a perennial staple on late-night creature feature shows during the 70s and 80s, and those of a certain bracket remember it fondly. Folks today should get a kick out of its funky retro panache, and they may be surprised by the potent violence in some scenes(nicely punctuated by jarring heavy-reverb guitar thrums).
An all time great...of sorts. 7/10.
This bouncy little Crown International Pictures wonder was a perennial staple on late-night creature feature shows during the 70s and 80s, and those of a certain bracket remember it fondly. Folks today should get a kick out of its funky retro panache, and they may be surprised by the potent violence in some scenes(nicely punctuated by jarring heavy-reverb guitar thrums).
An all time great...of sorts. 7/10.
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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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