“The teachers are tough … but their exams are murder.”
It’s tough to be a teacher these days. Not only must they deal with overcrowded classrooms, tough administrators, crusading school boards, and budget cuts, but the actual job of educating youth is much more challenging than most can imagine. And that’s with students who aren’t trying to ruin your life. Douglas Grossman’s 1987 pseudo slasher Hell High features a group of defiant teens hell bent on corrupting their school’s proudest institutions while terrorizing students and teachers alike. They may not be the film’s central antagonists, but this group of young troublemakers may just be the most unlikeable bunch of high schoolers in horror movie history.
Miss Brooke Storm (Maureen Mooney) is a frustrated biology teacher trying to get control of an unruly class. When she asks rebel Dickens (Christopher Stryker) to file a recent test, he responds by throwing the stack up in the air. Fed up with this disruptive behavior, Brooke slaps the disobedient youth and inadvertently sparks an all-out war. Dickens and his discontented classmates gather at the sight of a decades-old urban legend to exact revenge on their unsuspecting teacher. But the rage they awaken is more extreme than anything they could have imagined. The line between villain and victim blurs as Miss Storm unleashes a secret rage that’s been locked inside her for twenty years.
The latest episode of Bloody FM’s The Lady Killers Podcast continues to celebrate the queens of spooky season with a trip back to class via sinister swamp. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Sammie Kuykendall, Rocco Thompson, and Mae Shults dissect these over-the-top characters while trying to pin down the story’s true villain. Why does Jon-Jon (Christopher Cousins) go along with this prank? What’s so confusing about #2 pencils? Where did Brooke’s colleague get all those quaaludes and why are there deadly spikes in this swamp? They’ll quiz each other on these questions and more while reminiscing about their own hellish high school experiences.
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