Zombie High 1987

Greetings all! It has been a while since I have posted and for this I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Today's Zombie Flick is called Zombie High. It stars Virginia Madsen. This film ranks 3.4 stars on IMDB and 2.5 on Netflix. 

This flick starts out with an 80's soundtrack as we are introduced to a prep school. oh my god the flash back to popped collars and leathermans jackets,  and shoulder pads. As our main characters are introduced. We get a whole mixture. the preppy jock, the beautiful brain, the leather clad bad boy who's last hope is the prep school and the nerdy creeps. Nicely rounded out.

Enter creeping guys rolling a gurney into a building with a female scream. Something is obviously up with the mash potatoes. watch and you'll understand. It appears the main character has the hots for her new professor. This appears to me that this will be more of a zombie movie as in zombie in the brain dead controlling characters. Not the ghoulish flesh eating zombies. I could be proven wrong.

Teaser time, it appears as though the bf has discovered a dark sinister past about the headmaster. Or originator of the school. The girls have all seemed to abandon the head chick. The rogue goth guy seems well aware of what is going on. The teacher is giving into his call of lust for the brain. Invites her over and makes some pretty impressive moves on her. But she resists due to her bf back home.

The rogue guy leaves out late at night determined to leave but we are lead down an ominous hallway which is occupied by the zoned out preppy guys. They inform him tonight is his night. What this means only time will tell. It is obvious that one by one the freshmen are being turned into some form of zombies.

Once again, the teacher starts to hit on his student. This time with a more sinister overtone. The music that is playing during this scene leads to a confrontation between the BF and the teacher which is diffused when he is called away by the dean. Barry the BF acts like a douchebag. and leaves in a huff. we find out that the teacher has performed countless "operations". The reference to "serum dosages" leads to us believing that they are in some state of regenerative form.

This leads us to believe that possibly the clock, the "colonel" and the history of the founder scalping Native Americans is all connected. the brains best friend Emerson is supposedly in the infirmary. ooooppps HES DEAD!  obviously he could not take the procedure due to his hemophillia. This leaves the brain alone in the infirmary with the corpse of her best friend. 

She finds her way to the basement and hopefully out of the building. nope only to wind up in some old basement  filled with wines and various other sundries including a picture of the headmaster as a union soldier. furthering the regenerative theory. Our main brain finds her way out.

Our rogue guy seems to have taken on a new personality. Willingly answering questions and acting cryptic. our brain heroine takes the initiative and confronts the professor who decides to spill the beans to her. why? Who fucking knows. WOW! Talk about sudden jump in scenes. Once to the dance and back to the explanation. the dance scene is almost painful to watch. The students are all in sync with a one step that has no soul or life.

Again with the scene jump! a quick nod to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead when the professor tells our brain to "join us".  28 more minutes I can do this! Our brain and jock set off the alarms and Barry the BF is left to deal with a school of zombified brains. Some how our brain leading lady has mysteriously learned to hot-wire a car. and the bike riding bf is knocked off his bike and gets hauled off. 

Our leading lady makes it to the cops, who of course don't believe them. Jump scene to all the guys shooting the serum like heroine. then back to the cops again. to much jumping makes for a very uncomfortable viewing experience. But at least now we know the cops are in on it as they graduated from the school. this leads to a jump scene the next day where she is trying to outrun the cops through what looks like Dukes of Hazard style roads. She eventually crashes and is taken back to the school.  

The teacher tries to smuggle her out and makes her meet him the next day. She is instructed to act like everyone else. The dean has decided to fire the good Dr. . The next day she meets the dr who is willing to destroy all that he has helped to build. We finally see the effects of lack of serum on the living corpses.

At this point I will stop and force the reader to watch this flick in order to see the ending. 

Acting wasnt half bad, story was lacking and developed really slow. the soundtrack alone deserves an honarable mention for the flashbacks alone!

I Give this movie 3 severed thumbs. And remember,

I watch this shit so you don't have to.

Shane

	Virginia Madsen	...	Andrea
	Paul Feig	...	Emerson
	Sherilyn Fenn	...	Suzi
	Clare Carey	...	Mary Beth
	Scott Coffey	...	Felner
	Richard Cox	...	Philo
	Kay E. Kuter	...	Dean Eisner
	Paul Williams	...	Ignatius
	Henry Sutton	...	Bell
	Walter Addison	...	Chief Hillis
	Christopher Peters	...	Phillip
	Christopher Crews	...	Biff
	James Wilder	...	Barry
	John Sack	...	Senator Felner
	Susan Barnes	...	Mom