This is one of those horror films that tries way too hard to be something different and merely winds up as a confused mess. Combining gore with comedy as a movie within a movie within a dream within a movie, RETURN TO HORROR HIGH opens as local police arrive at a high school brimming
with the bloody bodies of a horror film crew, a massacre only the screenwriter survived. Through a flashback, we see the hapless low-budget crew shooting at the school, where a real-life unsolved mass murder took place several years before. The innumerable twists and turns of the plot, combined
with several shifts in time and perspective, wind up more confusing than intriguing, and mos...
Released:
1987
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins