Zombie high
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Zombie high |
| Original title | Zombie high |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ron Link |
| script |
Tim Doyle Aziz Ghazal Elizabeth Passarelli |
| production | Aziz Ghazal Elliott Kastner |
| music | Daniel May |
| camera |
Brian Coyne David Lux |
| cut |
Shawn Hardin James Whitney |
| occupation | |
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Zombie High (also known as Evil Is Everywhere ) is an American horror film from 1987.
action
The young Andrea receives a scholarship for the Ettinger High School, a former boarding school for boys. The prospect of school success lets her get over the separation from her boyfriend Barry.
After a while she starts to notice oddities. Some of her schoolmates are going from normal teenagers to soulless figures focused only on learning and obedience. Andrea finds out that the students have been treated with substances that have been extracted from the bodies of other students, which thereby appear just as soulless but also apathetic.
Andrea should now also be tapped. Out of pity, however, she is protected by Professor Philo. She calls Barry for help, they both find out that the zombie-like students can be controlled with classical music. The professor hands Andrea a tape with such music so that she can protect herself from the students who are chasing her. However, she loses the tape on her escape and is harassed by the students. In desperation, Barry plays one of his rock music tapes over the house loudspeaker. Surprisingly, this type of music also has the effect that the treated students are soothed. So Andrea and Barry can escape from school.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as "an uninteresting and unsavory zombie film that fails in all respects".
The cinema magazine Cinema wrote: “The story alone should ring the alarm bells with the picky audience: debut director Ron Link delivers clearly over-the-top teenage horror in the best B-film tradition. If you expect more, it's your own fault ”. The conclusion: "Quite mindless in both senses of the word".
Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing Charlotte wrote in his review that the film was a poor cross between The Women of Stepford and a vampire film. There are no zombies.
background
The film premiered on October 2, 1987 in the United States. In Germany it was released on video in January 1990 in a version shortened by six minutes.
The later director Jay Roach worked as a cameraman for this film.
Web links
- Zombie High in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zombie High in the Lexicon of International Films
- Zombie High at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zombie High. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Critique of Cinema
- ↑ Matt Brunson at Creative Loafing Charlotte (engl.)