Of course it all turns out traumatically when it turns out he's actually making out with. One condition: he has to wear a paper bag over his head, as will she to compensate for her shyness. They decide to play a prank on the biggest misfit in the bunch, Walter Baylor (Dammett, father of Anthony Kiedis), by promising him a night in heaven in a car with the most glamorous girl in school, Meredith (Smith). In 1972, the graduating class at Lizzie Borden High is out celebrating with beer and joints around a campfire in the middle of the woods. Today the film is more of a baffling, sometimes amusing oddity made by people who hadn't actually seen any horror movies mostly it works best when it simply relaxes and serves as a showcase for a staggering roster of Second City talent, some of whom wouldn't get such a generous opportunity in front of the camera again. Today it's mostly remembered as the first film written by one of the magazine's shining lights, John Hughes, who would go on to write the far more successful National Lampoon's Vacation and direct the decade's most influential teen films. Released to an underwhelming reception four years after the wildly successful National Lampoon's Animal House, this sort-of slasher spoof was the second film to bear the stamp of that trailblazing humor publication, with another ( Midnight Madness) getting released almost at the same time. Kino Lorber Studio Classics (Blu-ray & DVD) (US RA/R1 HD/NTSC), MGM, Anchor Bay (DVD) (US R1 NTSC) / WS (1.85:1) (!6:9) Starring Gerrit Graham, Michael Lerner, Fred McCarren, Miriam Flynn, Stephen Furst, Marya Small, Shelley Smith, Zane Buzby, Jim Staahl, Jacklyn Zeman, Blackie Dammett, Art Evans, Randy Powell, Misty Rowe, Anne Ramsey
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