Podcast: Night School
American horror never came so close to being an authentic giallo
Bring Me The Axe! Horror Podcast
Episode 105: Night School
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Bring Me the Axe! is a comedy podcast celebrating the best (and worst) horror from a time when the video store ruled the night. Every other week, brothers Bryan and Dave White (and the occasional guest) heed the call of nostalgia and evaluate the classic 70s and 80s horror movies they loved in their childhood to determine whether the movies are still relevant today or should be allowed to fade into obscurity.
This week we’re bringing it home to Boston for a look at the 1981 slasher movie also-ran. Night School. Similar to the many, many slasher movies that dropped that year, Night School struggles to commit to the stalk and slash body count mayhem that was dominating box offices and instead lands closer, remarkably closer to an Italian giallo. When it’s not shamelessly stepping on Psycho’s toes it reminds us a little too much of What Have You Done To Solange and What Have They Done To Your Daughters.
In Night School a killer stalks the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, decapitating women. Their targets all share one thing in common, they’re all students at the same night school, sharing the same head hunter obsessed anthropology professor who is busily seducing each one of them. It’s up to smarty pants Boston PD detective Judd Austin to put the pieces together and crack the case before the killer strikes again!
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