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7	[[caption-width-right:300:[- When you name a school that, this sort of thing is to be expected. -] ]]
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9	-> ''There's Horror in the Halls... Lynching in the Lunchroom... Murder in Metal Shop.''
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11	''Slaughter High'' is a British (despite how hard it tries to not look it) SlasherMovie released in 1986, and made by the people who brought you ''Film/{{Pieces}}'' and ''Film/DontOpenTillChristmas'' (and apparently ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', or so they claim). It concerns the misadventures of bully target Marty Rantzen, a nerdy student at Doddsville High. A DeadlyPrank ends up costing Marty his visage, and he is ultimately committed to a mental hospital due to the trauma.
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13	Five years later, and after several unsuccessful attempts to fix his face, Marty escapes, and has a lethal class reunion at the now-closed high school.
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16	!! The curriculum at ''Slaughter High'' includes:
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18	%%* EightiesHair
19	* AccidentalMurder: Carol hears someone coming around the corner, and lashes out with an axe that she had in hand, accidentally killing Skip.
20	* AcidPool: Shirley's death. She melts to the bone in a bathtub filled with HollywoodAcid.
21	* TheAllegedCar: Skip's VW Beetle. When first seen it is backfiring heavily. He stops to pick up Nancy and--despite his boasting of the car's reliability--refuses to start again. It eventually arrives at the reunion being towed by Joe's pickup.
22	* AllJustADream: The film ends with [[spoiler:a bandaged Marty waking up in a hospital bed, leaving it ambiguous as to whether any of the film really happened. Regardless, Marty kills a nurse, takes her uniform, jabs a doctor in the eye with a syringe, then rips his own scarred face apart]].
23	* AprilFoolsPlot: The events of the film take place on April 1.
24	* AshFace: The electrocuted Stella.
25	* AssholeVictim: They all tortured and humiliated Marty so badly that it is hardly a surprise that he decided to respond in kind, especially after the burn of his face.
26	* AxCrazy: Marty lures his old tormentors back to their old high school and kills them in a variety of brutal and sadistic ways.
27	* BandagedFace: The hospitalized Marty.
28	* BarrierBustingBlow: Marty punches through a window to get at Carol (but don't worry... he's wearing gloves).
29	* BathroomStallGraffiti: Marty finds some in a shower stall that says "Marty Rantzen Sucks". He takes out a marker and changes the first "S" in "Sucks" into an "F".
30	* BathtubScene: Though the water turns into acid, killing the bather.
31	* BatterUp: Carol bashes Marty with one a few times, then [[TooDumbToLive drops it]] and runs away, allowing Marty to pick it up.
32	%%* BigOlEyebrows: The jester mask.
33	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The black caretaker Digby is the first person to fall victim to Marty's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
34	* BlatantLies:
35	-->'''Carol:''' You have done it before, haven't you?\
36	'''Marty:''' Who do you think you got here, some little virgin? Me, I'm a sex machine!
37	* BloodFromTheMouth: One of the hallucinatory zombies vomits a large amount of blood.
38	* BloodIsSquickerInWater: A toilet randomly overflows with blood.
39	* BloodyHandprint: Marty leaves one on a banner.
40	* BoundAndGagged: Skip is bound and gagged when Marty leaves him to hang himself in the gym. Precariously balanced on a stack of tables, Skip's efforts to free himself are almost guaranteed to cause him to fall off and slowly strangle.
41	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Releases in Australia and Hong Kong removed... well, almost everything.
42	* CaptainObvious: The trivia track included in the Lionsgate DVD.
43	* CarpetOfVirility: Frank has a thick mat of chest hair which is seen when he and Stella have sex.
44	* CatapultNightmare: Suffered by Carol when she wakes from the nightmare of Marty trying to strangle her from the stretcher.
45	* CatScare: The rat in Marty's old locker which causes Shirley to squeal when she opens it.
46	* ChaseScene: There is a prolonged chase scene of the jester chasing Carol through the abandoned school, which was largely improvised when the producers realised the film was under-running.
47	* ChekhovsGun: The javelin. Skip takes it with with him when he goes hunting Marty. It is not seen again until the jester picks it from where Skip presumably left it in the gym, and tries to kill Carol with it. He drops it when Carol knocks him through the window. She grabs it and tosses it out next to his body. [[spoiler:The jester then turns up when she is hiding in the shower and stabs her with it.]]
48	* ClosedCircle: After the characters enter the school, the killer seals all the exits: trapping them inside.
49	* CobwebJungle: When the main characters enter the old school, they find the interior covered in cobwebs:
50	-->"Cobwebs... you gotta be kidding."
51	%%* CoolBike: Owned by Frank.
52	* CoolMask: An old man mask with a jester hat.
53	* CoolSword: Carl's death.
54	* CouldntFindALighter: Marty lights the tainted joint off the Bunsen burner in the chemistry lab.
55	* CouldntFindAPen: "April Fools!"...written in blood.
56	* CoversAlwaysLie: [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzJhZmFkZGMtMWFiZi00ZTNjLWFjNDctMWFkZjRjODEwZDM1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,651,1000_AL_.jpg This poster]] gives one the impression that the killer of the film is a supernatural skeleton dressed up as a teacher. The actual killer, however, is a teenage boy in a jester mask.
57	* CreatorCameo:
58	** Producer Dick Randall plays Carol's agent, Manny.
59	** Co-writer/co-director Mark Ezra portrays Marty during the sequence where he chases Carol through the school, as Simon Scuddamore was unavailable.
60	* CruelAndUnusualDeath In order: impaled on a coat hook and nailed to a door; stomach exploded after consuming unknown chemical concoction; impaled with a sword; dissolved in acid; mutilated by lawnmower; electrocuted while having sex; drowned in a cesspit; axe to the head; javelin through the stomach; and hypodermic to the eye. The exact manner of death of Susan and the nurse are unclear, but strangulation seems likely.
61	* CrustyCaretaker: Digby, who used to be the school janitor and is now the caretaker of the abandoned building, turns up to scare the reunion attendees, and then wanders to become the first victim of the jester.
62	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Skip gets captured when he investigates the noises by made by Marty's jester cap, and of course Carol and Nancy go looking for him.
63	* CurtainCamouflage: Used by Skip and Frank for a prank on Carol and Nancy. Marty also enjoys hiding behind a poster of himself, and when Carol tries this in the auditorium, Marty just starts stabbing through the curtains.
64	* DangerTakesABackseat: Carl manages to break out of the booby-trapped school and makes it to Carol's car. However, while he is trying to start it, the jester stabs him with a sword through the driver's seat.
65	* DeadlyPrank: The gang’s tampering with Marty’s experiment inadvertently causes an explosion and his scarring by nitric acid.
66	* DeathByIrony: Electrocution, javelin jabbing, drowning, and (unintentional) burning that the cast is made to suffer are all related to the ways they bullied Marty.
67	%%* DeathByMocking
68	* DemBones: On [[http://www.retroslashers.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/slaughterhigh.jpg the cover]] for the VHS.
69	* DestinationDefenestration: Done to Marty by Carol.
70	%%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters
71	* TheDogBitesBack: Marty put up with being bullied and humiliated, but the disfigurement that his bullies caused was the final straw, with Marty deciding he’s had enough and killing his bullies at their 10-year reunion.
72	%%* DramaticThunder
73	* DrowningPit: Nancy's death.
74	%%* DwindlingParty
75	%%* TheEighties
76	* EvilLaugh: Marty does it only once, giving a very sinister laugh at the end after killing all of his bullies, but that doesn't stop it from appearing prominently in the film's score.
77	* EvilVSEvil: Marty is initially sympathetic, but he starts killing innocent people for no apparent reason, whereas his main targets are sadistic and nearly killed him.
78	* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: After killing everyone, Marty imagines them returning as ghouls.
79	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Nobody calls Coach anything but Coach, and he is listed as that in the credits.
80	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Excluding the prologue and epilogue, the film encompasses a little over 24 hours: running from when Carol gets up in the morning, until slightly after noon the following day (April 1st).
81	* EyeScream: A doctor gets a syringe in the eye, [[spoiler:when Marty escapes from the hospital to enact his revenge for real]].
82	* FacialHorror: Marty's disfigurement, and him peeling off a chunk of his own face off in the end.
83	* FanDisservice: All nudity ends nightmarishly.
84	%%* FinalGirl: Carol.
85	%%* FlippingTheBird
86	%%* FurAndLoathing: Susan and Stella.
87	* FutureLoser: Played for laughs by Skip, the former star athlete. Despite ostensibly looking like a successful professional, he drives a Volkswagen Beetle that's prone to breaking down, and always changes the topic when it comes to his current job.
88	* GangOfBullies: The gang are all this. The first thing they're shown doing is pulling an extremely humiliating prank on Marty, before proceeding to trip him up, drag him over to a toilet, and give him a {{Swirlie}}.
89	* GilliganCut: "All we have to do is stay awake, it'll be a cinch". Cue to everyone sleeping.
90	%%* {{Gorn}}
91	%%* GrossUpCloseUp
92	* HighSchool: The main setting is Doddsville High.
93	* HighSchoolRejects: Skip, who was the HighSchoolHustler and leader of the cool kids, is now an unemployed loser who is living out of TheAllegedCar.
94	* HighVoltageDeath: Stella and Frank are murdered when the jester electrifies the metal frame of the bed [[OutWithABang while they are having sex]].
95	* HollywoodAcid: Shirley is murdered by being given an acid bath that leaves nothing behind but her bones.
96	* HooksAndCrooks: Digby has his head shoved onto a coat hook.
97	* HopeSpot: Carl getting to Carol's car, and Nancy getting outside.
98	%%* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Marty.
99	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: the film takes place on April Fools Day, with the killings not starting until after midnight. April 1st also happens to be Marty's birthday.
100	%%* HostileWeather
101	%%* HystericalWoman: Nancy.
102	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Though you'd think they'd stop drinking, since an acid-laced beer was what killed Ted.
103	* IdenticalStranger: Joe and Frank might as well be the same character.
104	* ImpaledPalm: After killing Digby, Marty nails him to a door.
105	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Carl's death.
106	* InsaneTrollLogic: Why does everyone assume Marty will stop killing just because April Fool's Day ends at noon? Because it's custom in the UK to not pull pranks after noon, even though the actors are all pretending ([[OohMeAccentsSlipping badly]]) to be American.
107	* InSeriesNickname: "Bonecrusher" for Joey.
108	* IronicEcho: "How do you want it, hot or cold?"
109	%%* ItsProbablyNothing
110	* JavelinThrower: A javelin appears as a weapon throughout, and is used by Marty to stab [[spoiler:Carol]] to death.
111	%%* JerkJock
112	* KickTheDog: Marty killing the innocent Digby.
113	%%* KilroyWasHere
114	%%* LingerieScene: Carol.
115	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Frank has trouble getting it up, at least until Stella insults his heterosexuality.
116	* MaleFrontalNudity: Happens to Marty when the other students prank him.
117	%%* MalevolentMaskedMen
118	* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Marty hangs Skip, who manages to survive until the rope breaks.
119	%%* MenacingStroll
120	* ModestyTowel: Carol wears one when coming out of the shower after being startled by Susan.
121	* MonsterClown: The killer wears an old man mask and a HappyHarlequinHat.
122	%%* MurdererPOV
123	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The group’s faces show shock and remorse when they see Marty scarred and screaming after the lab explosion they inadvertently caused.
124	* NeckLift: The jester grabs the caretaker Digby by the neck, lefts him off the floor, and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice slams his head on to a coat hook]] on the back of a door.
125	* NeverMyFault: "That stupid dork Marty, it's all his fucking fault!"
126	* NothingIsScarier: We don't see how Susan dies.
127	%%* OffScreenTeleportation
128	* OminousFog: A classroom fills with it, once Marty completely loses it.
129	%%* OnceIsNotEnough
130	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Happens so often and at one point, certain characters just outright speak with clear British accents.
131	* OutWithABang: Stella and Frank are murdered when the jester [[HighVoltageDEath electrifies the metal frame of the bed]] while they are having sex.
132	* {{Overcrank}}: Repeatedly, including on when a man gets a syringe in the eye.
133	* PeekABooCorpse: The door Digby's body is nailed to swings open when Carol walks past it, and Susan's corpse swings down as she is exploring.
134	* PintsizedPowerhouse: The scrawny Marty uses just one hand to lift Digby.
135	* PottyFailure: "You bastard, I wet myself!"
136	* PrecisionFStrike: "I showed ya! April Fools! April fucking Fools, motherfuckers!"
137	%%* PreppyName: Skip Pollack.
138	* PsychoticSmirk: The film ends on a shot of Marty's as he pulls a piece of his own face off.
139	* RightThroughTheWall: Stella and Frank having sex is heard and commented on by the surviving characters.
140	* RoadApples:
141	--> '''Joe:''' Oh, shit!\
142	'''Skip:''' What?!\
143	'''Joe:''' ... Dog shit.
144	* {{Recut}}: The initial UK release was trimmed slightly.
145	* ReunionRevenge: Marty lures his old bullies back to the derelict Doddsville High so he can kill them.
146	* {{Revenge}}: Marty’s determined to make his bullies pay, for everything they did to him.
147	* RevisedEnding: The original ending for the film had [[spoiler:the zombies of Marty's victims lunging at him before cutting to the credits, but the hospital coda was added on by another director.]]
148	* RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue: The first part of the rhyme can be seen in Marty's yearbook, but the rest is obscured.
149	%%* TheScourgeOfGod
150	* SelfOffense: Thinking she is [[FinalGirl the last survivor]], Carol hears someone approaching on the other side of the curtain and assumes it is Marty coming to finish her off. She blindly swings a hatchet at the figure only to discover [[spoiler:she has buried the axe in Skip's skull]].
151	* ShoutOut: Joe scares Stella with a hockey mask ("Who'd you think I was, Jason?") as we get a blaring sting from the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series (earliest parts of which were also scored by Harry Manfredini).
152	* SignificantBirthdate: April Fool's Day is Marty’s birthday and the date of his accident.
153	%%* SinisterSchnoz: Skip.
154	%%* SinisterSilhouettes
155	* StealthHiBye: Skip and Frank somehow reaching the washroom before Carol and Nancy.
156	* StrippedToTheBone: All that’s left of Shirley after her DeadlyBath in HollywoodAcid is her skeleton.
157	%%* StatuesqueStunner: Carol.
158	* SternTeacher: Coach, who punishes Marty's tormentors, but doesn't seem that sympathetic towards him.
159	* StuffBlowingUp: On the TitleIn, and when the chemistry lab goes up in flames along with Marty.
160	* {{Swirlie}}: Poor Marty gets this as part of his initial torment at the start of the film..
161	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Marty tampers with one of the beer cans, leading to Ted’s stomach-bursting death when he consumes it.
162	* TeensAreMonsters: Nancy and her friends certainly were to Marty.
163	* TemptingFate: "It should be fun. Besides, what have we got to lose?"
164	%%* TentativeLight
165	* TitleIn: 1 April. Fool.s Day.
166	* TokenMinority: Shirley (Asian) and Digby (black).
167	* TooDumbToLive: Please people, stop wandering off alone. Dammit Carol, quit dropping weapons, especially right next to Marty. And for the love of God, STOP MAKING OTHER SLASHER VICTIMS LOOK LIKE SMARTIES BY COMPARISON!
168	* TrapMaster: Marty who rigs the abandoned school with a variety of traps, including a bath that fills with acid and an electrified bed.
169	* TwoFaced: Due to an accident involving a combination of acid and fire, Marty ends up like this. It gets worse at the very end, when he randomly rips off the scarred portion of his face.
170	%%* VaderBreath
171	* VisualPun: A poisoned can of beer causes some ''literal'' gut rot.
172	%% VillainSong
173	* VomitDiscretionShot: That laced joint gets to Marty.
174	* WeWait: Said by Skip.
175	* WhereItAllBegan: Marty kills [[spoiler:Carol]] in the girl's locker room, the site of his worst humiliation.
176	%%* WhiteGloves: Marty.
177	* WhosLaughingNow: After finishing off [[spoiler:Carol]], Marty proceeds to mock the gang for all the crap they put him through. [[spoiler:then said gang attack Marty as hallucinatory zombies.]]
178	* WindowPain: A brick gets thrown trough the gymnasium window, as a part of yet another elaborate prank on Marty.
179	%%* WinkDing
180	* WorldOfHam: Everyone seems to be acting like they're in a theatre production in their attempts to hide their British accents.
181	* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: "If you hadn't taken Marty into the showers, none of this would have happened! It's you two he's after, nobody else! Stella, Frank, Joe, none of them should have died, it should have been you two! You both should be dead!" Even though ALL of them were involved in the prank and disfigurement of Marty.
182	* ZombieGait: Done by Joe.
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