Line #13 Film/NightSchool1981


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3	''Night School'' is a 1981 American SlasherFilm, directed by Ken Hughes (''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'') and starring Rachel Ward (in her feature debut), Leonard Mann, and Creator/DrewSnyder. The score was composed by Music/BradFiedel (''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/{{Fright Night\|1985}}'').
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5	A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer, which soon leads him to suspect a well-known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
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8	!!''Night School'' contains examples of:
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10	* CallingCard: The killer always leaves the severed head of their victim submerged in water.
11	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: During the fight in the café, Carol attempts to hit the killer with chair. The killer shrugs it off.
12	* DangerTakesABackSeat: At the end of the film, the killer seemingly rises from the backseat of Lt. Austin's car and holds a knife to his throat. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Taj playing a practical joke.]]
13	* {{Giallo}}: Has elements of this, particularly with regards to the killer's wardrobe.
14	* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: It is raining during Victor's LonelyFuneral.
15	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Eleanor]] gets away with the murders.
16	* KukrisAreKool: The killer wields a kukri: using it to decapitate victims with a single stroke.
17	* LonelyFuneral: Eleanor is the only mourner at Victor's funeral.
18	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: The motivation for the killer. [[spoiler:When Eleanor learns she is pregnant with Victor's child, she starts eliminating everyone she sees as threat to her new family. This includes all of the women Victor has been unfaithful to her with, and anyone who threatens Victor, such as the Dean, who threatens to fire him.]]
19	* MarketBasedTitle: The film was released in the United Kingdom as ''Terror Eyes''.
20	* OffScreenTeleportation: The killer at one point vanishes and reappears inside a cupboard, with no indication of how they could have got there. At another point, they disappear from the café and turn up at the mouth of the alley ahead of the woman who is attempting to escape them, despite the fact this would have involved them completely looping the block.
21	* OffWithHerHead: All of the victims are murdered by being decapitated.
22	* ThePeepingTom: Gus is a peeping tom, which leads Taj to suspect him of being the killer. He is arrested while peeping at the house where the final murders take place.
23	* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: Combined with LoveMakesYouCrazy. After learning she is pregnant, [[spoiler:Eleanor]] starts murdering all of the women her partner has been unfaithful with, and then anyone who threatens him or his career.
24	* PunBasedTitle: The film's UK title sounds an awful lot like "terrorize".
25	* ShowerOfLove: Victor and Elanor have sex in the shower.
26	* TeacherStudentRomance: Professor Millett has had affairs with numerous of his students, and is living with his research assistant.
27	* YouJustToldMe: Following a loaded question from Lt. Austin, Eleanor explains the ritual significance of a headhunter placing their victim's head in water. She then asks him how he knew about it, and he replies that she just told him.
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