Oh yes! Caroline Munro! All wet and helpless. In the shower or out of the shower. Running for her life or swinging a hatchet in self defense, she always looks great. A Bond Girl and also A Hammer Glamour Girl, Caroline Munro seduces us. Who can forget her nubile and vulnerable look in that Sinbad film? Today we look at her in a terrific slasher film, that has a behemoth kill count. Our feature today is 1985's "Slaughter High," directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, and Mackenzie Litten.
10 years ago the sultry Carol (Munro) and a bunch of her cool friends pull a cruel prank on the chemistry nerd Marty (Simon Scuddamore). Up in flames! Marty is left burnt all over his body and eventually institutionalized in a mental asylum. Carol and her buddies graduate and go about their lives. At this point we get a Caroline Munro shower scene. Relative to the plot? Right! Years later Carol and her buddies return to the high school for a reunion. Uh oh! The school is gone and only the derelict building remains. The only invitees are Carol and her buddies. With pot smoking, cocaine, and beer waiting, the young adults sneak into the building and party anyway. Uh oh, someone has set up a party room for them. All their lockers are also there...and Marty's locker, too. The babes and hunks are creeped out by Marty's locker, as they feel mildly guilty about his gruesome fate. After drugs, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and cocaine, the friends start getting murdered in horrible ways.
Of note is Shirley (Josephine Scandi). After her boyfriend's stomach explodes, she has his guts all over her. Happens. She finds a bathtub, fills it up, strips, and we get a nice nude gratuitous bath scene before... well, before a great death scene. Also Stella (Donna Yeager), a sultry blonde, is now married to Joe (Gary Martin). Naturally, she'll engage in extra marital sex with Frank (Billy Hartman) and as most slasher films are, this is a morality tale. Yep, they'll get it while doing it. Car batteries, a riding lawnmower, a javelin, human waste, and acid are all used for our viewing pleasure. The reunion attenders will fall horribly, babe and hunk alike...nude or clothed.
Will the sultry and wet Carol survive as a final girl? Is Marty really the killer, or is that too easy? Does Marty want something else from Carol other than merely skewering her with a pointed weapon? 40 years later, the strength of this film is the allure of Caroline Munro, but as an 80s slasher film, this is still a good one. For some great cheesecake, some beefcake, and a ton of gory kills, see "Slaughter High."
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