Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

The setup: The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.The verdict: The first half is actually quite good, as it occasionally borders on being a clever satire. The big weak spot of this film is low budget, but try not to pay attention and enjoy the film. It is a pretty unnecessary film. This story is dumb and average. Was anybody serious about this film? There's really no way to classify or categorize this film. I don't know why I watch the movies I do, because I always waste at least three hours a week watching crappy movies.

Your typical 80s Troma film is a trashy low-budget piece of B-movie excess featuring lousy acting, lame humour, comic-book violence, gratuitous nudity, bad music, and even worse fashion; generally, this kind of exceedingly puerile, deliberately crappy nonsense has me cursing the day Lloyd Kauffman was born, but very occasionally I find that the Troma formula actually delivers a pretty good time, as is the case with Class of Nuke 'Em High, which displays just enough manic inventiveness and anarchic energy to ensure that boredom is never an option. Lots of gloopy gore and the impressive sight of lovely Janelle Brady in (and out of) her bikini also go a long way to make this one much easier to endure.Janelle plays Chrissie, one of the students at Tromaville High School, which lies in the shadow of the town's nuclear facility. When Chrissie shares a joint with her boyfriend Warren, unaware that the weed has been grown on the toxic land adjacent to the power plant, she finds herself in a sudden state of arousal leading to some impromptu rumpy pumpy with her more than eager beau. Of course, as everyone knows, unprotected sex while high on radioactive reefer can result in the birth of an ugly slug-baby only a few days later, a creature that can rapidly grow into a massive monster given the right environment—such as a warm basement full of toxic waste, just like the one under Tromaville High!With wee gags, fart gags, a gang of outrageously daft punks, lots of ugly people, a swim-wear frat party, and plenty of surprisingly decent make-up effects (including the monster punching right through a woman's head), this clearly isn't high art, but if you're only going to watch one Troma film in your life, and you cant lay your grubby paws on Poultrygeist or The Toxic Avenger, you might as well make it this.

*Spoiler/plot- 1986, Class of Nukem' High, An 'animal house; typical 80's teen movie about high school angst and sexual & social foul-ups. The two most repressed teenagers in Tromaville High have sex after being contaminated by nuclear waste seeping into the school's drinking water. Their mutant baby, a nuclear creature attacks and infects all parts of the student body with bloody and grizzly effects on their bodies. The mayhem continues until the town and army comes to the rescue to clear up the problem.*Special Stars- Janelle Brady plays the romantic lead with Gil Brenton playing her boyfriend.*Theme- School drinking fountains can be dangerous to all who use them innocently.*Based on- 'Animal House' and Zombie movies.*Trivia/location/goofs- This is a TROMA film. It has plenty of sex and guts, but not necessary the best story or acting on celluloid. Troma's own Animal House rip-off with a few inane twists of female topless nudity and dope use.*Emotion- A shallow but unintentionally hilarious film. The film has every film cliché' unimaginable due to extreme bad taste and writing of those involved. ONLY good for a rainy afternoon's mindless funnies.

A leak at a nuclear power plant contaminates a crop of marijuana. Teenagers who smoke the toxic pot transform into crazed murderous mutants. One nerdy kid spazzs out and takes a fatal spill out of a window. A vicious gang of deranged goons called the Cretins led by the insane Spike (a gloriously gonzo portrayal by Robert Prichard) terrorize the other students. Worse yet, straight-laced goody-goody two shoes Chrissy (sweetly played by the adorable Janelle Brady, who has a great topless scene) and her equally square boyfriend Warren (affable Gil Benton) give in to their naughty lascivious urges and engage in raunchy sex. A hilariously wild sense of anything-goes raucous'n'tasteless lowbrow humor, ripely hammy acting from a game cast (tubby Pat Ryan is an absolute hoot as shady nuke plant manager Mr. Finley), some yummy gratuitous nudity, a nonstop frantic pace, a handy helping of cartoonish over-the-top splatter, and an infectiously vibrant feeling of sheer go-for-it energy and enthusiasm all add immensely to the blithely silly'n'schlocky fun that's on abundant display in this gleefully madcap gut-buster. Michael Mayers' snazzy cinematography makes nice use of vertical wipes. A grotesque lethal monster goes on a rousing and righteously gruesome rampage at the film's stirring conclusion. Cool catchy theme song, too. A total zany riot.