Return to Horror High is a 1987

1987 in film

-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

 American

United States

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 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

/horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 starring George Clooney

George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...

, Vince Edwards

Vince Edwards

Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer, best known for the roles of TV doctor "Ben Casey", and Maj. Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.-Early life:...

 and Scott Jacoby

Scott Jacoby

Scott Jacoby is an American actor. He won an Emmy Award for his role in the 1972 television film That Certain Summer. He is also famous for playing the lead role in the made for TV film Bad Ronald 1974....

, it was directed by Bill Froehlich and written by Mark Lisson, Dana Escalante, Greg H. Sims

Greg H. Sims

Greg Sims is a screen writer and film producer, best known for his work in low-budget independent horror films.-Biography:One of his earliest works was the critically acclaimed 1987 comedy/horror/spoof Return to Horror High, which also served as a vehicle for the young George Clooney...

 and Bill Froehlich. It is somewhat notable as being George Clooney

George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...

's first film role.

Plot

In 1982, the town of Crippen was rocked by a series of murders at Crippen High School. The killer was never caught.

Several years later, Cosmic Pictures, headed by sleazy producer Harry Sleerik, has come to Crippen to make a movie about the murders, setting up shop in the high school. However, it seems the killer is still there, and as crew and cast members disappear left and right, it's up to ex-student/cop/leading man Steven Blake and leading lady Callie Cassidy to get to the bottom of this.

Cast

• George Clooney
  George Clooney
  George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
  
   as Oliver
• Vince Edwards
  Vince Edwards
  Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer, best known for the roles of TV doctor "Ben Casey", and Maj. Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.-Early life:...
  
   as Richard Birnbaum
• Richard Brestoff as Arthur Lyman Kastleman
• Al Fann as Amos
• Panchito Gómez as Choo Choo
• Brendan Hughes as Steven Blake
• Scott Jacoby
  Scott Jacoby
  Scott Jacoby is an American actor. He won an Emmy Award for his role in the 1972 television film That Certain Summer. He is also famous for playing the lead role in the made for TV film Bad Ronald 1974....
  
   as Josh Forbes
• Michael Eric Kramer
  Michael Eric Kramer
  Michael Eric Kramer is an American actor. He is best known as playing the main character "Carl" from the cult film Over the Edge which centers on teenage rebellion...
  
   as Donny Porter
• Lori Lethin as Callie Cassidy / Sarah Walker / Susan
• Pepper Martin as Chief Deyner
• Maureen McCormick
  Maureen McCormick
  Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, celebrity and recording artist. She is most widely known as a child actress who played Marcia Brady in the television series The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974.- Early life and career :...
  
   as Officer Tyler
• Marvin J. McIntyre
  Marvin J. McIntyre
  Marvin J. McIntyre, sometimes billed as Marvin McIntyre is an actor with more than thirty years worth of screen appearances. His credits include:*Fandango *Pale Rider *Silverado *Short Circuit...
  
   as Robbie Rice
• Philip McKeon
  Philip McKeon
  Philip McKeon is an American actor. He is known for playing the role of Tommy Hyatt, the son of the title character, in the long-running sitcom Alice, from 1976 to 1985.-Life and career:...
  
   as Richard Farley
• Remy O'Neill as Esther Molvania
• Alex Rocco
  Alex Rocco
  Alex Rocco is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies.-Early life:...
  
   as Harry Sleerik
• John Besmehn
  John Besmehn
  John Charles Besmehn from San Jose, California, is a writer, director, and producer of animated and live action shows, and a developer of toys and entertainment properties...
  
   as Templeton Smithee
• Andy Romano
  Andy Romano
  Andy Romano is an American actor, known for playing "J.D." in the 1960s Beach Party movies ....
  
   as Principal Kastleman
• Darcy DeMoss
  Darcy DeMoss
  Darcy DeMoss is an American film and television actress whose credits include Eden, Erotic Confessions, Can't Buy Me Love and Vice Academy 3.-External links:...
  
   as Sheri Haines
• Will Etra as Mangles Face / Hatchet Face

Release

The film was given a limited release

Limited release

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 theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by New World Pictures in January 1987. It grossed $1,189,709 at the box office.

The film was released on DVD

DVD

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 by Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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in 2004.