Video High

This Valentine's Day, give your Auntie THE KISS (1988)! After the death of her mother, Amy's strangely estranged aunt comes to live with her and her oblivious father. Don't let Aunt Felice's supermodel body or free vitamin shakes fool you! She's only out for one thing: her niece's body...in a non-sexual demon possessing way, of course. But best of all, THE KISS has the climax to end all movie...

It’s January-Michael Vincent, so out of respect, today’s lesson plan will debate the ethics of death by ALIENATOR (1990): a Fred Olen Ray riff on two classic 80s franchises that, combined, make for something much more. A cast of B-movie vets, scenic Griffith Park shooting locales, and a cyborg female body builder with a gun arm make for essential Video High watching. Enroll today:   INSTAGRAM...

Video High once again puts its ear to the door of the future to listen to what cinema is coyly whispering about the year 2023. We see it all: what has passed,  what's to come, and what may yet shall be. The only thing we don't see is texts from each other to make sure we don't all cover the same movie. But our resolution this year is to try to be attentive, B-E attentive. The class discusses...

We pulled a gift from the video store shelves, because this Christmas we're unwrapping ELVES (1989)! When a young woman summons a killer elf from the grass; An ex-detective mall Santa helps her kick Nazi ass. Given three ideas and a week for the script; Writer/director Jeffrey Mandel pulled it together fast as St. Nick! Plus the class has questions about elf folklore; Luckily Greg may have so...

Even if the title makes it a little obvious, it's still possible to get lost in L.A. BOUNTY (1989). Written and produced by star Sybil Danning, she cast herself as Ruger: a monosyllabic ex-cop turned bounty hunter following the trail of a kidnapped mayoral candidate.  But let's face it, we're all here for the main attraction - Wings Hauser! - who delivers a trademark enigmatic villain perform...

Tryptofanatics - third time's a charm! We again gather 'round the Thanksgiving table yet again with our favorite dinner guest CHLOE MEDGHALCHI to hold hands and thank the B-movie Gods that we have one more turkey to watch. HOME SWEET HOME (1981) pits a large, annoying family of indeterminate relation against a knife-wielding (but never using) killer who may be actually be doing them a favor by bum...

The class sashays down the runway with MODEL BY DAY (1994)! In this failed TV pilot based on a based graphic novel from the aptly named Rip Off Press, Famke Janssen stars as Lex. She's the world's best supermodel by day, but when her roommate is injured in a carjacking she must become the vigilante Lady X to avenge her roommate's...uh, eyeball we guess? INSTAGRAM  |   FACEBOOK  | &n...

Hey all. Casey here. I want you to know that while I wrote HOLLOW GATE (1988) in the show title, the movie's opening credits clearly read "Hollowgate." Everyone else on the internet calls it Hollow Gate, and I don't understand why we're all perpetuating this farce. Either way, it's about a mentally ill middle-aged teenager named Mark who goes off his meds and kills people. Seemingly triggered by i...

The class blows the lid off Shlocktober with THE JAR (1984)! After getting into a car crash Paul finds himself tormented by a pudgy lil' demon in a jar...or a bottle. Much like everything in THE JAR it's not quite clear, or visible, or audible. But is it really as bad as the internet would have us believe? INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER

For their big five-o, the class goes to the dogs with K-9000 (1990)! A failed TV pilot turned failed TV movie where a luddite cop reluctantly teams up with a cybernetic dog to save its creator. Special guest Jordan Olds (Two Minutes to Late Night) joins us to discuss: the lack of dog content, the cinematic canine-iverse, and the rabbit hole that is Catherine Oxenberg's IMDB trivia page. INSTAGRAM...

Forgive us classmates, for we have sinned. In an act of gluttony, we couldn't stop ourselves from making a whole meal out of THE DIVINE ENFORCER (1992): the parable of the kick-boxing, gun-toting, dialogue-mangling vigilante priest who comes to a Los Angeles diocese to diodecease some scum bags. Armed with crucifix knives, psychic visions, and a never ending stream of confessors, Father Daniel tri...

The world is really going down the tubes...and that's where we start when we MEET THE HOLLOWHEADS (1989)! The class wades through softening jelly, butt polish, splat spray, and whatever else this Nickelodeon-gone-nutso family portrait can throw at us. Unclog your brain and join us on the edge!

This movie sucks, and not the way you want it to. PROJECT VAMPIRE (1993) is much more project than vampire, pitting a hapless intern against an immortal college professor bent on the worldwide distribution of his immortality serum/anti-sun booster so that humanity may fall under his psychic spell: a vampire’s greatest power. Just as Bram Stoker imagined. We invite comedian and TikTok virus Dave Co...

Believe or not, William Katt is hankering for a fatal attraction in NAKED OBSESSION (1990) and the class is hot and BOTHERED. Urban planning and gentrification have never been sexier (???) in this psychosexual thriller. Allow Sam Silver to welcome you to the Dark Side—just be careful where you leave your neckties lying around. INSTAGRAM  |   FACEBOOK  |   TWITTER

John Tucker must die in FUTURE FORCE (1989)! In the near future, justice as we once knew it has ceased to exist (too real). Cops have been replaced by C.O.P.S, bounty hunters sporting sleeveless denim vests and beige sedans. After the CEO of C.O.P.S puts a bounty out on a reporter, John Tucker (famous martial "artist" David Carradine) goes rogue-er to keep her safe. It's a RoboCop ripoff without t...

Don't think we've gone Hollywood or anything, but Fred Dekker gave his career so that we could have this insane threequel! ROBOCOP 3 (1993) casts a sans-Weller RoboCop in a PG-13 Detroit - filled with splatter punks, ninjas, and jetpacks - in the hopes of telling a brand new story the same way again. Dead or alive, creeps, you'll buy that for a dollar! INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK

Boot up, kiddos - it's a blast from the past! Cold War agitprop goes full technophobe in TERMINAL ENTRY (1987), which makes WarGames look like kid's stuff. We dive into all the 8-bitty gritty with star & gentleman Patrick Labyorteaux! It's not just an episode, it's a warning...  INSTAGRAM  |   FACEBOOK  |   TWITTER

Travel down the GOREgon trail for DEVIL RIDER (1991)! Canoodling frenemies fall victim to an immortal cowboy who may or not be Satan himself. Come for the horse screams, stay for Zeb the farmhand (RIP Zeb). Plus the titular Devil Rider visits the class (and won't leave, despite Josh's insistence). In the immortal words of Cosmo Kramer: Giddy up! INSTAGRAM  |   FACEBOOK  |   TWI...

It's a Video High double feature! The class re-enters the tournament ring for TIGER CLAWS 2 and TIGER CLAWS 3. Forget everything you know about Tiger Claws. Because now there's magic, time travel, time-travel-magic and (sigh) even less Cynthia Rothrock. But which is the class' favorite? What's the "Indiana Jones problem"? And what rhymes with "Tarek"? Step through the magic Stargate to ancient Chi...

The class hitches a ride back to visit Uncle Miguel but must contend with The Prince of Magic and his MASTER! Who could it be, we wonder? We'll have to summon all our squiggle magic to find out and join Lando, Renzo, and a host of snake people to crack open the secrets of THE KILLING OF SATAN (1983)! INSTAGRAM  |   FACEBOOK  |   TWITTER

2022 is the year of the tiger, so Video High starts a new semester with the DTV Jalal Merhi martial-arts movie megalith, TIGER CLAWS (1991). So many questions... Can Detective Tarek stop the Death Dealer, played by Bolo Yeung, by becoming a master of Tiger Claw style kung fu without becoming a killer himself? Can Cynthia Rothrock be there to help sometimes? Can anonymous wall hole sex prevent the...

Dearest classmates, Video High will be taking a brief hiatus. So we called the school into the auditorium to talk reboot culture, discuss our favorite remakes, and work out how to come back sexier, woker, and commercially viabler. Stay tuned! INSTAGRAM  |   TWITTER  |   FACEBOOK

It’s Christmas in July in January as the class time travels down the line for TRANCERS (1984)! A Terminator era tale of a bounty hunter named Deth  traveling back in time to stop a psychic-zombie cult by inhabiting the body of his ancestor and bagging a baddie. (And by baddie, we mean Helen Hunt. Grrrowl!) Nothing puts you in the holiday spirit like time traveling cops and psychic serial kill...

The class reads the runes of these sacred cinematic texts to pierce the veil of time and comprehend the year 2022… - SOYLENT GREEN (1973) - THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (1990) - TIME RUNNER (1993) - NO ESCAPE (1994) INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK

The Video High class starts this holiday season with a deep meowtaphysical quandary: Cats or Death? If the deliriously delicious disease horror-comedy THE CARRIER (1988) has taught us anything, it's that can be a much more complicated question than it seems. So we’re making this a family practice by bringing sister extraordinaire Alana Regan into the classroom to diagnose our woes and dissect this...