Video High

Move over Django, cause this G ain't silent. Tunneling up from the depths of our childhood psyches is A GNOME NAMED GNORM (1990). This Z'Dar studded buddy cop fantasy flick pairs Anthony Michael Hall with a furry friend who's got a different kind of po-po in mind. Take a little trip and see a horned up good-sized ground dweller come to life in monster maestro Stan Winston's madcap masterpiece. Fac...

Rub-a-dub-dub. Thanks for the blood. Amen. This gobbleday season, we tear into the definitive 1970s Christian anti-drug parable cautioning against a life of sex, drugs, and turkey meat. What happens if our American appetites are turned against us in the form of a bloodthirsty man-sized Turkey beast? Director Brad F. Grinter asks this and many other incredibly specific questions in BLOOD FREAK (197...

Ever consider switching between two movies on two different channels and trying to piece the plots together? THE POWER OF NINJITSU (1988) beat ya to the punch, friend! One of Godfrey Ho's ninjified gangster pickups had the class parsing out the physics of a sword fight wearing all leather...

Ah, November in an election year. Another HauntedWeen has come and gone. Now a new age of terror potentially begins - or ends, depending on who you ask. But like true Americans, VIDEO HIGH has done some extra credit so you have something to listen to while you vote. We got new thoughts, a couple mea culpas, chewing sounds, political intrigue, and we finally get the grapes to drag the Star Wars pre...

It's a haunted house on a HAUNTEDWEEN (1991), and the students of Video High are just dying to get out. This Halloween-cribbing cult classic about a masked killer cutting up coeds in a haunted house is to John Carpenter's prototypical slasher what "Ice Ice Baby" is to "Under Pressure:" a fellow masterpiece. This movie is such a scream, we end up screaming at each other. HAPPY HAUNTEDWEEN! Facebook...

From the dreaded Ghost Quasar comes a force so dreaded, so malicious it can only be FOREVER EVIL (1987). The class does battle with wizards, zombies, possessed underbrush, and glowy eyes in the dark to bring you this second SCHLOCKTOBER outing!

What horrors may slither out of Lake Erie onto the shores of Cleveland? If you guessed a rubber suit Creature from the Slack Lagoon, you'd be right! This week, the class dissects 1995's SHADOW CREATURE while counting their blessings that they made it out with their intestines intact...

Do you know what jugmilk is? FIND OUT with the Video High class who make it their business to ask the important, aggressively Canadian questions surrounding the Great White North's answer to Rocky, 1986's BUSTED UP.

Video High's nuclear family gets a little larger when we invite comedian, photographer, and co-creator of "Two Minutes to Late Night" Drew Kaufman to sink his claws into 1985's FUTURE-KILL. But we put him through a SPLATTER-ing of classic school pranks. Car crushing. Tar and feathering. Human trafficking. Violent opposition to the continued erosion of class solidarity. All the classic pranks. Chec...

What do Home Improvement's Zachary Ty Bryan, a kooky billionaire, a team from Northwestern University, and a sad-eyed park ranger have in common? A run-in with America's original cryptid! This week, Video High becomes Cryptozoology 101 with 1994's BIGFOOT: THE UNFORGETTABLE ENCOUNTER!

It's a true BLAST from the PAST! GUARDIAN ANGEL (1994) assaults Video High - Cynthia Rothrock & PM Entertainment's first collab is an explosive ass-kicker that only the small screen could produce.

Huzzah! THE LORDS OF MAGICK have arrived! Join Video High on an unmedievable magical journey stretching from times long past to 1989 Los Angeles. Magic! Merlinites! Maidens! MULLETS! Follow two sibling sorcerers as they laserblast bikers, commune with Elder Gods, sidestep library registration policy, underpay sex workers, and disrespect hardwood flooring in the hopes that they can defeat evil in w...

Video High in outer space! Beaming in is 1995's DROID GUNNER aka CYBERZONE, a movie about cyborgs and the man who hunts them. Sound familiar? Well, we wax poetic about the future, overqualified female co-stars, a pirate bartender, and the unnecessary nudity that ties them all together.

What happens when a member of Menudo, the producer of Shark Attack 3, and the choreographer of Dirty Dancing make a movie? 1988's SALSA answers that question! Grab your chips and join the Video High crew as they shimmy and shake their way through the veil between life and death. As the tagline says, IT'S HOT!

Video High meets low comedy in 1992's KUNG FU RASCALS - an epic adventure of three fools to find the power most BIG! Laugh with us! Cringe with us! Join us on our epic journey to find out why Les Claypool had a hand in it. The answer may confound you!

Ever want a little extra marinara with your Rambo? Well then STRIKE COMMANDO cannot wait to grant all your wishes! This piece of 1987 Italo-action is our first mission...hopefully we make it through in one piece...

At Video High, the teacher is always hung over and putting on a movie. From beefcake shoot-em-ups to chintzy dance dramas and horrible horrors, Video High is where the rejects rule! Join hosts Casey Regan, Jamie Kennedy (no, the other one), Greg Hanson, and Josh Roth as they take you down the rabbit hole of remarkably offbeat cinema. Class is now in session.