Hell High aka Raging Fury starts off very promising. A young girl is playing with her doll in an outbuilding when two teens start making out in an adjoining room. The boy breaks the doll, in retaliation the little girl forces the pair off a motorbike to their grisly deaths. So far so good. Sadly it's downhill for the next 50 minutes or so. Forward 18 years and said little girl is now Ms Brooke Storm, high school biology teacher. Four of her students pay her an unexpected night time visit in retaliation for her slapping one across the face in class. They wear horror masks which I have to say looked very cool. She soon becomes aware of their malicious intentions, she has a 'phone but why oh why did she not think to call the cops before it was too late!!?? One of numerous dumb decisions and actions throughout. Often billed as a slasher movie but really it is more of a home invasion/revenge thriller, a much watered down "I Spit on Your Grave". The acting is unremarkable, the dialogue is often awful and the musical score is overdone. The four intruders are all loathsome, played by actors who were probably pushing 30. Nothing much happens for the bulk of the running time, only the first five and last twenty minutes can be considered horror. Some of the gore is OK though the death by pencil in the head was poor. A bit of female nudity does little to liven things up. I watched a VHS download of this, the movie is getting a Blu-ray release but I won't be buying it. Little known movie that deserves to stay that way.
Review of Hell High
