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Produced by | Dick Randall Stephen Minasian |
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Cinematography | Alan Pudney |
Edited by | Jim Connock |
Music by | Harry Manfredini |
Production company | Spectacular Trading International |
Distributed by | Vestron Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Countries | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.1 million[1] |
Slaughter High is a 1986 slasher film written and directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten, and starring Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine Iannaconne, Donna Yeager, and Sally Cross. An international co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, the film follows a group of adults responsible for a prank gone wrong on April Fool's Day who are invited to a reunion at their defunct high school where a masked killer awaits inside.
Though set in an American high school, Slaughter High was filmed in England under the working title April Fool's Day. The film was re-titled after it was discovered that Paramount Pictures had a slasher film of the same name scheduled for release that same year.
Slaughter High was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 14, 1986. The release expanded over the following months, and the film continued to screen through the spring of 1987.