Students of an all girl college are being found decapitated. All the girls seem to be connected to a college professor who is known for having affairs with his students. A detective struggles to put together the clues as the body count continues to grow. It all culminates in a car/motorcycle chase scene that leads to the capture of the killer. Or does it?
For a film which uses decapitation as it's primary kill there aren't many on screen decapitations. In fact, there are none! We see a couple of decapitated heads here and there but we never actually see the heads get severed. Each time the killer goes for the final slash we're treated to the dreaded cutaway. As huge fan of decapitations this was a major letdown for me personally. As you can probably guess from all this, there is very little gore at all in the film.
The characters in Night School are all pretty unlikable. The detective is kind of a dick, the professor is definitely a dick, and his assistant is pretty boring for the majority of the film. Most of the victims have very little screen time before they're beheaded by our motorcycle helmet wearing badass of a killer. The film isn't effected at all by their deaths, they're literally all just more bodies for the detective to derive clues from.
Despite its lack of gore and long stretches of dialogue, Night School still doesn't come off as a complete waste of time. The twist at the end isn't too hard to figure out but it works. There are still some entertaining moments to be found in the relatively bloodless kills. And of course, there is "The Headhunter"! A representation of all things badass! Night School passes off as an average slasher film from an era flooded with slashers. Worth watching at least once for hardcore slasher geeks.
Body Count: 6
Side Note: Eleanor's shower has to have the heaviest water pressure of any shower on the planet. It sounds like a fucking typhoon.
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