NIGHT SCHOOL (1981)
Article 2238 by Dave Sindelar
Viewing Date: 5-2-2007
Posting Date: 9-28-2007
Directed by Ken Hughes
Featuring Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder

A murderer is decapitating women attending night classes at a local night school. Police investigate. Potential suspects appear. More murders occur. Police investigate. We meet the suspects again. Still more murders occur. Police investigate, etc. etc.

If the plot description above didn’t clue you in, this is a fairly repetitive slasher film from the early eighties. The most interesting aspects about it are the appearance of Rachel Ward (and she has a nude scene as well), and the fact that it was directed by the man who directed CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG . It won’t take you much in the way of head-scratching to figure out who the killer is. Still, it does have one amusing scene involving beef stew. It makes up for the stupid final fake-out. And though I’m no fan of the Friday the 13th series, at least Jason has more creative tricks up his sleeve than anything we see here.