Location
Anyone know what school the movie was filmed at?
shareSoutherm Methodist University, 3128 Dyer street, Dallas Texas.
shareActually, it was at Irving High School in Irving Texas, a suburb of Dallas.
shareWe never filmed at SMU. It was a high school in Irving that was being used at the time as a finishing school for pregnant girls. We were not allowed to talk to them. - Pat Cardi
shareOh, cool! Thanks for coming here and posting, Pat!
I'm watching the film for the first time as I type this. Your character is cleaning the classroom after the first murder.
Hope you enjoy the film. I hope you have a good copy. Code Red put out a new wide screen transfer last year that is worth watching - but the extras are severly lacking. Thanks for writing. - PC
shareGreat to see you on here, Pat. Our local late night horror host (Fritz the Night Owl, Channel 10, Columbus, OH, aired '74 to '91), used to play Horror High frequently. It really gave me the creeps and stuck with me for over three decades. I picked up the DVD recently and enjoyed it all over again!
shareHey, thanks for the comment. Making the film was my last real hurrah as an actor. I got one residual check out of the distributor, the owners of the film got nothing, and are still in litigation. The business side of Hollywood sucks - especially the small distributors like Crown International and Code Red. I would love to be making films again, as a director/producer - but independent film making is a tough game. Glad you liked what we did at the time.
shareWow, cool that you posted here personally, Pat. I first saw HH (undr the title TWISTED BRAIN) on NYC station Channel 11 WPIX-TV back in the day, and liked it a lot. Every so often I do a HH search on eBay and have bought a few posters, lobby cards, stills, etc on the film. Last night, I happened to see a 16mm print for sale, a bit costly but the color is still really good on it so I bought it. Alas, it's the TV version, but it's the best I've been able to find and I think it's got most of the PG-level violence intact so it'll "flow'. I thought you all did a great job on HORROR HIGH, for the time. So can you set the record straight about the film's violent content? I've read where it had to be cut to get an MPAA "R" rating, then Crown cut it further for a "PG", then they trimmed it even more for the TV version. True? And do any of the currently available DVDs represent the full, original director's cut? Thanks!
shareTrue - the film was cut to get the MPAA "R" - Don't know about Crown trying to get a PG, but they did add a very stupid scene where the president of Crown is on the phone supposedly talking to Vernon (acting as if he is the father) Dumb, dumb, dumb. Crown is one of those distributors who take advantage of young filmmakers. They sign you to contracts which are essentially adoption papers, then return NO money to the filmakers - NONE. They should be held accountable, but the spineless producers of the films will do nothing about it. And the courts are set up in such a way that trying to sue the bastards would cost as much as distributing the film. Vernon should visit Mark Tensor.
shareBummer about getting screwed like that, and I hope you get to make another film or three. But look on the bright side: Your movie has been seen by thousands (millions?) of people over two or three generations of viewers and most of them seem to have remembered it. You also got to share ice cream with Rosie H., and that bro is something! Best karma.
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