Sunday, November 25, 2007

Class of Nuke 'em High

     Class of Nuke 'em High is one of Troma's greatest hits. For those of you who don't know what Troma is... it's a production company that for a while had its own actors that repeatedly starred in most of its early films. Troma also buys and reproduces old and otherwise lost cult films. They're also known as the Troma Team. Some of their more recent self-produced films have been beyond awful, even for cultfiends like us.  They certainly do have a few very entertaining movie gems though, but the rest look like they were filmed with a simple camcorder and have some of the worst acting ever. As always, it's a matter of taste. But the fact remains that Troma has an undeniable cult following and deserves its rightful position among the strangely elite. 

      Class of Nuke 'em High is a great movie with a really fun plot. As with most of Troma's movies, this one centers around the topic of nuclear waste. A nuclear plant that is next door to Tromaville High School begins to leak toxic waste and starts turning teenagers into violent thugs. 

      A certain gang of drug pushers starts selling pot that is grown out of toxic chemical waste and when a high school preppie named Warren and his girlfriend Chrissy smoke a toxic joint at a party, they start undergoing strange changes and bizarre happenings. Warren turns into a green drooling sort of disgusting superhero, that is compelled to fight crime and his girlfriend Chrissy belches up a weird worm-like creature that gets flushed down the school commode and ends up in a barrel of toxic waste where it grows to an enormous size. 

      When a gang of thugs known as The Cretins gets kicked out of school for violence and drug dealing, they take revenge by trashing the school. Unbeknownst to The Cretins, there is a huge, tall, slimy, worm thing in the school basement that seems pretty pissed off (maybe because he's protecting his "mommy" Chrissy). 

      The worm thing eats Cretins left and right and when it gets its tentacles on Chrissy (Mommmiee...), Warren finds a laser and beams it at this wormy thing. It lets Chrissy go and everybody gets out (well, almost everybody). Moments later, the worm monster explodes, and the school explodes too and creates a lot of really happy students (school's out!!!) Reading, writing, and radiation! Great fun!


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