Class of Nuke 'Em High
Class of Nuke 'Em High
R | 12 December 1986 (USA)
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The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

Reviews
ada the leading man is my tpye
BlazeLime Strong and Moving!
Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
KallipsoRose Class of Nuke em High is probably my favorite of all of the Troma films. Top 3 for sure. I also liked Toxic Avenger, Tromeo & Juliet, Sgt. Kabukiman and Surf Nazis Must Die. But let's talk about this one. Honor roll society starts smoking radioactive weed and morphs into a psychotic gang of sex crazed Cretins? ha ha If that's not funny to you we may not jive. I think the acting is so bad that it actually starts to get good? It's like Reefer Madness on Toxic Waste! Plus who doesn't love to cringe at New Jersey in the 80's?!Let's face it, Troma really only falls into 2 categories good bad and bad bad. This is good bad. I loved every trashy moment of it and do not feel nearly as guilty about that as I probably should!
BA_Harrison Your typical 80s Troma film is a trashy low-budget piece of B-movie excess featuring lousy acting, lame humour, comic-book violence, gratuitous nudity, bad music, and even worse fashion; generally, this kind of exceedingly puerile, deliberately crappy nonsense has me cursing the day Lloyd Kauffman was born, but very occasionally I find that the Troma formula actually delivers a pretty good time, as is the case with Class of Nuke 'Em High, which displays just enough manic inventiveness and anarchic energy to ensure that boredom is never an option. Lots of gloopy gore and the impressive sight of lovely Janelle Brady in (and out of) her bikini also go a long way to make this one much easier to endure.Janelle plays Chrissie, one of the students at Tromaville High School, which lies in the shadow of the town's nuclear facility. When Chrissie shares a joint with her boyfriend Warren, unaware that the weed has been grown on the toxic land adjacent to the power plant, she finds herself in a sudden state of arousal leading to some impromptu rumpy pumpy with her more than eager beau. Of course, as everyone knows, unprotected sex while high on radioactive reefer can result in the birth of an ugly slug-baby only a few days later, a creature that can rapidly grow into a massive monster given the right environment—such as a warm basement full of toxic waste, just like the one under Tromaville High!With wee gags, fart gags, a gang of outrageously daft punks, lots of ugly people, a swim-wear frat party, and plenty of surprisingly decent make-up effects (including the monster punching right through a woman's head), this clearly isn't high art, but if you're only going to watch one Troma film in your life, and you cant lay your grubby paws on Poultrygeist or The Toxic Avenger, you might as well make it this.
D. Ceased Before this and "The Toxic Avenger", Troma did really normal horror/thriller/erotica movies. It wasn't until "Combat Shock" that the movies got a little weird, but "The Toxic Avenger" and "Class of Nuke 'Em High" really started the whole toxic love obsession that has become associated with Mr. Kaufman and Troma."Class of Nuke 'Em High" is a simple story about Tromaville and it's one big problem, the nearby nuclear powerplant is infecting all the town's weed with toxic materials. And boy, the weed, nicknamed Atomic High, has bad side-effects. It starts messing with Chrissy and Warren's hormones. Problems increase when the school's gang takes over the school. Then a mutated monster, the effects of the powerplant, attacks the school and kills all the gang members. Using a really fake looking laser, Warren manages to kill the monster, and live happily, mutated ever after.Yes it is a trashy plot, and laughable to some, but for someone like I, it is an amazing plot. I can not put into words how much I love this movie. The scene where the geek starts spewing slime was awesome. Sure, the acting isn't the greatest, but it's good ol' fashioned trashy fun. A must see for anyone into tasteless movies.
Woodyanders A leak at a nuclear power plant contaminates a crop of marijuana. Teenagers who smoke the toxic pot transform into crazed murderous mutants. One nerdy kid spazzs out and takes a fatal spill out of a window. A vicious gang of deranged goons called the Cretins led by the insane Spike (a gloriously gonzo portrayal by Robert Prichard) terrorize the other students. Worse yet, straight-laced goody-goody two shoes Chrissy (sweetly played by the adorable Janelle Brady, who has a great topless scene) and her equally square boyfriend Warren (affable Gil Benton) give in to their naughty lascivious urges and engage in raunchy sex. A hilariously wild sense of anything-goes raucous'n'tasteless lowbrow humor, ripely hammy acting from a game cast (tubby Pat Ryan is an absolute hoot as shady nuke plant manager Mr. Finley), some yummy gratuitous nudity, a nonstop frantic pace, a handy helping of cartoonish over-the-top splatter, and an infectiously vibrant feeling of sheer go-for-it energy and enthusiasm all add immensely to the blithely silly'n'schlocky fun that's on abundant display in this gleefully madcap gut-buster. Michael Mayers' snazzy cinematography makes nice use of vertical wipes. A grotesque lethal monster goes on a rousing and righteously gruesome rampage at the film's stirring conclusion. Cool catchy theme song, too. A total zany riot.