Slaughter High

Slaughter High
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Mark Ezra
  • Peter Litten
  • George Dugdale
Produced byDick Randall
Stephen Minasian
Starring
CinematographyAlan Pudney
Edited byJim Connock
Music byHarry Manfredini
Production
company
Spectacular Trading International
Distributed byVestron Pictures
Release date
  • November 14, 1986 (1986-11-14) (U.S.)
Running time
91 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.1 million

Slaughter High is a 1986 slasher film written and directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten, and starring Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine Iannaconne, Donna Yeager, and Sally Cross. An international co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, the film follows a group of adults responsible for a prank gone wrong on April Fool's Day who are invited to a reunion at their defunct high school where a masked killer awaits inside.

Though set in an American high school, Slaughter High was filmed in England under the working title April Fool's Day. The film was re-titled after it was discovered that Paramount Pictures had a slasher film of the same name scheduled for release that same year.

Slaughter High was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 14, 1986. The release expanded over the following months, and the film continued to screen through the spring of 1987.