Night School Movie Review

Night School is a 1981 horror movie directed by Ken Hughes and starring Rachel Ward, Leonard Mann and Drew Snyder.

The movie begins with a teacher who is alone after school. A man in a motorcycle helmet comes into the playground and kills her. Lieutenant Austin(Mann) is investigating the case. The killer has mutilated the victim. He discovers that she went to school at Wendell College. He talks to her friend and a Professor Millet(Snyder). A girl called Eleanor(Ward) also attends the college. She is an exchange student. She is followed home by a weirdo from a cafe that she goes to. She goes home and her boyfriend comes. She is seeing Professor Millett. The killer strikes again and another woman is killed. Austin calls to see Millett. He thinks that the Professor was having an affair with both of the dead girls. Eleanor tells Millett that she is pregnant.

The waitress from the cafe is killed next. The owner discovers her severed head. Austin goes back to the Professor and look around his place. A teacher from the college gets killed. Her head is found in the toilet by a student that she was trying to seduce at her home. The student gets killed too. The cops think that it could be the cafe weirdo. They try to arrest him. They are completely wrong though. It turns out that the killer is Eleanor. She tells the professor that it was her. She is crazy. The police come and chase a person on a motorbike. They think it is the killer. The person crashes the bike and dies. Austin sees that it was the Professor. Austin isn't convinced that he is the killer. He thinks that it was Eleanor, but he doesn't have any evidence so he has to let her go.

This film was pretty good. It is a horror movie but it is a mystery also as the cops try to figure out who the killer is. I liked the cast and I thought that the story was decent. It has some slasher elements and some thriller elements. The ending is good and I enjoyed it overall. I would recommend this and I will give it a 6/10.