Up until recently I had never heard of this movie and being a big fan of Slasher movies, especially when they became popular again during the late 90's, this one totally passed me by and don't recall seeing it on the shelves of my local video shop. So when I seek ed this out and looking at the cover with the killer wearing a creepy red mask and an awesome looking clown outfit, so naturally I was intrigued by this and when I got round to seeing it. Well I can see why this got lost amongst the shuffle.The story follows a group of friends spending graduation night setting up pranks for their teachers at the school after hours and soon enough a killer shows up with a massive pair of scissors shows up and starts picking them off one by one.This movie wasn't all bad, it does offer some great creepy locations with the school itself with a room full of creepy mannequins as well as a room of stuffed animals, which with the dark lighting does create an eerie atmosphere and the long dark corridors are used really well with a really cool Gothic look to them which does make for some really tense moments. The killer was very creepy and made for a real threat. The twists and turns that involve the killer or the last act which really took me by surprise and it really do keep you guessing up until the last act.But there are several things that let things down in this movie, firstly the tame and lifeless acting, I don't know whether that was down to the bad dubbing and the pace was really sluggish and the dialogue was just stilted and awful. There were three distinct acts to this and the first act was really boring and dragged out and struggled to adapt to the tone. It's not until the killer appears is when things get interesting.All in all 'School's Out' was average with some definite things that works in its favour including the mystery aspect, but gets bogged down by the pace and boring characters and if these things were tweaked a little, then this could have made for a much better movie.

german giant of the thriller drama robert sigl manages to excite 90 minutes of horror in the tradition of "scream 1". fast speed, young actors with great talent - bloody showdown for a typical Sigl-Final. Cool horror in an intense and frightening atmosphere.

I'm really fed up with such movies like "Scream","I Know What You Did Last Summer","Urban Legend" or "School's Out"-these so-called horror flicks pose as a slashers,but they're nothing more than politically correct trash."Schrei-denn ich werde dich toten!" borrows unashamedly from American "Scream" like slasher movies without adding new twists.The film is boring,completely unscary(if you think that fake scares are scary,you don't know the genre),awfully acted and not gory at all.It just sinks in the ocean of clichés.I like slasher movies in general,especially those from early 70's and 80's-they were low-budget,badly acted,but actually scary!Nowadays horror movies(apart from Japanese and HK stuff)are trying to please more teeny boppers than real horror fans.Oh well,we still got thousands of old ones to watch!And as long as I have those movies to watch I'll be a happy person.So don't bother with this awful mess.Not recommended.

here in the u.s.a this movie is called School's Out, i saw it at the video store and knew it would be bad but i thought bad in a good way like Jack Frost, but i was wrong, School's Out had potential at one point to maybe be decent but it failed, the kills were for the most part off camera, this movie tried to be too smart for it's own good, how dare this trash mention a classic like Psycho, alot of people hate the new 90's hollywood horror other than the Scream trilogy i don't like 90's horror in the U.S.A that much as well, but i would rather watch any U.S slasher then watch one from another Country, cause bottom line here in the U.S we do it better sorry but it's true, i thought the little Scream twist at the end was funny it was so dumb though i did not see it coming, it was still dumb, the script and directing were rock bottom, you want real horror go back to the 70's or 80's hell even 90's hollywood horror it sure is better than this trash i give School's Out 0/10