School of the Damned

An absolute snooze fest, to quote Abe Simpson I coughed up scarier things. Don't waste your time on this.

"School of the damned" is a pretty promising title for an intended horror movie, but they didn't in any way live up to it. It fails on the most basic aspects: the story is shaky and goes all over the place, the atmosphere isn't a bit scary, and the acting is below par. With the exception of attractive and sympathetic James Groom, who plays main character Tony, the new teacher who unknowingly enters this weird school, he's the only talented actor in the cast and does his best, but cannot help drowning in the silliness and amateurism that surrounds him. The children that are the sources of all evil are supposed to look extremely menacing and sinister, but cramping your face as if you're constipated doesn't really do the trick. The only thing I liked was the way all the scholars immediately, as a drilled army platoon, responded on the tapping of the staff of the headmaster, that was a nice find. But for the rest: disappointing and totally superfluous.

Incredibly slow and boring. Primary children could put on a better play.

That's 25 minutes of my life I will never get back (which is as long as I could bare) well 20 minutes actually, I went and made a cup of tea. Boring and badly acted. This story has been done so much better in the past as posted by rsvp321.

Seriously, don't waste your time with this.

You've seen most of what is served here in a much better way. In horror movies you may consider classics - but even if not you at least will like them more than this. Village of the Damned and so forth come to mind.

Still I reckon it is always eerie to have little ones be ... well evil. I've seen worse and the editing makes certain shocks and effects/deaths work even on the small budget this very likely had ... but will it be enough to keep you interested?