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School Spirit

  • 1985
  • R
  • 1h 30m
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4.2/10
1.5K
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Elizabeth Foxx and Tom Nolan in School Spirit (1985)
A horny student killed in a car crash becomes a ghost who can make himself invisible or corporeal at will. With the help of his perverted ghost guide, old uncle Pinky, he goes on sexcapades, takes on the principal and finds true love.
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A college student gets into a car crash and becomes a special kind of ghost who can make himself invisible or corporeal at will. He takes advantage of his powers to pursue his fellow female ... Read allA college student gets into a car crash and becomes a special kind of ghost who can make himself invisible or corporeal at will. He takes advantage of his powers to pursue his fellow female students, during the infamous 'Hog Day'.A college student gets into a car crash and becomes a special kind of ghost who can make himself invisible or corporeal at will. He takes advantage of his powers to pursue his fellow female students, during the infamous 'Hog Day'.

  • Director
    • Alan Holleb
  • Writer
    • Geoffrey Baere
  • Stars
    • Tom Nolan
    • Elizabeth Foxx
    • Larry Linville
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    1.5K
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    • Director
      • Alan Holleb
    • Writer
      • Geoffrey Baere
    • Stars
      • Tom Nolan
      • Elizabeth Foxx
      • Larry Linville
    • 24User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Tom Nolan
    Tom Nolan
    • Billy Batson
    Elizabeth Foxx
    • Judith Hightower
    Larry Linville
    Larry Linville
    • President Grimshaw
    Roberta Collins
    Roberta Collins
    • Helen Grimshaw
    Michael Miller
    • Chuck Reembyte
    Brian Frishman
    Brian Frishman
    • Barducci
    • (as Brian Mann)
    Leslee Bremmer
    Leslee Bremmer
    • Sandy
    • (as Leslee Bremer)
    Laurence Haddon
    Laurence Haddon
    • Dr. Strohman
    Beach Dickerson
    Beach Dickerson
    • Second Doctor
    Cynthia Harrison
    Cynthia Harrison
    • Red Head Nurse
    Karen A. Smythe
    • Scrub Nurse
    Helen Vick
    • E.R. Nurse
    John Finnegan
    John Finnegan
    • Pinky Batson
    David Byrd
    David Byrd
    • The Boss
    Liz Sheridan
    Liz Sheridan
    • Mrs. Kingman
    Pamela Ward
    • Girl in Sorority Room
    • (as Pam Ward)
    Nick Segal
    Nick Segal
    • Gregg
    Jay Scorpio
    • Professor Sylvester
    • Director
      • Alan Holleb
    • Writer
      • Geoffrey Baere
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    4Uriah43

    A Bit of a Disappointment

    This film essentially begins with a college student named "Billy Batson" (Tom Nolan) desperately trying to seduce a beautiful coed student by the name of "Judith Hightower" (Elizabeth Foxx). However, just when he almost achieves his goal, he discovers that he has no protection. So, since Judith refuses to go any further without it, he hurries to procure some. Unfortunately, along the way he has a fatal car accident which, as one might expect, ruins his plans. But then, as luck would have it, just at the moment his soul leaves his body, he is met by his uncle "Pinky Batson" (John Finnegan) who was sent from heaven to guide him into the proverbial light. It's then revealed that, much like his nephew, Uncle Pinky gets easily distracted by members of the opposite sex which results in him running after an attractive woman instead of taking care of the business at hand. However, just prior to that, he shows Billy how to become visible again. So, armed with this knowledge, Billy then goes back to college to use this new ability to further enhance his sexual appetite. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film had most of the necessary ingredients for a good teensploitation comedy. What it didn't have, unfortunately, was any humor. To that effect, despite all of the attractive ladies--and there were plenty of them in this film- none of them were able to rescue this dismal picture from its rather boring state. That being said, although I don't consider this to be a bad movie necessarily, I must say that I was a bit disappointed with it overall and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.
    7gravedigger_jones

    Wow ... The Lengths We'll Go To

    I truly enjoyed this movie, no pretension and tons of cheesy, horn-ball insanity. The aspect of this movie that really made it for me, that put it over the top, is that our protagonist is so horned-up and crazy to get some action that not only is his corpse clutching the condom that he died getting, but he actually comes back from the dead (!) and steals the condom from his cadaver's grasp. THAT is dedication to getting yr freak on.

    Check it out if you like the requisite teen / college sex-comedy fodder from the eighties ( private school, porky's, up the creek, summer school, etc. )
    lor_

    Low-grade teen comedy

    My review was written in October 1985 after a Times Square screening.

    "School Spirit" is a weak, low-budget comedy that arrives way too late in the overdone teen fantasy cycle. Announced as an Almi PIctures release last year, film debuted instead from Roger Corman's new distribution company in April 1985 in Atlanta.

    Tom Nolan (imagine Michael J. Fox as a 6-foot-tall football player) toplines the overage-looking cast as Billy Batson (no relation to Captain Marvel), a college student who is killed in a car crash while rushing heedlessly home from a drugstore with an all-important condom to be down with campus beauty Judy (Elizabeth Foxx). His late uncle Pinky appears in the hospital as a transparent ghost to take Billy to heaven, but our hero, discovering that a hand motion (reminiscent of Curly's shtick for the Three Stooges) can materialize him as flesh-and-blood, escapes to stay on Earth one more day. Object: get laid.

    With chintzy special effects, the pic's ghost gimmick is extraneous, mainly used for an obligatory scene of eavesdropping (invisibly) in the girls' shower room to ogle various siliconed cuties. Grainy photography, muffled sound recording and dinky production values all indicate that the picture was ground out carelessly as just another title for market.

    Cast is sunk by the material, but executes the praffalls acceptably. Only surprise is the presence of a Corman mainstay of 15 years ago (in all those Filipino women's prison pictures) Roberta Collins as the perennially drunken wife of the college president.
    3mwilson1976

    A cheapo, one-gimmick teen sex comedy that'll put you in a coma

    When horny Young college student Tom Nolan gets hit by a truck he ends up brain dead in hospital with a hard on, but is able to return to life for a 24-hour period so he can try and get laid in this non sensical and stupid comedy. It's just an excuse for him to spy on naked college girls in a shower room and the entire movie is full of lame jokes. It was one of the first films from Roger Corman's new distribution company, Concorde Pictures Inc, which he formed after selling New World Pictures and features copious amounts of female nudity but no hot sex scenes or any remotely funny performances. It had some potential to riff on the horror genre, but the fact that the lead character is dead and a ghost has almost no bearing on the plot.
    5ruandyt

    Better than the grouch who wrote the other review says it is

    Gee I just watched this on DVD the other day.And I'm not sure if "god" would allow a ghost to linger around college but c'mon guy it's a silly little T&A sex comedy.Yes I know it's not a great film but it's a typical 80's party flick. Sometimes the serious artistic merit of a film has to be overlooked.If School Spirit was meant to be taken seriously as a look at reincarnation that's one thing but really it's not.But obviously the producers were tapping into the teenage boy market that made movies like Hardbodies,Porky's,Losin' It and other 80's staples successful.School Spirit will give you a chuckle and an eyeful of gratuitous female nudity,nothing more nothing less.And some days that's all you want to watch.

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    • Trivia
      Despite playing a college student, Tom Nolan was actually 31 years old at the time of this film's release.
    • Goofs
      When Billy ducks into the blonde's room, wide shots show her nude from behind, but the close-up shot of her chest shows panties that are just out of frame.
    • Quotes

      Scrub Nurse: I never saw anyone brain dead with a hard on.

      E.R. Nurse: I guess you never met my boyfriend.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Reanimator Academy (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      Bad Hangover Everyday I Stay in Love With You
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    • Release date
      • October 30, 1985 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Roger Corman: The Official DVD Website
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Der ausgeflippte College-Geist
    • Filming locations
      • Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA(UCLA campus)
    • Production companies
      • Chroma III Productions
      • T&A Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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