GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Class of 1984 (1982)
Info:
- Release Date: August 20, 1982
- Creators: Mark Lester (director), Tom Holland (writer)
- Genre: High School Sucks
- Rating: ★★★★☆
Plot:
- Preppy gang leader Stegman and his band of evil miscreants takes on the nebbish new music teacher at school, Mr. Norris. Don't mess with the band teacher.
Notes:
- Alice Cooper's opening song, "I Am the Future"
- Roddy McDowall packing a pistol in the first scene. Chekhov would be most proud.
- Arthur being molested by Patsy
- Death by flagpole! Curse you, angel dust and misplaced patriotism!
- Teenage Head playing at the Krash Kills nightclub
- Stegman's gorgeous classical concerto
- Corrigan's toast "to the lower animals."
- Death by band saw, blowtorch, car and hanging!
- The escalating warfare between Norris and Stegman
- "Stegman's a brilliant kid." "So is the Marquis de Sade."
- "You've got to learn... life is pain... pain is everything."
- Spawned two sequels: Class of 1999 and Class of 1999 II.
Cast:
- Timothy Van Patten as Stegman
- Perry King as Norris
- Merrie Lynn Ross as Diane
- Roddy McDowall as Corrigan
- Stefan Arngrim as Drugstore
- Neil Clifford as Fallon
- Lisa Langlois as Patsy
- Keith Knight as Barnyard
- Michael J. Fox as Arthur
- Erin Flannery as Deenan
