Class of Nuke em High

Troma has put out some of the most wretched and vile cinematic 'entertainment' ever seen on film. Starting off with where the Toxic Avenger left off, we have a nuclear leak thats making its way into the local high school.

A group of ex-honor society students have been hideously transformed into drug crazed bikers with a pension for fowl language, rape, and violence. Shy young couples turn into lust crazed sex weasels. And a putrid, flesh-eating slime monster lurks in the basement. Just another day at Tromaville High!

Discipline soon crumbles, morals go out the window and mega-volt rock n roll maddness takes over the student body. As the hideous radioactive creature in the school's basement continues to grow, so does every immoral activity on the face of the earth.


This movie was a sign of the times then, but even more so today. As the threat of nuclear annihilation threatens our civilized societies, the children suffer the most. There's a general lack of hope for the world, which soon turns people into non-worrying individuals without a conscious.

The Class of Nuke Em High is nothing more but an outlandish commentary on nuclear power and the seemingly irresponsible ways it's used. I remember watching this flick as a kid. I was almost asleep when it came on, but years later, got the chance to watch it again. There's no story really. The mutated kids who were once A students run amuck and now sell radioactive weed that gives a hard on so big, it will destroy a house - It's responsible for a woman who becomes pregnant over night to some squid-like creature which eventually gets sucked down the sewer by a frantic flusher. There's your mutated 'good guy' who takes revenge on one of the goons by shoving his fist totally down his throat Just Before Dawn Style. There's Tweaked out female bikers who like to enter the boys bathroom and force them into oral sex and a good spanking. Teachers loosing their hair overnight. There's a white guy dressed and painted like someone from an African tribe that sports a bone through his nose. Kind of reminds me of a TBN Telethon.

It seems as if the main man behind the nuclear facility doesn't give a ''wet fart'' what the situation is and does away with a suggestion to shut down the school. He's afraid of all the bad publicity, but it doesn't matter that innocent children are going to be hiddeously transformed into rock n roll genetic freaks.

What can be said about this flick? Ludicrous, ridiculous, funny, disturbing, sick - Everything reminiscant of Lloyd Kaufman. If you have nothing better to do on a sunny saturday afternoon, grab a copy of Class of Nuke Em High. You'll feel funny for a day or two after, but one thing I've noticed about Troma films is that they definitely make an impression on you. Good or bad, it's an impression. I've yet to see part 2. I'm going to dig that up later. I hear it's better than the first.

Lloyd Kaufman is a man of very little taste. This film as well as all his other films should be a testimony to exactly how far he has dropped on the Class Meter.