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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The first must-see film of the year.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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.

The bottom line of this movie is that it's a horror movie, not a great one, not a terrible one.I watch these kinds of movies with my family and friends, so that balances my opinion a little bit. A lot of the scary parts scared me, but not all of them. The people I watched it with were scared by all the parts, however.The acting was average and the story was average, but without the plot twists it would have been predictable. Because of the plot twists, it was worth it to rent and watch this movie -- I also gave this movie 7 stars because of it.Of course, that doesn't mean it was worth buying it -- it apparently was made for TV (in Germany, though, which is different from here in the U.S.) and I think that affects the quality of the movie so it's really only worth one good watching.

A good slasher movie, made in Germany, with a good young cast of anonymous people, this movie is a threat for the fan of the genre. A few of the stylish murder scene are very well made and very effective in catching the eye of the spectator (and new enough to hold the attention even of the more smaliziate viewers). After all, a movie to belong to every genre fan video shelf.

There is not much to say about this extremely boring, badly acted and ridiculously dull German slasher. It's a blatant rip-off of the similarly stupid films "I Know What You Did Last summer" and "Urban Legend", only that "Schrei..." manages to make the two American movies look almost acceptable (but almost only!). The German TV-version - which is two minutes cut compared to the US-video release entitled "School's Out" - even lacks the necessary drops of blood! Don't bother yourself with watching this mess; it's not worth the time. 1 out of 10.