Monster High (1989 film)

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Monster High
Directed byRudiger Poe (credited as Rudy Poe)
Screenplay byRoy Langsdon
John Platt
Produced byEric Bernt
Tom Kuhn
StarringDean Iandoli
Diana Frank
David Marriott
Robert Lind
CinematographyEric Goldstein
Edited byWarren Chadwick
Music byRichard Lyons
Distributed byLightyear Entertainment
Release date
  • December 20, 1989 (1989-12-20)
Running time
84 min
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

Monster High is a 1989 comedy horror film directed by Rudy Poe.

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Plot

When aliens bring a stolen doomsday device to Earth, it is up to a group of high school students to save the world.

Reception

Reviews for the film are uniformly bad. DVD Talk said "it's really tough to be entertained by anything this inane, chintzy, and uninspired." [1] The Horror Movie Survival Guide describes the film as "Kind of like Michael Jordan's Space Jam but much much worse." [2]

Home media

Monster High was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as the "4 Movie Thrills & Chills Collection, Volume 3" along with The Craft , Fright Night , and Brainscan .

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References

  1. Weinberg, Scott (September 24, 2005). "Monster High". DVD Talk . Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  2. Molinari, Matteo; Kamm, Jim (2001). The Horror Movie Survival Guide. Penguin Putnam. ISBN   9781101203835.