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DEMOLITION HIGH is an amusing straight-to-video DIE HARD rip-off from Jim Wynorski, a man known for pumping out dozens upon dozens of B-movie features over the last few decades. This is by far the best Wynorski film I've seen because it's actually entertaining, at least in a mild sense. The story sees a bunch of terrorists invade an after-hours school with former '80s sensation Corey Haim the ageing student who stands up against them.

Expect creative death sequences, cheesy one-liners, and a general lack of budget that doesn't stop Wynorski filling his movie with explosions, action sequences, and suspense. The workshop circular saw death sequence is incredible and stands up against similar moments in the likes of CLIFFHANGER and SUDDEN DEATH, while the lean, pared-down storyline is never boring. Watch out for THE WALKING DEAD's Jeff Kober in an effective turn as the baddie of the piece, along with cameos from the likes of Gerrit Graham, Dick Van Patten, and various others. An unlikely sequel, DEMOLITION UNIVERSITY, followed.

The main reason for praising this film is the appearance of Melissa Brasselle, featured on the video cover at IMDb, but not mentioned by the other reviewers, who prefer to fuss about Corey Haim. Well, all you fetish-lovers, admire Melissa in her tight black leather outfit, untamed dark hair, falling in luxurious waves, her half-open mouth, spitting out words signalling dangerous danger and dark desires (mostly to kill, which she hmmmm, really enjoys) and trying-to-be-funny lines (the last words to the poor old watchman at the gate, or about her working ethics). There are two other girls in the movie (the FBI chick and the cheerleader chick), both are blonde, dumb and survive. This is not fair! I really wait for "Part II: Melissas Revenge". Apart from Mr. Wynorski's shameless attempts to enter his name into the movie, there is nothing to praise.

This is another one of these unoriginal plot action movies which too many exist of.

It's about some Bronx Thug and his police daddy moving to some silent and peaceful town. Well, this is an action movie, so the town isn't peaceful at all. The Bronx Thug, who kind of resembles Johnny Depp but unfortunately not his acting quality, is trapped in his new school because some terrorists captured it.

These terrorists plant bombs everywhere in the school with C4 written on them so that even the dumbest of a human being knows what the deal is. If the bad guys wish of having money or having an independent religious nation or whatever isn't fulfilled, they will launch a 'nuclear' rocket that is heading into a 'nuclear' power plant.

So what has more impact? Regular rocket into nuclear power plant or nuclear rocket into regular power plant? Probably the same, but having everything nuclear is just so silly that I couldn't stop laughing.

Eventually the rocket gets launched and I'll tell you this: If I would throw a pen in the air and film it, it most likely would look better.

This movie has more crap special effects and cheesy dialogue but I give this movie a 2/10 because it has some unintentional comedy value.

For the length of this movie I have decided to rate it a 10/10, but as for actually seeing it yet, I have to hold off on rating it for quality. I had decided to record this movie to video 'cause it fit perfectly into the remainder of the space I had left on my VHS tape which had space for, yes,one more movie at 1.5 hours length. After searching hi and lo for an alternative candidate to fulfill this requirement and knowing that I needed a movie only, I had to finally acknowledge that alas, there would be no other to fill that last little slot of space on my VHS tape. Seeing that also time was running out on the free preview weekend which Showtime was sponsoring I thought, what the heck, nothing ventured, nothing gained, or something like that, I just wanted to fill up my tape! So, I did catch the cheesy opening where the hot, sexy chick in the skintight leather catsuit offs the disheveled, dumpy, old, geezer, rent-a-cop,where she does make some utterly forgettable catch phrase, ala terminator, but I forget what she says. The hot chick does this also, after he tries to put a pathetic move on her.Forwarding thru I did catch cory haim (?) looking really weird with a strange haircut and some kind of metal looking things sticking out of his face. I was able to tell that yes, there would be some humor value to be squeezed out of this flick, possibly in the production value area(s)and for that I think I will definitely check it out and report back to this "review" what my findings will be. Til that time, so long!