Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

midnitetosixsteve1 I've been waiting to see this for a number of years and finally found a video copy of it.It was awesome but a little strange.First of all not once are we introduced to any authority figures that a school(which is where all of it takes place) would have.No teachers,no principles,not even a school nurse!What the hell?Robert Caradine plays the hippie(who gets criticized for drawing swastikas,we are supposed to be on his side?).There is a fake James spader guy among the preppies who are in charge of the school.The dude from the Fury and 10 to midnight is old pals with the guy who resembles the killer in 10 to midnight(but it is not him). I was happy to see Rainbeau Smith from "Revenge of the cheerleaders" and thought it was strange when both her and her gruff voiced friend get raped and when she goes outside after being rescued she totally forgets to button her shirt back up!Later on they are both crushed by a boulder(along wit Carradine). Once the hero/psycho of the film gets his leg broken he goes insane and gets even with the sweater helmet haircutted preps of the high school(who would all later end up on Happy Days or Eight is Enough).He is also driven to kill by his good friend's(the Fury guy) girlfriend who he hates but likes at the same time(I was throughly confused by this).Another thing that is a concept only in this film when jocks go away nerds go into attack mode and try to destroy each other! In many senseless ways the locker bombing(1) the car blows up(a couple of times) and the weirdest the librarians hearing aid kills him and blood pours out of his ears.If you want to see hilarious murders and senseless violence done in a 70's schmaltzy way then check out this one.

disdressed12 this is not a good movie.i don't recall seeing worse acting for a long time.basically,a new student becomes bullied to the point where he is pushed over the edge.he exacts revenge by killing those who wronged him, making their deaths look accidental.sounds okay so far,right.but,this killer decides to kill other students who had nothing to do with bullying him.now there are no real "legitimate" reasons given to murder everybody.now,we get to the acting.each time a fellow student has a fatal accident,the other students show very little emotion and continue as if nothing has happened.i have to chalk this up to the limited acting ability of all the actors.in most so called horror movies, acting is not expected to be Oscar calibre,but this is worse than almost any movie in the horror genre.and things are worse because this movie has no scary sequences,so it would be nice if the actors could pick up some of the slack.the characters are like robots in their reactions,so it's really hard to like any of them.there are at least two scenes of nudity which are pointless.there is never any suspense generated,so there is never any feeling of anyone being in jeopardy.one last thing.this movie tries to take itself way too seriously,as if it is an Oscar contender.if it had been played for laughs,it may have been a better,or at least watchable movie. 1/10

The_Void Massacre at Central High is one of the earlier exploitation/slasher films to feature a school full of thirty-something's getting bumped off, but that's not to say it's a cut above the rest of the genre. The film stands apart from others like it because it features a social commentary to go along with the bloodshed, but it's largely ill-conceived, and doesn't work the way it was obviously intended to. That's not to say that the social commentary isn't a good idea; these sorts of themes have worked well in many more professionally made films, but the inane dialogues and poor production values of this film make it too difficult to really take seriously, which doesn't do the social commentary any favours. The plot focuses on David; a new student at a high school in America. David was once friends with Mark, who is in a clique with the school bullies. They rule the school with an iron fist, but they get more than they bargained for when they decide to cowardly injure David under a car. Now crippled, he decides to take his revenge on the gang that did it.Aside from the none too successful social commentary, this film also suffers because it's never all that interesting. The seventies style is there, but other than that, the film can be a bit dry. The murder scenes are more inventive than your common slasher fare, but they're not very gory and are mostly extremely unlikely. None of the performers succeed at convincing the audience that they're young enough to even go to school, and it's all rather wooden as well. This isn't always a problem with trashy low budget cinema, but there's little distraction with this film. The fact that the film was shot on a low budget is evident throughout, as the locations are often very bare, the cinematography is bland; and as mentioned, they couldn't afford any capable actors. One thing that writer-director Rene Daalder does succeed at, however, is putting the focus squarely on the society at the centre of the film at all times, and this is done by only showing the school "kids", and no adults. Overall, this might appeal more to the kind of people that enjoy slashers and the like; but I found this film very lacklustre.

Camera Obscura As has been pointed out by other users, this is clearly not a horror film. Perhaps a highschool-exploitation-revenge flick but without splatter or gore and there are certainly no massacres. The DVD-cover (at least the one I own, Dark Vision - 2001, different from the German cover shown here) even shows a guy holding an Axe, who is not in the movie at all, as there are no axes in the film for that matter either! When I first heard about this film, I was fascinated, mainly because of the name of the director, Rene Daalder. I was a bit puzzled, because there's only a handful of Dutch directors active in the U.S, so who was this Daalder? Perhaps just a Dutch name, as there are many in the U.S., but apparently he did come from the Netherlands and came to America around 1970 after making several films in the Netherlands. One of them, DE BLANKE SLAVIN (The White Slave) (1969), made on a budget of 1,100,000 Guilders (at least $500,000), actually was the most expensive Dutch movie made at the time. Trivia note about this, he co-wrote the script with the now (world) famous architect Dutch Rem Koolhaas! I don't have the exact figures (not even available anymore) but something like 845 people went to see it and as a result he wisely decided to leave the country for a while and went to America.After first seeing the film some five months ago, I thought it was OK, but nothing special, but barely a month later, a documentary was shown on Dutch public television, titled HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE, made - to my knowledge - by the completely vanished (from Holland at least) Rene Daalder! It's a portrait of the late Bas Jan Ader, fellow Dutch artist in exile, living and working in Los Angeles in the '60s and early '70s. A interesting portrait of a forgotten artist but to my surprise most of the documentary was about Daalder's own work, part of it about the making of MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH. In this documentary Daalder pointed out, that every poor teenager losing it's life in this film, is killed by the forces of gravity. The first time I saw the film I didn't really notice this, but indeed, everybody is killed in this way (falling of a cliff, jumping in an empty pool, the crashing of a hang-glider etc.). Even more bizarre is the fact that Bas Jan Ader, whose work this particular documentary dealt with, also had gravity as the main theme in his work. There is some earlier, very strange, footage of him (shot in Holland), falling of a roof or driving his himself with his bicycle in the water, all of it perhaps even filmed by Renee Daalder himself. The resulting material on film itself was apparently considered the end-product, the actual work of "Art".Somehow Renee Daalder incorporated some of these concepts about gravity in MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, but besides this peculiar little fact, I can only mildly recommend the film itself. During the whole film, there is a strange, somewhat menacing, atmosphere. But somehow this movie continued to haunt me, not because it's such a good film. Daalder probably had a lot of good ideas and is obviously a better writer than a director, but most of the dialog is poor and with some exceptions, the acting is amateurish. Perhaps some messages about authority, social class and status, but I wouldn't take these to seriously. Perhaps this film turns out to be more a work of experimental art than a real movie, but it's cult status seems to be firmly established by now. 7/10 for pure strangeness and sheer curiosity value.