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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 70565
Released: September 9, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 192 minutes
Description of Return of the Killer Tomatoes / Return to Horror High:
You're not going to believe this, but Return of the Killer Tomatoes is a genuinely funny movie. Ten years after John DeBello made the frowzy, low-budget Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, he brought the fleshy fruit back for a murderous encore. Like the first film, it works as a parody of horror-movie conventions (and it repeatedly makes fun of itself, Mad-magazine style), but this time the budget is higher. There's a great, ongoing send-up of product placement, plus a juicy role for the oft-underutilized John Astin, as the evil genius this kind of movie needs. Just to keep everything moving, another exploitation film keeps cutting in: Big-Breasted Girls Go to the Beach and Take Their Tops Off. It ain't high art, but this movie knows its audience. A young George Clooney plays one of the heroes.
Return to Horror High is a convoluted cheesefest that tries to be spoof and horror movie at the same time, feebly prefiguring Scream. A movie crew is filming a slasher picture at a high school where a series of murders actually occurred; the killings begin again--or are they simply staged for the production? The answer to this question is distinctly uninvolving, but it involves a lot of fake blood. Familiar faces include Vince Edwards and Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick (a uniformed cop), plus--until he becomes the first victim--George Clooney. --Robert Horton
Return of the Killer Tomatoes / Return to Horror High Reviews:
Tomatoes Is Great Fun....Horror High is pretty dull but has its moments. 
2009-09-10 - Killer Tomatoes holds up really well. Funny and off the wall, especially the great John Astin. Return to Horror High has lost most of it's punch, except for the early demise of George Clooney (boy...if they'd only known!) and the ending and of course the inclusion of Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!. The pace is horribly slow. There is one thing that they included as a joke, when the crew runs out of money, they make hilarious use of 'product placement" to make up the shortfall. Boy were they prophetic!!!!!!. Last but not least, Alex Rocco, is the quintessential slimey "B" movie producer!
Not Clooney's proudest moments 
2009-09-03 - The tomato movie is campy fun. The high school move is crappy with
no redeeming qualities. George is on screen for about 4 minutes.
80's version of horror spoof
2006-03-15 - If you like the "Scary Movie" spoofs of "Scream" and other horror films and are a George Clooney fan, you'll like "Return of the Killer Tomatoes." It is good for when you want to watch a movie and want to laugh out loud. The companion piece "Return to Horror High" was too campy and was not good
OH, George! WE Hardly Knew Thee...
2005-01-22 - Before E.R.
Before Batman and Robin.
Before Roseanne, The Facts of Life there was:
Those pesky Killer Tomatoes, and that really bad high school reunion. Yes, Mr. Clooney cut his teeth on the lame sequel to the smash tomato movie. In Horror High he gets killed early on, but maybe he lives and gets sent to the E.R. Who knows! Who cares, just sit right back and enjoy these tales and don't take them too seriously.
