Exploring Graduation Day 

Guy says people go to slasher because they hate women, same guy tried to have woman harressed for being the killer in a slasher.

>Wants to do something to better the plight of women. >Publishes address of woman in widely circulated newspaper for the random public to harass her.

My favorite part of your videos is when you are excited about a shitload of actors Ive never heard of. You are a cinephile and it shows through all these great vids.

"These movies hate women! Here's the address of one of the women in these films, I'm sure no crazy people will go there to invade her privacy and threaten her safety just after I've riled you all up about it!"

Great review/information as usual. Didn't realize that Siskel and Ebert were such a-holes though...dang.

didn't roger Ebert write beyond the valley of the dolls?

Bloody Birthday, Final Exam, Hospital Massacre are some other great early 80's horror.

:55-Now there's a double feature I'd have happily watched in the theater. Also-fuck Siskel and Ebert. I've actually been saying that for years, saying it again can't hurt.

Troma has posted this movie here on youtube!

Two things I love about this; that the film makers fired a prima donna actor in the middle of production and that Siskel and Ebert managed to prove how irrelevant they were. Seeing Clint Howard pop up there made me think of Evil Speak. Have you done that? You should do that.

siskel and ebert? the mayor and his side kick from Godzilla '98? LOLOLOLOL

I love this channel always introduces me to movies I would really never know about

Siskel and Eberts hypocrisy claiming that these films "hate women" but at 8:35 punish an actress by publishing her address. That wouldn't endanger her at all 😒🙄

Whenever something from GoodBadFlicks gets uploaded, I put a hold on typing out my movie reviews and sit down excited to learn a bit more about little-known or barely recognized cult films. Always makes my Monday better; great job as always 👍🏻

That music teacher was so creeping but the girls loved him lol

I really dig this "exploring" series. Gives the community a lot of insights on lesser known films. Keep doing what you're doing, man. looking forward to it, haha!

I have a big thing for the older sister in this movie. Patch McKenzy sounds like an Irish sailor's name though.

Lmao @ the director's vow to never make a horror movie again after the test screen audience's laughter to the murder scenes

Cecil, thanks SO MUCH for reviewing Graduation Day! Whenever people talk about slashers, this one usually always gets looked over. It definitely deserves more attention. LMFAO, when you talked about Herb Freed getting confused & upset about people cheering the kills, lol. Yeah, he definitely was unfamiliar with the slasher genre. Any true fan would've been cheering right along with the audience. 😂😊😄

Fun fact: Tom Hintnaus was a son of Czech immigrats fleeing from the communist block. They emmigrated to the US, but first they spend some time in Brazil, where Tom was born. They moved to the US when he was two and he was an all around all-american athlete. But he was so frustrated with the 1980's US boycott, right when he was on the top of his game, that he used the fact that he was born in Brazil and had his Brazilian citizenship recognized. He went to the 1980 Moscow Olympics with the Brazilian delegation, competing for Brazil.

I just wanna say thanks. I appreciate all the effort that you put into all of this. Definitely my no.1 channel to watch on RU-vid. You won't believe the amount of times I've rewatched most of these episodes.

Fascinating vid about this obscure movie. Terrible behaviour from Siskel & Ebert.

Hey, my High School. Now I have to watch this film. Thanks Cecil

Hey I just saw this last week on the Rooster Teeth website it was on something called Theater Mode. It was a good movie

$3 million is low budget?! I'm in the wrong business!!

A unique Horror film for its time! Another great review! The Secretary EJ Peaker played Minnie Fay in "Hello, Dolly" The release plan was also used by the makers of "The Silent Scream" in 1980.

I love the freeze frame of the MGM lion at the 7:18 mark; I feel his look says, "You're kidding me!". Either that or he tasted some rank cheetah.

Great video as always Cecil! Was watching the 1988 Pulse review and reading the comments, someone brought up Shocker. And damn thats a great idea. Haven't seen the evil Mitch Pileggi vehicle in a long long time. Dude you gotta explore or review that flick!

New Year's Evil is trash but Graduation Day is a classic

This is actually one of my favorite movies I had it on VHS and watched it a lot. When I was younger

I'm glad this didn't happened during my graduation day. By the way, I never liked Siskel and Ebert...they are so biased.

Patch Mackenzie is an awesome name, TBH.

Thanks for another great exploring vid, Cees! :D Hey, have you ever thought about possibly writing a book someday? I love the insights in many of your videos and things like your Blair Witch 2 deep dive, your exploration into why cheap as hell movies like Sharknado make money, and other videos like your "WTF happened to..." series about trailers, PG-13 and movie posters immediately come to mind, just to name a few. I think you've got enough material, experience and insight to put something together that would not only be entertaining but also informative to both casual and serious "good bad" movie fans. :) At any rate, keep up the good work, man! :)

In my house growing up when Siskel and Ebert hated a movie we saw it that day. When they loved a movie we waited until it was in Hollywood video in the weekend rental.

"It's vile how these films attack women!!! Here is this woman's home address, please register your anger at her."

Wouldn't "Most Dangerous Game" in space be "Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity"?

Cecil your vids bring me so much joy!

nice shot of the moorlyn theater in ocean city nj. I used to oversee all the jersey shore theaters

god, I love your channel. You can feel your love for these videos and you're good at them.

So the man who wrote "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" says horror films hate women... okay.

Ex rabbi turns movie director . Thats very fitting

this is why i love this channel thank you

Wow! I never knew about this plot by critics of the early 80s to completely destroy slasher films, by refusing to review them! Thanks for that tidbit of info Cecil. Thank goodness their plan didn't succeed!! Lol

One of the few classic slasher films I personally have never seen. You have really piqued my interest on it, not to mention that your passion just shines in your film analysis. Cheers, too you Cecil cheers to you.

I just pick up this movie to watch yesterday, amazing timing!

This is the first video of yours i've been notified of in months. I thought you went on a hiatus, but i have like 20 videos to catch up on! I'm getting sick and tired of this shit youtube

I first caught this on Netflix about a decade ago, and loved it. Thanks for the great backstory, as always!

The best part of Monday is knowing there’s a new good bad flicks video. Great review. Never saw this one. I’ll Definitely check it out

Much love from Vancouver sir. Love you're reviews

Wow, this is exactly the kind of slasher film I was looking for after Scream brought me into the genre. A bit of mystery wrapped into the plot about who, exactly, the killer is. I love the mystery formula added to these kinds of films, it's a shame more of them don't take advantage of it. And I love these "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" movie stories. "We're a band trying to hit the big time, you've got a film you're trying to make on the cheap, we'll do music for free, just let it be *our* music and help get our name and sound out." "You're a theater, you want movies to show, we want to make a movie, give us money to make a movie and we'll give you a movie to show." It's awesome when that kind of enlightened self-interest comes together to make something would never have happened otherwise. I'll have to check this film out.

GENE SISKEL RIP publishing BETSY PALMER'S RIP address backfired because in a FRIDAY THE 13TH DOCUMENTARY she said that thousands of people wrote to her and asked her to not only come back for PART 2 but to star in more movies and attend conventions

This really is a cool little flick. Definitely deserves more love.

Vanna White played Venus, in the NBC made for TV movie Goddess of Love.

Awesome work, man

This was one of those movies that would come on late at night on TV when I was a kid. Reminds me of Prom Night.

I love the Exploring-episodes!

Thank god for posting, this day is going to hell for me and this makes it bearable.

Exploring The Descent.What an underrated Horror film

Great job! God i miss the 80's! Being a child then was THE best. I miss My youth 😀

Siskel and Ebert are one of the reasons why I do not listen to critics.

Old school Slasher - saw this in 83 at a Drive-Inn with 2 other horror flicks from the time (Think Blood Beach was one) -> Love these reviews! Hope one day you do One dark Night or Videodrome.

Excellent video man, please do a exploring review of Punisher Warzone

Oh, I remember this one.

Love it....saw it playing with Friday the 13th part 2 at a drive-in [1981].

These "Exploring" series videos are phenomenal, man! I just found your channel this evening & I Am Hooked :D That said, can you please, Please do one of these videos on "The Poughkeepsie Tapes"? That is the first found footage movie I ever watched that left me whole-heartedly questioning whether or not it was a production or a real documentary about actual found footage.

Funniest thing is I’m from La Canada and the high school still looks the same. Thanks Good Bad Flicks

Ohhhh man, Clint Howard wrote a script for a potential Graduation Day remake!? Damn, missed opportunity. I love Clint Howard. Evilspeak decimates!

I saw this when I was very young and could not remember the name, thanks!

This naming story reminds me of the old Mad magazine spoof Arbor Day.

9:02 What a false equivalence. Comparing bullfighting, a legit blood sport, to a film? Makes me glad I never liked Siskel and Ebert.

Movie critics think they have some sort of power about what people should watch or not watch , lol nothing much has changed it would seem. I don't know of anyone that takes them seriously , in fact if you ever stumble across some sort of a review by accident , just do the opposite of what they say or think and you're usually on the right track.

3:20 well that backfired hilarious. Serves the turd right

More Slasher vids please!

That Clint Howard still is the most horrifying part of this video... But as always, great in depth exploration! I always find the films I'm not familiar with more fascinating for some reason, this is definitely one of them.

If slasher movies hate women, but there’s a lot of strong women that defeat the killers in these movies...

Mother's Day is any good? Caught my interest

They totally skipped Hanukkah and Presidents Day.

Yeesh... It's weird that Ebert championed Dark City as it was overlooked when it was released yet he doxxed Betsy Palmer, wrote a review for Battle: Los Angeles advocating that friends openly insult any friends who liked it & women to dump significant others for liking the movie, and then wrote a review for Kick-Ass where he seemed oddly fixated on Hit-Girl's schoolgirl disguise at the end of the movie... Dude was a strange, intolerant prick was't he?

Strange they said made 3 million as all the net info keeps saying it made 23 million selling over 8.5 million tickets. That's before VHS/the rental market. According to the numbers it made more than f13 p2. Jesus you kinda forget how many horror movies came out in 1981 till you look at the list of the 120 top grossing films. Graduation Day, f13p2, Halloween 2, hell night, funhouse, American werewolf in London, escape from NY, final conflict, outland, the howling, scanner, ghost story, wolfen, the hand, eyes of a stranger. So fucking many good movies.

Me proposing my 20.000 dollars movie with mustache cgi removal to DC. " Not bad for that low budget movie, it costed what, 20.000.000 ?" Me " yeah close to that"

Cecil a question about the holidays used in horror if may I, in those days There was a Thanksgiving horror movie already?

Wow, a young Carmen Argenziano. I loved him in Star Gate SG-1. He recently died :-(

Thanks Cec.

The Most Dangerous Game in space was made, but with another director, Ken Dixon, in 1987: Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity.

"The people who go to see these movies hate women" remind me a lot to a certain woman who says people who enjoy some games hate women

Looks cool, I will check it out. By the way Cecil, have you seen A Quiet Place? I recommend it, it was rather good.

Just read this about Erica Hope the actress that was fired, "If you wondered about the blonde girl who disappears early on without explanation (Diana), the actress was fired and replaced by Quigley for refusing to disrobe on screen." www.hudsonlee.com/review-graduation-day/

I can't get enough of these Exploring video!

Did he ever apologize for doxxing Miss Palmer? If not, she should've sued him...

I remember watching this on you tube.

If i was Betsey palmer i would have sued siskel

RU-vid hadn't given me notifications for any of your videos from maniac cop 2 until this one. Thanks RU-vid.

I found a copy of Tomboy on VHS. The first time I viewed it I thought it was a rarity. I'll give it a 2nd view after watching Graduation Day

Do exploring maniac cop 3

It is nothing new to say that in 1981, slashers seemed to grow from trees, all the studios made their own version of the masked, disfigured, or simply hidden madman from the viewer, although his victims could see him and did not suspect the intentions of these. They had. The truth is, it does not deserve such a bad rating, nor such absolute oblivion as it has, no one remembers it, nor rescues it, it is not that it is a gem to be discovered, but within the genre, it does offer something better than the average slasher movie from that year. Starting because it is more elegant, the director prefers a classic style, I think it is a kind of class B De Palma, he favors suspense over blood and murders, he develops the characters a lot, they are not just cannon fodder. Interesting to see how the university students of 36 years ago were not very different from those of now, only without smart phones and so on. The murderer, although it is quite predictable to discover him, is well understood, his motives are more or less his, in that he failed to develop the guilt that his teammates had for him. The humor, as in all these films, is quite basic and unnecessary.

Siskel and Ebert were the OG Soy Boys

Love the reviews! But I believe we were promised a story about the Red Church...

Where can i watch this? Also dose anyone know any more underrated 1980s movies?

@10:13 the pretty redhead looks straight at the camera. If they couldn't afford to reshoot for a different actress, I guess this really didn't matter.

I honestly thought that editing at the end was the video glitching lol