# favorite movies from high school **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178 "2007-03-31T01:39:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![strawberrygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@strawberrygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/strawberrygirl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/1 "2007-03-31T01:39:23Z")
The title says it all, what are you favorite movies from the slumber party years…or if you’re a guy, from the ‘hanging out’ years? 🙂 I’d say Heathers and Pretty in Pink top my list. Also Student Bodies, but when I try to look it up online I end up at porn sites. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/2 "2007-03-31T01:41:15Z")
**Young Frankenstein Logan’s Run Jaws Star Wars A Boy and His Dog** ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/3 "2007-03-31T02:02:44Z")
Sixteen Candles Risky Business The Sure Thing some Buck Rogers thing we saw 7 times (god knows why) Star Wars Grease (saw it the day I got my driver’s license) Saturday Night Fever Fast Times at Ridgemont High some Brat pack thing I’ve forgotten the title of (precedes St Elmo’s Fire) ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/4 "2007-03-31T02:11:31Z")
College not high school: Star Wars Annie Hall Manhattan The Muppet Movie The Empire Strikes Back ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/5 "2007-03-31T02:50:46Z")
We were woefully short on “teen movies” when I was growing up. Some soapy ones like A Summer Place and Peyton Place might have teenagers, but they weren’t the focus. (Annette and Frankie were after my time.) We watched a lot of monster movies. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/6 "2007-03-31T02:59:54Z")
_Repo Man_ and _They Live_. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/7 "2007-03-31T03:03:35Z")
Ghost Busters The Wall Fast Times at Ridgemont High Better off Dead Real Genius Risky Business Revenge of the Nerds Animal House Monty Python and the Holy Grail Wizards Heavy Metal ---
**Author:** ![strawberrygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@strawberrygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/strawberrygirl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/8 "2007-03-31T03:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] We were woefully short on “teen movies” when I was growing up. Some soapy ones like A Summer Place and Peyton Place might have teenagers, but they weren’t the focus. (Annette and Frankie were after my time.) We watched a lot of monster movies. [/QUOTE] ooooh monster movies are fun, which ones? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/9 "2007-03-31T03:26:04Z")
When I was a teenager, if I really loved a movie, I liked to go see it over and over and over. I spent most of my allowance this way. Some movies that I saw repeatedly: _David and Lisa_, _Billy Budd_, _Lawrence of Arabia_, _The Great Escape_, and _Charade_. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/10 "2007-03-31T03:47:43Z")
strawberrygirl writes: \> Also Student Bodies, but when I try to look it up online I end up at porn sites. Huh? Aren’t you aware that the first place you should always look up any movie is the Internet Movie Database?: > **[Advanced search](https://www.imdb.com/search/)** Click on that link and put the words “Student Bodies” into the Movie/TV Title Search box and hit “go”. That will lead you to the film you want. ---
**Author:** ![strawberrygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@strawberrygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/strawberrygirl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/11 "2007-03-31T03:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Wendell Wagner] strawberrygirl writes: \> Also Student Bodies, but when I try to look it up online I end up at porn sites. Huh? Aren’t you aware that the first place you should always look up any movie is the Internet Movie Database?: [http://www.imdb.com/search](http://www.imdb.com/search) Click on that link and put the words “Student Bodies” into the Movie/TV Title Search box and hit “go”. That will lead you to the film you want. [/QUOTE] No, I did not know that! I was also trying to be a little funny too (5 cent laugh?) Yet underneath my attempt for humor, I was secretly hoping for info like this…I may have the title wrong because it only pulled up one movie that was close in description. In the movie I’m thinking of the guy kills people with things like paperclips and other office/school supplies. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/12 "2007-03-31T04:26:58Z")
Reservoir Dogs True Romance Pulp Fiction Goodfellas Taxi Driver Clerks Mallrats Tombstone Ghostbusters Star Wars 4, 5, 6 Transformers: The Movie Airplane! Blues Brothers Anything by Woody Allen Anything by John Woo Yes, I was a geek in high school, too. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/13 "2007-03-31T04:31:01Z")
strawberrygirl, the film you’re talking about is clearly the 1981 film called _Student Bodies_ that was directed by Mickey Rose and Michael Ritchie. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/14 "2007-03-31T04:37:37Z")
[QUOTE=strawberrygirl] ooooh monster movies are fun, which ones? [/QUOTE] On TV we caught the old Universal films from the 30’s – Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy – and in theaters it was mostly the atomic mutant and SF variety – The Blob, The Day the World Ended, It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, Them!, The Thing, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, etc. We loved all of them. I didn’t see the quintessential “teen” movie of my time – Rebel Without A Cause – until much later. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/15 "2007-03-31T06:40:34Z")
Class of '85. If you include the summer after graduation, here are the ones I remember the most fondly… Raiders of the Lost Ark Back to the Future St. Elmo’s Fire Silverado Return of the Jedi Ghostbusters E.T. Witness Tron The Right Stuff …and yes, I saw _Breakin’_, but I saw it with my sister during a visit to our grandparents. Does that even count? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/16 "2007-03-31T07:02:14Z")
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Rollerball (with James Caan) Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston) The Poseidon Adventure The Towering Inferno 2001: A Space Odyssey Marooned Jaws ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/17 "2007-03-31T07:48:39Z")
**Splendor in the Grass** came out the year I graduated. **Where the Boys Are** ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/18 "2007-03-31T11:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] **Splendor in the Grass** came out the year I graduated. **Where the Boys Are** [/QUOTE] OMG. I love both these movies. Also, **This Property is Condemned**. I can’t remember any of the movies I saw in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/19 "2007-03-31T12:58:54Z")
I can’t remember discussing movies with friends and classmates. So to go with movies I can remember from those years that affected me in any significant way, I’d start with: Rebel Without A Cause Picnic Underwater Bell, Book and Candle Vertigo The Spirit of St. Louis The Long Hot Summer I’m pretty sure these were high school movies, but they could have been from early college days, too. Since the OP is about high school, I won’t list any that I know were college. I also haven’t included others that I know were from the late 50’s either because I didn’t see them as they came out (only later on TV) or they didn’t affect me particularly. But I know I’m leaving out some big ones I did see, just can’t recall without doing some searching, which would be cheating. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178/20 "2007-03-31T13:49:21Z")
I didn’t see a ton of movies in high school, because I only got $5/week and I usually spent that on lunch or saved it up for clothes. I do remember seeing _Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure_ my senior year, though. (aside, re: the OP… slumber party years? high school? Really? I remember slumber parties from elementary school, maybe even jr. high, but I don’t remember anyone having one as late as high school…and it would have seemed really weird to me if they had.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-from-high-school/398178.md?page=2)