Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2013) poster
2013 · comedy · horror · sci-fi · parody

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman1h 25m2013
ElsewhereIMDb5.32kRT57%Metacritic40
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • cold
  • funny
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Return to the Class of Nuke 'Em High follows a young couple that are up against the school glee club. Unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a gang called The Cretins. When the other students begin to undergo mutations, our couple must solve the mystery and save Tromaville High School

Our read · Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal comedy · horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want over-the-top Troma gross-out comedy horror with mutated high school and shock gags.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencegorecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou dislike gratuitous gore, nudity or deliberately tasteless humor.

If Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 is your film
Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
the original Troma toxic school comedy this continues
(Volume 1 sequel vs 80s original)
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
Troma flagship gross superhero mutation comedy
(school focus vs mop boy hero)
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
Troma outrageous low-budget B-movie with absurd villains
(surf punks vs school glee mutants)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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