Plot

Mark L. Lester's follow-up film to his Class of 1984 is a rancidly violent peek at a near-future high school world of terror -- The Jetsons meet The Terminator. In Lester's world, total anarchy rules (at least in Seattle). Classrooms are sinkholes of violence, and around the kill-zone high schools "Free Fire Zones" are set up that look like re-creations of Dachau. Rival youth gangs roam these areas with enough artillery for a second Vietnam War. The gangs' insane violence is exacerbated by a drug called Edge. When the Department of Educational Defense needs to supply new teachers, they look to a secret government agency headed by Dr. Bob Forrest (Stacy Keach) who sends new teaching recruits (Pam Grier, John P. Ryan, Joshua Miller) to the beleaguered high school. These novice teachers are not your ordinary teaching-college graduates, however. They are "tactical education units" -- cyborgs reprogrammed to teach readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic. If the students don't learn their daily assignments, they learn an even bigger lesson -- learn or die. The strict disciplinarian robots compel the student gangs to unite and fight the new educational menace. Under the leadership of Cody Culp (Bradley Gregg), who has just gotten out of reform school and has seen that there is more to life than killin' and cuttin' and Edge, the punks take up arms against the cyborgs who are invading their high-school turf. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Cast

• Bradley Gregg - Cody Culp
• Traci Lind - Christine Langford
• Malcolm McDowell - Dr. Miles Langford
• Stacy Keach - Dr. Bob Forrest
• Pam Grier - Ms. Connors
• Patrick Kilpatrick - Mr. Bryles

John Ryan - Mr. Hardin; Darren E. Burrows - Sonny; Joshua Miller - Angel; Sharon Wyatt - Janice Culp; Jimmy Medina Taggert - Hector; Jason Oliver - Curt; Jill Gatsby - Dawn; Sean Haggerty - Reedy; Sean Gregory Sullivan - Mohawk; Lee Arenberg - Technician; Linda Burden-Williams - Secretary; Barbara Coffin - Matron; Brent Fraser - Flavio; James McIntire - Technician #1; Barry M. Press - Gould; Lanny Rees - Desk Sergeant; David Wasman - Guard; Landon Wine - Noser

Credit

Phil Peters - Art Director, Stanley Mann - Associate Producer, Cathy Henderson - Casting, Eugene Mazzola - Co-producer, Leslie Peters Ballard - Costume Designer, Mark L. Lester - Director, Scott Conrad - Editor, Lawrence Kasanoff - Executive Producer, Ellen Steloff - Executive Producer, Michael Hoenig - Composer (Music Score), Seth Kaplan - Musical Direction/Supervision, Derek Power - Musical Direction/Supervision, Steven G. Legler - Production Designer, Mark Irwin - Cinematographer, Mark L. Lester - Producer, Steve Karatzas - Set Designer, Eric Allard - Special Effects, Rick Stratton - Special Effects, Bruno Van Zeebroeck - Special Effects, Ray Brown - Special Effects, Scott Forbes - Special Effects, Paul R. Baxley, Jr. - Stunts, Mark L. Lester - Screen Story, C. Courtney Joyner - Screenwriter

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