EDITOR’S NOTE: Cemetery High aired on USA Up All Night on May 10 and October 5, 1991; July 25, 1992 and January 29, 1993.

Gorman Bechard can always be counted on to give you a movie that’s not expected, like his undervalued slasher Disconnected.

So what happened here?

Co-written with Carmine Capobianco, Cemetery High is every woman on man revengeomatic that you’ve seen, except that there’s a horn when nudity happens and a ring when violence is about to befall someone. So yes — a rape revenge comedy, if that can be a thing. Maybe in 1988, right?

Produced by Charles Band, this had the title Assault on Killer Bimbos which was taken for the movie we know that as today. And the dark movie that Bechard made was not the comedy that this was turned into.

Back in 2009, the director wrote on IMDB, “I detest this film.

Long story short: it was originally called Assault of the Killer Bimbos. It was a black comedy. We filmed it as written. Charlie Band, who ran Empire, called me the day after we wrapped and said he just read the script and it was too dark for his liking. He was taking away the title (because I had gotten such great publicity, including People Magazine), and keeping only half of what I shot. He was having his staff write some back story.

Thus my story about girls who offed scum bags just because they knew they could…now became a story about girls who were abused, etc. and so on. But it was the film that was ultimately abused (and I’m using a nice word) by Band.

I talk about this at length on the commentary of the new Psychos In Love DVD release. (Of course, if I had seen what they did to Galactic Gigolo in post prior to filming this, I would have never made a second film for Band.)

Rent Psychos. Avoid this piece of crap.

And if you’re a filmmaker, and an idiot with money tries to tell you what to do with your film…I don’t care how badly you want it…WALK AWAY.”

Anyways, the cast has Debi Thibeault, who shows up in both versions of Assault of the Killer Bimbos, as well as Galactic Gigolo, Psychos In Love and Death Collector, the only film in her resume not connected to Bechard. It also has Karen Nelson, Simone Reyes (who is the girl reading Popular Science in the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gott) Fight for Your Right (to Party!), Lisa Schmidt and Ruth Collins, who is also in Witch Academy, Hellroller, Lurkers, Blood Sisters, Prime Evil, Doom Asylum, Firehouse and Joe D’Amato’s Eleven Days, Eleven Nights 2. She’s also the lead dancer in the Beastie Boys video for “No Sleep till Brooklyn.” I wonder what the connection with all the New York exploration talent and Beastie Boys videos is? That last one also has Vic Noto, Bronson from Street Trash, in it.

So yeah. The movie stinks. But maybe having Rhonda Shear as hostess made it go down better.

,You can watch this on Tubi.