Horror History: Friday, March 24, 1989: Cutting Class was released in theaters

Paula Carson’s (Jill Schoelen, Popcorn) high school experience couldn’t be better. Between being class president and dating her school’s star basketball player, Dwight (Brad Pitt, Se7en), she seems to have everything she could ask for. But when mentally disturbed teenage murderer Brian Wood (Donovan Leitch, The Blob) is released from an area asylum and rejoins his old classmates, it’s not long before students and teachers alike turn up missing, or are found murdered. While Dwight becomes convinced that Brian’s gone back to his violent ways, Paula can’t help but suspect that someone might be trying to set Brian up to carry out their own twisted plan…

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Horror History: Friday, March 17, 1989: Leviathan was released in theaters

A group of deep-sea miners discover a sunken Russian submarine containing a genetics lab, which apparently had created a monster. It slips onto their own ship and they must try to destroy it as it picks them off, one by one. Often described as “Alienin the ocean,” it captures much of the suspense of the space thriller.

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