Top 5 Most Insane Schools in Movies That No Student Would Ever Want to Attend

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September 1st marks the time when children return to their desks. But in cinema, school isn't always a place of familiar lessons and tests. Sometimes it transforms into a real nightmare, and other times into a dream where you'd want to find yourself. We've rounded up the most bizarre schools from movies that you definitely wouldn't want to attend.
A boy in a denim jacket screaming in a school hallway
Top 5 Craziest Schools in Cinema
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Suspiria (1977)

Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%

A young American woman arrives at a German ballet academy where she encounters a series of mysterious deaths. Gradually, the truth emerges: the school is a front for a coven of witches.
Suspiria (1977) Trailer
The atmosphere of terror, vivid visual style, and constant sense of threat make this "arts academy" a place no student would ever want to set foot in.

Matilda (1996)

Cast: Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%

At first glance, this is a family fairy tale about a gifted girl with telepathic abilities. But the school she ends up at looks more like a prison: the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull terrorizes students and turns every day into hell.
Matilda (1996) Trailer
And if it weren't for Matilda's superpowers, escaping this nightmare would be impossible.

Monsters University (2013)

Cast: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren (voice)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80%

On the surface, it's a fun story about monsters learning to scare children. But think about it—this is a school where instead of math, they study the art of nightmares, and you take your final exam in strangers' bedrooms.
Monsters University Trailer
It's amusing from the outside, but you definitely wouldn't want to be a student here.

Battle Royale (2000)

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

In dystopian Japan, the government launches a program where an entire class of schoolchildren is sent to an island to fight each other until only one survives. Everyone gets their own weapon, chances of survival are slim, and the atmosphere of terror makes this film a cult classic.
Battle Royale Trailer
While this isn't exactly a school in the traditional sense, it still has its own "lessons"—they're just paid for with lives. Interestingly, director Quentin Tarantino, according to "Wikipedia", ranked this film number one on his list of the 20 best films since 1992.

Prom Night (1980)

Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 45%

Classic slasher territory: a killer starts picking off teenagers to get revenge for a tragedy that happened years earlier. An old school secret turns into a series of brutal events right at the prom.
Prom Night trailer
Going to this school is like attending classes in a killer's crosshairs.

All these films show that school can be anything — a battlefield, a witch's den, or a maniac's playground. But even the darkest stories from cinema remind us: the real nightmare doesn't start in the classroom, it starts on screen. And maybe after these "lessons," regular pop quizzes don't seem so scary anymore. Earlier on zoomboola.com, we covered a film about a schoolgirl who falls under the influence of a popular classmate.