I read a news story today that claims hardly anyone in America can name our first four presidents in order, as well as most everyone being practically oblivious to everything else about our country, like who we won our independence from, who we fought in the Cold War, who is on the Supreme Court, etc. So in the spirit of my other scholastic splatter films, I would like now to suggest a new educational horror movie genre: historical horror.
Okay, so here’s how this would work: Kids would be driven by their history teacher (driven insane with their lack of historical knowledge and their apathy about it) to what they think is a field trip, but which is really more like a torture dungeon, and there they’d be asked to identify historical figures by name, with each historical figure played by a person dressed like them and describing what they did. And if a student can’t identify them, the figure tortures and kills them in the style of the day the figure comes from. And that would be the first movie, called The Horrors of History.
Then, the next movie would show another school group on a field trip being pulled over by US Marshals and taken to a replica of the Supreme Court, where they are faced with a different type of Supreme Court: one that asks them to tell what they know about the American Justice System, the Supreme Court, the branches of the Federal Government, etc. And if they fail this test, they are judged (and punished)! And this one would be called Supreme Judgment.
