Cheerleader Massacre (2003) (V)

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writer:

Lenny Juliano (writer)

Release Date:

25 March 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

This is one game you don't want to miss.

Plot:

Five high school cheerleaders, their coach and a couple of adolescent sex-crazed guys travel to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway only to be killed off one by one by an unseen maniac. |

Plot Keywords:

Cheerleaders | Cabin In The Woods | Teenkill | Police Car | Policewoman

Cast

Tamie Sheffield	...	Ms. Hendricks
Charity Rahmer	...	Parker Jameson
Erin Byron	...	Angela Caruso
Lenny Juliano	...	Buzzy (also as Lunk Johnson) (as Leonard Johnson)
Bill Langlois Monroe	...	Sherrif Murdock (as E. Eddie Edwards)
Samantha Phillips	...	Officer Phillips
GiGi Erneta	...	Deputy Adams
April Flowers	...	Tammy Rae (as Diana Espin) (as Elizabeth Short)
Nikki Fritz	...	Debbie
Tylo Tyler	...	Ryan
Brad Beck	...	Mark
Summer Williams	...	Shelley
Brinke Stevens	...	Linda
Melissa Brasselle	...	Det. DeMarco
Julie Corgill	...	Dina

Also Known As:

Slumber Party Massacre IV (USA) (working title)
The Cheerleader Massacre (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, sexuality/nudity, language and some drug material.

Runtime:

85 min | USA:81 min | UK:92 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:R | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Company:

Tessa Trust

Trivia:

Brinke Stevens plays Linda, a role she originated in The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) 21 years earlier.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Pistols used by several characters are actually BB guns, not real firearms.

Quotes:

Det. DeMarco: This is going to be a long day.
Sherrif Murdock: Yeah, except for one thing.
Det. DeMarco: What's that?
Sherrif Murdock: It's not day anymore, it's night.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Popatopolis (2009)

Average slasher

I'm a huge fan of the Slumber Party Massacre and Sorority House Massacre films, so i was expecting a little more from Cheerleader Massacre. It's not a bad film, but not a great one either. The first 10 minutes i was thinking "this bites" but it did get progressively better. There was a horror/slasher movie released back in 1987 called "Cheerleader Camp" which is still the better of the two.

My main complaint with Cheerleader Massacre is the acting, most of the performances are hollow and seem really fake. I really expected better acting quality from a Jim Wynorski project. I also think that this was shot on Digital Video, it just does not have that "Film" look. And i could have done without the erroneous flashback to a scene from Slumber Party Massacre...it obviously looks like it really is from an older movie, and most of us have seen it before anyways. Brinke Stevens was only in the film for a minute or so and i don't really understand why it was included. It did nothing for the story, never followed through with it and simply didn't make much sense in the long run.

I haven't yet viewed the film with the commentary track on the DVD, so perhaps it will shed some light on some of those above problems. There is a deleted scene in the DVD which is worth the price alone, i guess it was cut from the actual film (major frontal nudity) so they could get an R rating.

All in all, Cheerleader Massacre is worth it for fans to see it once. Some people will like it more than others.