Cheerleader Massacre
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| Directed by | Jim Wynorski |
| Produced by | Jason Hoffs |
| Written by | Lenny Juliano |
| Starring |
Tamie Sheffield Charity Rahmer Erin Byron |
| Music by | Dan Savio |
| Cinematography | Chuck Cirino |
| Edited by | Dean McKendrick |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5,000,000 (estimated) |
Cheerleader Massacre is a 2003 slasher film directed by Jim Wynorski and written by Lenny Juliano. The film stars Tamie Sheffield, Charity Rahmer, and Erin Byron. The film is sometimes mistakenly listed as a sequel to the Slumber Party Massacre franchise, as it has a flashback sequence to that film but is a story on its own. However, as in those films, much of the film's appeal relies on female nudity, sex, and gore. It is regarded as a modern B-movie.
The DVD was released on March 25, 2003. The special features include trailers, actor bios, audio commentaries, and a making of featurette.
Plot
Five cheerleaders (Edna, Ella, Lynne, Marzia and Pam), their coach Sally, her husband Lewie, the assistant coaches Max and Corey, Lynne's boyfriend Dan, and Ella's girlfriend Char go into the woods to practice for cheerleading. They set up in a cabin, and several members of the group see a shadowy figure in the woods. After the girls' first day of cheerleading, Lynne and Dan have sex. Dan goes outside and the killer beats him to death with a crowbar. The next day, Lynne finds a note from Dan saying that he had to leave.
The next day, during practice, Lewie leaves to get groceries. He runs over tire spikes placed by the killer. When he gets out of his truck, the killer stabs him to death with a screwdriver. Sally finds Ella making out with Char, and forces the two to look for her husband. They split up and Char finds Lewie's body in the woods. She panics and tries to run, but the murderer kills her with a sledgehammer. Ella finds a note from Char saying that she left because Sally made her uncomfortable, while Sally gets a message from Lewie that he had to stay in the city because his mother fell ill.
That night, Lynne finds Dan's dead body under her bed. She is attacked by the killer and tries to make a run for it, but the killer stabs her in the head with knitting needles, killing her. Ella and Edna become convinced that Pam killed Char, and they confront her. They end up attacking her, and Sally pulls the girls off of Pam. Ella wanders off and the killer shoots her to death with a nail gun. Sally thinks that Ella has left, and becomes angry.
Edna has sex with Max. The killer enters her cabin and stabs Max in the throat with a drill, spraying blood on Edna's breasts. Corey tells Sally that he thinks she should send Pam home, but Sally insists on her staying. Pam finds Edna's severed arm in her cabin. She follows a trail of Edna's remains to a tarp in the woods, where she discovers the dead bodies of Dan, Lewie, Char, Lynne, Ella, Max, and four cheerleaders murdered in the opening. When she backs up in shock, she trips over Edna's severed head. Pam rushes back to camp and tells Corey and Marzia, and Corey tells her that Sally demanded Pam not leave camp. The three realize that Sally is the killer and decide to set a trap for her.
The three set up the trap, and Corey and Marzia go to fetch Sally and lure her into the trap. Pam waits in the forest and has a panic attack and hallucinates visions of herself committing the murders. Pam runs into a hysterical Sally, who says that she has found Marzia dead. She leads Pam to the trap, which contains Marzia's dead body. Pam realizes that Corey is the killer and that he threw Marzia into the trap instead of Sally. Corey then appears holding a large bread knife. He says that he is madly in love with Sally and killed the others as part of a demented plan to get to her. Corey lunges at Pam with the knife, but she dives out of the way and he accidentally stabs Sally in the heart, killing her. Corey chases Pam through the camp, and eventually, she hides in the trap next to Marzia's body. When Corey investigates the trap, Pam pulls a sharp piece of metal off the trap and uses it to impale Corey through the head, killing him. Pam then leaves the camp, the only survivor of the camp murders.
Cast
- Tamie Sheffield as Pam
- Charity Rahmer as Marzia
- Erin Byron as Coach Sally
- Lenny Juliano (credited as Lunk Johnson) as Corey
- Samantha Phillips as Edna
- Bill Langlois Monroe (credited as E. Eddie Edwards) as Max
- GiGi Erneta as Ella
- April Flowers (credited as Diana Espin) as Lynne
- Nikki Fritz as Char
- Tylo Tyler as Lewie
- Brad Beck as Dan
- Summer Williams as Janine
- Brinke Stevens as Mamie
- Melissa Brasselle as Samantha
- Julie Lisandro (credited as Julie Corgill) as Edith
Reception
Cheerleader Massacre received mixed to negative reviews. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has no reviews from critics, yet a "rotten" audience approval rating of 22%. On IMDb, the film's current rating is 3/10 stars.