Cheerleader Massacre [DVD]

Okay. I'm going to be straight up honest with you. This movie is terrible. Absolutely the worst. Poor acting, gaping plot holes, bizarre sequences that go wildly off plot. But that's my kind of movie-so incredibly terrible and inept it's actually brilliant. And if that's your kind of movie too, you could do a lot worse than to check this one out. It's part of the Slumber Party Massacre universe, so fan's of that will at least appreciate the several nods to that movie.

This is one of my favorite teen slasher flicks. Lots of boobs and blood, but it never takes itself too seriously, which is why I enjoy it. There IS a fair amount of suspense as there are two different stories, one about a psychopath who just escapes from prison, and the other about a group of hot cheerleaders who get lost on their way to a competition in Big Pine, CA. Who IS the real killer? If you like this genre, for a fun, 81 minute romp, check this one out.

This film is really not bad. There is an actual plot and some mystery (not just endless killings for no good reason like most slasher movies a la Friday the 13th), plenty of gratuitous nudity by mostly women with natural breasts! The acting is pretty good. The Commentary with Jim Wynorski and Gigi Erneta is pretty funny when you find out how many of the people associated with the film are using fake names and insist upon not being named, and how they made the film with no money. A film being made cheaply is not a crime. The film looks pretty good with what money they had to make the film. If you listen to the Commentary, you will have a better appreciation of the film.

i have to admit i'm a big fan of the low budget massacre movies, slumber party massacre, sorority house masscare, and now cheerleader massacre. talk about hot babes, wish our cheerleader squad looked like that in school, little to good to be true. anyways plenty of nudity and plenty of victims. great low budget movie to watch with friends, had some pretty funny scenes as well. all in all a great low budget movie.

...for dumb, because that's exactly what this film was, and in spades...touted as coming from the people who brought us the Slumber Party and Sorority House Massacre films (most of which I've seen) released during the 80's, Cheerleader Massacre (2003) hardly follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, which seems kinda strange because it's not like they set the bar really high or anything, and to make a film that's actually worse than those would be pretty hard to do...but it was done...I guess the main difference is while those earlier films may have been bad, at least they were entertaining, and this one really wasn't...directed by Jim Wynorski (The Return of Swamp Thing, Sorority House Massacre II), the film stars Tamie Sheffield (Intolerable Cruelty), Charity Rahmer (The Frightening), and Erin Byron (One of Them). Also appearing is Leonard Johnson (Manhunter), Bill Langlois Monroe (Freedom Strike), GiGi Erneta (El Chupacabra), Melissa Brasselle (Raptor), and legendary scream queen Brinke Stevens (Teenage Exorcist, Hybrid), who's in the film for all of about three minutes, looking a bit long in the tooth.The film opens on a couple camping in the woods, and since we don't know these people, it's a good bet they're going to be our first victims...and sure enough, they are...but hey, where's the blood? Sadly, these scenes are pretty much indicative of the kill scenes throughout the film, as very is little shown, and features very little blood. Anyway, cut to some cheerleaders practicing (since `cheerleading' is in the title, I figure they gotta show some girls getting their cheer on, and this is it for the entire film), and afterwards we get some nekkidness as the inevitable shower scene occurs (very few of the Wynorski films I've seen don't have one of these scenes). Seems the girls, along with their coach, the very stacked Ms. Hendricks (Sheffield), are preparing to go on some kind of camping trip, and the short bus is leaving very soon. Around this time we cut to some scenes involving various members of the police department talking about a recently escaped serial killer and how the bodies are beginning to pile up. So the girls leave, end up running out of gas, and hoof it to the relative safety of a spacious, deserted cabin, but find themselves up to their eyeballs in trouble as their number begin to dwindle due to an aggressive depopulation campaign propagated by a unknown assailant.The first thing I noticed about this film was it was shot not on film, but on video, giving it an overall cheapness quality right off the bat. At least the previous massacre movies were shot on film...oh well, anything to save a buck. The only real reason to watch this movie is for the softcore stuff, of which there is a decent amount. The rest hardly matters much as the story is lame, even for this kind of movie, the kill scenes really pathetic and nearly absent of any blood or violence, the dialog insipid, continuity errors galore (watch as the killer cuts the power to the cabin, but oddly enough the lights still work in the bathroom where Sheffield's character is showering), virtually no tension, and the acting all around rancid. I will say the actors playing the high school students looked close to the age of their characters, which is pretty uncommon for films like this...one thing this film does have in abundance is pointless characters. I lost count of how many different characters kept popping up, and it's not like they were there to provide for a plentiful stock of victims, but just more so to fill out the 85 minute run time. They could have cut the number of characters in half, focused on those that were left, and had a slightly less crummy end result, but that is just my opinion. Wynorski seemed to have phoned it in, expending most of his talents filming, in loving detail, the female characters in varying degrees on nekkidness, master of the slow pan. The best among these scenes would have Tamie Sheffield, who played the coach, and her extended shower scene...oh yeah, use that soap, baby...as far as the massacre bits go, there really wasn't much there, except for one scene where a character lost his head, literally. The characters basically run around, doing stupid things, more so than normal for a movie like this, and get killed off screen. As far as the mystery killer goes, throughout most of the film, we only see the hands, and the choice of weapons and methods used to off the victims were very bland and conventional, as if there was no effort to even try and make it interesting, which was completely disappointing. If there's the appearance of effort put forth, I can overlook a lot of things, but here there doesn't seem like much was given, and the result is just an edgeless, boring, predictable film with some decent boobage. Oh, man, I almost forgot...the big revel of the identity of the killer and motive...that's a key element to a movie like this. The rest of the film can be crud, but you can't do a movie like this and shortchange your audience in this area, which is what happened here. It was just so pathetically lame when it was finally reveal...no bang, just a slight pop...the music was okay, but its repetitiveness wore on me.The fullscreen picture does look decent (for video). The audio does come through clearly, and is available in Dolby 2.0 stereo and 5.1 digital surround. There are some extras including a commentary track with director Wynorski and actress Erneta, along with a choice deleted scene (3 girls in a tub), cast & crew bios, a trailer, and previews for the films Quicksand (2001), Disappearance (2002), and Sting of the Black Scorpion (2002). I give this film two stars, one because Amazon does not allow for zero stars, and a 2nd for the nekkidness featuring the hot babes.Cookieman108By the way, in case you're interested, I got a body count of about 9, but it could have been more as I lost interest about halfway through...

I really enjoyed this movie...great looking sexy ladies that can act and good story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

No option for a minus 10 star rating so I'll have to give this piece of rott one. Absolutely no plot, not really anyways. I had to give up after about 40 minutes. The cheerleaders and female characters must have been clones of one another, all phony boobs bleached hair and ZERO brains (or maybe that was just the "actresses.") The male characters were all the same too. Dumb and stoned or just plain dumb, all seemed to have the same thing on their minds, sex. Even Cinemax would be ashamed to show this one .

Good movie

good movie

An incredibly low budget film attracting very low calibre actors and an equally low quality script, this gets two stars purely because there are many higher budget films with more highly acclaimed people involved that are equally as bad - the makers of Cheerleader Massacre could actually have done a lot worse within their constraints.The basic premise of this film is that there is a killer on the loose, into whom a group of high school cheerleaders* and the rest of their party happen to run en route to an event. Stuck in the woods with only a secluded cabin for protection things inevitably turn out like 99.9% of slasher movies. Naturally, what the film makers lacked in budget they tried to make up for with 'plot enhancing' shower scenes - although they probably needed a fair few more to really save it.More massacres than cheerleaders, this film has a much cooler and more interesting sounding title than the movie itself can live up to - don't go out of your way to watch it and definitely don't expect anything except the amateur.(*the makers of the film, of course, being of the opinion that high school cheerleaders are in their late 20s and big fans of plastic surgery)

what we have here is pretty poor even by b movie standardsthe plot is ancient, escaped psychopath is on the loose and a bus full of cheerleaders have got lost and ran out of petrol in the same set of woodsyou can see where this is leadingon the plus side it does set up its stall early and just gets straight into the action there is a fair amount of splatter and a truckload of nudity but considering it does have 4 adult actresses in it so that wasn't really much of a surprise now was itand the plot does have quite a nice twist to itthe downside of which there is much ......... the acting even for a b movie is awful the special effects really aren't special at all they are terrible at best and embarrassing at the worst the soundtrack similarly is terrible and feels inappropriateit does kill time but i severely doubt you will want to watch this more than once if you can even get through it once

Very average in my opinion, though I didn't have high hopes in the first place.Most of the killings appear off screen and there's not much gore, but there is a LOT of gratuitous nudity & scream queen Brinke Stevens make a brief appearance. Probably best watched with a few beers!