Cheerleader Massacre

Director - Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall, Transylvania Twist)
Starring - Tamie Sheffield (Supernatural Swamp Slaughter), Charity Rahmer (Leeches!), and Erin Byron (One of Them)
Release Date - 2003
Genre - Horror
Tagline(s) - "This is one game you don't want to miss" and "Just when you thought it was safe to go back to school"
Format - Streaming (Netflix)

Rating (out of 5):

 

      Some time ago I brought you a review of the Slumber Party Massacre trilogy.  The films were slasher cliches but extremely fun and filled with some great special effects.  However, when I called the series a trilogy I was sadly mistaken.  The series is actually a quadrilogy with a fourth that was released in 2003 by director Jim Wynorski.  This film is the first to use a different title other than Slumber Party Massacre and the only one out of all four to be directed by a male.  When I was writing a review for the third film I came across this film and learned that it was part of the same series.  I looked around and found that it was streaming on Netflix and gave it a go.  I like a great deal of Wynorski's films but I knew that because I had never heard of this that it had to suck and I was right.  

     A group of cheerleaders, their driver, coach, and two dumbass guys are traveling on a mountainous road when they break down.  Their luck goes even further south when it is revealed that a maniac has escaped confinement and is leaving a trail of carnage in his path.  The cheerleaders walk to the nearest house to dodge the snow storm while the police frantically search for the killer as the bodies start to pile up.

     This movie was literally shit rubbed on film and then pissed on.  This movie almost made Bloodbath in the House of Knives look good...almost.  After watching this I could not fathom a movie being as bad as this one was.  It just seemed like the director made a movie as quickly as possible not caring about the final product and then threw in tons of nudity to supplement his material.  The acting is horrible any way you slice it.  The director knew that and made the cast just stand around nude for most of the film as an attempt to trick the audience in to thinking it was anything else.  However, the girls are extremely hot and seeing them in the nude was great.  The story was nothing new and no creative thought was placed behind it.  Nude girls running from an escaped criminal is a story that has been told hundreds of times and most of them are in a slasher setting.  This movie would have been a hell of a lot better if an original story was delivered.  Finally, the film lacks with special effects and on screen kills.  Slasher fans expect kills and blood, however, this film only delivers the blood and in small amounts.  This movie honestly felt like a softcore porn had a change of heart at the last minute and decided to be a slasher.  Overall, this is a movie that suckers you in with beautiful babes on the cover and then gives you a steaming pile of shit.  Stay away!