Reginald Cooper makes a phone call to Warden June to express his concerns about the new cheerleading camp. The cheerleaders assemble at the camp and are greeted by Bambi. Andy and Randy (Victims #5 and #6 respectively), two lecherous male cheerleaders, are shown smoking marijuana while driving to the camp.
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Sandy (Victim #4) asks for directions to the camp at a food truck and decides to hitchhike, but insists on getting references from every driver she passes (eventually accepting a ride with then-U.S. Next, Mandy (Victim #3) is introduced by her father in a beauty pageant-style interview, revealing her obsession with dental hygiene. In another part of town, a male cheerleader named Glenn Dandy (Victim #2) says goodbye to his eccentric family before leaving for camp. As she hangs suspended, Candy tells her that she just wants to be normal and marches away to catch the bus. As they quarrel, red beams of light suddenly streak from Candy's eyes and levitate her mother into the air. Both warn her against reopening the camp as they believe it to be cursed with death, but Bambi is undeterred.Īt a bus station, a young woman named Candy (labeled Victim #1) prepares to board a bus to the cheerleading camp but her religious fanatic mother tries to dissuade her.
After arriving on campus, she meets Pepe the maintenance man and his mother Salt. In 1982, the camp reopens with Bambi as the instructor. As a result, the college's summer cheerleading camp is closed down. The bizarre murder makes headlines, as does a subsequent murder involving exploding pompons. As a group of cheerleaders are cleaning up the field after the game, all five are skewered with a javelin thrown by an unknown assailant. Afterwards, a shunned cheerleader named Bambi is seen fawning over Grange's locker before the on-field celebration pours into the locker room. Consider it recommended.In the fictional town of It Had To Be, Indiana, fullback Blue Grange scores the winning touchdown for It Had To Be University in the 1963 National Championship game. It deserves to be far more well-known then it is, so help spread the word and pick this up on Blu-ray when it comes out September 29th. If you are a fan of Airplane-like spoofs that deal with early 80s horror movies (and how could you not be?) then you will dig this throwback flick. The fact that it’s out at all on Blu-ray is a special feature all its own. So it’s a bit light on goodies, but the fact that it has any at all is surprising for such a forgotten film. There is an interview with director Alfred Sole that was very informative for a movie with so little information about it. On to the extras that Vinegar Syndrome gave us for this Blu-ray release. As such, most of the funny still plays, at least it does for me, but then I’m old, so your mileage may vary. However, the more well-versed you are as a horror fan, the more jokes you’ll get, as fright flicks and the tropes they use are often the butt of the jokes here. Now the movie is nearly 40 years old, so yeah, some of the humor comes off dated and is less than funny now as it was back in the early 80s. Thankfully a nearby Canadian Mountie (despite this taking place in the U.S.) is there to save the day. Naturally a homicidal maniac breaks out of the nearby asylum, not to mention a mass murderer breaks out of prison, and both of them are heading straight to the school. She is joined by a small group of horror clichés, such as the popular girl, the hot girl, the shy guy, a couple of bros, etc. So three cheers, then, to Vinegar Syndrome for bringing out this forgot funny fright flick, but is it worth remembering today?Ī shy girl with psychic powers (a la Carrie) goes to a cursed cheerleader camp where, years earlier, a mass murder of cheerleaders happened. Yet today when you ask most horror fans if they’ve seen Pandemonium, you usually get only blank stares. Lander, Phil Hartman, Judge Reinhold, Paul (Pee Wee Herman) Reubens, and more. And the lack of knowledge of this one is surprising, considering the number of stars it has in it, such as Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Eileen Brennan, David L.
There was the somewhat well-known Student Bodies and Saturday the 14th from 1981, National Lampoon’s Class Reunion from 1982 along with the lesser known Wacko, the even more obscure Hysterical from 1983, and this one, also from ’82. So great was the glut that they gave birth to a surprising amount of horror spoofs. In the early 80s hardly a weekend went by without a new slasher in the theaters. The 1980s were not only a golden time for horror movies in general, but for slasher movies in particular. Stars: Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Tammy Alverson
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