SunnyHello
Nice effects though.
Joanna Mccarty
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Clarissa Mora
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Coventry
Admittedly the subject title of this user comments is somewhat misleading and overly dramatized, since you can hardly refer to "The Slumber Party Massacre" (of which this film is a belated fourth entry) as being a great or even remotely significant 80s horror/slasher franchise. The 1982 original and part 3 released in 1990 were reasonably entertaining flicks, but the first 1987 sequel is beyond retarded and the overall series is forgettable and mediocre at best. Still, the fact that producers of the new Millennium keep reviving long lost franchises like these clearly shows that everyone in the horror industry nostalgically craves back to the simplicity and lusciousness of the wondrous eighties' decade
In the hands of talented and ambitious directors this can lead to enjoyable and adequately made homage/throwback movies (like "The Final Girls", "The Sleeper" or "Bloody Homecoming"), but with someone like Jim Wynorski in the director's seat, it's bound to be a senseless and incompetent piece of garbage! Wynorski nevertheless made a couple of decent movies himself during the 80s, like "Chopping Mall" and "Not of this Earth", but since the mid-90s he devoted his career to unleashing approximately 5 – 7 inferior pieces of crap per year (!) and their only reason of existence is showing copious amounts of gratuitous nudity and soft-core. "Cheerleader Massacre" superficially looks like a mindlessly fun slasher with gory massacres and plenty of nudity provided by fresh and voluptuous B-movie starlets, at least based on the DVD-cover and the brief synopsis on the back, but in reality this film delivers
not much of anything. Some of the babes in the cast go topless or spend a long time in the shower, but the sexiest ones incomprehensibly remain dressed and run around the sets clueless and for no particular reason. Heck, they can't even properly get referred to as "cheerleaders" since they never wear their outfits or practice with pom-poms! Was that really too much to ask for, Wynorski?!? The gore and bloodshed is seriously disappointing as well. Apart from a headless corpse at the front door (realized with lousy special effects) and a weak electrocution (realized with even lousier special effects), this "massacre" is tame, boring and frustrating. What else is there to mention? The idiotic script, perhaps, that is full of dreadful clichés and predictable twists. A handful of bimbo cheerleaders, accompanied by their busty female coach and a couple of dim-witted stoner guys, head out for a tournament on the other side of a snowy and isolated mountain region. As a matter of course their van breaks down just before nightfall, so they have to seek shelter in an abandoned cabin where they indulge in booze, sex and dumb campfire stories. And yes, evidently, there's a maniacal killer at large in the area, but is he/she really responsible for the number of corpses that are piling up? Of course not! I don't even understand why the script assumes they can mislead us with this red herring, as the first murder is committed while the girls are still in school; dozens of miles away from the place where they spend the night. It's a common problem for stupid movies to assume that the audience is equally stupid, I guess. Brinke Stevens, starlet of the original 1982 "Slumber Party Massacre", is dragged into the movie, only so that her testimony and flashback archive footage can fill up an additional few minutes of running time. Unlike her, I personally prefer not to waste any further time on this dud
Avoid, that's all I can say!
Andrew
Don't be foolish enough to take this film for face value, it is clearly an abomination as far as legitimate cinema goes. This movie is also however a masterpiece of the poorly made, soft-core porn, horror variety. How can you possible go wrong? Do what I did, get really bored and make sure no one with you is a pretentious ass without a sense of humor. Next, pop this bad boy into your DVD player and blaze. After 20 minutes, hit play and prepare to laugh your ass off like never before. This will however only last about an hour or so before you pass out from inevitable boredom. Never take a movie like this too seriously and you cannot lose.
PoisonKeyblade
Cheerleader Massacre was supposed to be the fourth installment of the Slumber Party Massacre series; if that's what they were doing (which it is considering ONE actress from the original returns in a small cameo role), they have failed miserably and made, by far, the worst installment of the 'quadrilogy'. Cheerleader Massacre seamlessly combines bad acting, a horrible plot, a dumb killer, dull and boring deaths, boring scenery, and hideous camera work to make it one of the worst films ever made. Did I already mention how bad it was? Don't get me wrong: this cheesy and retarded excuse for a horror film is nowhere near as bad as Napoleon Dynamite, but it is undeniably a horrible movie.Cheerleader Massacre is an exact polar opposite of the original Slumber Party Massacre. Stay away by all means! This movie is utter garbage!
movieman_kev
Stop me if you hard this one before, some cheerleaders, their coach and a couple guys are trapped within a cabin in the woods when an unseen killer kills them off one by one. Shame on me, after I totally wrote off Jim Wynorski after the horrid "Busty Cops" (it was a long time coming as his last truly good film was 1990's "Hard to Die"), I still for some reason got my hopes up for a supposed sequel to "Slumber Party Massacre". Sadly even my mediocre expectations were not met. This outing is not nearly as fun as even the three previous films in the franchise (and yes I'm including SPM 2, that should tell you something) Furthermore how can you have a slasher film with this little gore??? I mean Come on now!! My Grade: D Eye Candy: Ricky Ray gets topless; April Flowers and Charity Rahmer show boobs and buns in a shower scene (April gets nude again later in the film), and Tamie Sheffield gets topless and bares buns