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Cheerleader Massacre
Cheerleader Massacre
	DVD release cover
Directed by	Jim Wynorski
Written by	Lenny Juliano
Produced by	Jason Hoffs
Starring	Tamie Sheffield; Charity Rahmer; Erin Byron
Cinematography	Chuck Cirino
Edited by	Dean McKendrick
Music by	Dan Savio
Release date	March 23, 2003;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60,000 (estimated)

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Cheerleader Massacre is a 2003 American B-movie slasher film directed by Jim Wynorski and written by Lenny Juliano. It is the seventh installment in the Massacre franchise and was originally meant to be a direct sequel to The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).

The film was produced by Roger Corman and lensed by Jim Wynorski.^[1] It was released direct-to-video on March 25, 2003, with special features including trailers, actor bios, audio commentaries, and a making of featurette.

Plot

High school students Kelly and Gary are camping out at night, when an unseen assailant stabs Gary to death and impales Kelly with a hiking stick. The next day, the Bridgemont High cheerleading squad (Parker, Angela, Tammy, Shelley, and Dina) practice before leaving for an event in another town. In the locker room, Shelley mourns for their former teammate, Marissa, who died exactly one year ago. As the group is leaving, Dina goes back inside to get her purse and is killed. The others assume she took the bus and leave in a van with their coach, Ms. Hendricks, their driver, Buzzy, and students Mark and Ryan.

Bobcat County Sheriff Frank Murdock and Deputy Donna Adams are notified by the Fresno Police chief that serial killer Jeremiah MacPherson, who escaped from a mental hospital the day before, is thought to be moving in their direction. Meanwhile, a jogger, Debbie, is killed when someone cuts the ropes of the suspension bridge she is crossing. Murdock, Adams, and Officers Kimble and Phillips investigate Kelly and Gary’s murder. Murdock and Adams then visit retired sheriff Monty Coltrain, who arrested MacPherson 20 years ago, to warn him of his escape. While there, they learn that Dina has been found gutted at the high school, which doesn’t fit MacPherson’s MO. When Phillips and Kimble see his jacket by the side of the road and stop to investigate, he ambushes and kills them both and steals their squad car. Murdock and Adams visit one of MacPherson’s surviving victims, Linda, hoping her recollection of the attack will yield further clues. In a flashback, he attacks her in the high school with a large power drill and leaves her for dead.

The cheerleaders encounter a roadblock and are told they will have to take a detour, so Buzzy takes a shortcut through a snowy mountain pass. The van runs out of gas as the snowstorm worsens, and the group takes refuge in an empty vacation cabin. The Fresno Police chief’s assistant, Melissa DeMarco, calls Sheriff Murdock and informs him that MacPherson called their station with Debbie’s cell phone and left a voicemail implying that he is not acting alone. Deputy Adams receives word that the cheerleaders have gone missing, and she and Murdock leave to search for them.

MacPherson arrives at Monty’s cabin in the stolen squad car. The two exchange gunfire, and MacPherson flees into the woods. Buzzy goes outside to investigate the gunshots but is distracted when he sees Tammy and Ryan having sex through a bedroom window. The killer sneaks up and kills him with an axe. Mark goes outside to look for Buzzy and is decapitated. The others discover his body and search the cabin for a gun. Ryan finds one, and he and Angela go for help. They become separated, and Ryan is strangled. Ms. Hendricks, Parker, Shelley, and Tammy go outside to look for the fuse box. Shelley finds it and is electrocuted when she touches it. Tammy is pulled into the crawlspace and stabbed repeatedly. Monty comes across Shelley’s body while tracking MacPherson, and Ms. Hendricks and Parker ambush him and knock him unconscious, believing he is the killer. Angela shows up and confronts them at gunpoint, revealing that she killed the cheerleading squad to avenge Marissa’s death. They manage to elude her, and Parker confesses to Ms. Hendricks that the cheerleaders slipped ecstasy in Marissa's drink at a party and filmed her making out with Angela. She tried to drive home while high and crashed her car over a bridge. They made a pact never to reveal the truth, and they used the video to blackmail Angela into going along with it.

Ms. Hendricks and Parker turn on the gas stove and throw a Molotov cocktail into the cabin as Angela enters it, blowing it up and killing her. The next morning, Deputy Adams talks to them in front of Monty’s house as Sheriff Murdock sends Monty off in an ambulance. As it pulls away, the driver is revealed to be MacPherson.

Cast

Tamie Sheffield as Ms. Hendricks
Charity Rahmer as Parker Jameson
Erin Byron as Angela Caruso
Lenny Juliano (credited as Lunk Johnson) as Buzzy
Bill Langlois Monroe (credited as E. Eddie Edwards) as Sheriff Murdock
Samantha Phillips as Officer Phillips. Phillips reprises her role from the unreleased Sorority House Massacre: The Final Exam.
GiGi Erneta as Deputy Adams
April Flowers (credited as Diana Espin) as Tammy Rae
Nikki Fritz as Debbie
Tylo Tyler as Ryan
Brad Beck as Mark
Summer Williams as Shelley
Brinke Stevens as Linda
Melissa Brasselle as Detective DeMarco
Julie Lisandro (credited as Julie Corgill) as Dina

Production

The film was originally shot as Slumber Party Massacre 4 and contained various links to the first film, even having Brinke Stevens reprise her role as Linda Dawn Grant. However, production company New Concorde felt that there had been too many sequels to the Slumber Party series. The title was then changed to Cheerleader Massacre and character names, plus backstories, was altered so the film could become a standalone feature^[2]

Sequel

The film was followed by a very loose sequel named Cheerleader Massacre 2 in 2011.^[3]

References

^ Collum, Jason Paul (2004). Assault of the Killer B's: Interviews with 20 Cult Film Actresses. McFarland. p. 22. ISBN 9780786480418.
^ "Interview with Director Jim Wynorski - Retro Slashers". www.retroslashers.net. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Timothy Shary; Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 - 360

External links

Cheerleader Massacre at IMDb

[1] Collum, Jason Paul (2004). Assault of the Killer B's: Interviews with 20 Cult Film Actresses. McFarland. p. 22. ISBN 9780786480418.

[2] "Interview with Director Jim Wynorski - Retro Slashers". www.retroslashers.net. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[3] Timothy Shary; Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 - 360

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+| writer         = Lenny Juliano
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-'''''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 ''[[The Slumber Party Massacre|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]].
+'''''Cheerleader Massacre''''' is a 2003 American [[B-movie]] [[slasher film]] directed by [[Jim Wynorski]] and written by Lenny Juliano. It is the seventh installment in the [[Massacre (franchise)|''Massacre'' franchise]] and was originally meant to be a direct sequel to ''[[The Slumber Party Massacre]]'' (1982).
-The [[DVD]] was released on March 25, 2003. The special features include trailers, actor bios, audio commentaries, and a making of featurette.
+The film was produced by [[Roger Corman]] and lensed by [[Jim Wynorski]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Assault of the Killer B's: Interviews with 20 Cult Film Actresses|last=Collum|first=Jason Paul|publisher=McFarland|year=2004|isbn=9780786480418|pages=22}}</ref> It was released [[direct-to-video]] on March 25, 2003, with special features including trailers, actor bios, audio commentaries, and a making of featurette.
 ==Plot==
+High school students Kelly and Gary are camping out at night, when an unseen assailant stabs Gary to death and impales Kelly with a hiking stick. The next day, the Bridgemont High cheerleading squad (Parker, Angela, Tammy, Shelley, and Dina) practice before leaving for an event in another town. In the locker room, Shelley mourns for their former teammate, Marissa, who died exactly one year ago. As the group is leaving, Dina goes back inside to get her purse and is killed. The others assume she took the bus and leave in a van with their coach, Ms. Hendricks, their driver, Buzzy, and students Mark and Ryan.
-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.
+Bobcat County Sheriff Frank Murdock and Deputy Donna Adams are notified by the Fresno Police chief that serial killer Jeremiah MacPherson, who escaped from a mental hospital the day before, is thought to be moving in their direction. Meanwhile, a jogger, Debbie, is killed when someone cuts the ropes of the suspension bridge she is crossing. Murdock, Adams, and Officers Kimble and Phillips investigate Kelly and Gary’s murder. Murdock and Adams then visit retired sheriff Monty Coltrain, who arrested MacPherson 20 years ago, to warn him of his escape. While there, they learn that Dina has been found gutted at the high school, which doesn’t fit MacPherson’s MO. When Phillips and Kimble see his jacket by the side of the road and stop to investigate, he ambushes and kills them both and steals their squad car. Murdock and Adams visit one of MacPherson’s surviving victims, Linda, hoping her recollection of the attack will yield further clues. In a flashback, he attacks her in the high school with a large power drill and leaves her for dead.
+The cheerleaders encounter a roadblock and are told they will have to take a detour, so Buzzy takes a shortcut through a snowy mountain pass. The van runs out of gas as the snowstorm worsens, and the group takes refuge in an empty vacation cabin. The Fresno Police chief’s assistant, Melissa DeMarco, calls Sheriff Murdock and informs him that MacPherson called their station with Debbie’s cell phone and left a voicemail implying that he is not acting alone. Deputy Adams receives word that the cheerleaders have gone missing, and she and Murdock leave to search for them.
+MacPherson arrives at Monty’s cabin in the stolen squad car. The two exchange gunfire, and MacPherson flees into the woods. Buzzy goes outside to investigate the gunshots but is distracted when he sees Tammy and Ryan having sex through a bedroom window. The killer sneaks up and kills him with an axe. Mark goes outside to look for Buzzy and is decapitated. The others discover his body and search the cabin for a gun. Ryan finds one, and he and Angela go for help. They become separated, and Ryan is strangled. Ms. Hendricks, Parker, Shelley, and Tammy go outside to look for the fuse box. Shelley finds it and is electrocuted when she touches it. Tammy is pulled into the crawlspace and stabbed repeatedly. Monty comes across Shelley’s body while tracking MacPherson, and Ms. Hendricks and Parker ambush him and knock him unconscious, believing he is the killer. Angela shows up and confronts them at gunpoint, revealing that she killed the cheerleading squad to avenge Marissa’s death. They manage to elude her, and Parker confesses to Ms. Hendricks that the cheerleaders slipped [[MDMA|ecstasy]] in Marissa's drink at a party and filmed her making out with Angela. She tried to drive home while high and crashed her car over a bridge. They made a pact never to reveal the truth, and they used the video to blackmail Angela into going along with it.
+Ms. Hendricks and Parker turn on the gas stove and throw a [[Molotov cocktail]] into the cabin as Angela enters it, blowing it up and killing her. The next morning, Deputy Adams talks to them in front of Monty’s house as Sheriff Murdock sends Monty off in an ambulance. As it pulls away, the driver is revealed to be MacPherson.
+==Cast==
-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.
+*[[Tamie Sheffield]] as Ms. Hendricks
+*Charity Rahmer as Parker Jameson
+*Erin Byron as Angela Caruso
+*Lenny Juliano (credited as Lunk Johnson) as Buzzy
+*Bill Langlois Monroe (credited as E. Eddie Edwards) as Sheriff Murdock
+*[[Samantha Phillips]] as Officer Phillips. Phillips reprises her role from the unreleased ''Sorority House Massacre: The Final Exam''.
+*[[GiGi Erneta]] as Deputy Adams
+*April Flowers (credited as Diana Espin) as Tammy Rae
+*Nikki Fritz as Debbie
+*Tylo Tyler as Ryan
+*Brad Beck as Mark
+*Summer Williams as Shelley
+*[[Brinke Stevens]] as Linda
+*Melissa Brasselle as Detective DeMarco
+*Julie Lisandro (credited as Julie Corgill) as Dina
+==Production==
-That night, Lynne finds Dan's dead body under her bead. She is attacked by the killer and tries to make a run fr 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. Sally talks to the girls in her cabin one at a time, starting with Edna. While Ella waits outside, the kiler shoots her to death with a nail gun. Sally thinks that Ella has left, and becomes angry.
+The film was originally shot as ''Slumber Party Massacre 4'' and contained various links to the [[The Slumber Party Massacre|first film]], even having [[Brinke Stevens]] reprise her role as Linda Dawn Grant. However, production company New Concorde felt that there had been too many sequels to the ''Slumber Party'' series. The title was then changed to ''Cheerleader Massacre'' and character names, plus backstories, was altered so the film could become a standalone feature<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.retroslashers.net/interviewwynorski.htm |title=Interview with Director Jim Wynorski - Retro Slashers |website=www.retroslashers.net |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022122748/http://www.retroslashers.net/interviewwynorski.htm |archive-date=22 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
-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 that Pam not leave camp. The three realize that Sally is the killer and decide to set a trap for her.
+==Sequel==
-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.
+The film was followed by a very loose sequel named ''Cheerleader Massacre 2'' in 2011.<ref>Timothy Shary; ''Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980'' - 360</ref>
-==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.
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+{{Jim Wynorski}}
 {{The Massacre Collection}}
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+[[Category:2003 direct-to-video films]]
 [[Category:2003 horror films]]
-[[Category:American films]]
-[[Category:English-language films]]
 [[Category:American teen horror films]]
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-[[Category:Slasher films]]
+[[Category:American slasher films]]
+[[Category:2000s slasher films]]
+[[Category:Direct-to-video horror films]]
+[[Category:Massacre (franchise)]]
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+[[Category:2000s English-language films]]
+[[Category:2000s American films]]
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v t e Massacre
Slumber Party Massacre series	The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) Slumber Party Massacre III (1990) Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
Sorority House Massacre series	Sorority House Massacre (1986) Sorority House Massacre II (1990) Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die (1990)
Cheerleader Massacre series	Cheerleader Massacre (2003) Cheerleader Massacre 2 (2011)
Other	Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre (2016)
Parodies	Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)
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