A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
Acting
Carol Kane's unhinged physical comedy commitment
Practical Effects
Deliberately cheap kills that age like fine wine
Writing
Gags so dumb they loop back to genius
Director
Alfred Sole
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the slasher boom, this was Alfred Sole's attempt to spoof the genre he'd helped create with Alice, Sweet Alice—essentially parodying his own trauma.
The 'Pepper' cheer was improvised after the cast got genuinely drunk on set; you can see Debralee Scott actually breaking character.
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