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All Cheerleaders Die
USA 1999
produced by Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson, Mike McKee (executive), Dick Sivertson (executive), Marilyn Sivertson (executive)
directed by Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson
starring Julia Carpenter, Drama, Jennifer Grant, Shelli Merrill, Marlena Waid, Chris Heinrich, Jesse Hlubik, Zach Passero, Matthew Shebesta, Eric Van Bebber, Melinda Sparks, Bonnie McKee, Quincy McKee, Marni Sparks, Mike McKee, Dirty Ernie
written by Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson, music by David DiIoro, makeup and special effects by Zach Passero
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's footballers vs their cheerleaders: Five footballers (Chris
Heinrich, Jesse Hlubik, Zach Passero, Matthew Shebesta, Eric Van Bebber)
don't believe their girlfriends' (Julia Carpenter, Drama, Jennifer Grant,
Shelli Merrill) cheerleading is an actual sport, and to prove it they bet
them that they wouldn't manage to get through a single training day of the
sort the jocks had just endured a whole week of. The girls though pass
with flying colours, upon which lead jock Terry (Jesse Hlubik) challenges
them to a football match, winner takes all - which the girls win with ease
because the boys have spent most of the day drinking while the girls have
worked out ... upon which Terry gets violent and starts beating one of the
girls up, upon which the girls run away in terror - and fall down a cliff
to their deaths ... all but Leena (Shelli Merrill), who gets caught in a
beartrap. The jocks decide to leave her to die as well (she could cause
problems regarding the death of the other cheerleaders) and make a
getaway. Five years later, class reunion: Our footballers meet again,
and to their shock, they find out Leena has survived the ordeal and has
also made it to the class reunion - this is bad, but what's worse, she is
actually a witch, and the other cheerleaders were in her coven ... and now
she brings them back as zombies to have their revenge on those who killed
them and everybody in their way ... All Cheerleaders Die
is really nothing special, just your run-of-the-mill low budget indie
horror with a catchy title that promises more in terms of originality than
the movie manages to keep. But it has some of that indie charm in its very
straight-forward approach and fittingly crude special effects. That said,
if you expect interesting characters let alone character development, or
original plottwists, then you're dead wrong. Basically, it's a so-so
party flick, you could do worse with your time, but you'll have forgotten
it about two hours later. In 2013, directors Lucky McKee and
Chris Siverston sort-of remade this movie under the same title [click
here], with way more money on their hands, but all they
managed to do was to derive the material of its B movie charm, replacing
it with high school comedy mainstays.
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