Cheerleader Camp is Impossible to Take Seriously
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Cheerleader Camp was never intended to be taken seriously. Still, this cheesy campy exploitation horror flick created one of the best movie quotes of all time.
Written by BHM Contributor Ronnie Angel
June 6, 2007
Release: 1987
Directed by: John Quinn
Written by: David Lee Fein and R.L. O'Keefe
Starring:
Betsy Russell as Alison Wentworth
Leif Garrett as Brent Hoover
Lucinda Dickey as Cory Foster
Lorie Griffin as Bonnie Reed
Buck Flower as Pop
Gimme a C! Gimme an R! Gimme an A! Gimme a P! What’s that spell? Crap! Crap! Crap! Does that mean I don’t like this movie? Hell no, I love it! Guilty pleasure? Oh yeah, you better believe it.
Cheerleader Camp has it all; it's campy, it's cheesy, it has tons of gore, boobs, drinking, drug use, boobs, oddball characters, goofy one liners, out of work former teen stars like Leif Garrett, future porn star Teri Weigel and uh.....did I mention boobs? Yeah, lots of that too. Well, I guess I better explain what little of the film there is to explain.
Cheerleader Camp is the epitome of the low rent slasher movie. A deranged serial killer is stalking and murdering lovely young cheerleaders (and everyone else for that matter) at a secluded cheerleader camp. One of the girls keeps having "problems"... mental problems…and is the prime suspect. She cannot remember committing any of the murders in question.
There is not much more to say about Cheerleader Camp. Well, there actually is a twist at the end that is quite above average and cleverly done.
Travis McKenna (Road House, Van Wilder) adds some great comic relief to Cheerleader Camp and there is a large selection of oddball characters that appear throughout the film that support the comic elements. I really don't think that Cheerleader Camp was ever meant to be taken seriously, so I do not recommend that you do - you may hurt your brain.
There is one particular thing that makes Cheerleader Camp very special in my mind. One of the funniest quotes to come from any movie EVER comes 
from Cheerleader Camp. It is a scene where the grungy drunk old groundskeeper is watching the cheerleaders do a dance and he makes the comment that watching the girls "makes your pee-pee harder than a bag of nickel jawbreakers!" That is just too priceless for words.
Break out the beers when you watch Cheerleader Camp. You will not be disappointed, especially if you are too messed up to care about all the crappiness! Cheerleader is a fun way to kill an hour and a half – exploitation at its finest, that is for sure. Questions or comments about Cheerleader Camp ? �Contact us!
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