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| Sianoa Smit-McPhee and Caitlin Stasey vamping it up. |
Do you like zombies? Do you like vampires? Cheerleaders? Lesbian witches? If the answer is yes, then this is the gloriously demented film for you.
Maddy (Caitlin Stasey) is a beautiful outsider in her high school who has vowed to take revenge on the popular kids. When she infiltrates the cheerleader squad, she inadvertently sparks off a series of very unfortunate events that leave her and her teammates undead and thirsty for blood.
This film is a mishmash of tones, genres and stereotypes – and you can definitely see the joins. Frenetically lurching from one set piece to another, with little logic in-between, it is a wild ride for those happy to surrender to its many charms and ignore its many shortcomings.
All the girls in this film are a hoot – gorgeous, but with a lot more character than your usual bland horror beauties (Australian Stasey is certainly pretty and sassy enough to be a star). The script has some hilarious lines, and the soundtrack is as loud and brash as it could possibly be.
This All Cheerleaders Die is actually a bigger-budget remake of directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson’s first film (though the new budget could only stretch to some very ropey special effects). By all accounts, the pair followed the original with a string of iffy horrors. Second time around, they have still not created a “good” film, but it has a certain kind of brilliance.
Easily the stupidest, weirdest and most fun film I have seen this year, All Cheerleaders Die is a cult classic in the making.
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