Director Dustin (Cocaine Cougar) Ferguson originally filmed this in 2014 as a homage/sequel to Cheerleader Camp. It finally came out this year with a new title, Summerhouse Slaughter. Of course, that makes no sense since there isn’t a summerhouse in sight. I mean “Summer Camp Slaughter” would’ve been closer to the mark. Oh well.
Ferguson also added horror host bumpers of “Malvolia’s Movie Matinee” where an Elvira inspired hostess intros the film and occasionally pops up mid-movie. It’s a neat idea for a gimmick, even if Ferguson doesn’t do a whole lot with it. I guess it beats his usual form of padding (long scenes of people walking through the woods).
Things kick off with a great scene where cheerleader practice is cut short when someone puts acid in the football field’s sprinkler and causes the cheerleaders’ faces to melt off. One year later, a new cheer squad shows up for cheerleader camp. Naturally, it doesn’t take long for a killer to bump them off one by one.
Sure, Summerhouse Slaughter is a homage to Cheerleader Camp, but there’s also a bit of Girls Nite Out’s DNA as well as the killer dresses up as a bear mascot. Honestly, this is one of the better Ferguson joints I have seen, mostly because he’s working with a sturdy blueprint instead of just cobbling something together on the fly. The kill scenes are solid too. The highlight is a Phantom of the Paradise-inspired death by plunger. While it’s not great by any means, it does contain enough scenes of cheerleaders shaking their pom poms to make it watchable.
The original Jason, Ari Lehman is the lone “star” in the cast as the camp’s creepy groundskeeper. It’s Jazmyne Van Houten who steals the movie though as Courtney, the bitch of the group. She also gets all the best lines like “If I’m gonna be killed, I wanna be killed by someone hot!”
AKA: Cheerleader Camp 2 the Death. AKA: Cheerleader Camp: To the Death.
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